Dear Colleague
Here are the details of our next Connections event at Sutton Courtenay, near Oxford.
If you get more than one of these, please ignore the others!
David
INTERVENTIONS -
What works and doesnΉt work?
with Rob Pinder
March 3
What is it that successful facilitators of change do regardless of their particular coherent models of the world, and especially regardless of whether the client (individual or group) buys into that model or theory? What are the necessary (if not the sufficient) conditions for a client to feel satisfied that they have been helpedΉ? Our focus here is, of course, on interventions from which clients emerge feeling more capable or more able to help themselves in the future, rather than those where the interventionist is expected to supply knowledge or expertise which was previously absent.
Rob has gathered some ideas as a starting point for such an inquiry in the hope that you will be attracted enough to join the dialogue as a participant. These ideas take the form of hypotheses about necessary conditions, none of which he feels a sacred attachment to. He invites you to test these out against your own experience of successful interventions as a helper and indeed to challenge the very meaning of these statements.
This workshop is designed as a collaborative inquiry, drawing from our individual and shared experiences of working as professional helpersΉ to clients, whether it be as an organisational consultant, counsellor, therapist, coach, group facilitator, and so on. Rob does not approach this venture as an expertΉ, and feels that his own reflections and practice have only really scratched the surface of this exploration.
Rob works as an independent facilitator of groups and coach to individuals, mainly in business and organisational settings. As a qualified occupational psychologist he started in advertising and then meandered around adult education and careers counselling until he settled on consulting as a professional livelihood. Interspersed with earning money he has a fascination with travelling off the beaten track, especially in the developing world. He is interested in personal and spiritual growth and a range of approaches to personal change, including humanistic psychology, gestalt therapy, NLP and, more lately, Jungian analysis.
Fee £40
Bring own lunch
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