CPD Workshops

Introductory Workshops

CPD workshops for Professionals and Trainees

For more detailed information and for a full list of our workshops please contact us at info@northernguild.org

Creating the Therapeutic Frame

Date(s):       Friday 2nd, Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th May 2025

To apply, please ask the Northern Guild office for a Workshop Registration form via  info@northernguild.org

Diploma in Supervision: Certificate in Clinical Supervision

Overview

The Certificate in Clinical Supervision can be attended as a standalone training, or as one part of the Diploma in Clinical Supervision, which is made up of the 5‐day Certificate in Clinical Supervision, and two further 3‐day workshops, followed by
submission of a portfolio.

Date(s):              Monday 7th – Friday 11th July 2025

To apply, please ask the Northern Guild office for a Workshop Registration form via info@northernguild.org

Creative Methods in Supervision

Overview

This training forms part of the 10-day supervision training, which is a route to the Certificate and Diploma in Clinical Supervision.

Date(s):              TBC (2025/26)

To apply, please ask the Northern Guild office for a Workshop Registration form via info@northernguild.org

Containing Malicious Projections in Supervision

Overview

This training forms part of the 10-day supervision training, which is a route to the Certificate and Diploma in Clinical Supervision.

Date(s):              TBC (2025/26)

To apply, please ask the Northern Guild office for a Workshop Registration form via info@northernguild.org

Imagery & Active Imagination

Overview

Images convey powerful messages, spoken and unspoken. When the therapist and client capture the image, mental and emotional energy is released, which can lead to the deepening of insight and awareness. This process can lead to deep and lasting change.

CPD Hours:        18

Date(s):              Friday 25th – Sunday 27th April 2025

To apply, please ask the Northern Guild office for a Workshop Registration form via info@northernguild.org

In Search of Primal Self

Overview

In this workshop we will explore the healthy quest for relationship that begins before birth which, known or unknown, is within us throughout our lives. This workshop is intended for practitioners who are working with child or adult clients and who are keen to deepen their knowledge of the primal self.

CPD Hours:        6

Date(s):              24th January 2025

To apply, please ask the Northern Guild office for a Workshop Registration form via info@northernguild.org

Researching Counselling and Psychotherapy

Overview

Whether research is new or is already familiar to you, there is a place for you here!

This three day workshop will look at narrative, numbers and new methodologies; how poems, process and positivism produce pluralism; Carl Roger’s core conditions and common therapeutic factors as outcomes; ethics, controversies and the client’s voice.

CPD Hours:        18

Date(s):               4th – 6th April 2025

To apply, please ask the Northern Guild office for a Workshop Registration form via info@northernguild.org

Sand Tray Therapy

Overview

A three-part workshop designed for therapists who are interested in exploring the ways that sand tray therapy facilitates growth and healing, and in expanding their repertoire of therapeutic tools; incorporating sand tray therapy into their practices. This practical workshop is an invaluable source of learning.

The course entails a history and benefits of sand tray work, and step by step
instructions on how to conduct spontaneous and directed sand tray therapy
sessions.

 

CPD Hours:        18

Date(s):            14th – 16th March 2025

To apply, please ask the Northern Guild office for a Workshop Registration form via info@northernguild.org

Story & Metaphor

Overview

Using Metaphor in Therapy can harness creative and imaginative energy and lead to integration and resolution of even deeply seated difficulties. 

We will explore how to work with the client’s own metaphors, as well as creating and reading metaphoric stories appropriate for a client’s needs.

CPD Hours:       18

Date(s):            28th – 30th March 2025

To apply, please ask the Northern Guild office for a Workshop Registration form via info@northernguild.org

The Child Within

Overview

During the early stages of life our current identities were established, from birth to adolescence. Due to the impossibility of having all our needs met we grow on the outside while the child within us remains wounded.

You will have the opportunity to return to those various stages of your life to seek what your inner child missed. Learn how to listen and respond to the Inner Child through developing skills and methods in depth therapeutic work.

A 3-day workshop, followed by a subsequent 2 days

CPD Hours:        30

Date(s):              Part 1: 14th – 16th October 2024 or 18th – 20th October 2024

                                      Part 2: 24th & 25th March 2025 or 29th & 30th March 2025

To apply, please ask the Northern Guild office for a Workshop Registration form via info@northernguild.org