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Your Help is Needed: 2017 CPD Poll

Catalyse runs a number of CPD events for qualified cognitive analytic therapy practitioners and psychotherapists, and others interested in learning more about cognitive analytic therapy.  We’re delighted to receive regular suggestions from colleagues about possible topics for these events.  However we need your help in working out which are most likely to attract sufficient interest in order that they can be run as events. We are trialling the use of a private Doodle poll to help us do this and would appreciate your help. The Doodle poll, via http://doodle.com/poll/ydcbz9bskc9d6zqc runs from now until 20th September 2016.  This lists a number of possible events for 2017 and asks you to provide your name, plus an indication of which events you’d be interested in attending AND are likely to obtain time and/or funding in order to do so.  Your name, choices, and any comments you leave will not be displayed publicly, but will be visible to the Catalyse administrator Frances Free, and Rhona Brown, who looks after our website and social media.  If you’re not happy to leave your name, you can complete the poll anonymously by giving initials only, or a pseudonym.  If you’re not already on our list of Catalyse contacts, but would like to be informed of these or other events in the future, then please contact Frances Free to provide her with your details.  Many thanks for your help!

Next Projects Forum Meeting ~ 14 October 2016

The summer’s getting underway properly and the last thing on your mind will be the autumn.  However if you’re a qualified cognitive analytic therapy practitioner or psychotherapist in the north and want to attend our Projects Forum, save the date for our next meeting.  This will take place in Manchester on 14th October between 10 and 1.  Here you can meet with peers, find out more about Catalyse, discuss ideas for CPD events, and take part in our hour-long Skills Lab.   We don’t yet have a volunteer for the Skills Lab, so if you have an idea or activity you could facilitate which would aid intentional practice of CAT skills, then get in touch.  More information here.

New CPD events confirmed for 2016

We are very pleased to confirm two new CPD events on offer for 2016.  The first will be on “Working Collaboratively with Medically Unexplained Symptoms”, led by Dr Alison Jenaway and Professor Glenys Parry.  This will take place in Sheffield on 26th September.  The second is on “Working Creatively in CAT with Dreams & Stories”, led by Dr Sophie Rushbrook and Nicola Coulter. This will be held in Manchester on 30th November.  For more details see the Forthcoming Events section.

Forthcoming CPD Events for 2016

We’re pleased to announce that we have another two CPD events in the pipeline, and are in the process of finalising details and dates.  One will be on Medically Unexplained Symptoms, led by Glenys Parry and Alison Jenaway, and likely to be held in Sheffield.  Our other forthcoming event will be in Manchester, on the subject of Working Creatively with Dreams and Stories, led by Sophie Rushbrook and Nicola Coulter.  We hope to release more details about these CPD events shortly.  To register your interest, please contact us.  Otherwise come back to check on our forthcoming events page or watch out for more details in tweets.