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 |
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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)
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Constructive Leadership
PCPA recently held a successful workshop exploring PCP and leadership. Read the workshop notes HERE. |
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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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more... |
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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... |
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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 |
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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.
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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 |
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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
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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/ |
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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.
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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
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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" |