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Northern  PCP Research Group Meetings

The Northern PCP Research Group has been meeting now for nearly 20 years in York as a forum for discussion, supervision and personal development for people who use PCP in their research, work or lives.  You do not need any expertise.
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9th EPCA CONFERENCE

June 29 – July 1 2008
London
Construing PCP: New contexts and perspectives

Organizers:
Dr Dorota Joanna Bourne, Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour, Queen Mary University of London
Dr David Savage, Psychological Coach, UK
EPCA bi-annual conference is aimed at bringing together scholars and practitioners who are interested in Personal Construct Psychology (PCP). We explore the use of PCP and its tools in research, clinical and organizational practice. We also look at different aspects of PCP in life, including emotion, wellbeing, sport, gender, culture and organization. For further information, please visit the EPCA website www.epca-net.org

 

WORKSHOPS

Professional one-day workshops 2008
These workshops are open to professionals with an interest in PCP and its applications, and provide CPD credits for practitioners registered with the PCP Association.
September 12th: Working with Adolescents
October 9th: Beyond Words: non-verbal communication
(For more details of all workshops, please CLICK HERE)


 

Constructive Leadership

PCPA recently held a successful workshop exploring PCP and leadership. Read the workshop notes HERE.

 

Children in Transition

Richard Cocks writes: For the last six years, I have been running transition groups during the summer terms for children moving between primary + secondary schools in the authority.  This work has been in collaboration with a psychodrama therapist.
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Conference on application of repertory grids in business settings

Leipzig, November 2008.
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Congratulations to Richard Casebow

who has been awarded a Diploma in PCP Psychotherapy after 4 years of study with PCPA. Read more...

 

Midlands PCP Study Days

These days are open to people who have completed a PCP foundation course
Next date: to be arranged
Venue: Large group room, Phillip Ward, Coventry & Warwickshire Hospital, Stoney Stanton Road, Coventry. (free parking)
10am to 4pm, £10 to cover refreshments (£5 trainees and assistants)
Please contact Sally Robbins sally.robbins@coventrypct.nhs.uk

 

Foundation Course dates for 2008

We are pleased to announce the dates for foundation courses in 2008. Courses are offered in two different formats which we hope will accommodate different work patterns. These courses are the first level of PCP training and provide a comprehensive introduction to PCP theory and practice.
The dates are:
Spring 5-day Intensive Course: March 10 – 14
Summer 5-day Intensive Course: June 16 - 20

Autumn 3-unit Course:

i.     5 - 6 September
ii.    3 - 4 October
iii.   7 - 8 November

All courses are held in West London. Further details are available from Peggy Dalton.

 

European Constructivist Therapy Network

Following the success of last year’s event in Caorle, Venice, we are delighted to announce a second summer school for students of PCP and constructivist psychology/psychotherapy. The school will be held in Sithonia in Greece in May with the theme of Constructive Relationships and will feature a range of workshops and learning events. Click HERE for details of the programme and venue.
Read the story of the summer school HERE
Find out more about the ECTN network at www.pcp-net.org/ectn

 

New PCP papers online

Papers and talks from the recent celebrations marking the 80th birthday of Fay Fransella and the creation of the Centre for PCP at Hertfordshire University are now available online in a special edition of the journal Personal Construct Theory and Practice.
Past editions of the journal are also freely available.
www.pcp-net.org/journal

 

New journal

Those with an interest in 'radical constructivism', may like to visit the new online journal Constructivist Foundations.
www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/

 

Jonathan D. Raskin & Sara K. Bridges (Eds.) (2008): Studies In Meaning 3: Constructivist Psychotherapy in the Real World.
New York: Pace University Press. $40
Publisher's info:
Constructivist psychotherapy remains somewhat unfamiliar to many clinicians, despite offering a variety of innovative and practical therapeutic approaches and techniques. In this volume, constructivist psychology is presented as it relates to everyday practice. The chapters provide many examples of what constructivist psychotherapy looks like in the real world, showing how one can make the transition from constructivist theory to constructivist practice with ease. Constructivist therapy often gets labeled as too theoretical and lacking in clinical specificity. Yet here is a volume with chapters that succinctly and cogently explicate basic theoretical concepts and then demonstrate them with vivid case examples taken from applied experience in the field.

 

13th Biennial Conference of the North American Constructivist Psychology Network (CPN), June 18-22, 2008

The conference is hosted by the School of Child and Youth, and the Faculty of Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, for practitioners, educators, and researchers who work from constructivist, constructionist, or narrative theories. The conference will be organized around three main domains of Constructivist practice: Therapy or Counselling, Education, and Research. Please see the conference website at www.cpnconference2008.com for further information.

 

New EPCA Web site launched

Dorota Bourne writes:
"Our new EPCA website is now up and running. The address is: www.epca-net.org The most important aspect of it is a section 'Upcoming events & conferences' where you can see the details of our next EPCA conference. You can also register there for this event and renew your EPCA membership. This website is still very new and fresh so please help us develop it by sending information to either me: d.bourne@qmul.ac.uk or to info@epca-net.org, and bear with us while we are developing it. I hope you will enjoy the benefits of this virtual space as much as we enjoyed preparing it for you.
Best wishes,
Dorota Bourne, on behalf of the EPCA Committee"