Annual Hypno-Psychotherapy Conference
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2nd Annual International Hypno-Psychotherapy Conference
11-13 June 2010, Grand Hotel, Leicester
There will be three days of top class presentations from experts in the field of hypno-psychotherapy. On the 11th of June there will be a Masterclass presented by Shaun Brookhouse and Alan Patching. LIke the last conference, this Masterclass will be a "wish list" programme, where Shaun and Alan will teach and discuss any topic that the class wants. This can be simple induction techniques, to practice managmenet, to interventions, basically anything YOU want. Questions posted in advance will take priority, so if you have a topic ot question you would like to have covered enail enquiries@nchp.org.uk
Prices have been held at 2009 levels. See the links below for full details.
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Why Leicester?
Leicester is easily accesible from most places. It takes only one hour and nine minutes from St Pancras International in London, and train fares are from £11 each way. So from central London it takes almost the same time as it would take to get to Heathrow!
Leicester train station connects to many other major cities directly too, such as Birmingham, Manchester, Bristol, Cardiff, Sheffield, Leeds, York, Peterborough, Cambridge and Norwich
Road access is simple via the M1 or the M69 and both East Midlands and Birmingham airports are easily accessible with good public transport links. The Grand Hotel has a car park and is just 500m from the train station.
Why not bring your partner or family?
Leicester has a lot to offer including the National Space Museum, many other museums, the brand new Highcross shopping centre and fantastic food: especially from the Indian sub-continent. You can also get a train to Alton Towers! For more information, click here
Provisional programme (may change):
Saturday 12 June | ||
Time | Presenter | Topic |
| 9.45 | Registration | |
| 10.20 | Shaun Brookhouse | Welcome |
10.30-11.30 | Fiona Biddle | Structuring a Weight Control Programme |
11.30-11.45 | Coffee | |
11.45-12.45 | Prof Alan Patching | NLP ala Bandler and Its Uses in Hypno-Psychotherapy |
12.45-2 | Lunch | |
2-3 | Claire Harrison-Breed | Play Therapy |
3-4 | Sharon Mustard | Introduction to Confident Childbirth |
4-4.15 | Coffee | |
4.30-5.30 | Hilary Norris Evans | Working with Gambling Addiction |
Sunday 13 June | ||
Time | Presenter | Topic |
9.30-10.30 | Shaun Brookhouse | Integrative Approaches to Generalised Anxiety Disorder |
10.30-10.45 | Coffee | |
10.45-11.45 | John Monk Steel | Transactional Analysis |
11.45-12.45 | Anne Williamson | Brief Interventions in Practice |
12.45-2 | Lunch | |
2-3 | John Lawrence | Esoteric Psychotherapy |
3-3.15 | Coffee | |
3.15-4.15 | David Collingwood Bell | Tinnitus |
Biographies:
Claire Harrison-Breed has worked with children, young people and adults for twenty years in a range of social care settings. Claire has a Masters in Gestalt Psychotherapy and is a registered Psychotherapist, Counsellor and Play Therapist. She also holds a Post Qualifying Cert in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and specialises in therapeutic interventions for children and families blending these approaches. Her specialist areas of interest and expertise encompass, post adoption support, attachment, mental health, community intervention and preventative strategies, emotional wellbeing and resilience, trauma, loss and recovery, behavioural difficulties and safeguarding. Claire is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work for University of Northampton and has written a range of articles relating to mental health and wellbeing. She is the author of 'Play Therapy What is That? An Introduction to Play Therapy for Children' she is also an academic peer reviewer in psychotherapy. Claire has a number of year's experience of consultation, supervision and training to a variety of services in the statutory and voluntary sectors. Claire presently serves as a director on the Board of Directors for The British Association of Play Therapy (BAPT) and is chair of the BAPT Research Sub Committee. She is passionate about her work and enjoys being inspired by people, and aims to inspire others.
Sonia Murray holds a Diploma in Social Work and is a registered Play Therapist. She has twenty five years experience as a practitioner in the fields of child abuse, social, emotional and behavioural difficulties, children's mental health, childhood trauma, parenting programmes and Play Therapy. Sonia trains nationally and internationally on topics related to Play Therapy, understanding behaviour, play, communicating with children, behaviour management, positive parenting. Her work history includes employment as a childcare Social Worker, parent worker, Play Therapist in Education and Social Care and Health settings. Sonia provides consultation, supervision and training in both statutory and voluntary fields of children and Young people's services. Sonia has also contributed to a number of publications, including The Use of Therapeutic Stories.
Sonia has served on the Board of Directors for British Association of Play Therapists in a variety of capacities including Treasurer and chair of Business and Research sub-committees for nearly ten years. Sonia is passionate about understanding children and young people and gains so much from supporting and advising others who are wanting to develop children, young people and families' lives.
John Monk Steel is a Certified Transactional Analyst and Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst. John is the former Chair of the Registration Board of the UKCP. He has worked for over 25 years for the Mental Health Psychiatric Nursing Services of the NHS. John worked there as a therapist, supervisor and clinical manager before going into full time private practice.
Sharon Mustard is the founder and director of easibirthing™. She has been training women and their partners for over 11 years in using Hypnosis for Childbirth. In addition to her private courses, since 2006 she has a large contract with Salisbury District Hosptial nhs Trust maternity services whereby she is funded to teach women, partners, and teenage mums-to-be; but also midwives and health care support workers to support individuals using these methods. The easibirthing™ model had been specifically designed, in consultation with midwives, to reflect birthing methods in the UK. In partnership with the National College of Hypnosis and Psychotherapy, she also trains Hypnotherapy practitioners throughout the UK to specialise in this area. As well as being a specialist in hypno-psychotherapy for childbirth, Sharon has been a fully qualified Psychotherapist, Hypnotherapist and Counsellor since 1995. , Prior to this time, she gained extensive experience in the field of mental health: working within Social Services, National Health Service & voluntary sector. She has been an affiliate counsellor working for EAR since August 2003, an international 'Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)' who contract with a number of client companies to deliver services to their employees and family members.
John Lawrence is a National Guild of Hypnotists Board Certified Trainer and Hypnotherapist. He has worked with clients from all over the U.K. and abroad for specific issues. He is a member of the National Hypnopsychotherapy Council and the National Council for Hypnotherapy. He was awarded "The Researcher of the Year Award, 2002" for his work on phantom limb pain and amputees by the latter organisation and holds senior clinician status with that body. He is a former Research Director within the NCH. He is an Accredited Hypnotherapy Supervisor within the NCH. He is a volunteer clinical hypnotherapist with the National Phobics Society. He is on the Register of Approved Gastrointestinal Psychotherapists and Hypnotherapists helping to relieve ailments of the digestive system (IBS) and (IBD) etc. Formerly he was one of only two Scottish expert advisors to serve on the Prince's Foundation for Integrated Health, looking at the integration of complementary therapies in to the NHS. He is also a former director and chair of Holistic Health Care Limited, a Scottish charity working to promote education, research and the relief of sickness in a Holistic manner. Currently he practices at Linlithgow near Edinburgh.
Ann Williamson studied at Bristol University and obtained my MBChB in 1972. She has been a General Practitioner in a semi-rural Group Practice in a town called Mossley on the edge of the Pennines for 32 years, and retired in 2006 to run more workshops and do more writing.
She first started to train in the use of hypnosis in 1989 and gained Accreditation by the British Society of Medical & Dental Hypnosis in 1995. Ann also trained in Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP), becoming a Certified Practitioner in NLP in 1997 and a Master Practitioner in 1998. She has also attended workshops in Brief Therapy run by Bill O'Hanlon, Danie Beaulieu and Steve De Shazer.
Ann has been involved for over fifteen years with running training courses on hypnosis for health professionals for the Lancashire and Cheshire branch of British Society of Medical & Dental Hypnosis and for the British Society of Experimental and Clinical Hypnosis. She has also run courses on hypnosis and stress management for the Postgraduate Dental Departments of Cardiff, Preston, Liverpool and North Wales. Ann has been the Chairman of the British Society of Medical & Dental Hypnosis and Honorary National Secretary for the British Society of Experimental and Clinical Hypnosis for several years and since their merger she has been the Honorary Secretary of the British Society of Clinical & Academic Hypnosis.
She has had several cases published in Contemporary Hypnosis and have had two books published; a self-help book for patients with anxiety "Still - in the Storm" that has been reprinted and translated into Chinese, Spanish, Polish and Russian and a book on smoking cessation "Smoke free - and no buts". Ann has also been a named contributor in 'Hypnosis, Dissociation and Survivors of Child Abuse'. Her new book 'Brief Psychological Interventions in Clinical Practice' was published by Wiley in April.
Hilary Norris Evans originally trained with the Atkinson-Ball College of Advanced Hypnotherapy and is an accredited member and Senior Clinician of the National Council for Hypnotherapy (NCH). She is now the NCH's Specialist Advisor on Confidence, having been on its executive committee. She is also a member of the exclusive Brookhouse Hypnotherapy group, is on the IBS Therapists Register and has been a full time practising hypnotherapist since 1996. She is also an NLP Master Practitioner, certified coach and experienced trainer with both a teaching and management background in further education. She holds honours degrees from the Universities of Manchester and Dijon, France and a postgraduate teaching qualification from the University of London. She is a certified supervisor and qualified trainer through the National Guild Of Hypnotists(USA). Hilary runs courses including training hypnotherapists in the treatment of gambling addiction. She has spoken nationally and internationally on Confidence and Self Esteem, Problem Gambling and NLP.
Alan Patching has been full time in hypnotherapy, NLP training and corporate education and conflict resolution since completing his role as project director in charge of design and construction of the Sydney Olympic stadium and CEO of the public entity that owned the largest Olympic stadium ever built. When not in the clinic (where he spends around 70% of his time) Alan is an in demand presenter on the professional speaking circuit, having represented Australia in international professional speaking in 1997.
He typically delivers over 100 presentations each year in locations covering every state of Australia and also in some 10-15 other countries. His presentations bring practical application of aspects of psychotherapy into the human interface of the business environment.
Alan is Principal of the National College of Hypnosis and Psychotherapy (Australia)
David Collingwood-Bell has over a number of years has taken a special interest in and made an extensive study of the nature and treatment of tinnitus, with the result that much of his practice as a hypno-psychotherapist is now taken up with tinnitus clients. Although he sees clients on the more normal weekly or fortnightly basis, he also arranges to devote up to three days to those clients who find it worth their while to travel to his base in North East Wales from much further afield.
In 2008 he was appointed by the National Council for Hypnotherapy to be its Special Adviser on Tinnitus
Perhaps even more important is that his motivation to help others in this way was as a result of his personal experience as a tinnitus sufferer and the way in which he has brought his noise under control, largely through hypnotherapy and a positive mental attitude. His own personal struggle has given him some understanding of what it is like to suffer from a condition that can drive some to despair.
David's whole working life has been geared to helping people to learn and develop their potential. This has been in a wide variety of contexts - as a military man, a youth worker, an educator, a trainer and now therapist.
Fiona Biddle is an award winning Hypnotherapist, Hypno-psychotherapist, Humanistic Counsellor, Professional Coach and a Clinical Supervisor (UK and USA). I have been in practice for over 17 years, which makes me one of the longest established hypnotherapists/hypno-psychotherapists in Leicestershire.
In addition to her clinical work, she is also the Managing Director of the National College of Hypnosis and Psychotherapy, which is one of the longest established schools of hypnotherapy/hypno-psychotherapy in the world. Fiona is also the co-author of 4 books on the subject ranging from Practice Building and Management to Hypnotic Coaching to Motivational Hypnosis. She is also a past Chair of the National Council for Hypnotherapy and currently the Secretary of the European Association for Hypno-Psychotherapy. I am registered with the UK Council for Psychotherapy and is the current Chair of the Hypno-Psychotherapy College of UKCP
Shaun Brookhouse began his hypnotherapy practice in 1989 and has been in continual full-time practice since then. He earned a Masters Degree in Education Studies (Researching the development of training in Hypnotherapy 1971-1998), Liverpool John Moores University, and a CertEd from Manchester University in which the assessment was based in part on the course he designed in clinical hypnosis.
Shaun is the UK's second recipient of the European Certificate in Clinical Hypnosis (ECCH) from the European Association for Hypno-Psychotherapy. Shaun also holds the European Certificate of Psychotherapy (ECP) from the European Association for Psychotherapy and the World Certificate of Psychotherapy (WCPC) from the World Council for Psychotherapy. Shaun has been UK Council for Psychotherapy registered since 1996 and was a former Hypno-Psychotherapy Section delegate, Section Chair, and Ordinary Member of the UKCP governing board. In March 2008, Shaun was again elected to be Chair of the Hypno-Psychotherapy Section of UKCP with a seat on the Board of Trustees. Additionally, in 2008, he was elected to the position of Chair-Elect of the European Association for Hypno-Psychotherapy. In 2009, Shaun retired from the Chairmanship of the Hypno-Psychotherapy Section of UKCP, but is still active within the Section.
He is also the co-author of Motivational Hypnotism (ISBN 0-9544604-1-3) Building a Successful and Ethical Therapy Practice (ISBN 0-9544604-0-5) and Hypnotic Coaching (ISBN 0-9544604-1-3)
Suggestions for accommodation:
http://www.ramadajarvis.co.uk/hotels/leicester.aspx (aka The Grand Hotel, the conference venue). We have negotiated a special rate for delegates of £64 per night for Friday and Saturday. If you wish to stay on the Thursday night, the rate is £93. Price is per room (NOT per person) and includes breakfast. To get this rate you need to phone the Ramada Jarvis central reservations system and tell them you are attending the NCHP conference. +44 (0)844 815 9012. There is just one family room, so if you want a double bed and two singles, grab it fast!
http://www.accorhotels.com/gb/hotel-3061-ibis-leicester-city/index.shtml (.68 miles)
http://www.castleparkhotel.com/ (.34 miles)
http://www.premierinn.com/pti/hotelInformation.do?hotelId=28718&iscsell=true (.25 miles)
http://www.belmonthotel.co.uk/ (.49 miles)
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