The Training ComPenDium's mission is to offer high-end, quality, continuous professional development training for counsellors and coaches - with a twist!
Lunch break CPDs
Bite-sized training, served right at your desk!
60 minutes, £15
Autumn 2023
This 3 hour workshop is aimed at enhancing the knowledge, skills and confidence of practitioners in the helping professions when working with suicide.
Develop your existing skills to help work ethically and competently with suicidality; understand the current impact of suicide in the UK, risk assessment, signs and signposts, current suicide prevention interventions, as well as ethical and legal considerations. Working with suicidality can invoke anxiety for the practitioner; we aim to debunk some of the worries and fears around this work, leaving you feeling more knowledgeable and better equipped to work with clients expressing suicidality.
The workshop will include group discussions and exercises to enhance working practises as well as considering your own self-care and wellbeing as a practitioner.
Note: This workshop provides an overview of key topics related to suicide awareness and intervention. Mental health professionals are encouraged to pursue additional training and ongoing professional development in this area.
Develop your existing skills to help work ethically and competently with suicidality; understand the current impact of suicide in the UK, risk assessment, signs and signposts, current suicide prevention interventions, as well as ethical and legal considerations. Working with suicidality can invoke anxiety for the practitioner; we aim to debunk some of the worries and fears around this work, leaving you feeling more knowledgeable and better equipped to work with clients expressing suicidality.
The workshop will include group discussions and exercises to enhance working practises as well as considering your own self-care and wellbeing as a practitioner.
Note: This workshop provides an overview of key topics related to suicide awareness and intervention. Mental health professionals are encouraged to pursue additional training and ongoing professional development in this area.
This online workshop / retreat is designed to help us step back and treat ourselves with the same care that we often show for others. We tend to overlook our own needs in our hectic lives, therefore this is a space to come together and practise self-compassion in a safe, curious space. It will involve group discussion, looking at the science behind self-compassion and why it’s so necessary for our wellbeing, what makes it difficult, and mindfulness practices / techniques to help us cultivate more kindness for ourselves in tough times.
This workshop looks at how we might help our clients develop greater self-compassion, but does not have to be attended in conjunction with Part I (cultivating self-compassion for ourselves). Whilst there is a wealth of research exploring how self-compassion can strengthen the parts of the brain that make you more attuned to others, more resilient and happier, we have to appreciate it’s not a one-size-fits-all approach and that it’s not always easy, or comfortable, for our clients. In this workshop we consider self-compassion as a tool for clients - when and how we might integrate it, and importantly, when not to.
Winter 2024
- The Power and Pitfalls of Gratitude
- Perceptual Positioning: Helping Clients Gain a Wider Perspective
- Values Work: Going Deep, Getting Thorough, Gaining Clarity
- Thickening the Story: Supporting Clients in Creating Fuller Narratives
- Wheel of Life: A Quick Client Audit
- The Emotion Wheel: Going Beyond the Words and Re-framing the Mad, Glad, Sad Theory
- Locus of Control: Your Clients Crave Certainty and Control - Here's How to Gain it
- Shadow Work 101: Assuming, Projecting, Taking Things Personally
- Boundaries: Easy to Say, Hard to Do
- Goals, Outcomes and Future-focused Support: Why it's Important
- Thriving in Your Business: Continuous Professional Development for the Inner Life of a Solopreneur
- Timeline: Taking Your Client's Autobiography
- Who Am I? Helping Clients Gain Clarity Around Their Identity
- Moving Away From a V.U.C.A. (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) World to Shape a Narrative of Hope, Belonging and Stability (both as practitioners and for our clients)
- Going Beneath Anger: Learning to Sit with Discomfort and Owning the Truth
- Limiting Beliefs - What Are They and How to Unearth Them for Clients
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