Brighton Person Centred Community

Sheila Haugh and Helen Skelton CPD days

and more!

Spring is finally arriving and with it the opportunity for new growth and reflection: You may wish to revitalise your connection with the Person Centred Approach by joining the Community’s upcoming CPD workshops from Sheila Haugh (ticket sales end at 5pm this Friday 12th April) and Helen Skelton. (See our workshops Page.)

Our Encounter Day is fully booked but if you’re interested in encounter we hope to run another this Autumn – or why not attend our regular monthly meetings for a taste of this way of being? Scroll down for details of an introduction to Focusing course, or click on our Workshops and Meetings pages for details of our workshops and regular monthly Community groups.

Anything you want to share or ask for in this newsletter? Please send it by the end of the month to appear in the next month’s newsletter (goes out around the first/second week of the month). Any questions or feedback: contact Suzi (suzimac55@hotmail.com) and/or William (willjaj@virginmedia.com)

Introduction to Focusing

8th & 9th June 10am-5pm – Online

http://www.suzimackenzie.com/focusing-training.html

Focusing is an enlivening way to connect with the rich complexity of our embodied human experience, to develop a more caring and supportive relationship with yourself. Focusing can support us to deepen our ability to extend the core conditions to ourselves and others. Learn to trust this natural process and how our organism knows what it needs and will tell us, given the right conditions. The Intro course can lead to the Focusing Skills Certificate.

Brighton Person Centred Community
Upcoming CPD and Encounter Day

We are working on pulling together a collaborative series of Person-Centred CPD events for the coming year: Sheila Haugh will be exploring ‘What is contemporary Person-Centred theory?’ in Brighton on Saturday 13th April, alongside an Encounter day taking place on Saturday 11th May (details below), followed by Helen Skelton on ‘Reconnecting with Person-Centred Theory’ on Saturday 13th July, and more to follow in the Autumn…

Our monthly meetings are happening as usual – the regular walking group is on this Saturday! If you have any questions about attending the meetings, or if you have any ideas or feedback about things we can consider to strengthen the Brighton Person-Centred Community, then please contact Suzi (suzimac55@hotmail.com) and/or William (willjaj@virginmedia.com) As always, if you have anything you’d like to share that you think would be supportive for Community members or want to reach out for something yourself, do consider using this newsletter as a way to do so. In order for something to appear in the newsletter please send it by the end of the month to appear in the next month’s email (which will aim to come out in the first/second week of the month).

Low cost encounter day at Brighton Person Centred Community

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

Saturday 11th May

10am-4pm

Friends Meeting House Room 3, Ship Street, Brighton

Space for 8 to 15 people

£20

For more info and to book (and you can contact suzimac55@hotmail.com)

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/low-cost-encounter-day-tickets-825505528257

Bookings close 25th April

Shame workshop, important Brighton Person Centred Community meeting and other news Please consider attending our Community meeting on 18th November where we will consider the future of the Community – how and whether we continue the monthly meetings, how to revivify the Community. Please also consider attending the following face-to-face workshop on Shame on 19th November that is especially for Person-Centred counsellors. Scroll down for details of the 18th Nov meeting, the Shame workshop, our regular Walking Group, our new group for Newly Qualified PC therapists, a reminder of our PC Reading Group and an event on Examining Whiteness.

Understanding and Working with Shame in Person-Centred Practice

We’re delighted to announce this face-to-face workshop that is especially for Person-Centred counsellors.

• Facilitator: Helen Skelton
• Date: Sunday 19th November 2023
• Time: 9.30am for a 10am start – 4.30pm
• Venue: Community Base, 5th floor conference room, 113 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3XG
• Cost: £85 (£65 concession for students/unwaged)

There are limited places for this workshop so buy your ticket early to avoid disappointment For more details and to buy your ticket, either click on the workshop tab, above; https://www.brightonbapca.co.uk/workshops or follow this link direct to Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understanding-and-working-with-shame-in-person-centred-practice-tickets-725588614077?aff=oddtdtcreator

In Person Meeting

The meeting will take place at 9.30-12.30 Saturday 18th November. This will be our usual monthly meeting but also with a focus on how and whether we continue these monthly meetings. Existing and former members hope to discuss what we want going forward, how we can bring back some energy to the Community meetings given our low numbers of late and how the Community might evolve in future. All welcome!

Please come and input into how our community works. You don’t need to email to say you’re coming but if you want to then you can contact William on willjaj@virginmedia.com. It is £5 to attend but we do not wish money to get in the way if this amount is difficult for you. The fee attempts to cover the cost of the room, and if you would like to pay more than £5 you are welcome to.

To pay online our bank details are:

PERSON CENTRED COMMUNITY; 08-92-99, 65079432 or you can bring cash to the meeting. Refreshments are available in the break.

Walking Community

All are welcome to the walking community group. The meeting will be Saturday 11th November at 10am, contact Chris on aihpos58@gmail.com if you are interested and for exact location to meet. “We can walk in silence, talk as we are walking and or both while in nature. This will be from the Warren Road Car Park at the top of the Brighton Racecourse. My only request for people attending is that confidentiality be maintained. That we take responsibility to listen with our hearts and communicate with empathy and respect. In my case I am also interested in authenticity.”

Person Centred Reading Group

The reading group has been meeting for many years and offers an important way of connecting with other person centred trained therapists We meet regularly to enhance our understanding, be stimulated by each other’s views and to enjoy the company. Each evening has some pre meeting reading and after our discussion we plan the next topic, date and venue. We meet on Friday evenings, typically in Lewes in a member’s house. Contact person Geraldine Pass geraldinem1264@gmail.com.

Group for recently qualified Person-Centred practitioners

Have you recently completed your person-centred training? Perhaps you are in the midst of setting up private practice, working out what to do now, or how to be yourself in a person-centred way after completing the training. Then this might be for you!

Having qualified a year ago from Metanoia I have missed the support of others and the explorative space offered through the training. My hope is that this group could provide some of that by offering an open, supportive, non-judgemental space for discussions with peers in a similar position. The agenda will be flexible to meet the needs of those attending. It could be what it means to be person-centred finding our unique way with that, or perhaps practical discussions relating to setting up in private practice, or sharing our own experiences to listen and learn together. Let’s see what is present when we meet.

The plan is to meet monthly on the first Saturday of every month. The next meeting will be on Saturday November 4th at New Road Psychotherapy Centre, Hove, from 10am till 12pm. There’s a charge of £7 (plus booking fee) to cover the room cost only. To book your place to attend please follow this link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/group-for-recently-qualified-person-centred-practitoners-tickets-699524385267.

For any questions on the group feel free to email Jenn on jennpaynegregory@gmail.com. This group is affiliated with the Brighton Person-Centred community and sits alongside the regular monthly meetings that take place on the third Saturday of the month at Brighton Friends Meeting House as well as the Walking Community and Reading Group.

Examining Whiteness

Saturday 25 November 10:00 AM – 1:00PM We want to come together to address injustices and inequalities of racism through personal and collective work on the impact of Whiteness. Register soon because space is limited. We hope you’re able to join us! Cornerstone Community Centre, Church Road, Hove, BN3 2FL. To book, please go to: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/736551484317?aff=oddtdtcreator.

Please direct any further questions to Frances or Brennan on email: frances@bassetconsultancy.co.uk email:brennan@sussexcounsellingcollective.co.uk.

If you have any questions about attending the meetings, or if you have any ideas or feedback about things we can consider to strengthen the Brighton Person-Centred Community, then please contact Suzi (suzimac55@hotmail.com) and/or William (willjaj@virginmedia.com). As always, if you have anything you’d like to share that you think would be supportive for Community members or want to reach out for something yourself, do consider using this newsletter as a way to do so. In order for something to appear in the newsletter please send it by the end of the month to appear in the next month’s email (which will come out around the second week of the month).

Group for recently qualified Person-Centred practitioners

Have you recently completed your person-centred training? Perhaps you are in the midst of setting up private practice, working out what to do now, or how to be yourself in a person-centred way after completing the training. Then this might be for you!

Having qualified a year ago from Metanoia I have missed the support of others and the explorative space offered through the training. My hope is that this group could provide some of that by offering an open, supportive, non-judgemental space for discussions with peers in a similar position. The agenda will be flexible to meet the needs of those attending. It could be what it means to be person-centred finding our unique way with that, or perhaps practical discussions relating to setting up in private practice, or sharing our own experiences to listen and learn together. Let’s see what is present when we meet.

The plan is to meet monthly on the first Saturday of every month. The first meeting will be on Saturday October 7th at New Road Psychotherapy Centre, 8 The Drive, Hove BN3 3JT, from 10am till 12pm. There’s a charge of £7 (plus booking fee) to cover the room cost only. To book your place to attend please follow this link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/group-for-recently-qualified-person-centred-practitoners-tickets-699524385267

For any questions on the group feel free to email Jenn on jennpaynegregory@gmail.com.

*This group is associated with the Brighton Person-Centred community and sits alongside the regular monthly meetings that take place on the third Saturday of the month at Brighton Friends ‘ Meeting House as well as the walking community and bookclub.

Hello and welcome to the August edition of the Brighton Person-Centred Community news.

We have info on our Walking Community group on Saturday 12th August and the Community meeting at Friends Meeting House on Saturday 19th August. Read on also for info on some CPD, including an opportunity to explore racism and whiteness and a Therapeutic Group.

If you have any questions about attending the meeting, or if you have any ideas or feedback about things we can consider to strengthen the Brighton Person-Centred Community, then please contact Suzi (suzimac55@hotmail.com) and/or William (willjaj@virginmedia.com).

As always, if you have anything you’d like to share that you think would be supportive for Community members or want to reach out for something yourself, do consider using this newsletter as a way to do so. In order for something to appear in the newsletter please send it by the end of the month to appear in the next month’s email (which will come out around the second week of the month).

In Person Meeting

The meeting will take place at 9.30-12.30 Saturday 19th August. You don’t need to email to say you’re coming but if you want to then you can contact William on willjaj@virginmedia.com

It is £5 to attend but we do not wish money to get in the way if this amount is difficult for you. The fee attempts to cover the cost of the room, and if you would like to pay more than £5 you are welcome to. To pay online our bank details are: PERSON CENTRED COMMUNITY; 08-92-99, 65079432 or you can bring cash to the meeting. Refreshments are available in the break.

Walking Community

All are welcome to the new walking community group. The meeting will be Saturday 12th August at 10am, contact Chris on aihpos58@gmail.com if you are interested. Chris introduces the meeting as follows: “We can walk in silence, talk as we are walking and or both while in nature. This will be from the Warren Road Car Park at the top of the Brighton Racecourse. See below for map. My only request for people attending is that confidentiality be maintained. That we take responsibility to listen with our hearts and communicate with empathy and respect. In my case I am also interested in authenticity.”

Examining whiteness

• Saturday, 2 September 10:00 – 13:00 with Frances Basset and Brennan Holt
• Cornerstone Community Centre Church Road Hove BN3 2FL

This event is offered to psychotherapists and counsellors from all backgrounds and ethnicities wanting to actively address the injustices and inequalities of racism through personal and collective work on White identity, power, privilege, and complicity.

For further info and to book your place https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/examining-whiteness-tickets-687796867947?aff=oddtdtcreator

Please direct any further questions to Frances or Brennan on email: frances@bassetconsultancy.co.uk email:brennan@sussexcounsellingcollective.co.uk

Email Counselling Training – coming soon

Do you want to become an email counsellor but not sure how? Join us to learn all the skills you need to exchange secure, confidential, therapeutic emails with your clients.

Chloe Foster’s brand new 2 day online CPD workshop is on:

• Saturday 2 September 2023 (9.30am – 5pm)
• Saturday 9 September 2023 (9.30am – 5pm)

SAVE THE DATES NOW

Why join this training?

• build your confidence

• learn new skills

• expand your work opportunities

• offer a diverse and accessible service to clients

• supportive: learn with a small group of peers

• accessible: 2 day online workshop

• confidential: workshops are not recorded

• get all your questions answered

• workbook included to aid your further learning

Read more about the training here: https://www.sussexrainbowcounselling.com/emailcounsellingtraining Tickets go on sale at 1pm on 1 June 2023.

Introduction to Focusing plus Focusing Skills Certificate courses

Two day Focusing Intro 10-5 – 9th & 23rd September 2023 – £140 – on Zoom. Learn how to guide yourself through the Focusing process and be a companion in the process with a Focusing partner. Learn this gentle yet powerful process for supporting yourself and gaining awareness as well as a lovely way of connecting with others.

Year long (ten days inc Intro) Skills Certificate – Oct 23- June 24. Gain a full grounding in how to practice Focusing for personal and partnership use. The more experience of Focusing you gain the more you may be able to bring this approach of presence, attunement and embodiment into your client work if you should wish.

For more information http://www.suzimackenzie.com/focusing-training.html or contact suzimac55@hotmail.com

Therapeutic Group

I am excited to be offering a Weekly Ongoing Therapeutic Group in Hove beginning September 2023. In our group 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 our group, please contact me for a no-obligation initial call where we can explore what our group can offer you.

Details:

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

When: 1830 – 2000 on Tuesday 5th September 2023 – Tuesday 16th July 2024 (& ongoing)

Cost: approx. £30 a session paid via £100 a month over 12 months

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

Hello and welcome to the July edition of the Brighton Person-Centred Community news.

We have info on our Walking Community group on Saturday 8th July and the Community meeting at Friends Meeting House on Saturday 15th July. Read on also for some info on a job opportunity, some CPD and a Therapeutic Group.

If you have any questions about attending the meeting, or if you have any ideas or feedback about things we can consider to strengthen the Brighton Person-Centred Community, then please contact Suzi (suzimac55@hotmail.com) and/or William (willj@ntlworld.com).

As always, if you have anything you’d like to share that you think would be supportive for Community members or want to reach out for something yourself, do consider using this newsletter as a way to do so. In order for something to appear in the newsletter please send it by the end of the month to appear in the next month’s email (which will come out around the second week of the month).

In Person Meeting

The meeting will take place at 9.30-12.30 Saturday 15th July. You don’t need to email to say you’re coming but if you want to then you can contact William on willj@ntlworld.com.

It is £5 to attend but we do not wish money to get in the way if this amount is difficult for you. The fee attempts to cover the cost of the room, and if you would like to pay more than £5 you are welcome to. To pay online our bank details are: PERSON CENTRED COMMUNITY; 08-92-99, 65079432 or you can bring cash to the meeting. Refreshments are available in the break.

Walking Community

All are welcome to the new walking community group. The meeting will be Saturday 8th July at 10am, contact Chris on aihpos58@gmail.com if you are interested. We can walk in silence, talk as we are walking and or both while in nature. This will be from the Warren Road Car Park at the top of the Brighton Racecourse. See below for map. My only request for people attending is that confidentiality be maintained. That we take responsibility to listen with our hearts and communicate with empathy and respect. In my case I am also interested in authenticity.

Vacancy at Oasis Women’s Recovery Service (OWRS) – Women’s Recovery Worker (Female*)

• Part-time 22.5 hours per week

• £22,863 – £24,264

• Fixed-term until end of July 2024 with possibility of extension

• Based from Hastings office (with limited home-working)

• Deadline 9am Weds 12th July 2023

• Full details on how to apply on our website – https://www.oasisproject.org.uk/job-vacancies/

Introduction to Focusing plus Focusing Skills Certificate courses

Two day Focusing Intro 10-5 – 9th & 23rd September 2023 – £140 – on Zoom. Learn how to guide yourself through the Focusing process and be a companion in the process with a Focusing partner. Learn this gentle yet powerful process for supporting yourself and gaining awareness as well as a lovely way of connecting with others.

Year long (ten days inc Intro) Skills Certificate – Oct 23- June 24. Gain a full grounding in how to practice Focusing for personal and partnership use. The more experience of Focusing you gain the more you may be able to bring this approach of presence, attunement and embodiment into your client work if you should wish.

For more information http://www.suzimackenzie.com/focusing-training.html or contact suzimac55@hotmail.com

Email Counselling Training – coming soon

Do you want to become an email counsellor but not sure how? Join us to learn all the skills you need to exchange secure, confidential, therapeutic emails with your clients.

Chloe Foster’s brand new 2 day online CPD workshop is on:

• Saturday 2 September 2023 (9.30am – 5pm)
• Saturday 9 September 2023 (9.30am – 5pm)

SAVE THE DATES NOW

Why join this training?

• build your confidence

• learn new skills

• expand your work opportunities

• offer a diverse and accessible service to clients

• supportive: learn with a small group of peers

• accessible: 2 day online workshop

• confidential: workshops are not recorded

• get all your questions answered

• workbook included to aid your further learning

Read more about the training here: https://www.sussexrainbowcounselling.com/emailcounsellingtraining Tickets go on sale at 1pm on 1 June 2023.

Therapeutic Group

I am excited to be offering a Weekly Ongoing Therapeutic Group in Hove beginning September 2023. In our group 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 our group, please contact me for a no-obligation initial call where we can explore what our group can offer you.

Details:

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

When: 1830 – 2000 on Tuesday 5th September 2023 – Tuesday 16th July 2024 (& ongoing)

Cost: approx. £30 a session paid via £100 a month over 12 months

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

Hello and welcome to the June edition of the Brighton Person-Centred Community news.

We have info on our Walking Community group on Saturday 10th June and the Community meeting at Friends Meeting House on Saturday 17th June. Read on also for some info on a Therapeutic Group and some Email Counselling CPD, both starting in September.

If you have any questions about attending the meeting, or if you have any ideas or feedback about things we can consider to strengthen the Brighton Person-Centred Community, then please contact Suzi (suzimac55@hotmail.com) and/or William (willjaj@virginmedia.com).

As always, if you have anything you’d like to share that you think would be supportive for Community members or want to reach out for something yourself, do consider using this newsletter as a way to do so. In order for something to appear in the newsletter please send it by the end of the month to appear in the next month’s email (which will come out around the second week of the month).

In Person Meeting

The meeting will take place at 9.30-12.30 Saturday 17th June. You don’t need to email to say you’re coming but if you want to then you can contact William on willjaj@virginmedia.com.

It is £5 to attend but we do not wish money to get in the way if this amount is difficult for you. The fee attempts to cover the cost of the room, and if you would like to pay more than £5 you are welcome to. To pay online our bank details are: PERSON CENTRED COMMUNITY; 08-92-99, 65079432 or you can bring cash to the meeting. Refreshments are available in the break.

Walking Community

All are welcome to the new walking community group. The meeting will be Saturday 10th June at 10am, contact Chris on aihpos58@gmail.com if you are interested. Chris describes the group as follows:

“We can walk in silence, talk as we are walking and or both while in nature. This will be from the Warren Road Car Park at the top of the Brighton Racecourse. My only request for people attending is that confidentiality be maintained. That we take responsibility to listen with our hearts and communicate with empathy and respect. In my case I am also interested in authenticity.”

In the event that it is too cold/windy a Zoom meeting is an alternative. Here are the details:

Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81036146204?pwd=VkZLQkhadWtpdUE5Kytsd2p2LzZNQT09

Meeting ID: 810 3614 6204

Passcode: 622856

Therapeutic Group

I am excited to be offering a Weekly Ongoing Therapeutic Group in Hove beginning September 2023.

In our group 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 our group, please contact me for a no-obligation initial call where we can explore what our group can offer you.

Details:

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

When: 18:30 – 20:00 on Tuesday 5th September 2023 – Tuesday 16th July 2024 (& ongoing)

Cost: approx. £30 a session paid via £100 a month over 12 months Contact: info@alisonsutcliffe.com/ www.alisonsutcliffe.com/ 07541 237278

Email Counselling Training – coming soon

Do you want to become an email counsellor but not sure how? Join us to learn all the skills you need to exchange secure, confidential, therapeutic emails with your clients. Chloe Foster’s brand new 2 day online CPD workshop is on: Saturday 2 September 2023 (9:30am – 5pm) AND Saturday 9 September 2023 (9:30am – 5pm) SAVE THE DATES NOW Why join this training?

• build your confidence

• learn new skills

• expand your work opportunities

• offer a diverse and accessible service to clients

• supportive: learn with a small group of peers

• accessible: 2 day online workshop

• confidential: workshops are not recorded

• get all your questions answered

• workbook included to aid your further learning

Read more about the training here: https://www.sussexrainbowcounselling.com/emailcounsellingtraining Tickets go on sale at 1pm on 1 June 2023.