COURSES NEWS Summer 2013
Welcome to Tariki courses news. This newsletter will give you updates on our training programmes in Other Centred Approach and Buddhist psychotherapy. This year has seen some exciting developments in the programme, with the addition of several new staff members on the main training programme and the relaunch of the Ten Directions training in environmentally based therapies in the UK. At The Buddhist House we have been developing our facilities, and now have a consulting room on the first floor, which is also being used as a small group room or seminar room, as well as our main training area in the meditation room downstairs. This means that we are able to offer teaching space to outside groups, with small kitchen facilities next door, as well as expanding our psychotherapy service.
PSYCHOTHERAPY TRAINING
Applications are now being accepted for the Tariki Psychotherapy Training Programme in Other Centred Approach. The training programme operates through a learning community model. This unique course structure offers a particularly rich learning culture, as newcomers to the programme are exposed to the ideas andexperience of those already participating, whilst bringing their own life experience, thus introducing fresh ideas and questions to the learning community. To find out more about the programme you may like to join us for an introductory weekend which is being offered in September, details below. Other centred approach is grounded in Buddhist psychology, and is especially focused on the experiential and interactive aspects of human process. Buddhism views the ordinary person as living within a limited sphere of experience, restricting their behaviour and thought processes to habitual patterns. Through other centred exploration, the person is invited to expand this range of response and, through empathic engagement, to embrace a wider worldview. Thus other centred methodology incorporates enquiry and a trust in life, helping people to face its uncertainty and grow as a result. If you would like to read more about other centred therapy, you will find the core texts for the programme in the course handbook.
INTRODUCTION TO TRAINING AT TARIKI
If you are planning to join the Tariki course programme, or if you have recently joined, you will find it useful to attend our introductory weekend on September 7-8 2013. This weekend will provide an overview of the models taught on the course, and will also give an introduction to the learning community model and the different components of the programme. The cost of the weekend can be offset against course fees, and the hours credited as attendance hours provided that you apply within two weeks of the workshop. Other training events which form part of the programme can be found on the web site. The programme is delivered in three nine day blocks per year. More details of all our training at Tariki Trust are listed in our course calendar.
MINDFULNESS & THERAPEUTIC PROCESS: A season of events a Tariki Trust
Over the coming months, Tariki Trust will be holding a number of events exploring different aspects of mindfulness. Some are aimed at the general public, others part of our training programmes. To find out more or to book for any of these please contact [email protected]. We can give CPD certificates for all these events.
June 15 Intimate Mindfulness: Buddhist Therapist's Forum: Next month the Buddhist Therapist's forum will play host to Jonny White from Karuna Institutewho will talk about Intimate Mindfulness. This will be an opportunity to hear more about the Core Process model of psychotherapy. Suggested donation £15 including lunch. CPD.This regular event, which is open to counsellors and therapists who are interested in a Buddhist or mindfulness-based perspective
June 16 Mindfulness and Yoga: This taster day is offered by Margaret Davidson, a yoga teacher for over twenty years. Margaret focuses on structural reintegration through developing free movement. Using the Ground, Body and Breath together with Mindfulness. Booking essential. Suggested donation £15 including lunch.
June 22-23 Mindfulness Workshop: and introductory workshop with Rachel McHugh: Rachel is a psychodynamic counsellor, holds an MSc in transpersonal psychology and is currently studying Other-Centred psychotherapy with Tariki Trust. She has been involved in teaching and researching mindfulness practice for a number of years and has been involved in research on the use of Mindfulness for stress amongst University students and facilitated groups run by NHS to help prevent relapse of depression. Cost of two day training workshop: £100/£60/concessions. CPD.
1Nov: Mindfulness and Other-Centred Approach with Caroline Brazier: With the popularity of mindfulness-based therapies, Buddhist approaches have become increasingly well-known in mainstream mental-health services. This development has not been without controversy and new writings suggest that mindfulness practitioners are increasingly questioning the secularisation and simplification of the technique. Recently we have contributed to the debate, offering several articles to books and journals on the subject. Drawing on the current debate, textual materials, and particularly the Satipatthana Sutta, the primary text on mindfulness, this seminar will explore the relationship between this fundamental principle of Buddhist practice and Other Centred Therapy. This course is part of the Tariki Training Programme in Other-Centred Approach. Cost for non-registered students £60. Booking essential
Nov 2-3: Mindful Engagement with Caroline Brazier: Mindfulness is the deep engagement with experience, both in its immediacy, and in its fundamental qualities. The practice of mindfulness, as presented in the Buddhist texts, involves developing focused attention which appreciates the person or object which is being experienced in the moment of meeting, and at the same time recognises the fragile nature of that person or object as something which is dependent on certain conditions for its presence and which is vulnerable to decay. The poignancy of such an encounter, held in the space between creation and destruction, brings tenderness and reverence. This quality, expressed in the grounded presence of the therapist, and in the attention which the client learns to give to his own process, and to the `others' who make up his world, is developed through attentive therapeutic practice. This weekend workshop, which concludes our first course block of 2013/14, brings together the quality of relating which is the basis of this model of working and the embeddedness of that encounter within an experiential frame to which both therapist and client relate. Thus mindfulness occurs within the therapeutic triangle, a shared encounter grounded in mutual recognition.This course is part of the Tariki Training Programme in Other-Centred Approach Cost for non-registered students £120. Booking essential
TEN DIRECTIONS TRAINING IN ENVIRONMENTALLY BASED THERAPY
This month we held a Ten Directions intensive in the Rheidol Valley, Wales for the first time. It was a wonderful experience and we plan to return next year for two intensives. The area in very rich with a variety of environments which offer possibilities for different activities and the wood itself provides a great base for wild camping (though those who like home comforts can easily stay off in local bed and breakfast accommodation if they prefer). As a result of our experience we have also been working on a revised structure to the programme, which is now entering its third year. This can be found on the web: outline of programme and schedule of courses for 2013/14
We will now offer five weekends to be held at the house in Narborough focusing on the 10 areas covered by the programme. Between these we will be offering online teaching to integrate the subject areas. The three week on-line programmes won't be particularly academic, but will be more like the online personal growth retreats which we have been running over the past few months at Tariki, setting practical exercises to demonstrate different aspects of the theory. In this way you will complete the theory section as a group, rather than having to do it individually and will be guided through the process. Following the five weekends at Narborough, the course will conclude with two longer intensive is (a five day and a six-day group, making up the 21 days in total). The full 21 days needs to be completed within two years of registration. In addition to the original 21 days, we have added a five day working experience. This is scheduled for August 2014 in the woods in Wales. This will give you valuable experience of working alongside people whose lives are intimately connected with the woodlands. If you are unable to make this period, however, an alternative experience can be agreed.
BUDDHIST THERAPISTS FORUM
As you are probably aware, we offer Buddhist therapist's forums every couple of months. The next Buddhist Therapists Forum will be held on June 15thdetails are given above. The forum is a regular event at Tariki is intended for practising therapists who have an interest in Buddhism or for experienced student therapists from the course programme who make count attendance towards peer learning hours , and involves discussion of theory, inputs from those working and teaching in the field, peer supervision and case discussion. Future forum dates are: September 21st and November 16th.
COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY SERVICE
At The Buddhist House we offer a counselling and psychotherapy service. This provides the possibility of on-going therapy for people living in the locality, but it can also be accessed by those living further afield who wish to experience working in an intensive way on a residential retreat. The service, which can provide placements for students on the programme, operates a sliding scale of fees for clients. It is staffed by students and course tutors from the programme. If you are looking for psychotherapy, please contact us.
DISTANCE LEARNING
Enrolment for on-line distance learning in 2013-2014 will start in September. This year we have offered the new style modular programme. We also offer online retreats which have proved very popular. The year long distance learning programme is now delivered through a combination of two fixed length modules per year plus three single learning units and one retreat or personal development unit. The programme may be taken as a stand-alone introduction to Buddhist psychology and other centred psychotherapy, but also forms the core theoretical component of the Diploma in Counselling. Learning units can be taken on their own, and over the coming year we will be increasing the range of these units available. In addition to the psychotherapy training, Ten Directions on-line modules will be available from September.
CONTACT US
To contact us regarding course information or applications, email Caroline Brazier or Elise Tate [email protected] or telephone the Buddhist House on 0116 286 7476. The Buddhist House is situated at 12 Coventry Road, Narborough, LE 19 2GR and is three minutes walk from Narborough railway station. There is parking at the house. All events take place at The Buddhist House, 12 Coventry Rd, Narborough LE19 2GR unless otherwise stated.
Directions to the Buddhist House, we have accommodation for students and visitors in guest rooms and dormitory accommodation.
Paul has worked as a clinical psychologist, psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, writer, group facilitator and teacher for twenty years, in a variety of settings. The common thread in all that he undertakes, is mindfulness. He is dedicated to helping people to be more present in their lives, in their relationships, work and with themselves.