Programme

ALL workshops and talks are held at The University of Reading, Whiteknights Campus, The Cedars, Building 55. Please see the Map and Location tab for directions and a map of the campus.

Doors open from 7.30pm for registration and refreshments. Talk starts promptly at 8pm. Free to members or £10 on admission for non RTG members.

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2019

15 January	Bravery Analysed Dr Coline Covington
12 February	Your Brilliant Brain: what you need to know about it to be a better therapist Annie Pesskin
Half-day Workshop Saturday 9 March	Roles we play within a family: an experiential exploration using a scene from Sophocles Antigone Jeanette Glasser
12 March	Vicarious Traumatisation Lisa Nel
23 April	AGM, 7.30-9.30pm (All members welcome)
Half-day Workshop Saturday 11 May	Jane Knowles Memorial Event Free to Members From the Instinctual to the Cosmic: Jung's use of Colour in the Red Book Diane Finiallo Zervas
14 May	Parent-infant psychotherapy against the odds:How a negelcted and abused dad's motivation to be with his baby and his partner was the catalyst for change Joanna Tucker
11 June	Destructive Processes in Groups Val Parker
8 October	There is no such thing as an individual: Exploring the client in the round Joan Bristow
12 November	Treating OCD and Phobias using TA Niki Costas Tanto
10 December	TBC

Past Presentations

Summaries of RTG's past presentations can be found by following this link.

NEXT MEETING

Somatic Countertransfernce in trauma work the therapist's body speaks of the client's unconscious

Presented by Morit Heitzler
Tuesday, 9 October 2018 8.00-9.30pm

Synopsis:Over the last 25 years, trauma work—more than any other aspect of our field—has shown us the limitations of purely verbal ‘talking therapy’, and neuroscience has helped us understand why awareness of the body is crucial in attachment and affect regulation. In PTSD, by definition, the client is dissociated from the trauma which is experienced as terrifying and overwhelming sensorimotor affect, mostly in the body. It is impossible for the therapist to function reliably as an attuned regulatory object without being acutely aware of both the bodies in the therapeutic relationship—the client’s and her own. Traditionally, psychoanalysts might have used the term ‘somatic countertransference’ to point to these aspects of our internal experience as therapists. What that means in practice is being constantly exposed to—what feels like—unmanageable intensities, picked up by subliminal, non-verbal channels and via our ‘mirror neutrons’, our autonomic nervous systems and other spontaneous body mind processes. Vicarious traumatisation is recognised as one of the dangers of such acute but necessary exposure. How can we process the information inherent in our ‘somatic countertransference’ so it becomes useful and transformative, both for our own survival and well-being and that of the client and their process? This workshop will aim to address these questions and other related issues.

Biography: Morit Heitzler is an experienced therapist, supervisor and trainer with a private practice in Oxford. She has been teaching on various training courses in the UK, Israel and in Europe, and regularly leads workshops and groups. Through her work in Israel, at the Traumatic Stress Service of the Maudsley Hospital, the Oxford Stress and Trauma Centre, her supervision at Oxford Refugee Resource, as well as her private practice, Morit has gained experience in treating a wide variety of PTSD symptoms and traumatised clients, including refugees and asylum seekers. Over two decades, she has been developing an integrative approach to trauma work, incorporating - within an overall relational perspective - Body Psychotherapy, attachment theory, EMDR, modern neuroscience and Family Constellations. In recent years she has been focussing on delivering intermediate and advanced CPD and supervision for trauma therapists, specifically on integrating the various trauma therapies. More information can be found on her website: www.heitzler.co.uk. .

Free to members; £10 on the door for non-members.

RTG talks are approved for Royal College of Psychiatrists CPD: 1.5 external units per session. Sessions may also be used as proof of Continuous Professional Development (CPD) as part of re-accreditations. Certificates and records of attendance are available at each meeting.

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