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2009 dates | Sample programme

Foundation courses provide a comprehensive introduction to PCP in our personal and professional lives.

These courses cover the underpinning philosophy of PCP, key aspects of theory, an exploration of the psychology of change, and tools and techniques for working with ourselves and others.

The course has proved valuable to people working in a wide range of professional roles, and to those interested in exploring their own lives and relationships. It is designed for small groups, allowing plenty of opportunity for interactive and experiential learning, and for applying PCP to our current questions and challenges.

Two formats are offered: a 5-day intensive course, or 3 x 2-day units over 3 months.

Completion of the foundation course gives access to all PCPA workshops and to the Practitioner Certificate and Diploma Course programme.

Comments from recent participants:

‘A very useful overview and good foundation from different perspectives – I take away a desire to learn more about PCP’

‘Excellent, everyone was friendly and helpful and keen to pass on their knowledge – I really enjoyed this and would recommend it to anyone interested in PCP’

‘Very good and interesting – a first rate course in all the essentials’

‘Good quality, practical and varied – gave me confidence that change is possible’

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Foundation Course dates for 2009

June 5-day Intensive Course:	8 - 12 June	£450

Autumn 3-unit Course:	4 - 5 September 2 - 3 October 6 - 7 November	£540

Courses are held in Central or West London

Please contact Peggy Dalton for further details.

To download a booking form please click the appropriate link below:

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PCP FOUNDATION COURSE

Sample programme for the 5-day intensive course

Day One

Introductions – to the course and to each other
The philosophy and principles of PCP
Person as scientist and behaviour as experiment
Language, constructs, and personal meaning
The importance of reflexivity
Discovering and exploring constructs
Understanding and working with individual meanings

Day 2

PCP and the therapeutic/facilitative relationship
Cycles of experience and the process of psychological intervention.
PCP approaches to transference and counter transference
The development of construing, including non-verbal and preverbal construing
Using drawing and images to explore meaning

Homework – preparation of a self-characterisation

Day 3

Working with self-characterisations
The PCP view of diagnosis
The process of change and constructs of transition
An introduction to the repertory grid

Day 4

A theoretical overview – George Kelly’s ‘fundamental postulate and corollaries’
Exercises in reflexivity
Making sense of repertory grids
Uses and abuses of grid techniques

Day 5

Cycles of construing in decision-making and creativity
Psychological loosening and tightening, dilation and constriction
Ways of facilitating and supporting change
The potential of role play, enactment, and fixed role techniques

In addition to the core content, the small group setting encourages the application of PCP to the professional and personal setting of each participant throughout the course.

Tutors: Ian Gillman-smith, Hugo Townsend, Mary Frances, Peggy Dalton.

Foundation courses can be customised and delivered in-house
for professional groups. To discuss your training needs
and possibilities, please contact Mary Frances.

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