Catalyse CPD: Winter 2025 to Spring 2026

Somehow the end of 2025 is already coming into sight.  It’s been a bumper year for Catalyse CPD events, thanks to the enthusiasm of both presenters and participants.  Most of our events for the remainder of the year have sold out. However we have one event with spaces remaining, plus three more to announce for 2026.  If you’d like to join a waiting list for any past events, or any yet to run but fully subscribed (eg Enhancing CAT Through IFS, or CAT as a Tool for Leadership), then do get in touch. Our CPD Administrator Rebecca Carter will add your details to lists for events of interest.

If you’d like to take the next step in training as a CAT Supervisor, snap up one of the five remaining spaces on this two day workshop. Mark Evans and Glenys Parry lead this on 4th and 5th December in Manchester.  Both seasoned CAT supervisors, they have many years of experience between them. 

In order that Dawn Bennett can also share practical details of ACAT’s modular supervisor training pathway, their two days are sandwiched between an additional online preparatory information session on 25th November, followed by one of two online follow up meetings.  Dawn has designed these to provide an opportunity to discuss and plan next steps towards accreditation. For example you may want tips on how to set up your Module 3 group. See full details at: ACAT accredited 2-day in-person workshop in CAT Supervisor Training (plus online pre-meet and follow-up Q&A session ~ in-person component on 4/5 December 2025

Sue Walsh and Kate Freshwater are running this new in-person day in Manchester . They will take a focus on organisationally-informed CAT, where struggles may exist with healthy relational processes and the wellbeing of staff at all levels. They aim to help you develop your supervisory skills through the use of story and metaphor as applied to the organisational context. Sue and Kate will consider conditions for facilitating (or limiting) organisational change using CAT concepts. You’ll have a chance to use these to aid your strategic thinking towards enhancing reflective capacity in such systems.  Find out more at: Thinking Organisationally: Developing CAT Supervision and Consultancy Skills ~ 6 February 2026

Kim Dent-Brown has shared his guidance on the 6-Part Story Method to our CAT Practitioner trainees on an annual basis for some years. However, it’s over a decade since he offered this training to all-comers through a Catalyse CPD event. This is a rare opportunity to either explore this creative approach for the first time, or revisit it. Kim’s aim is that you can use 6PSM with more confidence.  You might apply it within your own CAT practice, or as a supervisor. In this way you can support others as they help clients to generate new stories, revealing resources for healing and hope.  The training day is largely experiential. Over the course of the day you will generate your own 6-Part Story in addition to facilitating a colleague to make their own.  Full details are available at: The 6-Part Story Method ~ 27 March 2026

We are repeating May’s event on Reflective Practice facilitation in Manchester in June. The day will be broadly similar but with some changes in line with feedback. This time Kate Freshwater will co-facilitate with David Harvey. We’ll post more details soon, but you can join a list of interested people by contacting Rebecca Carter.

If you want to get some more sociable entries into next year’s diary, don’t forget about this one.  We’re planning to invite those in our Catalyse networks to a South Manchester venue on the evening of Friday 19th June. There you’ll find entertainments, a bar and a dancefloor…. More details will emerge in the new year.

That’s it for now but we’ll update you on more events and dates as arrangements progress.

Thanks again for all the support with Catalyse CPD over 2025.