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.
Open Days
Psychotherapy Training Open Days
The Open Day provides an opportunity to visit our centre and meet staff from the Bowlby Centre to find out more about our approach and the details of our training programme. The event is a facilitated workshop, with an overview of the curriculum, a clinical vignette and a discussion about our approach and the theoretical influences that have informed our work. It is also an opportunity to meet some of those who may be training alongside you, should you decide to join us.
There is a charge of £50 for attendance.
Venue:
The Bowlby Centre
1 Highbury Crescent
London N5 1RN
Clinical Forums
Clinical Forum – Data Protection and GDPR: What you needto know(and do) in your everyday practice
Saturday, 9th March 2019
Synopsis:
Graham Johnston will be leading an interactive clinical forum focusing on what we as practitioners need to know and do in response to the recent General Data Protection Regulation. There is quite a degree of fear and confusion in our sector about how the new legislation affects us, so Graham will be trying to settle those nerves and remove some of the confusion. In advance of the forum, Graham will be asking participants to send him their biggest fears or burning questions about the impact of GDPR so that he can make the session as personal and useful as possible. You can send your questions to:graysjjohnston@hotmail.com
About the speakers
Date: Saturday, 9th March 2019
Time: 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
Attachment Narrative Therapy short course – 29-30 March 2019, 26-27 April 2019, 31 May – 1 June 2019 and 21-22 June 2019
THE BOWLBY CENTRE PRESENTS A 40 HOUR COURSE ON: ATTACHMENT NARRATIVE THERAPY WITH PROF RUDI DALLOS AND PROF ARLENE VETERE
COURSE FULL
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.
Dates: 29-30 March, 26-27 April 2019
31 May – 1 June, 21-22 June 2019
Time: Friday, from 3pm – 8.30pm and finishes on the next day, Saturday, from 10.00am to 2.30pm.
Cost: For all 4 blocks £700 £500 BC members (limited to 5 places)
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 – 29-30 March 2019
Introduction and Implications of Attachment
Formats for Exploration
Block 2 – 26-27 April 2019
Attachment Narratives
Formats for Exploration
Block 3 – 31 May – 1 June 2019
Working Therapeutically with Couples
Formats for Exploration
Block 4 – 21-22 June 2019
Working Therapeutically with Trauma and Loss
Formats for Exploration
Attachment Narrative Therapy: Working Systemically with Attachment Narratives – pdf brochure
COURSE FULL
Attachment Theory in Clinical Practice – June
COURSE FULL
Saturday 18th May and Sunday 19th May 2019
and Saturday 8th June and Sunday 9th June 2019
Cost: £580 Organisations, £540 Individuals
Seminars will include the following themes
• Introductions – our relationship to attachment theory.
• Attachment theory in context
• Separation, loss and mourning
• Patterns of attachment and their internal representation
• Secure • Dismissing • Preoccupied • Unresolved/disorganised • Not classifiable
• Evaluating adult attachment states of mind
• Internal working models
• Reflective functioning
• Intersubjectivity
Clinical work will consider the role of mourning, narrative, mutuality and recognition, affective attunement and cycles of rupture and repair in the therapeutic process.
The objectives of this course is to introduce Attachment theory and deepen your understanding of it. It’s designed to be of practical value with implications for therapy and human relatedness.
The course is aimed for Counsellors, Psychotherapists, Psychologists, Psychiatrists and Social Workers.
“I was surprised how this course touched on all areas of my life… for me it has been the missing piece of the jigsaw I have been looking for and brings together many things…”
Orit Badouk Epstein is a UKCP registered attachment based Psychoanalytic psychotherapist, a training supervisor and a training therapist. She trained at the Bowlby Centre, London where she is the Editor of the journal Attachment-New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis (published by Karnac books). She teaches Attachment theory and is the head of the planning group of the International Bowlby Memorial conference. She specialises in attachment theory and trauma and regularly writes and present papers on these topics. She runs a private practice and works relationally with individuals, couples and parents. Orit has a particular interest in working with individuals who have experienced extreme abuse and trauma and have displayed symptoms of dissociation. She is the co-author of the book “Ritual Abuse and Mind Control: The Manipulation of Attachment Needs” (Karnac Books), co-editor of the book “Terror within & without”, and is the co-editor of the ESTD (European Society for Trauma and Dissociation) newsletter where she regularly writes articles and film reviews.
Attachment Theory in Clinical Practice
COURSE FULL
Saturday 18th May and Sunday 19th May 2019
and Saturday 8th June and Sunday 9th June 2019
Cost: £580 Organisations, £540 Individuals
Attachment Theory in Clinical Practice – October
Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th October 2019 and
Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd November 2019
Cost: £580 Organisations, £540 Individuals
Seminars will include the following themes
• Introductions – our relationship to attachment theory.
• Attachment theory in context
• Separation, loss and mourning
• Patterns of attachment and their internal representation
• Secure • Dismissing • Preoccupied • Unresolved/disorganised • Not classifiable
• Evaluating adult attachment states of mind
• Internal working models
• Reflective functioning
• Intersubjectivity
Clinical work will consider the role of mourning, narrative, mutuality and recognition, affective attunement and cycles of rupture and repair in the therapeutic process.
The objectives of this course is to introduce Attachment theory and deepen your understanding of it. It’s designed to be of practical value with implications for therapy and human relatedness.
The course is aimed for Counsellors, Psychotherapists, Psychologists, Psychiatrists and Social Workers.
“I was surprised how this course touched on all areas of my life… for me it has been the missing piece of the jigsaw I have been looking for and brings together many things…”
Orit Badouk Epstein is a UKCP registered attachment based Psychoanalytic psychotherapist, a training supervisor and a training therapist. She trained at the Bowlby Centre, London where she is the Editor of the journal Attachment-New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis (published by Karnac books). She teaches Attachment theory and is the head of the planning group of the International Bowlby Memorial conference. She specialises in attachment theory and trauma and regularly writes and present papers on these topics. She runs a private practice and works relationally with individuals, couples and parents. Orit has a particular interest in working with individuals who have experienced extreme abuse and trauma and have displayed symptoms of dissociation. She is the co-author of the book “Ritual Abuse and Mind Control: The Manipulation of Attachment Needs” (Karnac Books), co-editor of the book “Terror within & without”, and is the co-editor of the ESTD (European Society for Trauma and Dissociation) newsletter where she regularly writes articles and film reviews.
Attachment Theory in Clinical Practice
Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th October 2019 and
Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd November 2019
Cost: £580 Organisations, £540 Individuals
Adult Attachment Interview Training Workshop – November
10 Days
Monday, November 4th – Friday, November 8th plus
Monday, November 11th – Friday, November 15th
Cost: £2000 (deposit of £385 payable on booking with the balance payable on invoice when accepted on the course)
Non-refundable deposit payable upon booking, no later than 1st August 2019
Balance due on acceptance of course, no later than 21 October 2019
Applicants not accepted will be refunded their deposit monies.
The Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) developed by Mary Main and colleagues at the University of California at Berkeley, investigates an individual’s current mental representations of attachment-related experiences from childhood. Adult Attachment Interview Institutes last ten days, and are usually held Monday through Friday of two weeks in succession. One transcript is assigned over the weekend, hopefully leaving you time to take one day off.
The AAI institute is intensive and involves analysis of about 7 or 8 AAI transcripts in succession. Meetings take place about 5–6 hours a day (though sometimes considerably more time is needed to discuss a particular case). Their central purpose is to discuss scoring and classification of the transcript assigned for the previous night, which will also take you at least 6 hours to prepare. In addition to the group meeting, we will be available to see individuals or small groups another hour each day if necessary.
The cost for the institute is USD 2600 (GBP 2000), which includes training, training materials, refreshment & snack during the two weeks as well as reliability testing and associated materials.
The maximum number of participants is 20.
Kazuko Behrens, Ph.D.
Assoc. professor
Dept. of Social Behavioral Sciences
State University of New York
Tel. + 1 315 787 3964
E-mail: behrenk@sunypoly.edu
Pehr Granqvist, Ph D
Professor
Developmental psychology
Stockholm University
Tel. + 46 73 616 26 12
E-mail: pehr.granqvist@psychology.su.se