Brighton Person Centred Community

Upcoming Person Centred CPD and Encounter Day

plus more!

We have a bumper newsletter this month! We want to let you know about the Community’s upcoming CPD workshops from Sheila Haugh and Helen Skelton as well as the Encounter Day. Also from our members we bring you news of some rooms to hire, SCoPEd concerns, info on The Person Centred Association, as well as info on some therapeutic groups and a CPD evening with Manu Bazzano. Also scroll down for details of our regular monthly groups.

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What is contemporary Person-Centred theory? an experiential CPD with Sheila Haugh

Saturday 13th April, 10am-4pm
Brighton, Community Base, BN1 3XG

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/brightonpersoncentredcommunity1/1173732

When ‘contemporary’ is added to ‘person-centred’ it oftentimes seems to mean a move away from principled non-directivity and a licence for the practitioner to bring more of their frame of reference under the guise of congruence or ‘the relationship’. This day will consider other meanings of ‘contemporary’ within person-centred theory and practice. Specifically it will focus on the on the increasing need for principled non-directivity in our cultures today and how the notion of congruence has been developed. Perhaps most importantly, we will explore how a challenge to white, western psychology in general and person-centred psychotherapy in particular, may influence our way of being with those we are endeavouring to help in some way. The day will include input from Sheila and a chance to dialogue and reflect with colleagues on these issues and perhaps others.

Sheila Haugh is Director of Studies for the Dip/MSc Contemporary Person-Centred Psychotherapy and Application at the Metanoia Institute, London.

Low cost encounter day at Brighton Person Centred Community

Saturday 11th May, 10am-4pm

Friends Meeting House Room 3, Ship Street, Brighton

For more info and to book (contact suzimac55@hotmail.com) https://www.eventbrite.com/e/low-cost-encounter-day-tickets-825505528257

Do you want a space to explore being as much of yourself as you can in the moment?

Do you want to meet and witness others being authentically themselves?

Do you want to see and feel what is possible when we strive to truly meet and connect with each other?

“Man wishes to be confirmed in his being by man, and wishes to have a presence in the being of the other…. Secretly and bashfully he watches for a YES which allows him to be and which can come to him only from one human person to another.” Martin Buber, I and Thou

Reconnecting with Person-Centred Theory: Using theory to support and deepen your person-centred practice with Helen Skelton

Saturday 13th July, 10am-4pm

Brighton, Community Base, BN1 3XG

Watch this space for booking link to come!

Most counsellors gather ideas outside their original training, continually expanding their personal therapeutic vocabularies. The resulting ‘multilingualness’ can lead to depth and richness, but it can also feel a little chaotic. Many express a desire to reconnect with their original therapeutic principles and regain a sense of fluency in that way of being. In addition, an ongoing friendship with theory plays an important role in therapeutic practice, offering a core philosophy from which we can assess, monitor and develop our decision-making, and be sure we are doing our best for our clients. In this workshop we will review the main areas of person-centred theory, look at the coherent story it forms, link it to practice and consider how it can support us as a reliable and powerful ‘internal supervisor’.

Helen Skelton is a person-centred psychotherapist and clinical supervisor and teaches on the MSc in Contemporary Person-Centred Psychotherapy at the Metanoia Institute.

New therapy room for hire in Westbourne Street, Hove.

Suitable for 1:1 and couples counselling, group supervision and CPD.

✔️Available to use 8am-10pm, 7 days a week

✔️Book and cancel your sessions using our online system

✔️24-hour cancellation period

✔️Block book or use ad-hoc

✔️£9 per hourly booking, £18 per hourly booking for groups (3+ practitioners)

For further information and to book a viewing please visit: https://www.hovecounsellingandpsychotherapy.co.uk/westbourne

SCoPEd concerns and BACP Senior accreditation changes

See the following links for info on concerns about the BACP’s SCoPEd plan, its governance generally and about opposition to BACP’s decision, as part of SCoPEd, to remove Senior Accreditation from those who have been awarded it.

Petition – https://www.change.org/p/preserve-the-status-and-recognition-of-senior-accredited-bacp-members

Open Letter McLeod – https://therapistconcerns.co.uk/

Open Letter ACP – https://allianceblogs.wordpress.com/2020/10/16/open-letter-person-centred-calls-on-bacp-tohalt-scoped/

Open Letter NCPS – https://ncps.com/assets/uploads/docs/scoped_open_letter_to_bacp_wv.pdf

Open Letter CTUK – https://ukcounsellors.co.uk/bacp-members-letter-of-concern-april-2023/

PCU – https://www.psychotherapyandcounsellingunion.co.uk/campaigns

The Person Centred Association

Although our website still holds the name Brighton BAPCA, BAPCA has for some time been called The Person Centred Association. If you are interested in joining this national organisation for Person Centred Folk or finding out what they do have a look here https://www.the-pca.org.uk/

As a member you can advertise as a Person Centred Counsellor, receive the Person Centred Quarterly magazine, support the national Person Centred movement and meet like minded people.

GROUP THERAPY IN BRIGHTON & HOVE – OPPORTUNITIES TO JOIN FROM APRIL 2024

Interested in a regular weekly space in which to share, connect and develop?  A space where it is possible to learn about ourselves, with the support of others, and apply this learning to our ourselves and our relationships outside of the group? To join one of our groups, please contact me for a free no-obligation consultation where we can explore what our group can offer you.

TUESDAY EVENING GROUP 1830 – 2000 on Tues 16 April2024 – Tues 16th July 2024 (& ongoing)

Where: New Road Psychotherapy,8 The Drive, Hove, East Sussex, BN3 3JT

THURSDAY MORNING GROUP 0800-0930 on Thurs 18 April2024 – Thurs 18 July 2024  (& ongoing)

Where: New Road Psychotherapy, 28 New Road, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 1UG

COST& CONTACT DETAILS: Cost: £30 a session paid via £100 a month over 12 months

Contact: info@alisonsutcliffe.com/ www.alisonsutcliffe.com/ 07541237278

The Innocence of Becoming: On Nietzsche and Psychotherapy.

An experiential/theoretical Seminar with Manu Bazzano (writer, lecturer, Zen Monk)

To become yourself you mustn’t have the faintest idea of who you are (Nietzsche)

Experience is experiment. It expands and dismantles the self. It opens us to the multiplicity of our organism, to the innocence of becoming, to the joy that arises when we actively embrace our inherent richness, creativity, and complexity.

30th May 7-9.30 Community Base, Queens Road Brighton

To book https://shorturl.at/amFIQ