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SUMMARY:Dr Richard Gipps: The Regulation of Anxiety by the Pursuit of Virtue: Being Philosophical About It
DESCRIPTION:To be “philosophical” or “stoical” is to remain calm and able to think in the face of adversity. But how have the philosophers suggested we achieve this? And how can their deliberations be drawn on in the consulting room without therapy degrading into intellectual discussion? In this talk Richard will discuss the relation of six virtues – the cultivation of healthy pride (dignity)\, the development of ego strength (inner courage)\, amor fati (acquiescing to fate)\, the will to power (determination)\, receptivity to grace (the cultivation of gratitude)\, and seeing life sub specie aeternitatis (the bigger picture) – to the regulation of the anxieties met with in the consulting room. \n(Follow-up discussion for attendees: Wednesday October 21st 19.30 – 20.30) \nRichard Gipps is a Philosopher and Clinical Psychologist. His psychotherapy practice is in Oxford where he is also an associate of the University of Oxford’s Faculty of Philosophy. In 2019 he co-edited the Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis. Current projects include a philosophical book ‘On Madness’ (forthcoming\, Bloomsbury) and a non-academic work on ‘Love’s Possibility: Dignity and Loneliness in Human Life’. His work focuses on the use of philosophical reason to clarify what otherwise remains obscure in psychopathological theory and psychotherapeutic practice.
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/dr-richard-gipps-the-regulation-of-anxiety-by-the-pursuit-of-virtue-being-philosophical-about-it/
LOCATION:Zoom webinar
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SUMMARY:Peer Support Groups
DESCRIPTION:Peer Support groups will be starting up again\, offering an opportunity to meet with colleagues and share what is on our minds.  They will be closed groups and participants will be asked to commit for a period of five weeks. They are open to members who have not yet been part of a group as well as those who would like to rejoin as part of a new group. The first group will be run on Wednesdays\, 4-5pm\, beginning on 21 October. The dates will be as follows: 21/10\, 28/10\, 4/11\,11/11 and 18/11. Please note that once they have started it will not be possible to admit new members. It is hoped that another group may start in November or January\, depending on numbers of people interested. For details please contact peersupport@oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/peer-support-groups/
LOCATION:Zoom webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201028T193000
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SUMMARY:Introducing … an OPS Book Group with a difference
DESCRIPTION:Members may recall our Café Society evening\, held last autumn. It was a popular experiment in meeting as fellow professionals in an informal setting\, breaking free from the transferences that can sometimes silence us at clinical gatherings. \nIn the same spirit we now propose an OPS book group with a difference. We will meet twice a term and focus on creative literature of relevance to our concerns. Our texts will be accessible and short enough not to be a chore. Choosing them will evolve with the life of the group. \nIn the present circumstances we will meet on Zoom and numbers per group are limited to eight. We hope to form sufficient groups to meet demand. They will be of the ‘slow open’ type\, balancing regularity with access. \nOur first meeting\, of 90 minutes duration\, is on Wednesday 28th October at 7.30 pm.\nWe invite you to join us in a free-associating discussion of five contrasting poems by Philip Larkin on the theme of love and marriage. \n\n\nThe riotous fun of The Whitsun Weddings\nElegiac Nature in Wedding Wind\nDour realism in Love\nThe tender\, reflective ambiguity of An Arundel Tomb\nAnd the intimacy of Talking in Bed\n\n\nTexts will be provided in advance\, and present on-screen during the evening. We hope you will join us! To book please contact us. \nJanine Willcock and Charles Hampton
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/introducing-an-ops-book-group-with-a-difference/
LOCATION:Zoom webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201110T193000
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SUMMARY:Anne Ford: Self-care for Therapists during the Covid-19 Pandemic
DESCRIPTION:As we continue to navigate this ever-changing time\, it is especially important that we therapists take some time to reflect on how we are being impacted by Covid-19\, and to take stock of what we are doing to ensure that we are looking after our whole selves: physical\, emotional\, spiritual\, work and social. It is not only necessary\, it is also ethically responsible to keep our self-care practice to the fore. Drawing on research and my experience of running peer support groups and self-care workshops\, this will be an interactive evening\, and through discussion and exercises there will be an opportunity for members to explore and share their ideas about self-care. \nAnne Ford\, MSW\, MBACP\, is the founder of Connect Peer Support and has over thirty-eight years of experience in training Peer Supporters\, Peer Support Trainers (therapists) and running peer support groups.  In addition\, she runs workshops and groups that focus on self-care and wellbeing. During this time\, Anne has worked extensively in the higher education field\, where she was both a counsellor and developed and ran the Oxford University Peer Support Programme through the University Counselling Service. She has published two Peer Support Training Manuals – one for higher education and one for schools – and has written numerous articles on the topic. Anne is passionate about empowering people through the development of communication\, listening and support skills to improve wellbeing and connectedness and to increase a sense of belonging through building inclusive communities. She primarily works with groups. www.connectpeersupport.com
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/anne-ford-self-care-for-therapists-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/
LOCATION:Zoom webinar
CATEGORIES:Talks
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SUMMARY:Sushila Dhall: UK - Safe Haven or Insecure Privation?
DESCRIPTION:Sushila writes: I have been a psychotherapist working with the public and charitable sectors for 25 years. For the past 16 of those I have worked for Refugee Resource with refugees\, asylum seekers and vulnerable migrants. On behalf of Refugee Resource I also offer tailored talks\, workshops and trainings\, and support and supervision to partner and external bodies\, including academic institutions and local authorities. In the past I have worked with people who are homeless and people suffering long-term depressive disorders and personality disorders. I have a small private practice in Oxford city centre\, and spend a lot of free time as an activist working on human rights and greening transport issue.
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/sushila-dahll-uk-safe-haven-or-insecure-privation/
LOCATION:Zoom webinar
CATEGORIES:Talks
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SUMMARY:Caroline Hickman: Existential grief\, hope and despair in the Anthropocene
DESCRIPTION:Caroline is a lecturer in social work and climate psychology at the University of Bath\, and a practicing psychotherapist and board member of the Climate Psychology Alliance (CPA). Currently for CPA she is supporting the development of a range of therapeutic outreach projects\, working with teachers and in outdoor eco-education projects\, offering workshops in schools (primary and secondary) and universities\, and supporting the development of a service providing climate crisis aware psychotherapy. With CPA she is also creating a series of podcasts on Climate Psychology and Eco-Anxiety – ‘Climate Crisis Conversations – Catastrophe or Transformation.’ \nCaroline works with schools\, parent groups\, youth activist groups and as a psychotherapist with children\, young people and adults dealing with eco anxiety and distress about the climate and biodiversity crisis. \nThrough the University she has been researching for five years children and young people’s feelings\, including eco-anxiety about the climate and biodiversity crisis\, to uncover and explore different stories\, narratives and images around our defences against the ‘difficult truth’ we are facing. Her climate change research is with children and young people in the UK\, Brazil\, the USA\, the Maldives\, Nigeria and Bangladesh. \n 
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/caroline-hickman-existential-grief-hope-and-despair-in-the-anthropocene/
LOCATION:Zoom webinar
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240118T194500
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SUMMARY:Christiane Sanderson: Becoming a Trauma wise Practitioner when Working with Survivors of  Child Sexual Abuse
DESCRIPTION:While there is a greater awareness of the nature and impact of child sexual abuse (CSA) in a range of contexts such as child sexual exploitation\, sexual trafficking and in institutions such as boarding schools and children’s care homes\, what is still largely underreported  is CSA inside the family with  few of these cases ever coming to the attention of the authorities\, especially sibling sexual abuse .  While it is estimated that  70% of sexual abuse occurs in families and sibling sexual abuse three to five times more common than generational CSA\, it remains poorly understood as it dwells in the dark\, shrouded in secrecy and a veil of silence. Many families are environments of safety in providing the love\, care and nurturing that is essential for the healthy growth and development of children\, some families are war zones in which children are terrorised by family members who exercise power and control over them through fear\, denial\, distortion of reality and physical and sexual abuse\, and sexual  violence. The shame and stigma of CSA within the family\, means that most survivors remain silent about their experience as they have no voice\, which prevents them from reporting or seeking support. \nMany children who have experienced sexual abuse in the family normalise their experience as they have no point of reference to compare their experience. This is especially the case in sibling sexual abuse which is often normalised and minimised leading to delayed trauma in later adulthood. Given the shame and secrecy surrounding sexual abuse in the family it often remains undiagnosed as an underlying cause for a range of long-term physical and mental health conditions such as complex post-traumatic stress reactions\, trauma related dissociation\, eating disorders\, self-harm\, addiction to alcohol or drugs\, negative self-beliefs\, depression\, trauma related shame\, social anxiety\, compromised sexuality  and  suicidal ideation \nThis workshop aims to unravel the nature and dynamics of CSA within the family by biological as well as blended family members\, adults and siblings and peers such as cousins. It will examine the factors that prevent disclosure such as the role of secrecy\, shame\, normalisation\, distortion of reality\, and the need to protect family members to avoid breaking up the family or become scapegoated. The impact of CSA and its link to trauma and delayed trauma reactions will be explored alongside the principles of  the Power Threat Meaning Framework\, Trauma Informed Practice  and the Phased Oriented Approach to Trauma Recovery\, to equip practitioners with essential skills when working with survivors to make the link between presenting symptoms and a history of CSA\, and enable them reclaim reality in order to heal and recover from CSA. \nLearning Objectives \n\nIdentify the nature of CSA \, and the range of CSA in families in particular intergenerational abuse from adults\, aunts\, uncles\, partners\,  or grandparents\, as well as sexual abuse by siblings\, step siblings and cousins\nRecognise the power and control dynamics used in CSA in families such as silence\, secrecy\, shame\, distortion of reality and denial to minimise the risk of disclosure as well as the need to protect the family\nSpecify the impact of CSA in families and how it underpins a range of long term physical and mental health conditions such as complex post-traumatic stress reactions\, trauma related dissociation\, eating disorders\, self-harm\, addiction to alcohol or drugs\, negative self-beliefs\, depression\, trauma related shame\, social anxiety\, compromised sexuality  and  suicidal ideation\nHow to apply the principles of the Power Threat Meaning Framework\, Trauma Informed Practice  and the Phased Oriented Approach to Trauma Recovery\, to equip practitioners with essential skills when working with survivors to heal and recover from CSA\n\nChristiane Sanderson is a former senior lecturer in Psychology at the University of Roehampton\, of London with 35 years of experience working in the field of child sexual abuse\, sexual violence and complex trauma. She has delivered advice and training for parents\, teachers\, social workers\, nurses\, therapists\, counsellors\, the police and faith communities. She is the author of We Are Still Here: What Counsellors and Therapists Cba Learn from the Lived Experience of Child Sexual Abuse Survivors; Counselling Skills for Working with Shame\, Counselling Skills for Working with Trauma: Healing from Child Sexual Abuse\, Sexual Violence and Domestic Abuse\, Counselling Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse\, 3rd edition\, Counselling Survivors of Domestic Abuse\, The Seduction of Children: Empowering Parents and Teachers to Protect Children from Child Sexual Abuse\, and Introduction to Counselling Survivors of Interpersonal Trauma\, all published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. She has also written The Warrior Within: A One in Four Handbook to Aid Recovery from Sexual Violence; The Spirit Within: A One in Four Handbook to Aid Recovery from Religious Sexual Abuse Across All Faiths and Responding to Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse: A pocket guide for professionals\, partners\, families and friends for the charity One in Four for whom she is a trustee. Her forthcoming books are Working with Survivors of Sibling Sexual Abuse: A Guide to Therapeutic Support and protection for Children and Adults and Essential Skills for Working with Trauma
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/christiane-sanderson-becoming-a-trauma-wise-practitioner-when-working-with-survivors-of-child-sexual-abuse/
LOCATION:Zoom webinar
CATEGORIES:Talks
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SUMMARY:“Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist and the Legacy of Trauma” - Dr Galit Atlas\, Psychoanalyst
DESCRIPTION:We are sorry to announce that this event has been cancelled. The next OPS talk is scheduled for 18th February 2025. \n  \nThis event will be a discussion of Atlas’ book Emotional Inheritance. It will focus on intergenerational trauma and emotional material that is passed down from generation to generation. It will illustrate how patient and analyst enter each other’s inner world and discover themselves as participants within each other’s psychic life and introduce a relational model to thinking about the ways two subjectivities collude in promoting dissociation and the ways inherited trauma both finds shelter and comes to life in the analytic dyad. We will discuss the legacy of trauma\, the regulation of aggression\, the power of attachment and the many faces of our emotional inheritance. \nDr. Atlas is on the faculty at NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She is the author of the books The Enigma of Desire: Sex\, Longing and Belonging in Psychoanalysis and Dramatic Dialogue: Contemporary Clinical Practice (co-authored with Lewis Aron)\, and the editor and contributor to When Minds Meet: The Work of Lewis Aron. Her last book Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist\, Her Patients and the Legacy of Trauma is an international bestseller\, translated into 26 languages. Atlas serves on the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and of Psychoanalytic Perspectives. She is a recipient of the André François Award\, the NADTA Research Award and the Gradiva Award. She is a psychoanalyst and clinical supervisor in private practice in New York City and teaches and lectures throughout the United States and internationally. \n Zoom webinar/ On-line interview by Diana Rosdolsky followed by group discussion on a Saturday evening because of the time difference.
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/emotional-inheritance-a-therapist-and-the-legacy-of-trauma-dr-galit-atlas-psychoanalyst/
LOCATION:Zoom webinar
CATEGORIES:Talks
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