Spend the day with Barbara Allen, deepening your understanding of your highly sensitive clients and how they might differ from others, their particular needs and challenges, behaviour in therapy, differential susceptibility, vantage sensitivity. This day will have a flexible agenda in order to ensure participants can each gain something personal, from either information about the trait or therapeutic insight, to enhance their understanding of highly sensitive people, especially those in therapy. Please share any questions or needs when you sign up for the workshop and Barbara will try to address these on the day. For example, some topics could be:
- Common misinformation about high sensitivity and what do we really know? Facts, myths or mysteries.
- How do we tell the difference between what is simply a unique but normal aspect of this trait and a therapeutic or mental health issue or block?
- How do we navigate the complexity of wounds or reactivity that might be relational, traumatic or a vestige of marginalisation and do HSPs respond differently than the other 80%?
- What matters to HSPs in therapy?
- If you as a therapist are highly sensitive too, what are the advantages and disadvantages of working at depth with people in distress?
- As a therapist, does it make a difference if your supervisor does not have accurate understanding of high sensitivity (yours or your client’s)?
- Does it matter which model of therapy we use with HSPs?
Barbara will also share during the process, her own, unique view and context for working with HSPs, underpinned by thirty years experience.
This workshop is suitable for therapists or other professionals who are involved with well-being or care of highly sensitive clients. Barbara is a retired therapist, supervisor and group worker and currently works as an HSP mentor, writer and speaker. She has been trained in the field of addiction, dissociation, process of change, various models of therapy, supervision, group work. She has also received training specifically on sensory processing sensitivity, directly with Dr Elaine Aron in California.
This workshop will provide the equivalent of 6 hours of continuing professional development, please let us know in advance if you would like a certificate of attendance. Although this workshop is not offered as supervision, you might find the content supportive and therapeutic to your work and you may ask questions that might help you with your client work. Please leave out names, occupations or other identifying details. All participants must assume that details shared at this workshop have to remain confidential.
Fee for the workshop is £60 plus PayPal fees (there are concessions for students or those on benefits, please ask).
PRACTICAL MATTERS AND GETTING HERE
Please bring a packed lunch and let us know if you have any special dietary or other needs. Tea, coffee and biscuits will be served in the breaks. There is parking available on the premises. Arrive any time from 9am onwards. The training area is accessed via two steps into the building, toilet is on the ground floor. This is a private domestic property. There are two small dogs on the premises.
The postcode for the workshop is SP11 7H. Nearest railway station is Andover. There are taxis at the station, which is 5 mins drive from the venue. Nearest airport is Southampton and it’s nearby railway station (Southampton Parkway) is within an hour of Andover.
If you are travelling far, consider staying overnight in the area, there are a variety of Airbnb and bed and breakfast establishments in local villages. We also have two guest rooms in the main house beside the venue that are available for a small fee, first come first served.