British Psychological Society Division of Counselling Psychology Masterclass
18 October 2008

All-day Masterclass on
All Quadrants All Levels - The Ultimate Integration
Presented by John Rowan

In the recent literature on psychotherapy, a number of issues have come to the fore which used to be neglected to some degree.  In the field of the individual psyche, there has been increasing attention to different levels of consciousness which may be encountered.  In the field of the body, there has been  much more interest in the brain and in neurophysiology generally, as well as in health and exercise.  In the field of the intersubjective, there has been a great deal more interest in social connections – the support system, the ancestors, the culture of childhood through fairy stories and so forth, as well as the relationship with the therapist.  And in the field of the social, there has been much more awareness of the importance of oppression, poverty,  prejudice – pressures of many different kinds which affect our clients.  The Integral approach of Ken Wilber (sometimes known as the AQAL method) offers a systematic and very attractive way of working with all four of these quadrants in everyday work in the consulting room.

Participants will be given opportunities to do actual work using this approach, and to get feedback on what they do.  There are great opportunities here to expand our repertoire in creative ways while still being able to stay within the ordinary limitations of short term work.

John Rowan, PhD, is a Fellow of the BPS (and also of BACP and UKCP) and has been working in the field of therapy since 1978.  He is a Chartered Psychologist and a member of the Division of Counselling Psychology.  He is also on the Register of psychologists practising as psychotherapists.  His book on Subpersonalities is well known, and a new book on Personification and the Dialogical Self will be out next year.  His book on the Transpersonal in therapy went into a second edition in 2005, and he has been a member of the BPS Transpersonal Psychology Section since its inception.  He has been corresponding with Ken Wilber since 1982, and is a member of the Integral Institute.  His chapter on Integral Psychotherapy was published in 2005.

Time: 10am – 5 pm
Venue: The Society’s London Office, 30 Tabernacle Street. London EC2A 4UE
Cost: £99.00 – places are limited so book early.

If you are interested in John Rowan’s Masterclass please contact the Society’s Conference Office either by telephone, 0116 252 9555, fax, 0116 255 7123, or e-mail, Conferences@bps.org.uk for a Registration form, or see the website www.bps.org.uk/conferences.


British Psychological Society Division of Counselling Psychology Masterclass
27 September 2008

All-day Masterclass on
Personification and the Dialogical Self
Presented by John Rowan

The recent work in Dialogical Self Theory (Hermans, DiMaggio and others), Assimilation Theory (Stiles, Osatuke and others), Schema Therapy (Young, Klosko and Weishaar), Narrative Therapy (White, Epston and others), Person-Centred Therapy (Mearns, Cooper and others) and experiential therapy (Greenberg, Mahrer and others) all adds up to make a completely new approach to the use of personification in therapy. Instead of all the plethora of names and titles for internal processes and states, we now refer simply to I-positions.

This results in a huge simplification and demystifying of the whole area. It is now clear that there are ways of working here which can be adopted without loss by people in psychoanalysis (Bromberg), CBT (Padesky), and many other approaches. This does not challenge any existing way of working, as for example the relational, but simply adds to it by working within it.

Participants will be given opportunities to do actual work using this approach, and to get feedback on what they do. There are great opportunities here to expand our repertoire in creative ways while still being able to stay within the ordinary limitations of short term work.

Biography: John Rowan, PhD, is a Fellow of the BPS (and also of BACP and UKCP) and has been working in the field of therapy since 1978. He is a Chartered Psychologist and a member of the Division of Counselling Psychology. He is also on the Register of Psychologists Practising as Psychotherapists. His book on Subpersonalities is well known, and a new book on Personification and the Dialogical Self will be out next year.

Time: 10 am - 5 pm
Venue: The Society's London Office, 30 Tabernacle Street, London EC2A 4UE
Cost: £99.00 - places are limited so book early.

If you are interested in John Rowan’s Masterclass please contact the Society’s Conference Office either by telephone, 0116 252 9555, fax, 0116 255 7123, or e-mail, Conferences@bps.org.uk for a Registration form, or see the website www.bps.org.uk/conferences.

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