:Person Centred Work with Adolescents & Teenagers
‘Tenuous contact’ is the term that we have used to describe the sometimes fleeting and ‘fragile’ style of contact that seems to be part of the counselling relationship with young people. ‘Tenuous’ because it is sometimes difficult to obtain and feels hard to maintain. The world of a young person and an adult counsellor are often so far apart that real engagement and connection may seem impossible. Connection with a young person has to be strived for and the level of the contact may vary from session to session and may fluctuate during the session itself. Striving for contact with a young person feels like more than offering UPR and trying to stay in their frame of reference. It feels like sensing the threads, thoughts and feelings of their unspoken world and holding that sense so gently until they begin to express the meaning of their experience.
This workshop will explore both the theoretical and practice implications of work with young people and provide space for participants to reflect on the implications for their own practice.
This workshop is part of a series which can lead to a gaining a 'Practitioner Certificate and Diploma in 'Person-Centred Working at the Difficult Edge' Facilitators:
Peter Pearce has provided person centred counselling and psychotherapy within NHS community mental health and learning disability teams and with young people in schools and pupil referral units since 1989. Peter is co-author of Personality Development (2003) for Open University; McGraw-Hill now translated into both spanish and chinese and has published various articles.
Ros Sewell originally trained and worked in theatre in education, going on to have a career as a nurse and midwife for some 20 years. She has provided counselling and psychotherapy within the NHS, with young people in schools and pupil referral units since 1989.
Their shared professional interests include making counselling and psychotherapy accessible, relevant and expanding who can benefit from this work. They are currently undertaking a post qualification professional doctorate on their person centred work with teenagers and adolescents.
Their shared professional interests include making counselling and psychotherapy accessible, relevant and expanding who can benefit from this work. They are currently undertaking a post qualification professional doctorate on their person centred work with teenagers and adolescents.
Dates:
18th May 2012 Times:
9.30am - 5.30pm
Costs:
£140 per day (Metanoia Members) £160 per day (Non-Members)
For more information or to book a place please contact Sylvia Carby on 020 8832 3076 or via e-mail sylvia.carby@metanoia.ac.uk
Call us on +44 (0)20 8579 2505
