Courses for Continuing professional Development (CPD)

                                                                                  

 

Aisha Ali will be running a series of workshops for professionals to further their knowledge and understanding of working with the mind and body.

These are open to qualified Psychotherapist and Counsellors, Alternative therapists and Professionals in mental health and social care services.

The experiential nature of the work lends encouragement towards personal development as part of the process.

Please contact me to discuss the suitability of the workshop for you.

Body Image and Identity

An exploration

27th March 2010 10 - 5pm

Whitelands College, Roehampton University

                                                                                                             

This workshop will explore working body image and identity. Body image is a complex concept. It is of a mercurial nature, the self-image we have in our mind's eye. It is affected by all relationships with family peers media and all of life’s experiences, and how people believe others perceive them.  One characteristic people often hold in common who have eating disorders is a high level of body dissatisfaction or negative body image; they are deeply displeased and highly critical of their body. Displeasure is a more accurate indication of how they feel on the inside than how they look on the outside.

A healthy body image includes having a realistic picture of our body, accepting this image without fear or shame, recognising the wholeness and connectedness of our body, mind, and spirit, and allowing ourselves to experience our infinite capacity for pleasure.

Learning outcomes
• The workshop will provide and introduction to techniques to use with clients when working with body image.
• Understanding origins of body image. Storytelling, including the role of the mother and father's body in relationships with their daughter and or son.
• Learn to work with negative and positive core beliefs and how to help clients transform these.
• Exploring body image and its impact on sexuality
• Working with Body image and eating disorders

We will be exploring somatic and psychological approaches.

This workshop-style event is suitable for anyone who is interested in body image and identity for themselves, or for practitioners who want to support their work with others. It is intended for practitioners from across the spectrum of talking treatments and psychological therapies, both experienced practitioners and those in training, which are interested in developing an understanding of working with body image and identity in their practice.

 

 

Working with Sexual issues and sexuality

exploring sexuality in therapy

17th April 2010 10 - 5pm

Whitelands College, Roehampton University

 

Concerns about sex and intimacy are common. This workshop will address working with sexual issues. Exploring the feelings that arise, including shame, the work can evoke in both our clients and us. Many of our experiences of love, intimacy and sexuality are linked unconsciously to feelings of shame; guilt or fear and we do not always recognize that our thoughts about these topics prevent us from fully expressing and receiving love.
This workshop will introduce ways to help you and clients to develop a healthy sense of sexuality and desire and be able to integrate this into a developed practice.

Learning outcomes
• The workshop will provide and introduction to working with sexuality and intimacy.
• Transform negative and positive core beliefs.
• The workshop will be skills based and will focus on: assessment, transferential issues and relationship dynamics, using directive and non-directive practice.
• Communication, sexual issues, psychosexual counselling and ethical complexity.

The workshop is suitable for anyone who is interested in these areas for themselves, or for practitioners and those in training who want to support their work with others who wish to expand their knowledge and skills in working with psychosexual issues. It has been designed to contribute to the continuous professional development needs of qualified practitioners who work in the field of mental health.

 

 

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