Oakdale runs courses, workshops and groups for practitioners through the year. .All workshop presenters are experts in their particular field. Details of forthcoming workshops are set out below.                        

CHRISTOPHER CLULOW 

NEW THINKING ABOUT COUPLES – AN ATTACHMENT PERSPECTIVE

From attachment in adulthood to attachment in infancy:

using attachment theory to help couples, parents and their children

                                                                Friday 8th February 2008

Christopher Clulow PhD is a couple psychotherapist, teacher and researcher. He is a Senior Fellow at the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships and is the Therapies Editor for the journal ‘Sexual & Relationship Therapy’. He has published extensively on working with couples undergoing change and about marriage and family life.

Christopher has featured in ‘Therapy Today’ in July 2007 with an article on ‘Attachment, Couples and the talking cure.’ He has a long standing interest in Attachment Theory and is the editor of ‘Adult Attachment and Couple Psychotherapy – The ‘secure base’ in practice and research’.

Workshop Fee: £95

(Price includes refreshments and lunch)

Venue: St. Robert’s Centre, Robert Street, Harrogate, HG1 1HP

For further information, please complete a booking form or contact Oakdale on: 01423 503080 

Email: events@theoakdalecentre.co.uk

BABETTE ROTHSCHILD

The Body Remembers - the Psychophysiology of Trauma

Monday 5th & Tuesday 6th May 2008

 Babette Rothschild is a psychotherapist who specialises in understanding trauma and trauma therapy.   She reduces the chasm between scientific theory and clinical practice and bridges the gap between talking and body therapies. She is the author of 3 books. ‘The Body Remembers – The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment’, ‘The Body Remembers Casebook’ and more recently, ‘Help for the Helper’.

Her work illuminates the impact of trauma on the body and the phenomenon of somatic memory.   The implicit memories of traumatised people are carried in their brains and bodies. They are expressed in the symptoms of PTSD.  People with PTSD become overly attentive to interoceptive reminders of past danger. At the same time they lose their connections to their extroceptive cues (the 5 senses) that can notice and register the present environment. The risks of working with trauma, dissociation, flashbacks and re-traumatisation - are in part the results of hyper-arousal in the autonomic nervous system (ANS).

This course will provide participants with psychophysical theory and equip them with tools for reducing, containing and halting traumatic hyper-arousal.

This is an integrative approach and a useful adjunct to all models of counselling and psychotherapy as well as specialist trauma therapies.

NUMBERS ARE LIMITED SO EARLY BOOKING IS RECOMMENDED

Workshop Fee: £225.00 (Price includes refreshments and lunch)

 Venus: Sun Pavilion, Cornwall Road, Harrogate, HG1 2PQ

For further information, please complete a booking form or contact Oakdale on: 01423 503080 

Email: events@theoakdalecentre.co.uk

MARGARET WILKINSON

Coming Into Mind

Contemporary Neuroscience and the Psychological Therapies: a Clinical Perspective

                                                               Saturday 28th June 2008

Margaret Wilkinson is a professional member of the Society of Analytical Psychology, London and an assistant editor of the Journal of Analytical Psychology. She is a member of the International Society for Neuro-Psychoanalysis and of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. She lectures internationally on contemporary neuroscience and its relevance to clinical practice. She is the author of numerous papers, her book ‘Coming into mind. The mind-brain relationship: a Jungian clinical perspective’ was published by Routledge in 2006. She is in private practice in North Derbyshire, England.

Mind, brain and body are inextricably linked; the developing self and mind reflect the developing brain, and in turn affect its development. I will explore the contribution that neuroscience can make to our understanding of these complex relationships, and our understanding of their significance for work as psychotherapists.

In therapy past is revisited at the level of the implicit, changing deeply founded ways of being and behaving, and linked with present by means of transformative interpretation. Within the context of actual relational experience new entities are added to pre-existing connections in both brain-minds, leading to change in the nature of attachment.

But how can we assess capacity for psychological-mindedness? How does this therapeutic change occur in the brain-mind? What insight does neuroscience offer to our understanding of this process? How does the plasticity of the brain work to assist in therapeutic change?  These are some of the questions I will seek to explore. Clinical material will be central to our considerations, demonstrating the way that interactive experience enables the development of the emotional scaffolding necessary for ‘coming into mind’.

Workshop Fee: £95

(Price includes refreshments and lunch)

Venue: St. Robert’s Centre, Robert Street, Harrogate, HG1 1HP

For further information, please complete a booking form or contact Oakdale on: 01423 503080 

Email: events@theoakdalecentre.co.uk