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Trauma workshops
South African Transactional Analysis Association & FAMSA (WC) presents
Three Workshops on Trauma
Joanna Beazley Richards & John Baxendale, Trauma Specialists from the UK
Oct 30th2015 Trauma and Recovery – a TA approach: This workshop will introduce participants to the psychology of shock and trauma, the clinical difficulties that arise and the nature of effective treatment. Focus will be on the characteristics and stages of treatment; the “don’ts” as well as the “do’s”. Prior knowledge of TA not required. Details at www.tatransformations.co.za
Oct 31st 2015 Severe and Complex Trauma: This workshop will examine severe and complex trauma, including the neurological underpinnings, the nature of dissociation and the possible misdiagnosis of borderline in such cases. The Wealden Four Step Trauma Treatment programme will be introduced and skills developed to use it. Details at: www.tatransformations.co.za
Nov 1st 2015 Understanding and Treating Trauma in Children: This workshop will introduce participants to the particular ways that children may be traumatised and helped to recover from trauma. The range of experiences which may cause children to be traumatised, including types of abuse and their effects will be explored.In addition to exploring the nature and and origins of trauma responses, we shall look at the neurological underpinnings, and how to treat traumatised children at different ages. Details at: www.tatransformations.co.za
FACILITATORS
Joanna Beazley Richards, MSc. is a Chartered Psychologist, a registered Clinical Psychologist, a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst and an Accredited EMDR practitioner. She is the principal of the Wealden Psychology Institute, UK, which she founded in 1986. She has had a psychotherapy practice for more than thirty years and is an experienced Trauma specialist.
John Baxendale, MSc. is a Provisional Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst and accredited EMDR practitioner. He is a director of the Wealden Psychology Institute, teaches TA and has a private psychotherapy practice.
Venue: FAMSA offices 9 Bowden Road, Observatory, Cape Town
Cost per workshop: R 1,200 (early bird before 15 June 2015: R 1,000)
Packages: 2 workshops: R 2,000 (early bird R 1,800)
3 workshops: R 3,000 (early bird R 2,800)
(Reduced rates for NGOs, students and members of SATAA, on application)
To Register: Contact Diane Salters at [email protected] or 021 786 1910
The importance of bearing witness
In one of our projects in Prince Albert, the Every Voice Matters project, we often think about what it means for us to gather people’s voices and stories. This blog below clearly describes how important it may be just to have ourselves heard by one other individual.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/meaningful-you/201312/the-power-and-strength-bearing-witness
The TED talk below also talks about the importance of sharing one’s story.
Couple therapy for business partners
You may not want to be as close to your business partners as there two are – but here is how couple therapy helps them (even though they are not a couple)
Every story matters
Last year we collected 2100 answers from Prince Albert residents to the question:
If your voice could reach the ears of the whole world, what would you say?
This year we would like to go one step further. We are inspired by this TED talk below which indicates that the act of telling our story may be healing in and of itself.
The clever unconscious mind
New studies show that apparently the unconscious mind has an intelligence that operates without our conscious intervention –
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150217-how-smart-is-your-subconscious
Incidents and accidents and the unconscious mind
As coaches and facilitators, we are often in the vicinity of the unconscious mind and its strategies. In trying to understand unconscious communication – including slips of the tongue, physical and other symptoms and it seems, accidents – we may be accused of making too much of certain events. However, in my experience, if we want to get to the root of some dis-ease, it may be precisely necessary to (with extra caution) try to understand what the indirect communication of the unconscious mind may be telling us. This article (sent to me by my publisher Dominique le Roux) explains how it may sometimes work:
Happy New Year 2015!
Happy New Year from the small village of Prince Albert, which is baking in 40 degree temperatures at the moment. Although, thanks to an article sent to me by Paul Lewis, a colleague and a client, we should not aim for happiness, but rather aim to pursue the process of becoming our ideal selves.