CPD Workshops
Over the last twenty years, CMCS has established itself as a prime provider of continuing professional development training which focuses on issues and needs in ministers and their families.
Each year we arrange a Saturday
Workshop, repeated on several dates to enable as many as possible to attend.
These Workshops are open to all interested counsellors, but with a priority booking period and reduced fee for those who are members of the CMCS Register of counsellors.
Workshops in 2024
Our facilitator is Gill Harvey and the title is:
Fundamentalist religious childhoods and adult health :
Implications for practice in one-to-one therapeutic encounters
Dr Gill Harvey has BACP Senior Accreditation and Accreditation with the ACC. Gill
is a therapeutic counsellor/ psychotherapist, supervisor, and trainer
working
mainly in private practice. She is also the group supervision lead for
the
Hummingbird Cancer Centre in Bicester and a Trustee of an affordable
counselling service in Bedfordshire. Gill completed a research doctorate at the
Metanoia Institute/Middlesex University, the title of her thesis being:
‘Both
sides of the coin: Counsellors’ stories of the influence of a fundamentalist
religious upbringing on mental health and wellbeing in adulthood’.
Dates
These are Saturdays, all on Zoom:
(10 February
2024)
(16 March 2024)
27 April 2024
18 May 2024
5 October
2024
Cost
£90 for counsellors on the CMCS Register;
£100
for counsellors who are not on the CMCS Register
Booking
The online booking process is hosted on the ‘Baptists Together’ website.
Please follow this shortcut link: www.baptist.org.uk/cmcsWorkshops
- not the name of an actual webpage - for more details, or to book in.
This link was included in the November 2023 Bulletin for counsellors on
the CMCS Register, to launch the priority booking period.
Refund policy
If there are spaces available on a different date,
your booking can be transferred at your request.
If your booking cannot be transferred to a date that suits you:
100% if you need to cancel more than a month ahead, 50% if between
a month and a fortnight ahead.
If you find yourself unable to attend less than 2
weeks before a Workshop, or on the day, sorry but no refund; however, please do
let us know if we need not be waiting for you to join us.
Feedback from 10 February 2024 Workshop
"Everything was very well organised in advance and on the day itself.
The
breakout rooms were very well managed"
"Gill presented her research in an accessible but rigorous way; …
most importantly the material has a clear application for counselling."
"Opportunity
to explore case studies and how to apply therapeutic
approaches to the
presenting problems. Opportunities for reflection from personal experience"
"Good
to go away with reading suggestions to continue learning more"
Feedback from the 2023 Workshops:
Our facilitator was Anne Power and the title was Transitions – how our attachment stories shape our Hellos and Goodbyes
April 2023
"Pointers which might be helpful for bringing
work to a close
with my final clients before retiring in July"
"This
was my first one and I really enjoyed the chance to meet others on the CMCS
group of counsellors"
October 2023
"The presenter was both very knowledgeable & a good communicator"
"This
was a most generous presentation with a mass of material
– interesting and
thought provoking"
"Learning
about the application of attachment theory in just the right
amount of detail
for it to be a helpful additional lens to apply in my work"
"Exploring
ideas to enable the client to move from a safe and familiar place
to a place of
possibility and learning"
"Hearing
experience and suggestions from other participants
was really valuable"