How to Contact Us
Address:
'Le Sarment'
Grand Robert
47350 ESCASSEFORT
France
Centre Manager:
John Baxendale
(0033) 09 60 47 00 41
Principal Trainer:
Joanna Beazley Richards, TSTA
(0044) 7973 844621
Programme of Courses at 'Le Sarment'
Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday 4, 5 & 6 May 2009
'An Introduction to Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT)'
This workshop will introduce the basic concepts underlying CBT, and how to use them in therapy.
The workshop will set the method in its historical context, and will look at the type of difficulty for which it is ideal.
The course will be led by Joanna Beazley Richards, MSc, C Psychol, Chartered Psychologist, UKCP registered Psychotherapist, who first trained in this therapeutic approach at the very start of the development of CBT.
Led by: Joanna Beazley Richards, TSTA
Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday 7, 8 & 9 September 2009
?Cognitive Behavioural Transactional Analysis?
This form of treatment is a blend of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) and Transactional Analysis (TA).
Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy is a form of psychotherapy that emphasizes the important role of thinking in how we feel and what we do. This too, is a central plank of the model developed by TA?s originator, Eric Berne. He had been trained as a psychoanalyst, but was rejected by them because he applied his scientific training to therapy. He wanted to analyze what was happening; including the way in which the client?s thinking was related to their feeling and behaviour.
Cognitive-behavioural therapy does not exist as a distinct therapeutic technique. The term "cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT)" is a very general term for a classification of therapies with similarities. There are several approaches to cognitive-behavioural therapy, and we argue that Transactional Analysis should also be included.
CBT and TA are based on the idea that our thoughts and beliefs underpin our feelings and behaviours, and are not inextricably and irrevocably caused by external things, like people, situations, and events. The benefit of this fact is that we can change what we believe and the way we think to feel / act better even if the situation does not change. Eric Berne believed this, and related it to existentialism.
CBT and TA are both designed to be goal oriented and to enable rapid change. Eric Berne spoke disparagingly about the length of time that was being taken to effect cure in psychoanalysis, and emphasized rapid change in TA. He said if a therapist did not cure the patient in the first session, they should go home, work out why not, and go back and cure them the next session. Cognitive-behavioural therapy is considered among the most rapid in terms of results obtained. The average number of sessions clients receive (across all types of problems and approaches to CBT) is only 16. TA too, has proved itself effective as a brief psychotherapy.
Counts for 18 hours CPD and Advanced TA Training
Cost: ?220
Led by: Joanna Beazley Richards, TSTA
Friday, Saturday & Sunday 26/28 March 2010 - FRANCE
?Contact and Mindfulness? ? Seminar
This seminar, held in the French branch of the Wealden Institute, will explore the value of contact and mindfulness for the individual, the therapist or the client. It is open for anyone to attend. Good food and local wine are included in the price. We will learn techniques on how to be more contactful and mindful in our relationships and in our personal life, in order to be ourselves and to live our lives to the full.
Counts as 18 hours CPD and Advanced TA Training
Cost ?350. Please contact us for more information.
Led by Joanna Beazley Richards TSTA
TA101 Courses
?Transactional analysis is a theory of personality and a systematic psychotherapy for personal growth and personal change?
That?s the definition of TA suggested by the International Transactional Analysis Association. In fact, TA today is all this and much more. Among psychological approaches, Transactional Analysis is outstanding in the depth of its theory and the wide variety of its applications.
As a theory of personality, TA gives us a picture of how people are structured psychologically.
TA also provides a theory of communication. This can be extended to give a method of analysing systems and organisations.
TA offers a theory of child development and a theory of psychopathology; the concept of life-script explains how our present life patterns originated in childhood.
Also for people interested in using TA in their professional work.
TA101 Dates for 2009:
05 - 06 September
'An Introduction to Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT)'
This workshop will introduce the basic concepts underlying CBT, and how to use them in therapy.
The workshop will set the method in its historical context, and will look at the type of difficulty for which it is ideal.
The course will be led by Joanna Beazley Richards, MSc, C Psychol, Chartered Psychologist, UKCP registered Psychotherapist, who first trained in this therapeutic approach at the very start of the development of CBT.
Led by: Joanna Beazley Richards, TSTA
?Cognitive Behavioural Transactional Analysis?
This form of treatment is a blend of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) and Transactional Analysis (TA).
Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy is a form of psychotherapy that emphasizes the important role of thinking in how we feel and what we do. This too, is a central plank of the model developed by TA?s originator, Eric Berne. He had been trained as a psychoanalyst, but was rejected by them because he applied his scientific training to therapy. He wanted to analyze what was happening; including the way in which the client?s thinking was related to their feeling and behaviour.
Cognitive-behavioural therapy does not exist as a distinct therapeutic technique. The term "cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT)" is a very general term for a classification of therapies with similarities. There are several approaches to cognitive-behavioural therapy, and we argue that Transactional Analysis should also be included.
CBT and TA are based on the idea that our thoughts and beliefs underpin our feelings and behaviours, and are not inextricably and irrevocably caused by external things, like people, situations, and events. The benefit of this fact is that we can change what we believe and the way we think to feel / act better even if the situation does not change. Eric Berne believed this, and related it to existentialism.
CBT and TA are both designed to be goal oriented and to enable rapid change. Eric Berne spoke disparagingly about the length of time that was being taken to effect cure in psychoanalysis, and emphasized rapid change in TA. He said if a therapist did not cure the patient in the first session, they should go home, work out why not, and go back and cure them the next session. Cognitive-behavioural therapy is considered among the most rapid in terms of results obtained. The average number of sessions clients receive (across all types of problems and approaches to CBT) is only 16. TA too, has proved itself effective as a brief psychotherapy.
Counts for 18 hours CPD and Advanced TA Training
Cost: ?220
Led by: Joanna Beazley Richards, TSTA
?Contact and Mindfulness? ? Seminar
This seminar, held in the French branch of the Wealden Institute, will explore the value of contact and mindfulness for the individual, the therapist or the client. It is open for anyone to attend. Good food and local wine are included in the price. We will learn techniques on how to be more contactful and mindful in our relationships and in our personal life, in order to be ourselves and to live our lives to the full.
Counts as 18 hours CPD and Advanced TA Training
Cost ?350. Please contact us for more information.
Led by Joanna Beazley Richards TSTA
?Transactional analysis is a theory of personality and a systematic psychotherapy for personal growth and personal change?
That?s the definition of TA suggested by the International Transactional Analysis Association. In fact, TA today is all this and much more. Among psychological approaches, Transactional Analysis is outstanding in the depth of its theory and the wide variety of its applications.
As a theory of personality, TA gives us a picture of how people are structured psychologically.
TA also provides a theory of communication. This can be extended to give a method of analysing systems and organisations.
TA offers a theory of child development and a theory of psychopathology; the concept of life-script explains how our present life patterns originated in childhood.
Also for people interested in using TA in their professional work.
TA101 Dates for 2010:
03 - 04 January
11 - 12 September
Course fees (unless otherwise state)
- Workshops up to 3 days: 75 Euros/day
- Workshops over 3 days: 60 Euros/day
PRACTICALITIES
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