Developing your Counselling Skills Bereavement & Loss

This one-day interactive workshop is designed to provide a helpful underpinning of skills, awareness and knowledge for anyone who encounters bereavement and loss within counselling contexts. It considers bereavement and loss as an unavoidable part of the human experience and as a key reason for clients to seek counselling support within both private practice and an array of agency settings.

Saturday 19 May 2018

Time : 10.00am to 4.00pm

Cost : £70

The Academy S.P.A.C.E

1a Filey Street, Sheffield S10 2FF

The workshop is designed to be partly experiential in nature with plenty of opportunity for discussion, small group work and questions.

The learning aims of the workshop include:

Awareness of the impact of loss and bereavement on self and others

Consideration of impact of bereavement on family dynamics, relationships and broader contexts

Exploration of selected key models of grief that can be used to underpin work with clients

Knowledge of attachment theory and the work built on this in relation to bereavement

Opportunity to explore creative methods for working with bereavement and how these can be utilised to facilitate exploration, understanding and change

Consideration of the particular significance of ‘endings’ within bereavement work

About Polly Singer:

Polly Singer is a qualified Integrative Counsellor (Dip. Couns) and former student of The Academy: SPACE. She is a counsellor, supervisor and Accredited Trainer for Cruse Bereavement Care. She is also an accredited Pregnancy and Infant Loss Counselling Professional (Foundation for Infant Loss Training). Polly runs Crossgate Counselling and Training (www.crossgatecounsellingsheffield.co.uk) which offers training courses and workshops in subjects such as mental health, wellbeing and bereavement within Corporate and Further Education settings. She has a private counselling practice based in Nether Edge, Sheffield.

To book a place please email Sally counsellingacademy@gmail.com

Payment is by bank transfer to Academy S.P.A.C.E

Account No. 30481548

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