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This journey into Soul and Spiritual Accompaniment is an immersive, experiential course ~ open to people of all faiths and none, who wish to explore their own Soul journey and how best to 'walk' alongside others.      ~ Inspired and informed by teachings from East and West      ~ Underpinned by the Person Centred Approach to Counselling      ~ Embedded in our Interconnectedness with the Na...

Two Saturdays: We will look at deepening your practice of embodied listening, making the Focusing process collaborative and how use of language can influence the Focusing process. We will also explore our connection with the body and utilising the wider space to support us. This workshop is suitable for people who have completed a one or two day Introduction to Focusing. These two day workshops should be booked together and make up days 5 an...

This day will provide the opportunity for counsellors and others in the helping professions to explore the sensitive issue of the potential for suicide in clients with whom they are working. Organisational policies often mean that any discussion of suicidal ideation leads to disclosure and breach of confidentiality, with potential rupture of the client/counsellor relationship. Those in private practice must develop their own policy in regard t...

A Curated Encounter Day, with Suzi Mackenzie Saturday 8th February 10am-4pm £45 (space for ten participants) Influenced by Focusing, the Person Centred Approach and other relational practices An opportunity to explore what it’s like to be a human with other humans The intention for this day is to slow down and notice what the moment holds, in the place where we are and what is there within and between us. You are invited to bring as much ...

The autistic spectrum is a broad umbrella incorporating such terms as ‘Asperger’s Syndrome’, ‘Autism’, ‘High Functioning Autism’ and ‘Autistic Spectrum disorder’.  Many children and adults who have diagnoses within the spectrum are able to attend mainstream schools, colleges and workplaces,  yet they can experience a great deal of confusion and anxiety in any social setting.  This study day will focus on the autis...

Supporting clients who are living in abusive relationships can be painful and frustrating.  Unless the DA is flagrantly physically violent, many clients do not recognise that what they are living with is domestic violence.  Verbal, emotional, financial and sexual abuse chip away at the target’s confidence such that it becomes almost impossible to see a way out. Women and men who are on the receiving end of domestic abuse ma...

Focusing for Person Centred Counsellors - 27th Feb- 27th Mar - Five Thursdays 10am-1pm Online £200 early bird rate if you book before the end of November Early bird rate has been extended to 13th Dec for members of TPCA/if you quote this TPCA ad £250 thereafter We will explore the Focusing way of being, how this may come in to your client work and support you around your client work. This course will be experiential in nature including g...

Allan Turner and Kate Stubbings run their very popular six-day Person-centred training course online using Zoom. The dates are 7/8 Mar 2025, 21/22 Mar 2025 and 4/5 April 2025. We are sure that you can look forward to a rich experience. We will meet electronically in large groups (a maximum of 12 participants) and smaller breakout groups of four. The course suits counsellors who qualified at least two years ago and are probably now considerin...

Two day course: Focusing is a process that can enrich all areas of our lives, as it is about the very way that we pay attention to what we experience. Often we have habitual ways of relating to ourselves, others and situations: Focusing can help us to slow down, listen inside and appreciate the subtleties in our experience. Developing the ability to listen to ourselves with compassion can help us to know what our needs are, make changes and re...

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder continues to be seen as a mental illness and tends to be treated as a biochemical problem requiring medication. People experiencing OCD can present with a combination of obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviours which can dominate their lives, along with anxiety, panic attacks and other disturbing experiences. Though even experts in OCD are still not sure of the exact causes, some suggest that genetics, brain a...

These two Saturdays will give us the opportunity to be with our dreams and explore them in a Focusing way, letting go of general or pre-existing symbols and noticing the embodied component to the sense of a dream. You will be invited to let go of rational thought and allow in the childlike or instinctual so we can look at intuition and what nourishes it. This workshop is suitable for people who have completed a one or two day Introduction to ...

This day will focus on the impact of another person’s alcohol misuse on the client we are coming alongside. This may be a client who is exploring what it was like growing up in a home where one or both parents drank to excess, and how the dynamics in the home were affected by this, how the client may have grown up without the presence of a consistent adult (if both parents were regularly drunk). It might be a client worried about their child w...

The Heart Wood Certificate Level Training Course is an in-person residential course, being offered as a seven-month long training experience, totalling 100 hours of CPD. ​The focus will be on the ways of being, philosophy, ethics and structures necessary for practitioners wanting to work outside the counselling room. A large amount of the input will focus on the many attitudes and skills of working with groups in nature, most of which are tra...

Designed at post-qualification certificate level, this training course offers you a supportive environment in which to develop the skills, knowledge, and confidence necessary to build or refresh a supervisory practice with emphases on growth, inclusion, collaborative working and ethical awareness.  Course Structure:  The course consists of 62 contact hours and will take place over 5 weekends (Saturday and Sunday) from 9.30am-4 30pm each day w...

For the third year PCAN has booked at the 4-star Queen’s Bay Hotel, Paphos, Cyprus, for a week of rest, relaxation and Encounter. Space for Encounter will be available each morning and evening from Monday 28th April to Friday 2nd May, allowing plenty of time to enjoy the hotel facilities and delights of the island in the afternoons and the weekend days. The rooms are booked at half-board rate. Food is excellent, and ample. The hotel is family ...

Focusing Community Day - Saturday 10th May – 10am-4pm in Burgess Hill (near Brighton!) 15 mins on the train from Brighton £70 – Space for 5 people ​ This will be a small group in person experience where we will join together for the day to share Focusing exchanges and eat a shared lunch with options like bringing in creative/expressive methods and a walk/time in nature. We will take time for sharing in the group and to work with a theme or th...

two day residential with Rachel Freeth & Jan Hawkins Day 1:To be seen or not to be seen, that is the question – What  masks might we habitually wear? Being seen or not seen is experienced within relationships throughout our lives in many ways – within partnerships, marriage, friendships, professional relationships, as clients, supervisees and within groups of all kinds.  How, when and in what ways are we visible in th...

Jan Hawkins & Rachel Freeth offer a two day, Friday/Saturday, 16th/17th May, residential gathering focussing on day one on 'To be seen or not to be seen, that is the question - what masks might we habitually wear? Being seen or not seen is experienced within relationships throughout our lives in many ways - within partnerships, marriage, friendships, professional relationships, as clients, supervisees and within groups of all kinds. How, ...

These two Saturdays will include opportunity to nurture creativity and intuition. We will look at how Focusing may relate to your values or spirituality and how we can allow the Focusing process to carry forward. We will explore the relational dimension of Focusing. If you have completed all of the ten days you receive the Focusing Skills Certificate. This workshop is suitable for people who have completed a one or two day Introduction to Foc...

Two day course: Focusing is a process that can enrich all areas of our lives, as it is about the very way that we pay attention to what we experience. Often we have habitual ways of relating to ourselves, others and situations: Focusing can help us to slow down, listen inside and appreciate the subtleties in our experience. Developing the ability to listen to ourselves with compassion can help us to know what our needs are, make changes and re...

Participants will be invited to create a safe, confidential environment, where issues of intimacy, sexual feelings and sexual healing after childhood abuse, may be focused upon without judgement. A point of discussion will be how sexual feelings, when embraced in awareness of the counsellor/therapist, may bring a positive and healing energy to the work. A welcome is extended to participants of all gender and sexual identities. Day 1: Sex...

Seuxal Feelings in Therapy Relationships on day 1 Encounter group or other option following  Sexual Healing after Childhood Abuse on day 2 (request flier for full details)

Focusing is a process that can enrich all areas of our lives, as it is about the very way that we pay attention to what we experience. Often we have habitual ways of relating to ourselves, others and situations: Focusing can help us to slow down, listen inside and appreciate the subtleties in our experience. Developing the ability to listen to ourselves with compassion can help us to know what our needs are, make changes and respond differentl...

Focusing is a process that can enrich all areas of our lives, as it is about the very way that we pay attention to what we experience. Often we have habitual ways of relating to ourselves, others and situations: Focusing can help us to slow down, listen inside and appreciate the subtleties in our experience. Developing the ability to listen to ourselves with compassion can help us to know what our needs are, make changes and respond differentl...

Thursdays 10am 1pm: 16th Oct, 23rd Oct, 6th Nov, 13th Nov 2025 (£160) When Focusing we want to cultivate an ability to be present with our experience. Getting the right distance from difficult feelings can help us feel calmer and less overwhelmed. Developing a sense of presence also allows us to recognise the rich complexity of our experience, to stand back and marvel at the variety in our inner experience and foster a kinder relationship wit...

Thursdays 10am 1pm: 20th Nov, 27th Nov, 8th Jan, 15th Jan (£160) We will look at deepening your listening practice, making the Focusing process collaborative and how use of language can influence the Focusing process. We will also explore our connection with the body and utilising the wider space to support us. This workshop is suitable for people who have completed an Introduction to Focusing with me or another teacher. These workshops mak...

Thursdays 10am 1pm: 22nd Jan, 29th Jan, 5th Feb, 12th Feb (£160) Take the opportunity to be with your dreams and explore them in a Focusing way. You will be invited to let go of rational thought and allow in the childlike or instinctual so we can look at intuition and what nourishes it. This workshop is suitable for people who have completed an Introduction to Focusing course with me or another teacher. These workshops make up part of the S...

Thursdays 10am 1pm: 26th Feb, 5th Mar, 12th Mar, 19th Mar (£160) Explore and nurture your creativity and intuition with Focusing. We will look at how Focusing may relate to your values or spirituality and how we can work with action steps. If you have completed all of the preceding workshops you will receive the Focusing Skills Certificate. This workshop is suitable for people who have completed an Introduction to Focusing course with me or ...