Pastoral Foundation Workshop - August '23
There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.
- Seneca
There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.
- Seneca
Complicated grief is ...
More to follow ...
Just about to start the second day of this two day workshop led by Professor Don Baucom on "Couple-Based Interventions for Anxiety Disorders". We're here at the Royal Foundation of St Katharine in London's East End. St Katharine's aims to provide a "sense of an oasis in the city" and I think it succeeds really well. I've been to workshops here before and I would thoroughly recommend it. But how was yesterday's first day of this workshop?
I'm running a one day workshop in Belfast this weekend entitled "Keeping up with research: does it make any difference to our practice?". Here's a downloadable copy of the 50 or so slide initial Powerpoint presentation. I'll also be giving the trainee cognitive therapists a series of exercises to try. Here are a set of these workshop slides. They overlap considerably with the rather iconoclastic first presentation, but also provide a jumping off point for four major areas we focussed on ... 1.) how expertise is developed (Anders Ericsson's work). 2.) the importance of rapid feedback on how well things are going (balancing evidence-based practice with practice-based evidence).
Doctors came to see her singly and in consultation, talked much in French, German, and Latin, blamed one another, and prescribed a great variety of medicines for all the diseases known to them, but the simple idea never occurred to any of them that they could not know the disease Natasha was suffering from, as no disease suffered by a live man can be known, for every living person has his own peculiarities and always has his own peculiar, personal, novel, complicated disease, unknown to medicine. - Leo Tolstoy
This section will contain Powerpoint presentations from past workshops that I've given. At the moment it is still in development. Click on the headings below to open up the various areas.