The next intake for this programme will be February 2011. See below for full information on syllabus, tutors, dates, venue.

If you would like to receive a course brochure, discuss any aspect of this training, or receive an application form, please email your contact details to Sarah Briggs, Director, at info@thegrovepractice.com

The Grove Practice is based in central London, offering a long-established counselling, psychotherapy, executive coaching and organisation consulting service, in addition to professional development training courses.

In 2011, The Grove will be repeating its successful training programme in organisational and leadership development. The course will span 120 hours of contact time over 20 days at weekends spaced between February and Devcember 2011. The course is designed for professionals who wish to develop and deepen their skills as change agents within organisations. The course supports those working with senior managers to launch an effective coaching programme or guide teams through an organisational development process.

One unique facet of this training is the international faculty of tutors whose work spans both consultancy and professional psychology.

Course dates in 2011

The course is run on selected weekends:
Saturday 26 & Sunday 27 February
Saturday 26 & Sunday 27 March
Saturday 9 & Sunday 10 April
Saturday 21 & Sunday 22 May

Saturday 11 & Sunday12 June

Saturday & Sunday in July (dates soon to be finalised)

Saturday & Sunday in September (dates soon to be finalised)
Saturday 8 & Sunday 9 October

Saturday 12 & Sunday 13 November
Saturday 3 & Sunday 4 December

The course runs from 10am to 4:30pm each day, with breaks included.
 
Venue

The training venue is Regent's College, Regent's Park, London NW1. This is 5 minutes' walk from Baker Street tube and easily accessible by bus along Marylebone Road.  Parking is chargeable in the small onsite car park.
 
Ideal applicants

• Managers, executives, supervisors and team leaders within business, statutory or not-for-profit sectors.
• Counsellors, psychotherapists and other occupational or mental health professionals.
• The course community will be multidisciplinary, since the course objective is to build and develop complementary skills. Those familiar with large complex systems will develop one-to-one skills, whereas those proficient in working with individuals will gain understanding of large organisational processes.

Entry requirements

The course is taught at postgraduate level. The Grove appreciates varied professional training pathways and therefore encourages applications from anyone who meets the entry requirements.  For those with prior qualifications and substantial coaching experience, this course will add a deeper level of skill and richer level of professional intervention.

Applicants need to demonstrate one of the following, at a minimum:

• At least 6 months' experience in management or organisational development or HR management,
• A professional qualification, such as social work, HR, coaching, counselling or psychotherapy.  
  

This training will add an additional level of skill and professional development for any student who has already gained qualifications in HR, management, coaching, counseloling or psychotherapy or who may already be practising in coaching or organisational development.

Professional recognition and development

The Diploma is awarded by The Grove Practice.  This course is recognised by the Association for Coaching, the UK's independent professional body.  Also, The Grove is an organisational member of the Association for Coaching and the European Mentoring & Coaching Council.  Successful completion of this course immediately qualifies the individual for Associate Membership of the Association for Coaching, with or without any experience of coaching delivery, subject to meeting all other application criteria.  Alternatively, those who complete this training and have experience of over 150 hours of coaching delivery are eligible for full Membership of the Association for Coaching, subject to meeting all other application criteria. For those with prior qualifications and substantial coaching experience, this course will add a deeper level of skill and richer level of professional intervention.  This training provides a total 120 CPD hours if attended in full.  A CPD attendance certificate will be issued on request.
 

Course content

• Leadership development
• Organisational systems and team development
• The development of a professional stance for the consultant
• A process model of consulting combined with systemic thinking
• Power dynamics in organisations
• Handling resistance and conflict
• Appreciation of personality assessment tools such as Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® or Golden™ Personality Type Profiler or Keirsey Temperament Sorter®
• Organisational culture with emphasis on gender and transcultural issues
• Using creative process in change management
• Consulting skills - entry and contracting
• Differences between coaching and counselling
• Executive coaching skills and ethics  
  

The course philosophy and theoretical stance is best described as humanistic and integrative, drawing upon Gestalt, psychoanalytic, object relations and systemic models.

Methodology

Lectures, tutorials and experiential teaching, skills training in small groups, observation of large group processes, case studies, guided reading.
 
Core skills taught on this course

Gestalt model of process consulting:

• Apply the Gestalt cycle of experience in different situations.
• Intentionally and effectively use your self as your main resource.
• Differentiate between data and interpretation.
• The ability to emphasise non-judgmental observations.
• Collect and interpret data then selectively base your interventions on these.
• Confront through effective data collection and recognition of resistances.
• Identify and confront three types of resistances within Gestalt modelling: projection, introjection and retroflection.
• Design experiments: techniques for raising awareness and enabling change.
• Recognise your own energy level and the energy level of others, as well as working with multiple energy levels.
• The ability to stay in the present and to focus on the ongoing process, with faith in natural development sequences.
• Considerable sensitivity to sensory, physical functioning of self and others.
• Frequent tuning into your emotional reactions and those of others.
• The ability to make good contact with others.

Organisational development:

• Group theory and team dynamics.
• The process of organisational change and change management.
• Mindfulness in organisations.
• The impact of gender and culture in the workplace.
• Hellinger constellation theory applied to organisations.

Leadership development:

• Definition of leadership and the concept of "good enough" leadership.
• Leadership qualities, styles and authenticity.
• Action learning sets.

Executive coaching skills:

• Contract with your client for a successful coaching programme.
• Set up an effective structure for a coaching session.
• Distinguish between each section of the coaching process.
• Effectively launch a coaching process and guide your clients through a development process.
• Recognize who needs support and when.
• Enable your clients to gain support from their environment. Give support if needed.
• See clearly when to ask and when to make a statement.
• Give effective feedback.
• Identify and acknowledge the results of the coaching process as well as areas to be developed.
• Awareness of the aesthetic, transcendent, and creative aspects of working as a coach.
• The ability to help the client draw meaning or understanding from their experience with the coach.
• Close the coaching process.
• Code of ethics and supervision.

Role of personality profile assessment tools: 

Through undergoing your own in-depth Golden™ Personality Type Profiler or Myers-Briggs Type Indicator assessment online in advance of this module, you will be able to identify strengths and constraints of your own personality type.

Teaching in this module will focus on:

• Recognition and application of Jung's personality types in your client work.
• Using new behaviour expressions and communication patterns.
• Identifying your client's strengths and areas of further development based on the evaluation results.
• Supporting the client in accepting his/her own personality type.
• Defining development directions for your client.  
  

Development of a professional stance:

• The ability to put things succinctly, clearly and directly.
• Awareness of your intentions, of what you want to do or say, together with the ability to be clear in letting others know what you want of and from them.
• The ability to see where client is at any time, and to respect that in working with the system.
• The ability to face and accept emotional situations with a minimum of personal defensiveness.
• The ability to present self as a highly attractive yet non-charismatic presence.
• The capacity to be both tough and supportive during the same work session.
• Appreciation of the significant contextual issues involved in system interventions.
• Skills required for entry and contracting with organisational clients.
• Ability to clarify ethical issues with your clients.
• Tailor your coaching work to a corporate environment, especially to HR systems and leadership development programs.
• Develop external or internal coaches, based on what you learned and your own experiences.  
  

Tutors

The course will be taught by an international team of highly qualified and experienced organisation consultants. Many of these trainers are repeating their involvement with The Grove, following strongly positive feedback regarding previous training delivery. The faculty currently includes the following tutors, but may not be limited to:

 

Bernd Leygraf, Course Director: Consultant Psychotherapist and Organisational Consultant; Director of the School of Counselling and Psychotherapy, London ; Associate Director of ARK Hungary. Bernd initially trained at the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland, Ohio in the USA and has worked internationally with commercial, government and charitable organisations. He has trained organisational consultants in the UK and abroad. Most recent work spans the USA, UK, Africa and Europe, primarily with large organisations adapting to globalisation. Previously Bernd has acted as training director or course director for other organisational consultant programmes, including several university-accredited courses.  He is a qualified trainer and supervisor, accredited by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.  He is registed with the United Kingdom Council for Pscyotherapy and also maintains a private psychotherapy practice.

Professor Renos Papadopoulos, Professor of Analytical Psychology, University of Essex; Consultant Clinical Psychologist, The Tavistock Clinic; Chartered Clinical Psychologist; Analytical Psychologist; Training and Supervising Analyst; Systemic Family Psychotherapist. As a consultant to the United Nations and other organisations (including the Council of Europe, the British Council, the Rajiv Ghandi Foundation and the International Organisation for Migration), he specialises in conflict resolution, having worked internationally on projects with refugees and other survivors of political violence. 

Anne Litwin, PhD. President of Anne Litwin Associates, her consulting firm based in the USA. Anne is an executive coach and consultant to both businesses and government organisations, having recently worked in the USA, UK, France, Germany, India and Singapore , Malaysia and Tanzania. Anne helps professionals enhance leadership capacity by strengthening their interpersonal and strategic skills. Her book credits include co-editor of Managing in the Age of Change, and she co-authoredCoaching for the Edge.

Chris Williams, MSc : Chris is a BACP Senior Counselling Practitioner and UKCP-registered psychotherapist in private practice.   He received his MSc from Middlesex University, having trained at The Pellin Institute then Metanoia.  His humanistic theoretical orientation includes Gestalt, systemic, psychodynamic and cognitive models. He studied the constellation systemic approach with the Hellinger Institute of Britain and the 'nowhere foundation', now regularly running constellation workshops. He also works as a clinical supervisor, trainer, facilitator and systemic coach. 

Jason Millard is an executive coach and change management consultant within the investment banking industry.  His work with clients is on a wide range of topics but he specialises in providing support during periods of change. He has 16 years' experience in the investment banking sector, working within Product Control, Middle Office and Operations departments. In addition, he mentors EMBA students at Cass Business School and coaches EMBA students at the Judge Business School in Cambridge University. He has a strong appreciation of the dynamics at play when coaching within an organisational context.

Assessment

The diploma will be awarded upon satisfactory completion of a 3,500 word written assignment (case study or essay) and a minimum 80% course attendance is necessary, as well as fees being paid in full. Should these criteria not be met, a certificate of attendance will be issued.  There will also be continuous assessment by the tutors of the student's presence in the student group and the ability to integrate the taught material.

The written assignment will be assessed by the course director and an external examiner.  It is intended as an opportunity for each student to consolidate their learning from the course. The written assignment is designed to integrate the concepts covered during the training and for the student to demonstrate their ability to reflect on their own process in the context of an organisational or coaching setting.

For the case study or essay, students may draw upon their existing experience of working within an organisation.  Alternatively, they may refer to any relevant coaching programme or managerial project work which they have delivered.  It is an option for students to co-coach each other, if they lack alternative professional experience. 

It may be that students may arrange, through their own initiative, an opportunity to practise their coaching skills with a coachee, or a site visit to an organisation to practise a consulting assignment. Any coaching programme or site visit would be entirely optional as an additional experiential element (outside the taught course time) and therefore participation would not be necessary to achieve the Diploma award.
 

Application process

Sarah Briggs, director of The Grove Practice, will be happy to discuss any questions you may have about the course. For initial enquiries please call her on 07973 368512 or e-mail sarah@counselling.org

The application process comprises:

• Completion of application form (please email info@counselling.org to request an application form)
• Interview by telephone with Bernd Leygraf, course director.  
  

Course fees

For individuals self-funding : £3,000 + VAT @ 17.5% = £3,525.

The fees may be paid in 10 equal instalments, the first instalment is due as a deposit to reserve your place. The remaining instalments are due on the first of the month from February to October 2011.

A limited number of bursaries is available, dependent on student circumstances.  If you would like to discuss this potential or apply for a bursary, please contact Sarah Briggs through the usual application process.

For applicants funded by their organisation: £3,400 + VAT @ 17.5% = £3,995, payable before the start of the course.

Testimonials from previous participants

Working on change programmes in the finance / investment banking industry for 13 years I was looking to gain an understanding of organisational, systems and individual behaviour from a psychoanalytic perspective and to improve my coaching skills.

 

What I found in this course was a unique opportunity to learn from faculty as well as fellow students. It covered many important aspects of organisational development and coaching in depth. Its benefits continue to reveal themselves to me even now, 2 years after completion.

 

The history of coaching comes from the fields of sports and psychology, this course provides a very solid grounding in the latter. It also forms a strong base for anyone serious in self development, improvement as a leader/manager or a career as an executive coach.

Jason Millard

 

I took the Diploma in Organisational Development and Executive Coaching 2006-2007. I was interested in the offering of experiential learning. Coming from a business and science background this was new to me and I must say it was not easy to adapt. On the course, I learned a huge amount about how to be a consultant far beyond any simple collection of techniques. The course has changed the way I do my work, all by helping me to be myself and being authentic with people more than I ever thought possible in a professional situation. Throw away those “How to...” books, forget the “X Steps to Consulting Success “ seminars and try this course instead.

Dr Michael F O'Neill      

Managing Director, Eolas Biosciences Ltd

I came to the Organisational Development and Executive Coaching training primarily from a psychodynamic therapy and organisational trauma background. I am fascinated, enthralled, always affected by organisations and at times intimidated by them. I wanted to acquire a sharper lens to my organisational work; this was my primary objective for doing the training.

 

As a therapist I am well versed in experiential learning and so was comfortable with the delegates forming an organisation and working with the “here and now”. I was out of my comfort zone when working with the Gestalt approach and particularly the importance of the embodied experience as a tool for learning. As a result of the training I am much more attuned to the body and able to integrate this tool in working with individual and organisational clients.

 

During our organisational consultation on a wintry day in January we established our presence in wellingtons in a frozen, muddy field.  Our getting lost, the debris in the road to the client, even the cold we endured during the client contact proved to be informative of the client's struggles. Field theory turned field reality!

 

I've used some of the content of the training to further deepen my understanding and practice e.g. I trained with Dr John Golden in the USA on the application of the Golden Personality Profiler and his other tools.  I've used the psychometric testing development tools to identify imbalance in some of my coaching clients and bring about positive change, integration and restore balance and vitality for clients' businesses' and lives.

 

Following the day on the systemic approach I attended an international colloquium on global social issues in November 2008 and have recently embarked upon a systemic constellation training.

 

Just recently I was engaged in an organisational trauma intervention in Aberdeen following a tragic helicopter accident and huge loss of life ~ my approach to organisational trauma now holds the systemic, the group and the individual's experience in mind.

 

Finally I gained a great network of colleagues and a few more priceless friends as a result of the training which have blossomed in to generative, enduring, relationships.

William Devine

 

Company profile

The Grove Practice is based in the heart of London, originally established over 15 years ago under the name CAP Associates as a counselling and psychotherapy practice.  The growing demand for the application of psychological models in commercial and organisational settings led to the additional establishment of our training programmes, coaching team and organisational consultancy.  The Grove works with the ethos of facilitating both individual discovery and management development in order to achieve greater effectiveness, from a psychological basis. This philosophy aligns with the ethos of The Grove’s psychotherapy practice.

Professional standards

The Grove Practice is an organisational member of the European Mentoring & Coaching Council (EMCC).  This course is recognised by the Association for Coaching.  The Grove Practice is an organisational member of the Association for Coaching (AC) and is bound by the AC's Code of Ethics and Complaints procedure.  All students will be given a copy of the AC's Code of Ethics.

Completion of The Grove’s Diploma in Organisational Development and Executive Coaching provides individuals with a suitable qualification to enable their application for Associate Membership of AC, subject to their meeting all other AC membership application criteria including the provision of references.

The Grove Practice Limited fully intends to deliver the entire programme as advertised.  However, in the event of unforeseen circumstances or factors outside the organisers’ control, such as but not limited to tutor unavailability or inaccessibility of venue, The Grove reserves the right to alter the dates, content, tutors or format of the course, while using best endeavours to maintain the intended style and material as far as possible.  No refund will be given under any such circumstances.

Course overview

A 10-month, post-qualification part-time training programme of over 100 hours’ CPD, aimed at counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists, social workers, nurse managers, occupational therapists, psychologists, therapeutic community managers and case workers in organisational settings. 

The next course will run in 2011, between March and December, taught at weekends (Saturdays and Sundays). Dates are shown below.

The Diploma in Clinical Supervision and Consultancy offers counsellors and those in the helping professions the opportunity to develop therapeutic supervisory skills. This represents primary preparation for supervisor recognition as well as an opportunity for continuing professional development for practising supervisors. Course participants may already be supervising, be expected to supervise as part of their employment role or may be new to supervision.

The course was initially set up to meet the needs of supervisors who, in the absence of training courses in supervision and being experienced therapists simply exercised supervision as an extension of their therapeutic skills. However, our view is that the supervisory relationship requires more than therapeutic skills – not every good therapist is necessarily a good supervisor!

The training focuses on core competencies for supervisors, which are different from therapeutic skills. The teaching also recognises the consultative and relationally-based aspects of supervision. The course content has evolved over recent years and many leading practitioners in the field have contributed to its current shape.

The course philosophy is integrative – therapists representing a wide range of theoretical orientations are invited to apply. We encourage learning in a multidisciplinary environment where both theoretical differences and similarities are encouraged, where trainees can learn from each other as well as the course tutors.

The course culture is explicitly “high support” and “high challenge”.

Course methodology

The course is designed for counsellors and psychotherapists who are acting as supervisors or who are considering adding supervision to their practice. It is not necessary for students to be working as supervisors during the course, since opportunities for skills practice and peer review are provided during the course time.

The course consists of theoretical, experiential and supervisory components. The theoretical input encourages critical engagement with the theory and practice of supervision. Assessment is ongoing and aims to ensure that students are able to work with the dynamics and processes of supervision; that there is congruence between the student’s theoretical knowledge and their supervisory practice. Teaching and supervisory methods emphasise the multi-layered, multi-faceted processes of supervision, including the use of one’s own process.

Course philosophy and theoretical orientation

Supervision requires the development of new skills in order to work with the various aspects and processes of supervision, including both conscious and unconscious dynamics. The training considers the theory that underpins supervisory technique, links theory to practice through supervisory work and develops the ability to be aware of the processes inherent within supervision.

The course is integrative and intentionally multi-modal. It is taught at postgraduate level; course participants are expected to work academically on this basis. This includes the ability to evaluate theoretical concepts and a commitment to reflect critically and open-mindedly on one’s own process, philosophy, theoretical orientation and skills. Discussion in the full group or smaller groups is as important as the tutor-taught components. The experiential process of development encourages participants to learn from one another as well as from the course tutors. The integrative philosophy underpinning this course fosters a multidisciplinary environment where theoretical differences and similarities are creatively valued.

Attention is paid to reflective practice and the educational, restorative and containing power of supervision.  Participants are encouraged to integrate the ideas from the course into a personally coherent model of supervision.

There is also an acknowledgement of organisational contexts for supervision, which can bring additional dimensions for consideration, such as dual roles of clinical and management responsibility, definition of boundaries and confidentiality issues.

The course philosophy aims to establish a learning community in which a working alliance is established which encourages participants to take responsibility for their own learning and to support the learning of other course members.

Course content

The following themes will be explored:

• Supervision philosophy
• Philosophy and process of integrative practice
• Supervision theory: Gestalt, CBT, psychoanalytic, transpersonal and systemic models of supervision
• The supervisor and supervisee relationship
• Supervision of supervision and monitoring good practice
• Developmental dynamics and processes of supervision
• Assessment of supervision competencies
• Supervision of individuals, couples and groups
• Working with differences and commonalities
• Power and control issues
• Over- and under-nurturing
• Sexuality, gender and transcultural issues
• Systemic issues
• Parallel process
• Ending processes
• Ethical and legal considerations
• Tensions in the fee-setting and charging process, relevant to the supervisory setting
• Students are encouraged to undertake additional reading to complement the taught course components.

Venue

The training venue is Regent's College, Regent's Park, London NW1. This is 5 minutes' walk from Baker Street tube and easily accessible by bus along Marylebone Road.  Parking is chargeable in the small onsite car park.

Course dates and times

Each day will start at 10am and finish at 4:30pm. The dates in 2011 are:

Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 March

Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 April

Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 May

Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 June

Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 July

Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 September

Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 October

Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 November

Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 December

Assessment

Students are required to submit one essay of 3,000-3,500 words. The essay requires the student to make an account of their model of supervision, including practical examples and the impact of their learning from the course. The submission date for essays is Friday 29 October 2010. Essays submitted by 29 October 2010 will be marked and returned by 5 December 2010. The mark for any essay submitted after 29 October 2010 will be reduced by 10% and the student may incur an additional administrative charge.

Students also need to complete satisfactorily a facilitation of a supervision session. This assessed supervisor session will be undertaken at the final weekend during the course time, with another course student in the role of supervisee, using anonymous material from the supevisee's practice. The assessment will be made by tutors, peer and self.

There will also be continuous assessment by the tutors of the student's presence in the student group and the ability to integrate the taught material.

Additionally, a minimum of 80% attendance is required to complete the course.

How is this course different from others?

This training recognises that in many settings, supervisors may be supervising practitioners from a different theoretical orientation than their own. Moreover, in many contexts for group supervision, there may be a mix of theoretical backgrounds within the set of supervisees. Therefore this course focuses on the supervisory skills necessary to work across differing modalities.

A unique feature on this course is that, as gatekeepers of the profession, trainees will be prepared to both assess competence and to support the development of the supervisee. This involves attending to good balance between over- and under-nurturing, competence and pseudo-competence, as well as extending the “high support, high challenge” course culture into their supervision practice.

The consultancy dimension of the course is developed in recognition that in certain organisational or professional settings, informal discussion of supervisory material may take place, often among peers or managers or between practitioners and their managerial superiors. So the course facilitates supervisors for those consultative interactions on an informal, non-contracted context. As such, this training includes consultative supervision.

There is also emphasis on mentoring: a longer term relationship, such as a senior practitioner advising or working with a more junior practitioner in a guidance and advisory role. In such a context the mentor would upholding clinical boundaries without being clinically responsible for the other practitioner’s case load nor being managerially responsible for the other’s career development.

An explicit focus of this training is on organisational context – for teams and larger organisations – where consultancy and mentoring can cascade to those undertaking the face-to-face client work.

The length of the course allows for supervision skills and consultancy to be covered in depth and breadth.

This course also differs from others since it allows for those new to supervision to undertake this training before starting their supervisory practice: to gain the essential skills and awareness before taking on the responsibility of the supervisory role.

Tutor faculty

The course is taught by a renowned and highly experienced team of trainers. Each tutor has taught previously on supervision trainings and has been selected on the basis of their knowledge and practice of supervision.

Bernd Leygraf is the course director, on this training which he and Judi Keshet-Orr jointly designed with The Grove. Judi remains on the tutor team, along with a number of well-known supervisor trainers.

Bernd Leygraf

Bernd is a senior trainer accredited by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). He currently trains therapists, supervisors, organisational consultants and executive coaches in the UK and abroad. He has been course director of several MSc programmes run in conjunction with South Bank University and Middlesex University and is training director of a number of organisations in the UK and internationally.

Bernd is a supervisor accredited by BASRT, having trained and supervised counsellors and therapists for several decades. He supervises in private practice and has supervised within the NHS and other organisations.

Bernd is registered as a psychotherapist with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) and accredited with the Universities Psychotherapy Association (UPA) and an accredited member of the Association of Humanistic Psychology Practitioners (AHPP). He is a psychosexual and couples therapist accredited by the British Association for Sexual and Relationship Therapy (BASRT) and a supervisor accredited by the BASRT.

His professional and clinical experience includes private practice, working within the NHS as well as working with statutory and voluntary organisations.

Judi Keshet-Orr

Judi is an accredited psychotherapist and supervisor. She is also an organisational consultant, group facilitator and course director for both The London Diploma in Psychosexual and Relationship Counselling, (a BASRT Approved Training) and a diploma in clinical supervision and consultancy hosted by The Grove. Judi is Clinical Director of Ealing Abbey Counselling Service and organisational consultant to The Awareness Centre.

She has over 30 years’ experience of working in the field of training, counselling/psychotherapy and management. Her specialty lies in working with relationships both within the couple and within the larger world. Judi has a private practice in North London and works overseas training and facilitating groups focusing on a variety of subjects, which may include team building, cooperative working practices, or staff development alongside therapeutic issues. Judi was the first person in the UK to achieve an MSc in psychosexual and relationship work. She has contributed to several publications and given interviews to the media. She is currently on UKCP’s media committee.

Judi often works cooperatively with other professionals through training and consultancy and is commissioned to provide dedicated and unique packages to staff teams. In the past she worked within social services and the police force doing both direct work with individuals and groups and then joint investigation training. She has also provided training and facilitation to a variety of large and small businesses. For several years Judi worked within the NHS both clinically and heading up the largest training for psychosexual and relationship therapists in the UK.

Her professional qualifications include: registration with UKCP, accreditation by BASRT and AHPP, UCPA clinical member, MSc in Psychosexual and Relationship Psychotherapy, Diploma in Supervision and Consultancy.

Professor Ernesto Spinelli

Ernesto Spinelli has wide experience of teaching psychotherapists and supervisors, most recently as a Senior Fellow at Regent’s College School of Psychotherapy and Counselling Psychology. In addition to his academic work he also maintains a private practice as a psychotherapist, executive coach and supervisor.

Having recently published a new edition of his bestselling book, The Interpreted World: An Introduction To Phenomenological Psychology, his other books include Demiysitfying Therapy, Tales of Unknowing: Therapeutic Encounters From An Existential Perspective, and Practising Existential Psychotherapy: The Relational World. Ernesto is a Founding Member of the British Psychological Society Special Group in Coaching Psychology and is on the editorial board of the International Coaching Psychology Review.

He is an existential psychotherapist registered with UKCP, a Fellow of the BACP, a Chartered Psychologist and Fellow of the British Psychological Society. Ernesto’s other academic awards include BA, MSc and PhD.

On this course, Ernesto teaches existential approaches to supervision.

Jean White

Jean White is a UKCP-registered psychoanalytic psychotherapist, supervisor and lecturer who has practiced in London for over 30 years. After working as a psychotherapist at the London School of Economics, she went into full time private practice in 1990 but also consulted to and supervised many public sector services in the NHS, in universities and in the community. She has published many journal papers and her widely acclaimed book, Generation: Preoccupations and Conflicts in Contemporary Psychoanalysis (Routledge 2006), is a comparative study of the contemporary Independent, post-Kleinian and Lacanian clinical approaches. She is a member of the Guild of Psychotherapists, the Forum for Independent Psychotherapists and the Society of Authors.

 

Jean lectures very widely throughout Britain and internationally and runs international workshops on contemporary psychoanalytic theory and its relevance to supervision themes. For this course, she will teach on contemporary models of psychoanalysis and relate supervision to levels and forms of psychopathology.

Anita Sullivan

Anita Sullivan is an experienced  Integrative psychotherapist, group psychotherapist and supervisor working with individuals, couples and groups. She maintains a private practice in both London and Sweden.

She is a trainer and a group facilitator at the Psychosyntes Institute in Gothenburg where she has worked for many years. Anita is also co-director of the London Diploma in Psychosexual  and Relationship Counselling.

She runs dream groups in London and Gothenburg. Anita is accredited member of AHPP and BASRT and is registered with UKCP.

Transpersonal Psychology and Dream work add important perspectives to Anita’s work. She is energised by looking at supervision through this lens and supporting practitioners in addressing their work through this modality. On this training, Anita teaches transpersonal approach to supervision.

Richard Simpson

Richard is a psychotherapist, psychosexual therapist and couples counsellor, clinical supervisor and EMDR trauma specialist. He is an accredited and UKCP registered psychotherapist. He is also a member of the BACP (British Association of Counselling & Psychotherapy), BABCP (British Association of Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapists) and is accredited by BASRT (British Association of Sexual & Relationship Therapists). He is also a Level 3 EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation & Reprocessing) trauma specialist.

He trained at Spectrum, CPPD and the Whittington Hospital. Holding a Diploma in Counselling and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Psychosexual Therapy, he maintains a busy private practice in North London. Richard has a Diploma in Supervision, and as part of his work he supervises trainee counsellors. Richard teaches CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) and PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) regularly on counselling and supervision trainings.

On this occasion, Richard will teach on CBT approaches to supervision.

Jinny Fisher

Jinny is a UKCP-registered psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice. She is active in several professional bodies, having been Chair of the Guild of Psychotherapists and on the Board of Governors of the College of Psychoanalysts. She has recently delivered a paper “Because you’re worth it” focusing on the meaning and facts that make up the tensions often evident in therapy fee-setting. For this course, she will present a session to discuss these elements regarding money and fees, relevant to the supervision context.

Mary Ketley

Mary practises law in her role as partner at Alexander Marks LLP. She taught and lectured before being admitted as a solicitor in 1993.  She has specialised in family law throughout her career. Mary is frequently involved in running workshops and presenting seminars to professional organisations and charities. She brings to this training her technical and legal knowledge to bear on this training in the area of legal, ethical and data protection considerations applicable to supervision.

Application criteria

Applicants are expected to be qualified and experienced professionals in a helping profession, who are secure in their mode of practice. Specifically applicants would:

• be qualified and experienced counsellors or psychotherapists,
• be full members of their professional body (BACP, UKCP, AHPP, BPS etc) hold professional liability insurance
• have supervision arrangements in place or access to support for any supervision practice they undertake during the course.

Applicants will be asked to complete an application form and submit a curriculum vitae.

Course fee

For individuals self-funding : £2,000 + VAT @ 17.5% = £2,350.

The fees may be paid in 10 equal instalments, the first instalment is due as a deposit to reserve your place. The remaining instalments are due on the first of the month from March to November 2011.

A limited number of bursaries is available, dependent on student circumstances.  If you would like to discuss this potential or apply for a bursary, please contact Sarah Briggs through the usual application process.

For applicants funded by their organisation: £2,400 + VAT @ 17.5% = £2,820, payable before the start of the course.

Application process

Please request an application form by contacting Sarah Briggs, Director of The Grove Practice, by email at info@thegrovepractice.com or by phone on 07973 368512 or by writing to The Grove Practice, 4 Wimpole Street, London W1G 9SH.

Professional standards

Both Judi Keshet-Orr and Bernd Leygraf are supervisors accredited by the BASRT (British Association for Sexual and Relationship Therapy). Bernd is also a senior trainer accredited by the BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy).

This training qualifies students in individual or group supervision and fulfils the training criteria for supervisor accreditation with the BACP or BASRT.

The Grove Practice is a long-established counselling and psychotherapy practice based in central London, with a team of respected and accredited therapists. The Grove has developed a number of high quality professional training courses, including this supervision training. Indeed, the growing demand for the application of psychological models in organisational settings led to the additional establishment of The Grove’s training programmes, coaching team and organisational consultancy. 

The Grove Practice appears on the UK Register of Training Providers, affiliated to the Learning and Skills Council and the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills.

Diploma award

The Diploma will be awarded on successful completion of the assessment criteria as well as full payment of fees. Otherwise, a certificate of attendance will be given, unless the student completes in their own time and at their own cost a programme of remedial work agreed with the core tutors and The Grove Practice.

Applications invited for the next 2 intakes

The course will run in the Autumn of 2010 (October to December) and the Spring of 2011 (February to April). Please see below for dates and how to apply.

Course overview

 

This is a post-qualification training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy skills.  It is a part-time structured programme of 6 days, taught over 3 weekends across a three-month period.  The course equates to 36 hours’ CPD. 

 

This Certificate in CBT Skills provides an opportunity for practitioners to integrate CBT concepts and techniques with their existing theoretical background and way of working.  The course was initially set up to meet the needs of qualified therapists or practitioners, who wish to make a bridge between CBT methods with their existing practice.

 

The focus is on core CBT competences applicable in therapeutic work.  The programme is designed for counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists, social workers, nurse managers, occupational therapists, psychologists, therapeutic community managers and case workers in organisational settings.

 

The teaching philosophy is integrative – practitioners representing a wide range of theoretical orientations are invited to apply. 

 

Course methodology

 

The course consists of theoretical and experiential components, as well as exercises in skills practice. The didactic tutor input encourages critical engagement with CBT theory and its application in clinical practice.

 

All students will receive a course handbook along with any additional materials or handouts provided as the programme progresses.

 

Course philosophy and theoretical orientation

 

The course is designed to enable participants to adopt a cognitive behavioural approach in an ethical way that is appropriate for working with clients who are experiencing common mental health concerns.

 

CBT focuses on thought processes and emotional responses, which may have developed into distorted judgements, leading to rigid thinking and consequential behaviours.  This course will introduce participants to the CBT model and will cover basic CBT skills and strategies for client work.

 

The course is integrative and intentionally multi-modal.  It is taught at postgraduate level; course participants are expected to work academically on this basis. This includes the ability to evaluate theoretical concepts and a commitment to reflect critically and open-mindedly on one’s own process, philosophy, theoretical orientation and skills.  Discussion in the full group or smaller groups is as important as the tutor-taught components.  The experiential process of development encourages participants to learn from one another as well as from the course tutors.  The integrative philosophy underpinning this course fosters a multidisciplinary environment where theoretical differences and similarities are creatively valued.

 

The course philosophy aims to establish a learning community in which a working alliance is established which encourages participants to take responsibility for their own learning and to support the learning of other course members.

Course content

 

The course includes theoretical teaching, as well as group discussion of concepts, case discussion and skills practice.

 

Over the 6 taught days, the basic concepts of CBT will be introduced, with attention paid to integrating CBT in the individual’s practice.  Particular techniques will be emphasized in therapeutic contact, which facilitate change in cognitive therapy.  Course participants will have the opportunity to use Socratic questioning to prompt change, in addition to the use of action-based strategies including the design of “homework” and behavioural experimentation to supplement the CBT sessions.  Students will be shown how to undertake conceptualization work in order to produce a formulation of a cognitive therapy case.

 

The following will be explored:

• Basic concepts of CBT
• Assessment and case conceptualization with CBT
• Formulation of the identified problem, goal-focus and review process
• Integrating CBT techniques into everyday practice
• Use of Socractic questioning, “homework”, behavioural experimentation
• Common psychological problems for which CBT can be helpful
• Use of CBT in community and primary care settings
• Working with this structure or time-limited approach
• Managing CBT: practical situations and incomplete or sub-optimal interventions

Course dates, times and venue

Each day will start at 10am and finish at 5pm.  The venue is Regent’s College, London, NW1. (www.conferences.regents.ac.uk)

The dates of the 3 weekends are:

Autumn 2010

Saturday 9 & Sunday 10 October

Saturday 6 & Sunday 7 November

Saturday 4 & Sunday 5 December

Spring 2011

Saturday 26 & Sunday 27 February

Saturday 19 & Sunday 20 March

Saturday 9 & Sunday 10 April

What previous students have said about this course

“Attending the CBT course was an excellent learning experience and has

expelled the myths and resistance I had to CBT, allowing me now to integrate

it into my current way of working.”

“I have thoroughly enjoyed the CBT course and appreciated Richard's style, skill and genuineness and the variety of group members’ input.”

“I enjoyed this course the way it was structured. There was an even amount of video, teaching and experiential. Thank you. I hope to be putting my learning into practice with my clients. One of the best courses I have ever done!”

“Yes, I am using the CBT ideas for my work and it is going very well thanks to Richard.”

“An excellent and informative training. The trainer was very knowledgeable in conveying all aspects of CBT and also covered other forms of psycho-social intervention.”

“The course leader and the group created an excellent learning environment for this training.”

“Thanks for forwarding the CBT forms – I actually believe I shall be using some of them which 12 weeks ago I was resistant to!”

“Due to the quality of teaching and experiential learning, the CBT approach

has and will continue to sharpen my focus in my current psychodyanmic

approach. The course has broadened my skillset which I can apply to working

with PCT and short-term clients.”

“I know several people who have undergone CBT training and who have found it impossible to incorporate any of the thinking. So by contrast I really appreciated Richard's open and accessible style. His non-dogmatic approach helped me to think objectively about CBT. Whilst I do not think any of it is particularly new, it has its own language which appeals to the rational aspect of my clients and provides a structure in which they can think about themselves.”

Assessment and course award

In order to receive the post-qualification Certificate in CBT Skills, participants are required to attend all 6 days of the taught programme satisfactorily and to have paid their fees in full.  A CPD certificate of attendance will be given to any student who is present for less than 6 days. 

 

The course is participative, experiential and discursive in nature, so informal assessment during the course is through self-analysis and group discussion. There is no requirement for any written work.

 

If the tutor has any concerns regarding a student’s ability to assimilate CBT concepts and techniques into their practice, this will be discussed with the student in the first instance.

How is this course different from others?

This course has an explicitly multi-modal in that the focus of the teaching is on participants synthesising their own model of CBT practice, taking into account their existing theoretical background and way of working.  The course is also multi-disciplinary in orientation, allowing for the varied contexts in which CBT may be practised.

 

Course tutor

Richard Simpson

Richard is a psychotherapist, psychosexual therapist and couples counsellor, clinical supervisor and EMDR trauma specialist.  He is an accredited and UKCP registered psychotherapist. He is also a member of the BACP (British Association of Counselling & Psychotherapy), British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies and is accredited by BASRT (British Association of Sexual & Relationship Therapists). He is also a Level 3 EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation & Reprocessing) trauma specialist.

 

He trained at Spectrum, CPPD and the Whittington Hospital. Holding a Diploma in Counselling and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Psychosexual Therapy, he maintains a busy private practice in North London. Richard has a Diploma in Supervision, and as part of his work he supervises trainee counsellors. Richard teaches CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) and PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) regularly on counselling and supervision trainings.   He has trained and supervised mental health professionals from a variety of backgrounds in the use of CBT.

 

His theoretical approach is integrative.  Indeed, he regularly uses CBT within his therapy and supervision practice.

 

Application criteria

Applicants are expected to be qualified and experienced practitioners in a helping profession, who are secure in their existing mode of practice. Specifically applicants would:

• be qualified and experienced counsellors or psychotherapists, psychologists, social workers, occupational therapists, key workers or nurses,
• be full members of their professional body (BACP, UKCP, AHPP, BPS etc),
• hold professional liability insurance,
• have supervision arrangements in place.

Applicants will be asked to complete an application form and submit a curriculum vitae.

 

To book your place on this course

Please request an application form by contacting Sarah Briggs, Director of The Grove Practice, by email at sarah@thegrovepractice.com or by phone on 020 7637 7763.  Your place will reserved once payment of the initial instalment has been received.

Course fee

£500 + VAT @ 17.5% = £587.50.

This is payable in 5 equal instalments of £117.50: the first instalment is due when you book your place; the remaining instalments are due monthly during the duration of the course.

Autumn 2010 instalment dates: 1 September 2010, 1 October 2010, 1 November 2010, 1 December 2010.

spring 2011 instalment dates: 5 January 2011, 5 February 2011, 5 March 2011, 5 April 2011.

 

Some reduced-fee places may be available. The Grove awards reduced-fee places on a discretionary basis according to student circumstances.  Please contact Sarah Briggs, Director of The Grove Practice, on 020 7637 7763 or sarah@thegrovepractice.com, if you would like to be considered for a reduced-fee place.

Professional standards

Participants are eligible for membership of BABCP (British Association of Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapists), subject to the criteria applicable to the grade of membership for which the participant is applying.

 

Holding this Certificate in CBT Skills is evidence of the practitioner being CBT-trained and adopting a Cognitive Beahavioural Approach (CBA).  Referring to onself as a CBT therapist or CBT practitioner requires CBT supervision and a more extensive training.

We are currently preparing our programme of events. To be kept informed when dates are announced, please send an email to info@thegrovepractice.com.

If there is any topic that you would like to be included in the series, please let us know what kind of seminar or workshop would interest you.

Alternatively, if you are a trainer or facilitator who'd like to run a workshop with The Grove, please get in touch with Sarah Briggs to discuss your idea: sarah@thegroveparractice.com