UK events

Monthly online encounters group via Zoom, organised by PCE Europe.    If you are interested  in the Encounter Group and want to be added to the mailing list please visit the  PCE Europe Website.  You will then be sent a the link to join the zoom group.      Background Opening up to individual members was the first step of PCE Europe to live up to our name "European Network ..." not only at the level of organisations but also at the level ...

Much research has gone into attempts to define and understand ‘psychopathic personality disorder’ (sometimes alternatively known as ‘sociopathic personality disorder’).  There tends to be an assumption that psychopathy always leads to violence and/or murder.  We hear about serial killers being ‘psychopaths’.  Yet these are only a few of the 4% of the population’s psychopathic personalities.  For many therapists, we may rarely or never see a cl...

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...

A morning writing on the theme of belonging. We will explore the fundamental need as well as exquisite desires to belong, the urge to be part of something greater than ourself.  A gentle opportunity to see how we’ve travelled with this idea, how it sits within us. Design in still in process and material is being gathered in from poems, archetypes, aspects of the natural world.. ..metaphor and myth. Writing into our own family dynamics around...

Based on work by David Groves,  a pioneering New Zealand psychotherapist, who worked with repressed traumatic memories, developing an approach which fits with the PCA, by using only the client’s language. Paying particular attention to the client’s metaphors and developing a  way of working which enabled clients to lead in their own healing, his work is mainly known by NLP and/or hypnotherapy practitioners. However,  I have found that clients ...

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...

  The issue of touch within therapy relationships relies on the personal integrity of the therapist, unless the tradition of therapy they practice prohibits it altogether.  This day will provide space for focus on each participant’s relative comfort and/or discomfort with touch within therapeutic relationships.  We will consider what might constitute ‘safe’ touch between therapist and client, as well as the potential healing aspects of touch....

PCAN is delighted, as always, to offer a Summer 3-day Encounter in the nurturing environment at Holy Rood House, Sowerby, Thirsk, North Yorkshire. We are made very welcome at Holy Rood House, which has become an established venue for PCAN. The atmosphere is warm and relaxed, the staff very willing to accommodate our needs. We can recommend the catering, and the varied gardens provide additional sanctuary. Across the road there is a nature rese...

An opportunity to Encounter in the lovely rural setting of Staffordshire.  We look forward to meeting people who have been before and we especially welcome 'new faces'. There is no set agenda beyond the meal times of the house.  We meet to experience Rogerian principles and 'Way of Being. in our giving and receiving.   Encounter is not facilitated. The event is organised by 'Warwickshire Person-Centred Encounter' CPD certificates of attenda...

Day 1 focusing on The Healing Power of Story: The Tale of the Ugly Duckling; evening encounter groups and/or social gathering.  There is a potency for healing available in fairy tales, myths and stories.  Certain stories grip us, whilst others leave us cold.  The Tale of the Ugly Duckling has particular relevance to those who feel the outcast in their family of origin.  For individuals who grew up sensing that there was something wrong – some...

This day will focus on the effects of listening to traumatic experiences, and how we may be vulnerable to taking that trauma within ourselves in our work.  Sometimes known as ‘compassion fatigue’, "empathic strain," "secondary victimization," (Lindy, 1988; Figley, 1983), bearing witness to another’s trauma will affect us.  During this day we will explore the variety of ways in which our accompanying of another as they work with their trauma ca...

This APCCA Level 1 introduction course is for anyone who wants to develop their creativity, self-awareness, improve their wellbeing and discover how powerful creative arts practice can be. You will develop your understanding of the relevance of creativity to mental health and wellbeing and of its benefit to the therapeutic process. Please note the course consists of 3 sessions - see below for dates . The course is an ideal first step to trai...

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...

An intensive experiential online course to develop skills you can use professionally with clients in a variety of roles and settings, such as counselling, psychotherapy, coaching, youth work and other similar roles. This course runs on Tuesday evenings, plus a Saturday once per month. Please check out the website to download the calendar for all the dates.