CREATIVE COUNSELLING

Date: 13-15 June 2008

Venue: The SION Community, Brentwood, Essex

An exciting weekend which combines time out for ourself on a personal journey of creativity and discovery, and learning new skills for working with your clients. The course includes:

• Different ways of using postcards and pictures
• The power of symbols and imagery, including toys, animals and dolls
• Working creatively with art, crafts and collages
• Creative writing, story-telling and visualisation
• Working with fairy tales
• Using puppets

Full payment is required 4 weeks prior to the course start date. Payment may be made in instalments provided the full amount is received by the start of the weekend. Application for financial assistance may be made to the Bursary Fund.

Who is Suitable to Attend?
You don't have to be 'artistic' to come! In fact, it's sometimes easier if you're not! It's not about producing a masterpiece, it's about releasing feelings and exploring what happens when we work creatively. There is no formal lecture-style teaching, but demonstrations and individual practical work, or work in pairs/triplets. People often attend this course more than once because each time the experience is different. There is no formal ministry time, so anyone attending must be able to contain the feelings and emotions that arise, and have follow-up help after the weekend. Although it is aimed at counsellors, it is also suitable for certain individually assessed clients.

The course is led by Pauline Andrew with support from other members of the Deep Release training team

PRINCIPLES & PRACTICE OF DEEP RELEASE LEVEL II - ADVANCED LEVEL

THIS COURSE IS FOR REGISTERED DEEP RELEASE PRACTITIONERS

This course is for those counsellors who are already practising Deep Release and wish to increase their confidence and work with fellow practitioners. It is a requirement for Registered DR Counsellors to attend this course, preferably each year, to keep abreast of new developments and maintain their skills level.

Those attending must have already completed the Principles & Practice Level I course.

FRIDAY Duvet Work

Stillness and silence - breathing and sound - body work - visualisation - dynamics in the depths.

SATURDAY Advanced Attunement

Conception to Birth journey - in womb and birth work - sensorimotor interventions - using touch and holding.

SUNDAY Release of Blocked Emotions

Anger workshop - more on body work - the Courtroom - Gestalt interventions.

Date: 4-6 July 2008

Location: The Sion Community, Sawyers Hall Lane, Brentwood. Residential or Non-residential.

Start time: 9.30 am End time: 5.00 pm

Cost - Training only: £70 per day

All 3 days booked together: £180

Cost - Accommodation:

Bed & Breakfast: £25 pppn

Dinner, Bed & Breakfast: £30 pppn

Feedback from 2007 Course:

"Eye-opening, confidence-building, awe-inspiring.  Professional yet homely, challenging yet safe.  I have learnt masses about myself and made powerful breakthroughs."

"Absolutely brilliant!  The demos were excellent and the triplet work awesome."

"I always feel I have a spiritual renewal when I come here.  Really amazed at my processing."

"I really appreciated the opportunity to practise skills in a safe environment.  I have grown in confidence.  The folders we got were a great resource - it was all incredibly professional."

PRINCIPLES & PRACTICE OF DEEP RELEASE LEVEL I

This weekend gives you an overview of different aspects of Deep Release work, including:

• How to help people who can't access or express their emotions.
• How events in the womb affect us emotionally, spiritually and psychologically.
• How trauma in early life can affect the brain and personality.
• How to work creatively using symbols, metaphor and visual images.
• How to work wholistically as a counsellor, including body, mind and emotions.
• The place of therapeutic touch.

The weekend includes lively, illustrated teaching with practical workshops.

Who is the course suitable for?

• Counsellors who have completed basic training.
• More experienced counsellors wishing to increase their skills-base and explore creative interventions.
• Some clients who want to understand more about the principles and process of Deep Release.

Start time: Friday 11 am

End time: Sunday 3.30pm

Location: The Sion Community, Sawyers Hall Lane, Brentwood.

Date: 24-26 October 2008

Cost: £195 per person (Bursary assistance available)

Feedback from 2007 Weekend:

"Great to experience the trust in working in triplets.  Extraordinarily powerful..."

"Brilliant!  A great learning curve.  Good clear teaching  I had a wonderful time as a client and as a facilitator - absolutely amazing."

"It's been a privilege to sit under such clear teaching and observe such openness in sharing and demonstrations.  I feel more empowered and relaxed with the skills - the duvet work and holding were very significant."

"The workshops were amazing... I had never done anything like it before.  I am so pleased I came..."

"Extraordinarily powerful... very humbling to enter the world of the womb."

Some comments from 2007 Creative Counselling courses: "Releasing, emotional, a wonderful atmosphere.  I have learnt some great ways of working with creativity for myself and others." "A very moving and powerful weekend with such a variety of creative methods to watch and try in a safe environment." "Awesome, tender, safe, useful, revealing... wow!" "I feel like I've moved on so much in just a few days.  The journey working on the collage was amazing." "This was a truly great weekend.  It was a safe place to be vulnerable." "Loved the course - I found it very moving  Couldn't believe how easy I found it to open up my innermost feelings.  This has been the most relaxing, warm, supportive course I have attended..."

PRINCIPLES & PRACTICE OF DEEP RELEASE LEVEL II - INTERMEDIATE / BEGINNER LEVEL

This course is for those counsellors who are beginning to practise Deep Release and wish to increase their confidence and work with fellow practitioners. It is recommended that you attend this course each year to keep abreast of new developments and maintain your skills level.

Those attending must have already completed the Principles & Practice Level I course.

FRIDAY Duvet Work

Stillness and silence - breathing and sound - body work - visualisation - dynamics in the depths.

SATURDAY Advanced Attunement

Conception to Birth journey - in womb and birth work - sensorimotor interventions - using touch and holding.

SUNDAY Release of Blocked Emotions

Anger workshop - more on body work - the Courtroom - Gestalt interventions.

Date: 5-7 December 2008

Location: The Sion Community, Sawyers Hall Lane, Brentwood. Residential or Non-residential.

Start time: 9.30 am End time: 5.00 pm

Cost - Training only: £70 per day

All 3 days booked together: £180

Cost - Accommodation:

Bed & Breakfast: £25 pppn

Dinner, Bed & Breakfast: £30 pppn

Feedback from 2007 Course:

"Eye-opening, confidence-building, awe-inspiring.  Professional yet homely, challenging yet safe.  I have learnt masses about myself and made powerful breakthroughs."

"Absolutely brilliant!  The demos were excellent and the triplet work awesome."

"I always feel I have a spiritual renewal when I come here.  Really amazed at my processing."

"I really appreciated the opportunity to practise skills in a safe environment.  I have grown in confidence.  The folders we got were a great resource - it was all incredibly professional."

MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES IN COUNSELLING

PART I - UNDERSTANDING MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERS

Trainers:  Dr Chris & Pauline Andrew

This course will help counsellors understand the world of mental health, and will answer questions such as:

• How widespread are mental health issues, and who is most at risk?
• How can I gain a basic understanding of the different categories of mental illness, and the terminology used by the psychiatric world?
• What is schizophrenia, and can it be helped by counselling?
• How much do I need to know about medicines and drugs?  What about the side effects? 
• What do I do if my client is suicidal?
• When should I refer on?

Dr Chris Andrew is a Consultant Psychiatrist, working both privately and within the NHS.  This day will answer the questions above, and many more which you can bring to work interactively with the material.  The second part of the course covers Personality Disorders - each day is a stand-alone module.

An invaluable training day in preparation for future regulation requirements for all counsellors.

Dates: Saturday 21st June 2008

Start time: 09.30 am for 10 am

End time: 5.00 pm

Venue: The Sion Community, Sawyers Hall Lane, Brentwood, Essex

Cost: £65 per person, including handbook, refreshments and lunch. Bursary assistance available.

You may book this course through the online shop or order by post

MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES IN COUNSELLING

UNDERSTANDING PERSONALITY DISORDERS

Trainers:  Dr Chris & Pauline Andrew

This is the second part of a two-day training course in understanding Mental Health disorders and includes:

• An overview of the different Personality Disorders
• Narcissistic Personality Disorder
• Borderline Personality Disorder
• Antisocial (Psycopathic) Personality Disorder
• How to recognise the symptoms of a personality disorder
• Treatment options
• How counselling fits in

Dr Chris Andrew is a Consultant Psychiatrist, working both privately and within the NHS.  This day will address the above issues, and others which arise from working interactively with the material.  The first part of the course gives an understanding of basic Mental Health issues, and each day is a stand-alone module. 

An invaluable training day in preparation for future regulation requirements for all counsellors.

Dates: Sunday 22nd June 2008

Start time: 09.30 am for 10 am

End time: 5.00 pm

Venue: The Sion Community, Sawyers Hall Lane, Brentwood, Essex

Cost: £65 per person, including handbook, refreshments and lunch. Bursary assistance available.

You may book this course through the online shop or order by post

FOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND

Discover the impact and power of using Sand Tray Therapy to help clients - and you yourself - to grow. 

Trainer:  Clare Suffield MA

Clare is an integrative arts psychotherapist and member of the Deep Release Team.  We are delighted that she is returning to run this course again as a number of us enjoyed it last time and thoroughly recommend it to you all!

• Learn what lies behind the theory of working with Sand Trays and then try it for yourself! 
• Explore your relationship with others, with yourself and with God through play and symbolism.
• Rediscover your own therapeutic story in an imaginative and surprising way.

This will provide another creative tool for you to use with clients, and can also bring profound insight and growth for your own personal development.

Sand will be provided, and participants will be asked to bring their own tray (easily obtained from B&Q!). 

Places are limited, so early booking for this course is recommended.

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WORKING WITH TRAUMA SURVIVORS

• Up to date information on neuroscience and how the brain responds in life-threatening situations.
• Survival strategies and implications for development.
• Effects on the mind and the body and where developmental blocks occur.
• How to work creatively with trauma survivors.

Date: Wednesday 9th July 2008

Start time: 09.30 for 10.00 am End time: 5.00 pm

Venue: The Sion Community, Sawyers Hall Lane, Brentwood

Cost: £55 per person, including refreshments and lunch. Bursary assistance available.

Feedback from 2007 courses:

"A great day - thank you for making the subject so accessible.  Lots of lightbulbs have popped on, not only for clients but for me personally!"

"Very interesting material - could have carried on for hours!  Useful handouts - will return to them very often, I should imagine."

"Very well presented and clear - good to have open discussion and learning from other people's experience.  Gave me tools to work with clients."

"Thank you so much for an excellently presented workshop with a breadth and depth of knowledge and experience.  It makes it all so much more accessible."

"I liked the way you weaved in so many factors, eg attachment, science, theory, experience, real life stories - I just love all the brain stuff!  You gave so much of yourself..."

"Felt like this was the course which brought all the others together and gave greater depth and colour to understanding.  Incredibly energised by the teaching."

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UNDERSTANDING DID

A specialist seminar for those working in areas of severe trauma and abuse and Dissociative Identity Disorder, including:

• Structural Dissociation
• How to work with hyper-and hypo-arousal
• Boundaries and dependency issues
• Creative interventions
• Testimonies from people with DID plus question-and-answer sessions

Date: Thursday 10th July 2008

Start time: 09.30 for 10.00 am

End time: 5.00 pm

Venue: The Sion Community, Sawyers Hall Lane, Brentwood

Cost: £55 per person, including refreshments and lunch. Bursary assistance available.

Feedback from 2007 courses:

"The testimonies answered many questions that I had in my mind and provided insight for clients..."

"Such a clear and full exploration of DID and what it is like to live with it - honestly the best I have heard yet, and so validating."

"I have been so encouraged by the way you have woven in the spiritual aspects of things.  It has been such a positive and helpful day."

"I feel very encouraged by today's teaching and I am most grateful to those who shared their stories.  I have learnt such a lot about the effects of DID, both as a wonderful coping mechnaism and yet as a condition that is so misunderstood.  I felt very relaxed in the informal and 'non-churchy' atmosphere, talking at a very clear and straight level about complex issues - I would certainly come back for more!"

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HIDDEN BRUISES - SPIRITUAL & PSYCHOLOGICAL ABUSE

This is a workshop for people who are struggling to recover from wounds received in the church (in childhood or as adults) and for those seeking to help them.

Includes:

• Understanding stages of faith and what happens to us when life events impact our beliefs
• The impact of being raised in a cult, or being affected by cultic thinking in churches, and why it may be hard to leave.
• How spiritual wounds can affect us in many different areas, including self-worth, being in groups and our relationship with God.
• Working towards healing and recovery.

Date: Wednesday 16th July 2008

Start time: 09.30 am for 10 am End time: 5.00 pm

Venue: The Sion Community, Sawyers Hall Lane, Brentwood, Essex

Cost: £55 per person, including refreshments and lunch. Bursary assistance available.

Feedback from 2007 courses:

"Thank you for delivering this difficult subject in such a personal and caring way - as always I go home with more tools in the toolbox and more understanding..."

"I found the message of hope encouraging, albeit 'guarded' in the sense that things may take some time and may need a different route.  Thank you for an excellent day."

"Every bit of today was useful.  I gained understanding of many things.  The day has felt like a journey - every Christian should be taught the 'Stages of Faith'..."

"I thought the role play was superb - can't wait to see God and ask Him my questions!  You showed skill in bringing in Attachment issues, and the stuff on toxic relationships was very helpful."

"A great day which I enjoyed very much - lots of insights, personal and to apply to counselling, so very informative.  The pictures brought it to life, and there was a great air of acceptance in presenting all this balanced with a sense of justice on sorting out this messy world.  A sincere thank you..."

"An amazing day, the key to opening a box with many lightbulbs going on, blinding at times, but very revealing."

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TOXIC RELATIONSHIPS

A workshop focusing on how to break free from toxic situations and develop good boundaries, including:

• What sort of people get to us?
• What is the effect on our body and mind of 'people-poisoning'?
• Understanding the underlying principles and developing greater self-awareness.
• Learning how to confront and manage conflict.

Date: Wednesday 17th September 2008

Start time: 09.30 for 10.00 am

End time: 5.00 pm

Venue: The Sion Community, Sawyers Hall Lane, Brentwood

Cost: £55 per person, including refreshments and lunch. Bursary assistance available.

You may book this course through the online shop or order by post

WORKING WITH THE BODY IN COUNSELLING

• How to help clients who express their pain somatically (through their body)
• Working to release the effects of trauma in safe and contained ways.
• Learning to track body process and develop greater self-awareness.
• Working with lying down, and therapeutic touch and holding.
• Practical and creative exercises and live demonstrations.

Date: Wednesday 1st October 2008

Start time: 09.30 for 10.00 am

End time: 5.00 pm

Venue: The Sion Community, Sawyers Hall Lane, Brentwood

Cost: £55 per person, including refreshments and lunch. Bursary assistance available.

Feedback from 2007 courses:

"Moving, empowering, releasing and inspiring.  There are so many ideas and methods that can be used..."

"Thank you!  I am feeling refreshed and renewed at the end of this day.  I love all the teaching and the practical exercises, and I felt the timing and content of the day were all good.  I'm off to buy 2 blankets!"

"The power of music really made an impact on me today."

"A fantastic day.  I loved the fact that it was so interactive.  As for the therapeutic touch...  I've never been held like that before - it was very moving.  More days like this, please!"

"Another fantastic learning experience!  I was somewhat nervous about this course due to where I am on my own journey, but it was delivered with compassion, skill, tracking and kindness.  I did not feel pushed into anything I did not want to do.  The skills training on this course is superior to any other course I know."

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GESTALT INTERVENTIONS

This lively, interactive workshop will help you and your clients become more self-aware and more fully alive!

• Learn how to enter and understand the client's world using all your senses and working with the body.
• Find out how to use puppets to explore different aspects of the personality.
• What is chair work?  How do you use it effectively? 
• Discover how to work with dreams, visualisations and metaphor.
• How do we resolve the unfinished business in our life and what blocks us in living to the full? 

A skills-based and enlightening day which will build your confidence and help you develop more fully as a person and as a counsellor!

Date: Wednesday 15th October 2008

Start time: 9.30 am for 10 am prompt.

End time: 5.00 pm

Venue: The Sion Community, Sawyers Hall Lane, Brentwood, Essex

Cost: £55 per person, including refreshments and lunch.

Feedback from 2007 courses:

"Today has been extremely informative - I have learnt far more than I could ever imagine!"

"I have learnt even more creative skills.  Very much enjoyed working with dreams... to watch that in action was inspiring - I'm looking forward to trying this!"

"The puppet work was very revealing for me personally..."

"Wow, as always!  I learnt so much - I will do the senses exercise with my supervisees..."

"Thank you for an amzing day of resourcing, both inwardly in my ownjourney and for me as a counsellor.  Your style is empathic and knowledgeable - the dream work was incredibly powerful for me..."

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TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE

Working with the Inner Child

This course looks at the emotional impact of early childhood pain and how often we develop a 'false' self or personality. For many this is a lost inner child who has taken the blame for the struggles we experience in life. Finding him or her can bring a depth of personal healing and release in the present. A very moving and empowering day, including art work, creative writing and working with symbols, plus testimonies of how creative Inner Child therapy has been transformational.

Date: Thursday 16th October 2008

Start time: 9.30 am for 10.00 am End time: 5.00 pm

Venue: The Sion Community, Sawyers Hall Lane, Brentwood, Essex

Cost: £55 per person, including refreshments and lunch. Bursary assistance available.

Feedback from 2007 courses:

"This course has confirmed that this way of working with people is extremely powerful.  I thoroughly enjoyed the exercises and testimonies and found them to be extremely moving - I am left with joy, sadness and peace.  A wonderful workshop - thank you."

"The day was absolutely brilliant, clear, realistic, not full of jargon, and made interesting with real cases."

"A really good day, lots of new information and a fresh delivery - I loved the way you weaved in the new understanding of TA - the diagrams are great!" 

"A reinforcing and insightful day, both professionally and personally.  Good, clear and sensitive presentations and useful handouts.  Will be particularly using your adaption of the Parent-Adult-Child model - this is the first time I have grasped the 'Adapted Child'."

"There were parts of the day when you could have heard a pin drop, where it felt that people were holding their breath to hear what you would say next, especially when you were working with the doll..."

"I was completely blown away by the whole day!  What a wonderful atmosphere!  The teaching was excellent - concise yet very gentle, and the place felt so safe that people were able to become vulnerable during the practical sessions."

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INNER CHILD INTERVENTIONS

A practical Skills Workshop follow-up day to "Too Good to be True".

Work in pairs and small groups using creative interventions based on the Inner Child theory.  (Participants must have attended "Too Good to be True".)

Includes -

• Art work
• Written work, including more on left/right hand dialogues
• The language of the Inner Child
• Working with the dissociated, split off child
• Using symbols
• Working with therapeutic touch and holding
• Case work, dilemmas and implications of Inner Child work.

Date: Friday 17th October 2008

Start time: 9.30 am for 10.00 am End time: 5.00 pm

Venue: The Sion Community, Sawyers Hall Lane, Brentwood, Essex

Cost: £55 per person, including refreshments and lunch. Bursary assistance available.

You may book this course through the online shop or order by post

TOO ANGRY TO SPEAK

Working with Blocked Anger

• What do you do when your client needs to get in touch with their anger, but they can't or won't risk it?
• What are the consequences when anger is displaced or stored up physically in the body?
• What is the 'right' way to express anger as a Christian?

• This is a dynamic day which will surprise you and help you both personally and in your practice as a counsellor. Includes demonstrations, work with live material and creative approaches.

  Dates: Wednesday 29th October 2008

  Start time: 09.30 am for 10 am End time: 5.00 pm

  Venue: The Sion Community, Brentwood, Essex
  Cost: £55 per person including refreshments and lunch. Bursary assistance available.

  Feedback from 2007 courses:

  "A very helpful day - the first time I've been to anything like this!  I realise I need to take action and work through some issues of the past..."

  "A very powerful day.  It was good to learn the process involved in how to get in touch with angry feelings - the demonstration was excellent and has inspired me."

  "Thank you for a wonderful, insightful and challenging day.  The teaching was so easy to understand and this provided me with the ability to internalise it and apply it to myself.  The workshop was excellent and provided a wealth of practical advice for my work as a counsellor.  Thank you and see you again!"

  "A fab day!  Thank you so much!  It was powerful and empowering, both practically and personally.  I thought there was a really good balance of 'theoretical' input and practical demonstration. It was so good to be in the presence of other people who speak the same language.  Thank you too for the safety you created..."

  "Another excellent day of training.  The 'collapse' teaching was very enlightening, also being an advocate.  I feel I can bring this teaching into my counselling and help my clients move forward."

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TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT

Attachment Issues in Counselling

If you are confused by a client's behaviour - think Attachment!

This workshop sheds light on the origins of confusing behaviour patterns, such as the Go away - don't leave me! message. Includes moving film footage of the impact of separation and neglect on childhood development. The neuropsychological effects on the brain are explained simply, with the good news that love can alter brain chemistry! A lively, interactive, unmissable day - an essential part of your ongoing training as a counsellor.

Date:            Wednesday 5th November 2008

Start time:   9.30 am for 10 am

End time:     5.00 pm

Venue:         The Sion Community, Sawyers Hall Lane, Brentwood, Essex
Cost:              £55 per person including refreshments and lunch. Bursary assistance available.

Feedback from 2007 courses:

"An interesting and informative day that was also good fun!  A good balance of teaching and role play."

"The day far exceeded my expectation.  It held a lot of surprises for me as well as answers - I faced myself 'head on' and am understanding more of the value of creative counselling."

"The film was very powerful and pressed a few buttons in me... I understand my own attachment issues much better."

"Fascinating day, love the teaching style, some very useful insight."

"Felt very comfortable and safe with people in the group - loved the way the day was structured allowing time for discussion.  This will help me work with clients more effectively." 

"Theory presented cogently and the role play for practice was amusing, fun and informative.  Thanks for a excellent day!"

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ATTACHMENT AND TRANSFERENCE

A follow-up day to "Too Close for Comfort" - participants must have completed this day in order to attend this course.

TRAINER:  Clare Suffield MA

Clare is an integrated arts psychotherapist and she will address the following issues:

• The attachment dynamics which operate between counsellor and client
• Transference, counter-transference and co-transference - what do these terms mean, and how can we recognise them?
• How can we address both our clients' and our own unresolved and unhealed issues?

Case studies, practical work and new insights into a fascinating area!

Date:         Wednesday 19th November 2008

Start time:  9.30 am for 10 am

End time:  5.00 pm

Venue:      The Sion Community, Sawyers Hall Lane, Brentwood, Essex
Cost:         £55 per person including refreshments and lunch. Bursary assistance available.

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INTRODUCTION TO COACHING

Dr Chris Andrew MRCPsych

• What is Coaching?  How is it different from Counselling?
• Different approaches and principles.
• Training and Accreditation.
• The New Discipleship? (Collins) - the place of Life Coaching in your church!

A highly interactive day with lots of practical experience and chances to coach and be coached!

Date:  Wednesday 26th November 2008

Start time:  9.30 am for 10.00 am

End time:  5.00 pm

Venue:  The Sion Community, Sawyers Hall Lane, Brentwood, Essex

Cost:  £55 per person, including refreshments and lunch.  Bursary assistance available.

You may book this course through the online shop or order by post

WORKING WITH TRAUMA SURVIVORS

• Up to date information on neuroscience and how the brain responds in life-threatening situations.
• Survival strategies and implications for development.
• Effects on the mind and the body and where developmental blocks occur.
• How to work creatively with trauma survivors.

Date: Wednesday 10th December 2008

Start time: 09.30 for 10.00 am End time: 5.00 pm

Venue: The Sion Community, Sawyers Hall Lane, Brentwood

Cost: £55 per person, including refreshments and lunch. Bursary assistance available.

Feedback from 2007 courses:

"A great day - thank you for making the subject so accessible.  Lots of lightbulbs have popped on, not only for clients but for me personally!"

"Very interesting material - could have carried on for hours!  Useful handouts - will return to them very often, I should imagine."

"Very well presented and clear - good to have open discussion and learning from other people's experience.  Gave me tools to work with clients."

"Thank you so much for an excellently presented workshop with a breadth and depth of knowledge and experience.  It makes it all so much more accessible."

"I liked the way you weaved in so many factors, eg attachment, science, theory, experience, real life stories - I just love all the brain stuff!  You gave so much of yourself..."

"Felt like this was the course which brought all the others together and gave greater depth and colour to understanding.  Incredibly energised by the teaching."

You may book this course through the online shop or order by post

You may book this course through the online shop or order by post

30 May - 1 June 2008, The SION Community, Brentwood, Essex

DEEP RELEASE TRAINING & MINISTRY WEEKEND FOR COUNSELLORS

This is an opportunity for counsellors to experience Deep Release for themselves, and to receive training and input as to why the interventions were used and how it 'works'! The course combines lively, illustrated teaching with small group sessions where you will work alongside 3 other participants, all counsellors, with 2 team leaders who are experienced Deep Release practitioners. There will be two group sessions which will focus entirely on you, with an hour for your own personal work and then half an hour to analyse process and receive training. The weekend will include plenary teaching sessions, demonstrations and times of worship.

Participants on this course will be taking part in the Training and Ministry Weekend as part of their ongoing development as Deep Release counsellors and will be expected to attend the Principles & Practice of Deep Release Levels I and II, and other day courses.

On booking you will be sent an Application Form which should be completed and returned as soon as possible.

The Programme
Start Time: Friday morning; registration from 9.30 am, first session 11.00 am.
End Time: Sunday afternoon, approx 3.30 pm.

The conference is on a full board residential basis. We endeavour to find single rooms for all participants but a few may have to share.

Follow-up Support
Participants are asked to ensure that you have a support counsellor who will meet with you before and after the course.

Feedback from 2007 course participants:

“As a counsellor I am more and more convinced and impressed by this  important way of working.  As a client I need to put myself in the place of receiving and experiencing it—hugely for my own benefit and healing—I then learn for real and can pass it on.”

“This was excellent - a time to really observe and ask questions of such skilled workers - brilliant. I learnt such a lot and there has been some healing for me in understanding my early childhood.”

“I can’t believe how much I have learnt!  An absolutely excellent weekend.”

"I understood how to use certain techniques for the first time.  I saw the possibilities, it opened my eyes, and I also had very meaningful therapy for myself.  Totally mind-blowing, wonderful!"

Venue: The SION Community, Brentwood, Essex
The Cost: £205.00 per person
Deposit on application: £35 (non-refundable, non-transferable)

Full payment is required 4 weeks prior to the course start date. Payment may be made in instalments provided the full amount is received by the start of the weekend. Application for financial assistance may be made to the Bursary Fund.

The Deep Release Team
The Deep Release Weekends are led by psychiatrists, psychotherapists and counsellors. We believe in the centrality of Christ's redemptive work on the cross, the power of the Holy Spirit and the authority of the Word of God as essential to our ministry. We seek to combine Christian faith with the best of psychological and psychotherapeutic understanding and skills.

You may book this course through the online shop or order by post

10-12 October 2008, The SION Community, Brentwood, Essex

DEEP RELEASE TRAINING & MINISTRY WEEKEND FOR COUNSELLORS

This is an opportunity for counsellors to experience Deep Release for themselves, and to receive training and input as to why the interventions were used and how it 'works'! The course combines lively, illustrated teaching with small group sessions where you will work alongside 3 other participants, all counsellors, with 2 team leaders who are experienced Deep Release practitioners. There will be two group sessions which will focus entirely on you, with an hour for your own personal work and then half an hour to analyse process and receive training. The weekend will include plenary teaching sessions, demonstrations and times of worship.

Participants on this course will be taking part in the Training and Ministry Weekend as part of their ongoing development as Deep Release counsellors and will be expected to attend the Principles & Practice of Deep Release Levels I and II, and other day courses.

On booking you will be sent an Application Form which should be completed and returned as soon as possible.

The Programme
Start Time: Friday morning; registration from 9.30 am, first session 11.00 am.
End Time: Sunday afternoon, approx 3.30 pm.

The conference is on a full board residential basis. We endeavour to find single rooms for all participants but a few may have to share.

Follow-up Support
Participants are asked to ensure that you have a support counsellor who will meet with you before and after the course.

Feedback from 2007 course participants:

“As a counsellor I am more and more convinced and impressed by this  important way of working.  As a client I need to put myself in the place of receiving and experiencing it—hugely for my own benefit and healing—I then learn for real and can pass it on.”

“This was excellent - a time to really observe and ask questions of such skilled workers - brilliant. I learnt such a lot and there has been some healing for me in understanding my early childhood.”

“I can’t believe how much I have learnt!  An absolutely excellent weekend.”

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