Celebrating Diversity - A Day Conference for Christian Counsellors
North Parramatta, Sydney - March 27, 2010 - Saturday 8:30am - 5:30pm
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All Conference places are FILLED.
For cancellations after 8 March, there is no refund. Substitute delegates will be accepted.
Schedule
Delegates choose one speaker from each session. You are free to choose from a different stream each session, or stay with one or two streams through the day.
8:30 - 9:00 |
Registration and Coffee |
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9:00 - 9:30 |
Introduction and Ice Breaker |
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9:30 - 11:00 |
Session 1 |
The Words and the Music of Christian Counselling |
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Exploring Identity with Survivors of Abuse and Trauma: Absent but Implicit or Present but Obscured? |
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A Preliminary Look at Ecker and Hulley’s, (1996) Depth-Oriented Brief Therapy (DOBT) |
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When opposites attract and the fireworks begin |
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11:30 - 1:00 |
Session 2 |
To Counsel or to Coach, that is the Question |
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A Developmental Approach to Working with Emotional Trauma and Deficits in Adults |
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Focusing - Embodied Spirit |
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Piloting a Single Engine or Jumbo aircraft? Individual or Relationship Counselling - which do I prefer and why? |
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2:00 - 3:30 |
Session 3 |
Towards Technologically Healthy Families |
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Overcoming Grief and Loss |
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Self Care: Caring for Self in the light of Caring for Others |
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Couple therapy – the skill of gate keeping |
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4:00 - 5:30 |
Session 4 |
The Alternate Story |
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Harnessing Anger |
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Working with Bears: A Client With Psychosomatic Pain |
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Understanding and working with children with anxiety |
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Four workshop streams
- Workshops on Effective Therapy
- Workshops on Trauma, Grief and Anger
- Workshops on Language, Purpose and Technology
- Workshops on Relationships
- One page promotional poster
- How to Register and Pay - Early Bird deadline is 12 Feb. Only 105 places, so be quick to book in!
Four Workshops on Effective Therapy
Genevieve Milnes
MA (Couns), M App Psych (Clin), B Ed, B Div, CCAA (Clin), PACFA Reg.
Workshop: ‘Working with Bears: A Client With Psychosomatic Pain’
Genevieve has recently completed her PhD in this combination therapy and will present aspects of her findings. She is the President of the CCAA and has worked as a therapist and counsellor for 25 years. She is the resident psychologist and counsellor for 98.5 Sonshinefm radio in Western Australia.
With the use of teddy-bears to represent the Inner Child Genevieve will present a case study of a client with psychosomatic symptoms of chronic pain and how the problem was resolved with a combination therapy of CBT and psychodynamic therapy.
Dr Cliff Powell
PhD, Clinical Psychologist
Workshop: ‘A Preliminary Look at Ecker and Hulley’s, (1996) Depth-Oriented Brief Therapy (DOBT)’
Dr Cliff Powell has been in private practice as a Clinical psychologist since 1984. He was the founding chairperson of the Christianity and Psychology Interest Group of the Australian Psychological Society and is a senior lecturer at Wesley Institute. Areas of clinical specialty include anxiety, trauma, and marriage counselling.
DOBT (now called Coherence Therapy) aims at both brevity and depth, yet seeks lasting change beyond symptom relief. Based on a deeply respectful stance, it offers innovative interventions to assist the change process. In people’s currently time-poor lives, this approach appears to have increasing relevance and we will look at its theoretical foundations, primary tasks and look at using it in interventions.
Maureen Ireland
Masters in Counselling, Grad. Dip in Counselling, Dip. Solution Focused Counselling, Certified Focusing Professional, Ass. Theology, Clinical Pastoral Care Cert. MBTI, Mediator, Trained Couple Counsellor, CCAA (Clin), PACFA Reg.
Workshop: ‘Focusing - Embodied Spirit’
Maureen is the Senior Counsellor at Karinya in Heathmont and a lecturer at Tabor College, Victoria. Focusing has influenced Maureen’s work with Trauma and Couples.
This workshop will introduce Focusing, which is the work of Eugene Gendlin. It promotes the value of working with the body to notice where and how the body holds experiences and feelings and using reflective listening for a three fold experience. We will explore listening to the explicit and implied meaning of the words and listen to the way our body holds what is being said using Eugene’s Six Steps and interactive exercises to allow us to experience Focusing.
Phil Henry
B.Th.,Grad Dip. Counselling Studies, M. Counselling, QCA (Clin), CCAA (Clin), PACFA Reg. SCAPE, CCYP
Workshop: ‘Self Care: Caring for Self in the light of Caring for Others’
Phil is a therapist / practitioner within his own counselling practice - Making the Difference Counselling and Consulting. Phil is well qualified and has many years of experience working with people in a variety of contexts - corporate business, finance, administration, education, pastoral care, counselling and supervision. Phil is very well aware of the need for self care.
His workshop will focus on the need for self care, identify areas of vulnerability and stressors, explore role ambiguities in our work/home lives, investigate depression, boundary violations and spiritual crises, and consider a plan of action to balance work and leisure.
Four Workshops on Trauma, Grief and Anger
Richard Elms
B. Social Work, CCAA (Clin), PACFA Reg.
Workshop: ‘Exploring Identity with Survivors of Abuse and Trauma: Absent but Implicit or Present but Obscured?’
Richard has been practising as a counsellor/therapist since 1980. After working for Anglicare, Community Health and as a school counselor he now has a private practice at Riverlands Therapy Services. Richard has a varied clinical caseload and is an experienced trainer and clinical supervisor.
In his workshop Richard will describe a process of therapy that explores identity with survivors of abuse and trauma. This process will be examined in light of Biblical principles and ideas from Narrative Therapy, and will be illustrated with case material and Practical ideas for working with abuse and trauma.
Lyn Abery
Dip.Psych.(ANZAP), Grad. Dip. Couns.(Hons), Dip.Adult.Education, CCAA (Clin), PACFA Reg.
Workshop: ‘A Developmental Approach to Working with Emotional Trauma and Deficits in Adults’
Lyn is a psychotherapist in private practice in Merrylands and Chatswood. Lyn has a special interest in early childhood trauma and the developmental process in therapy.
Her workshop will use case studies to look at the ‘two different worlds or internal states’ that exist in the traumatised individual who has become emotionally stuck due to developmental issues in childhood. She will explore the different developmental stages in working through the trauma that leads to internalisation and integration of the damaged self. The importance of real relationship, real conversation and ‘play’ in the counselling process will be explained with practical tips.
Gillian Evans
Bachelor of Counselling (UNE), Cert IV Training and Assessment, APC (Clin), PACFA Reg.
Workshop: ‘Overcoming Grief and Loss’
Gillian Evans has been a counsellor for over 19 years, working primarily in the areas of grief and loss, with great experience in counselling people who have experienced neo-natal death.
Participants will gain an understanding of grief and its process, learn about the different ways people manage grief and why. The reasons people get stuck will be examined and practical suggestions will be offered to assist clients to move through grief and loss.
David Rahtz
B. Ministry, Ad. Dip.CC, APC (Clin), PACFA Reg.
Workshop: ‘Harnessing Anger’
David Rahtz has been working as a counsellor in private practice for over 15 years. With his wife Anne runs parenting and marriage workshops, and work for Anglicare as Relationship Educators.
A simple three stage model for working with anger issues including building emotional awareness in body and mind; understanding the meaning and roots of anger, and its created purpose in a fallen world; and usefully harnessing its energy. This approach is intended to be a more consistent Christian approach to working with client’s anger issues that looks beyond just "anger management". The approach attempts to include all aspects of people - rational, emotional, behavioural and spiritual.
Four Workshops on Language, Purpose and Technology
Jeff Rutter
BA (Hons), MTS, PsyD, MAPS
Workshop: ‘The Words and the Music of Christian Counselling’
Dr. Rutter is a clinical psychologist, lecturer in the graduate department of counselling and director of the Student Counselling Centre at Wesley Institute.
His areas of interest include metaphorical aspects of counselling and client change processes, the intersection of psychology and spirituality, and the psychology of the artist. The Christian tradition is rich in poetic and symbolic material, and ancient Jewish and Christian peoples once deemed the expression of anything in poetic form as an indication that it must have been quite important and worthy of serious attention. How far we have strayed! Western psychology now privileges the literal, and more than a few mental health professionals consider the use of metaphor and other imaginative resources in the consulting room to be “fluffy” and non-empirical at best. We will set about challenging that perspective and having fun in doing so by examining the tension between the literal and the figurative in the modern world, the tension between the literal and the figurative in Christianity and the demands and the delights of taking a more explicitly imaginative approach to Christian counselling.
Nicolette Deva
M.Ed(Psych)., Grad.Dip.Psych., Grad.Dip.Ed., B.Sc. Assoc MAPS.
Workshop: ’The Alternate Story’
Nicolette is a psychologist and has worked with communities, young adults, adolescents and children in counseling and training roles for the past 16 years. She currently works in private practice at Life Medical Clinic in Waterloo and at the Hillsong CityCare Health Centre in Castle Hill.
When people consult counselors or psychologists they frequently relate stories. Many of these stories are of problems and concerns they are struggling with. They also relate other stories - ones that are often neglected, barely visible and often unheard. These are the alternate stories – the stories of intentions, purposes, dreams and values. Narrative therapy proposes that as “these alternate story lines thicken and become more firmly rooted in history, they provide people with a foundation for new initiatives in addressing problems, predicaments and dilemmas in their lives” (Michael White). This interactive workshop will introduce you to a set of skills and principles that will help you to develop alternate stories with your clients. During this workshop, you will be able to see a practical demonstration of alternate story development, as well as have the opportunity to practice some of the skills involved.
Richard Morrison
BTh, Dip.Min, MCouns, APC (Clin), PACFA Reg.
Workshop: ‘To Counsel or to Coach, that is the Question’
Richard Morrison works in Newcastle with his own counselling practice. He pastored a church for 20 years and is a Ph.D. candidate in the sociology of mental health, with an interest in men’s health.
He will provide an interactive exploration of the counselling and coaching metaphors of helping, looking at the respective strengths and weaknesses of these two images of helping people, explore the marketing and accessibility of them and the counselling profession.
Collett Smart
BPsych(Hons), BEd, Assoc MAPS, CCAA(Clin)
Workshop: ‘Towards Technologically Healthy Families.’
Collett Smart has been working with children and their parents for 20 years. She holds a Bachelor of Education degree and an Honours Degree in Psychology with a specialisation in Special Needs.
She will discuss the role of technology, focusing on internet addiction risks such as pornography and cyber bullying, the neurological processes and addictions that occur from these risks and tools to manage them.
Four Workshops on Relationships
Neil Harris
M.Couns, Grad Dip Couns, B. Couns, Dip Rel Couns ,Cert 1V WTA, CCAA (Clin), AARC(clinical), MSCAPE(clinical), PACFA Reg.
Workshop: ‘Couple therapy – the skill of gate keeping’
Neil is the co-director of the Counselor training program at Morling College, Sydney, NSW. He maintains a private practice on the Central Coast of NSW.
This workshop will cover the skill of gate keeping as an interpersonal tool the couple therapist can utilize and integrate into their everyday practice. The seminar will also briefly overview couple therapy through the lens of attachment theory in balance with system theory and developmental couple theory. There will be an active demonstration of gate keeping by the presenter and time to practice the skill with other participants.
Nicky Lock
BSc(hons), Grad Dip EFT, AARC (Clin). APC (Clin), PACFA reg. Cert IV TAA
Workshop: ’Piloting a Single Engine or Jumbo aircraft? Individual or Relationship Counselling - which do I prefer and why?’
Nicky founded the Cottage Counselling Centre in 1996 and has worked a Relationship Counsellor for Anglicare for 15 years. Currently the Course Coordinator for St Marks NTC Christian Counselling Courses, Nicky has recently co-developed the St Marks Vocational Graduate Diploma Course in Relationship Counselling with her colleague, Helen Miller.
This workshop will explore experientially the charms and challenges of the two counselling settings, reflect on the different experiences of working with individuals or with couples, and develop understanding about participants being that drawn towards one or other type of work.
Rob Salmon
BACC, MCouns, CCAA (Clin), PACFA Reg.
Workshop: 'When opposites attract and the fireworks begin'
Rob has a passion for working with men and specializes in pre-marriage and relationship counselling.
This presentation will investigate the complications that ensure when an emotional detached person and the emotionally explosive person become a couple. Using both research and case studies we will look at firstly the reasons for the connection and the fireworks that invariably happen, and then ways to help couples to develop new ways of relating.
Kerry Moss
B.Sc (Psych), G.Dip Counselling, Cert IV Workplace Assessment & Training, APC (Clin), PACFA Reg.
Workshop: ‘Understanding and working with children with anxiety’
Kerry Moss has been working for Southern Community Welfare in the Sutherland Shire, for five years as a child and family therapist. She is also a successful author writing about anxiety, and a presenter, in this field.
The workshop will explore helpful methods available for children and families who struggle with anxiety, in particular using the parent-child relationship to learn new ways to deal with it. Creative resources will be introduced that assist in working with children and families to managing anxiety.
Venue
The Conference Centre in North Parramatta is situated on 4 hectares of park-like grounds featuring native gardens, and is adjacent to a bush reserve. North Parramatta is a fully catered conference centre, providing wonderful meals and exceptional hospitality and service. Read below for accommodation at the Conference site.
How to Register and Pay
- Register Online Now! - Early Bird deadline is 12 Feb. Places are limited to 105, so book early.
- Pay
by
- online banking to CCAA (NSW)
(ie internet transfer via your bank's website or local branch)
- BSB: 062223, Account: 28010353 - include your name in the Reference field
- online banking to CCAA (NSW)
(ie internet transfer via your bank's website or local branch)
- OR cheque posted to CCAA (NSW), PO Box 3, Palm Beach 2108
Conference Registration
Member of CCAA or APC |
Counselling Students |
Others |
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Early Bird Registration by 12 Feb |
$110 |
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$120 |
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Full Registration |
$130 |
$150 |
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Registration covers all Conference sessions 8:30am - 5:30pm, morning & afternoon tea and lunch. If you require accommodation at the Conference site, please book and pay your own way via the Parramatta Conference Centre webpage. The booking number is 1300 138 125. All rooms at 'Bulayu House', ie single twin, triple, double and double+single, are $82 per night. All rooms at 'George Brown' are $92 per night. |
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