From Stuck state to Success: negotiating impasses in therapy

Trainer: Jim Wilson

Date: Friday 12th October 2012

Location: SCOPE, 6 Market Road, London, N7 9PW

Duration: 10am-4pm

Overview:

This interactive workshop will use methods and ideas drawn from a systemic orientation to practice in order to explore the logic and potential in therapeutic impasses and to find new resources and possibilities in creatively working with Children and Young People in the social context of their lives. How mapping their world allows us to navigate their experience.

Objectives:

· To re consider impasses as an opportunity to take a fresh look at what is possible

· To consider therapeutic impasses within a social –relational context

· To explore the fine detail of “stuck” moments as a way of amplifying other possible and useful directions in practice

Course structure:

· Introduction to a systemic/performative orientation

· Skills exercises/illustrations on DVD

· Presentation of stuck situations by course participants

· Please note; Participants should show a willingness to discuss children and young people who seem to defeat the best efforts of the counsellor!

Aimed at:

All those counsellors in the Children and Young Peoples Service and other interested professionals in Social Care and Mental Health Services

Trainer Biography:

Jim Wilson is a UKCP registered systemic psychotherapist and Consultant within Greenwich CAMHS ( part-time ) He also works as a consultant , practitioner and trainer in Mental Health and Social Care Organizations in the UK and Europe . His publications emphasize therapeutic possibilities in practice with children , families and organizations . His last book “ The Performance of Practice; enhancing the repertoire of therapy with children and their families “ ( Karnac 2007 ) has been translated into several languages as has his first book “ Child Focused Practice ; a collaborative systemic approach” ( Karnac 1998 ) which is now in its fourth reprint.