Continuing Professional Development
We provide a variety of professional development opportunities. Some of these are available only to our members whilst others are available to other qualified psychotherapists and counsellors and we are committed to developing training provision aimed at giving an attachment orientation to other professionals.
Clinical Forum
Clinical Forum – Death Mother/ Life Mother: An anthropological contribution to understanding mother-infant dynamics
SPEAKER: Daniela F. Sieff, PhD
This talk will explore the forces that underlie ‘Death Mother’. Western culture generally believes that women evolved to love all their children instinctively and unconditionally. Such a view is also implicit in Bowlby’s writing. However, anthropological research suggests that throughout our species evolutionary history, being ‘a mother’ has meant nurturing some infants, whilst abandoning others to die.
Becoming conscious of these dynamics, gives us a better understanding of modern mothers who are struggling to nurture their children. It also contributes to our understanding of the early relational trauma carried by those who grow up under the shadow of struggling mothers. As importantly, it helps us heal the shame intrinsic to these dynamics
This talk will conclude with a meditation using stone-age tools, providing an opportunity to connect to our evolutionary heritage.
About Daniela F. Sieff, PhD
Daniela F. Sieff, PhD, is an independent scholar with a doctorate in biological anthropology, and an active interest in the dynamics of emotional trauma and its healing. Her doctoral research explored how evolutionary processes contribute to shaping human behavior. Her research took her to a wilderness region of Tanzania to live with a traditional cattle-herders. In recent years, Daniela has explored emotional trauma and healing by interweaving her own experience with knowledge that comes from depth psychology, neurobiology, evolution, and anthropology. She is the author of ‘Understanding and Healing Emotional Trauma: Conversations with Pioneering Clinicians and Researchers’ (Routledge 2015). For more information, visit www.danielasieff.com.
Time: Saturday, 7th October 2017, 11.00am – 1.00pm (Registration 10.45)
Cost: £30
(Bowlby Centre members and students – free)
Venue: The Bowlby Centre 1 Highbury Crescent, London N5 1RN
CPD: 2 hours
(CPD certificate provided)
Courses
Hold Me Tight: Conversations for Connection – 2nd and 3rd December 2017
An interactive Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy workshop –
Creating resilience, emotional depth and trust in long term relationships
Date: 2nd and 3rd December 2017
Time: 10.00am to 4.00pm
Cost:£500 per couple (Maximum 8 couples)
For full details see the pdf attachment below
2nd and 3rd December 2017
10.00am to 4.00pm
Cost:£500 per couple (maximun 8 couples)
THE BOWLBY CENTRE PRESENTS A 40 HOUR COURSE ON:ATTACHMENT NARRATIVE THERAPY
WITH PROF RUDI DALLOS AND PROF ARLENE VETERE
Attachment Narrative Therapy: Working Systemically with Attachment Narratives
10-11 November, 8-9 December, 2017
19-20 January, 16-17 February 2018
Friday, from 3pm – 8.30pm and finishes on the next day, Saturday, from 9.30 am to 2pm
For all 4 blocks £650 per person
£500 BC members (limited to 5 places)
This course will provide training in the implementation of an integrative therapeutic approach (ANT) which combines attachment, narrative and systemic theories and techniques. This combines a consideration of the systemic processes encapsulating problems in families with an analysis of how these are fuelled by underlying attachment dynamics. In turn this is explored in terms of how family members’ narratives – explanations and understanding of their problems – are connected to and in turn shape the attachment and systemic patterns. The training utilises a range of therapeutic interventions – ‘Formats for Exploration’ which can be employed in various clinical contexts.
The training programme will provide clinical examples in terms of case studies to illustrate the approach, DVD material, experiential learning activities and group discussion. The training programme will cover applications in child, adult and couples settings with illustrations of work with a wide range of clinical presentations including conduct problems, eating disorders, self-harm, addictions, domestic violence and trauma. The programme will be in four two-day blocks of training with a focus on: Integrative Framework and Creating Safety; Exploration and Formulation; Looking for Alternatives; Complexity, Trauma and Maintaining Change. Participants will have the opportunity to work in small supervised groups on their own clinical case material in each of the 4 blocks.
COURSE CONTENT
The Course will cover the following main themes: representational systems of attachment; intergenerational learning and care in families; trauma and the restriction of attempted solutions; recursive processes of intervention – paying attention to pattern and process; the use of self in therapeutic work; developing and monitoring the secure base in therapy and in families; the use of action techniques in therapy; and healing in relationships.
Block 1 – 10-11 November, 2017
Introduction and Implications of Attachment
Formats for Exploration
Block 2 – 8-9 December, 2017
Attachment Narratives
Formats for Exploration
Block 3 – 19-20 January 2018
Working Therapeutically with Couples
Formats for Exploration
Block 4 – 16-17 February 2018
Working Therapeutically with Trauma and Loss
Formats for Exploration
COURSE DETAILS
The Course consists of 4 teaching blocks on Attachment Narrative Therapy.
The 4 blocks will take place at the end of November and December 2017 and January and February 2018.
Each block starts on a Friday, from 3pm – 8.30pm and finishes on the next day, Saturday, from 9.30 am to 2pm.
The Course uses a mix of adult learning methods including lectures, readings, case presentations, experiential exercises and small group role plays. Each block Friday will include two ‘formats for exploration’. These formats lay out the framework for the integration of attachment, narrative and relational systemic ideas for working therapeutically with individuals, couples and family groups. Each Block on Saturday will include an attachment narrative case presentation with team formulation in two small groups.
The Course content will cover the following main themes: representational systems of attachment; intergenerational learning and care in families; trauma and the restriction of attempted solutions; recursive processes of intervention – paying attention to pattern and process; the use of self in therapeutic work; developing and monitoring the secure base in therapy and in families; the use of action techniques in therapy; and healing in relationships.
Block 1 – 10-11 November, 2017
Introduction and Implications of Attachment: Theory for Systemic Practice: Family Attachment Dynamics, Attachment Experiences and the Development of Narrative Skills and Processes. Building the Secure Base.
Formats for Exploration: Emotional sculpting; Attachment tracking exercise
Block 3 – 19-20 January 2018
Working Therapeutically with Couples: The Couple System as the Basis of the Family Attachment System. Couples Dynamics – Affection, Sexuality and Conflicts. Exploration and Looking for Alternatives
Formats for Exploration: Interviewing the Internalised Attachment Figure; Working with Attachment Injuries
Block 4 – 16-17 February 2018
Working Therapeutically with Trauma and Loss: Exploring Complex Attachment Dynamics, Exploring the Influence of Abuse, Loss and Trauma – Identifying and Assisting with Trauma. Consolidation of Change and Planning for Future Challenges.
Formats for Exploration: Exploring Patterns of Comforting; Talking about Trauma
Rudi Dallos is Professor and Research Director on the Clinical Psychology Training Programme at the University of Plymouth. He currently works as a family therapist in two family therapy clinics in the Southwest utilising the Attachment Narrative Therapy approach. He has conducted research into family dynamics and attachment patterns and has written several books including: Attachment Narrative Therapy, Systemic Therapy and Attachment Narratives (with Arlene Vetere), Attachment and Family Therapy and an Introduction to Family Therapy.
Prof Arlene Vetere, FBPsS, AcSS – Professor of Family Therapy and Systemic Practice at Diakonhjemmet University College, Oslo, Norway; Associate Professor, Department of Family Studies, Malta University; and recently retired Professor of Clinical Psychology, Surrey University, UK – retired December 2013. I am a clinical psychologist and systemic psychotherapist specialising in working with couples and families, and with violence and substance use in families. In the past I have worked in clinical settings designated for older
people and their families, with child and adolescent problems, with the child protection system and family courts, with acute psychiatric and rehabilitation settings, with intellectual and physical disability, and with community, in-patient and out-patient settings. The course draws on our recent book: Dallos R and Vetere A (2009) Systemic Therapy and Attachment Narratives: Applications in a range of clinical settings. London: Routledge.
10-11 November, 8-9 December, 2017
19-20 January, 16-17 February 2018
Friday, from 3pm – 8.30pm and finishes on the next day, Saturday, from 9.30 am to 2pm.
For all 4 blocks
£650
£500 BC members (limited to 5 places)