Conference

Annual Counsellors' Conference

The Storm After the Calm: therapeutically picking up the pieces
Thursday 29th September 2022 | 9.30am to 4.00pm
Didcot Civic Hall, Oxfordshire, OX11 7JN
Conference cost: £125 

We're ready to bring people together again, face to face!

We invite you to join us for our Fifteenth Annual Conference for Counsellors working in schools or interested in working in schools on Thursday 29th September 2022.

With waiting lists overwhelmed and professionals feeling the pressure, so much is being pushed back into schools to be the provider of all support. Let's take some valuable time to reconnect in this stimulating and supportive environment.

This virtual conference is suitable for all professionals who work to support young people both inside and outside of the school setting. 
Conference Programme

Opening Address with Kathy Peto: The Young Person, the Family and the Outside World: how do we as therapists find our positions in the systems surrounding young people?

Kathy began her working life as a teacher and then a youth and community worker, and has been working in the field of parenting education and family support for the last 26 years, as a practitioner, trainer, manager and supervisor within both the statutory and voluntary sectors. Her original training as a psychodynamic counsellor informs her therapeutic work with families, and her interest in how organisations and systems work led her recently to undertake an MA in Consulting and Leading in organisations at the Tavistock and Portman Institute.
Morning Workshops
  1. Please don't leave me. Thinking beyond acting out - understanding and working with young people in chaos (Angelique Camoenié)
  2. Understanding the development of psychotic symptoms in young people (Louise Johns)
  3. Muddles, mistakes and miscommunications, rupture and repair: the pain of learning from our mistakes in our consulting rooms and the school corridors (Debbie Lee)
  4. A systemic perspective on the context of equality, power and difference (Shona Reed-Purvis & Kiri Summers)
Afternoon Workshops
  1. The Oedipus Complex and how it can inform our thinking about adolescent relationships (Seth Osborne)
  2. Understanding the development of psychotic symptoms in young people (Louise Johns)
  3. 50 Shades of Feeling: making therapeutic sense of emotions clients evoke in us (Katia Houghton)
  4. Sound, fury, silence: helping young people and schools to keep talking about race (Lucy-Jean Lloyd & Imran Mirza)

All bookings must be made via OTSA Eventbrite website.  You will be required to choose a morning and an afternoon workshop at the time of booking.  If someone else is booking on your behalf, then please ensure they know your workshop choices in advance. Some workshops may be capped.  Unfortunately, places cannot be reserved.


Payment

Payment is required at the time of booking by credit card, debit card or Paypal. A VAT invoice will be sent to you automatically by email.


Refunds

No refunds will be given with less than 30 days notice.


In the event of a refund request, please note that the Eventbrite booking fee of 6.5% plus 0.49p per ticket is not refundable. A VAT invoice will be sent to you automatically by email.


To keep our event fees as low as possible, we are not able to issue manual invoices for later payment by cheque or bank transfer and we are not able to reserve places without payment.


We strongly recommend that you take out 'event ticket insurance' which may cover the cost of your fee should you be unable to attend the event.


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