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1 376, Hale End Road, Highams Park, London, E4 9PB Phone/Fax: Website: Study Days Program Autumn 2017 Following are a series of study days for practitioners to focus on specific issues in a small group. Each day will consist of some input on the topic, experiential processing, and space to discuss practice issues relating to the theme. Each workshop will be from 10.00am till 4.00pm (register/coffee from 9.30am) and will be at the above address. Each workshop will cost 65 to include lunch and refreshments. If you would like to attend, please send the attached slip with your booking fee. Jan Hawkins facilitates each day, having a passion for experiential, ongoing learning opportunities for practitioners. Jan has been teaching for over thirty years and a therapist for 30 years. For a list of publications, see Counselling and the Autistic Spectrum Friday 22 nd September 2017 The autistic spectrum is a broad umbrella incorporating such terms as Asperger s Syndrome, Autism, High Functioning Autism and Autistic spectrum disorder. Many children and adults who have diagnoses within the spectrum are able to attend mainstream schools, colleges and workplaces, yet they can experience a great deal of confusion and anxiety in any social setting. This study day will focus on the autistic thinking style and how this impacts on everyday living and on the counselling relationship. Jan has been working with adolescents and adults with within the autistic spectrum for 30 years and has an adult son who has autism. She also gives training on issues relevant learning disabilities, taking her understanding of the inner worlds of her clients to residential care workers, support workers, social workers, teachers and counsellors. Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - Friday 6 th October 2017 CPTSD shares the symptomatology of PTSD but results from chronic trauma, often from childhood. It affects many Survivors of childhood trauma long into their adult lives.. Survivors may have lived continuously with nightmares, sleep disturbances, hypervigilance, hyperarousal, self-harming, dissociation, self-esteem and selfconcept issues and a variety of other difficulties. Others who have lived with chronic trauma in relationships of domestic violence, and other chronic trauma experiences, develop the same painful symptoms of CPTSD. This study day will focus on the effects of this for daily living and consider ways of supporting clients in their understanding, and overcoming of this painful and distressing (sometimes paralysing) experience. (see separate flier for clients living with CPTSD) Winnie the Pooh and the Inner Landscape - Saturday 14 th October 2017 There is a potency for healing available in fairy tales, myths and stories. Certain stories grip us, whilst others leave us cold. The story of Winnie the Pooh can be rediscovered in many ways, one of which is reflecting on our own inner landscapes, and aspects of ourselves. This day will allow personal reflection on inner states and characters as they relate to Christopher Robin and friends. A day for personal reflection and fun! Who knows where it might take us?!

2 Supporting Clients who have Anxiety & Panic Attacks - Friday 27 th October 2017 Many people present for counselling/therapy with anxiety and/or panic attacks, or during the course of therapy, suddenly find themselves beset with the effects of anxiety and panic. This day will focus on the underlying causes of both anxiety and panic, as well as focusing on simple methods for supporting clients to manage these frightening states of being. Spirituality in the counselling relationship Friday 17 th November How comfortable are we in exploring the spiritual dimensions of what our clients bring to us? Do we subtly block them from exploring their feelings and experiences of their faith? Do we make assumptions about who they are and what they believe based upon their professed religion? Must we have a faith in order to work at spiritual depth with those who do or do not have a faith? Do we miss entirely tentative expressions of the spiritual dimension? These and other questions will be our material for the day. This study day will offer participants the space to reflect upon their own spiritual journey and how it informs their work with clients. It is for those whose spiritual lives are expressed through organized religion or faith groups as well as for those whose spirituality is anchored in their own inner essence and journey and how this connects them with others. Please see separate flier for a day for people living with Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Saturday 30 th September 2017 And separate flier for personal development day Honouring the Scapegoat Sunday 26 th November 2017 Please do pass on to any clients for whom either of these days may be useful Certificate in Spiritual Dimensions in Therapeutic Relationships : A five-day course from Jan 2018 May 2018 leading to a Certificate of 30 hours CPD For program and application form please either contact jan@janhawkins.co.uk or see website Please reserve me a place on the study day on: Counselling and ASD Complex PTSD Winnie the Pooh Anxiety and Panic Spirituality in Counselling I enclose a cheque for payable to The FDP (may be post-dated to one week before workshop, please note: cancellations within the week of the study day will be charged for) Name: Address: Tel: Dietary needs: Any additional needs Please return to: 376 Hale End Road, Highams Park, London, E4 9PB

3 Foundation for the Developing Person 376, Hale End Road, Highams Park, London, E4 9PB Phone/Fax: Website: jan@janhawkins.co.uk Facebook: Fdp SocialOutreach One Day Personal Development Group: Complex PTSD Saturday, 30 th September 2017 Complex PTSD is most often associated with extended periods of ongoing physical and/or sexual abuse in childhood. However, ongoing extremes of verbal and/or emotional abuse also cause it, as can long-term childhood emotional neglect alone. Whereas a diagnosis of PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) results from an experience of facing or witnessing a life-threatening event, complex PTSD results from chronic trauma, usually in early life. Many incidents where the child was exposed to fear and threat create an experience of hypervigilance scanning the environment and people for potential threat. In dysfunctional families, many parents are not equipped to meet the emotional needs of their children, either due to their own dysfunctional childhoods, or to lifestyle choices as adults that leave them little energy and focus for their children. Babies and very young children are dependent upon their parents for their survival, and for their emotional well-being. In particular, babies and young children learn to regulate their emotions by having the close and attuned attention of a parent, usually mother. Where this is absent, anxiety and insecurity set in. Where parents are unable to regulate their own emotions, the child may be faced with rage and/or physical abuse, as well as a sense of disgust when the child expresses its fears or needs. Rage creates fear and disgust creates shame in the child in a way that soon teaches him/her not to cry or seek comfort or from ever asking for attention, and before long from seeking any kind of help or connection at all. Many adults who grew up in dysfunctional families, do not realise that they are experiencing symptoms of complex PTSD, because they have lived that way for all their lives. Hyperarousal, anxiety, insecurity in relationships, difficulties with sleep, mood swings, avoidance of certain triggering situations, flashbacks to distressing episodes in early life are only some of the difficulties that adults may be enduring as normal parts of their lives. In addition, people may experience emotional flashbacks suddenly finding themselves feeling terror, overwhelming sadness or rage, with no apparent reason. Individuals suffering with complex PTSD may have attracted a variety of psychiatric diagnoses during adolescence and adulthood, such as depression, bipolar disorder, social phobia etc., because it is only recently that complex PTSD has been identified. This day offers the opportunity to work with others who are processing and recovering from symptoms of complex PTSD. Strategies for supportive recovery will be explored. The group will be limited to a maximum of 8, and will focus on erroneous decisions made early in life, survival strategies which have outlived their sell by dates, mental traps and tolerating positive emotions. The day will run from 10.00am-4.00pm, at the above address, and will be facilitated by Jan Hawkins. Jan is a Person-Centred therapist, supervisor, trainer and writer (see Participants will need access to support networks for processing the feelings and memories which may be revealed by focusing on this painful experience. This may be in the form of ongoing counselling/therapy, or with supportive friends, family or partner. The group day aims at providing healing experiences, but healing can sometimes be painful. By setting up support, the positive effects may be enhanced.

4 The fee for the day is 65, including lunch and refreshments. If you would like to know more, please contact Jan at the number above, . To book a place, please send the form below with your payment. Please reserve me a place for the personal development day focusing on Complex PTSD on Saturday 30 th September I enclose a cheque for payable to The FDP (may be post-dated to one week before the day please note that cancellations within the week of the day will be charged for) Name: Address: Tel no: Dietary requirements: Special Needs Please return to: The FDP 376 Hale End Road, Highams Park, London E4 9PB

5 Foundation for the Developing Person 376, Hale End Road, Highams Park, London, E4 9PB Phone/Fax: Website: jan@janhawkins.co.uk Facebook: Fdp SocialOutreach One day personal development workshop: Honouring the scapegoat: Shedding the labels that mark Sunday 27 th November 2017 Were you ever ridiculed, humiliated, or bullied? Have those taunts hurt you? Do you find yourself, even today, nervous or shy, almost anticipating the same from people in your life? At some level, did you believe bad things others said about you? Were you the scapegoat, used as the butt of someone else s jokes, insecurities and/or rage? It is time to move on! This is a workshop for anyone who has ever been called names, ridiculed, shamed and blamed in their lives, and who wants to lay these labels to rest. By creating a safe environment, where all involvement is optional, we will use creative ways to lay aside the past, and release your own positive qualities. Participants will need access to support networks before and after the workshop for processing the feelings and memories which may be revealed by focusing on this painful experience. This may be in the form of ongoing counselling/therapy, or with supportive friends, family or partner. The workshop aims at providing a healing experience, but healing can sometimes be painful. By setting up support, the positive effects may be enhanced. If you would like to know more, please contact Jan at the number above. The workshop will be limited to eight people, will begin at am (arrive from 9.30 for coffee) and finish at 4.00pm and will cost 65 to include lunch and refreshments. To book a place, please send the form below with your payment. Please reserve me a place on the workshop on: I enclose a cheque for payable to The FDP (may be post-dated to one week before the workshop) Name: Tel:

6 Address: Dietary needs: Special needs Please return to: The FDP 376, Hale End Road, Highams Park, London E4 9PB