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Supervision in the Age of the Evidence Base

Registered psychotherapy members wishing to obtain accreditation as supervisors are eligible to attend this workshop in Coventry which will be led by David Green and Gary Latchford. More information...

 

Registration is now open for the EPCA conference 2012 to be held in Dublin

Friday 29th June 2012 to Sunday 1st July 2012

The theme of the conference is Raising Constructivist Voices. Registration form.....
Please click HERE for more details and first call for papers, or HERE for an Abstract Application Form

 

Constructivist Coaching

Mary Frances will be leading a workshop on constructivist coaching in Coventry in May 2012. Read more.....

 

Report from the ECTN autumn school

The European Constructivist Training Network recently ran an autumn school in Brno, Czech republic. Two students, Natasa Simic from Serbia and Carlo Guerra from Italy, have written their story – CLICK HERE

 

Meeting of Minds.....

Date and time: 8th December 2011 4-6pm

Venue: Faraday House, 48 -51 Old Gloucester Street London WC1
RSVP: clrmrrs@me.com

Dennis Bury and Clare Morris would like to invite you or anyone with an understanding of PCP, to join us for an informal space to share and discuss ‘work in progress’, and/or a meal at a local restaurant. READ MORE.....

 

Exploring identity

It's quite a hard thing to be able to get hold of identity. Here is a Kellyian focused tool which seeks to offer a possible additional method to the well known Rep Grid. It's a simple step-by-step protocol aimed deriving constructs about the self (or an organisation) over time. For experienced PCPer's, this may be quite close to what you do anyway. One possible new step is deriving constructs by comparing eras in our life.

For those who like the mathematical side, this process converts into an instrument offering a full range of statistics. I would be very grateful if you would consider looking at it, trying it out, and suggesting improvements.

There are no copyright issues; this is not a marketing exercise. This is for anyone to use.
You can obtain the file by writing me an e-mail with "Eras method" in the subject heading:
dennisbury@gmail.com

PCPA members: you will find Dennis's material on the members' pages – just click on 'resources'.

 

Boston International PCP Conference –
review by John Fisher

Please click HERE

 

PCP in Organisations – papers by John Fisher

John Fisher has kindly made available his very interesting and helpful papers on organisational change:

The Anticipation and Experie nce of Change
Change Happens to People
The Change Timeline

John can be contacted through his website www.c2d.co.uk

 

Midlands PCP Study Days

December 9th 2011 Construing Communication, with Adele Pile

The Study Days are held at 44, Park Road, Coventry and run from 10 to 4 (though if you want to use the multi-storey car park next to the station it is half price if you park after 10, so you may want to be slightly late).
Contact Sally Robbins – sally.robbins1@btinternet.com or 07501 764 362 –to book your place.
PCP Quarterly Study Days are open to anyone who has completed an introductory or foundation course in PCP

 

Book news

Papers from the 9th EPCA conference held in London in 2008 have now been published.

Construing PCP: New Contexts and Perspectives: 9th EPCA Conference Proceedings
Dorota Bourne and Martin Fromm (eds), Books on Demand. (2010)
ISBN: 978-3839135778
Click HERE for an index of articles

The book is now available in online shops including Amazon and Books on Demand

 

Harry Procter has contributed a chapter to a new book on Reflective Practice

In his chapter on Personal and Relational Construct Psychology, Harry Procter argues that Kelly’s emphasis on Reflexivity makes the approach ideally suited to modern requirements for Reflective Practice. He introduces some new methods including the Therapist Characterisation Sketch and the Reflective Practice Grid.

Further details

 

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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