This issue of my Newsletter provides details of courses and workshops I am running in the first part of this year and also analyses the results of the recent Stoic week organised by the University of Exeter - plus, some New Year's fun or silliness, depending on your perspective! Click on the links below to read the full articles.
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2013 Workshops and Courses
I'm running a variety of courses and workshops on psychotherapy, counselling, positive psychology, CBT and practical philosophy in London in 2013. They are all in Central London - most are at the City Lit (main centre in Keeley Street near Holborn) , others are at City University (nearest tube: Angel). I've added a sentence in italics about who each course is most suited to. Please contact City Lit or City Uni directly if you wish to enrol.
Below is a summary of courses, to see further details or enrol click here
Expand your knowledge and understanding of cognitive behavioural therapy and learn some basic skills to help you decide for yourself whether you want to make use of it in your own person-centred
practice. This course is aimed at person-centred counsellors, other helping professionals and trainees. It requires a commitment to weekly home practice including trying out some of the methods of CBT on yourself.
This course is a good choice for practitioners and trainee practitioners who have some knowledge of CBT and want to consolidate this learning practical skills over 3 months.
Existential philosophy - an increasingly popular approach in counselling - asks us about the human condition and how to respond to it. How can counsellors make use of these ideas? What are the benefits to clients?
This course is a good choice for counsellor or trainee counsellors or therapists who want to find out more about existential therapy.
Philosophical life coaching helps you lead a more satisfying and meaningful life by using insights and methods from the great thinkers. This introductory workshop will show you some of the most interesting ways it can be of help. No previous experience required.
Learn how cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) can help people overcome low self-esteem. This workshop is primarily for individuals interested in the self-help methods CBT can provide but will also
appeal to counsellors, psychotherapists and coaches, including trainees, who wish to learn about these methods.
Learn about how this focused, short-term therapy aims to enable clients to change unhelpful thinking and behaviour. You may also gain greater self-awareness.
This course is a very good start for any therapists or trainee counsellors wanting to find out more about CBT.
Understanding psychology can improve your well-being and success, both at work and in your personal life. Positive psychology is the growing branch of psychology that focuses on the positive, including strengths, positive states and happiness. This Positive Psychology course will have a particular emphasis on applying positive psychology in your personal and working life.
To see further details of these courses or enrol click here
We've now had time to look at all the questionnaires you've filled in and the results make some interesting reading. You can read the full report here.
Below is a quick summary, which answers the questions posed in an earlier post.
For those with a very short amount of time for this, a one sentence management summary of the findings is
Extremely promising, interesting results, much scope for further , more focussed research
N.B. Please read the limitations of the research section of the full report before quoting from this post or the report. Although the findings are very promising, further research is required before more definitive conclusions can be drawn.
10 Things we know now as a result of Exeter Stoic week that we didn’t know before
1) Participating in Stoic week led to approximately a 10% increase on a number of well-validated and widely used measures of well-being.
2) Participants felt both that the one week had increased their knowledge of Stoicism considerably and also expressed a thirst for more knowledge about Stoicism
3) Some Stoic exercises are much more popular and perceived as much more useful than others
4) Stoicism (as experienced in Stoic week) appears to be much more effective at reducing distress than it does at facilitating positive emotions.
5) Stoicism (as experienced in Stoic week) appears to help with some aspects of life satisfaction more than others.
6) Stoicism (as experienced in Stoic week) appears to help with some aspects of flourishing more than others.
7) Stoicism (as experienced in Stoic week) appears to help with reducing some negative emotions more than others.
8) Many participants perceived that Stoic week had helped them roughly equally with various areas of their lives including relationships, becoming a better person and becoming wiser.
9) The detailed “Overall Experience of Stoic week” questionnaire provided us with participants’ experiences of a whole range of topics including :
a. Demographics
b. Satisfaction with Stoic week
c. Use of social media
d. How participants would like to take their own experience forward
e. Feedback on the booklet
10) Whilst there are significant Limitations in the methodology and scope the of research so far, there is reason to think that further more focused research would be worthwhile.
To find out a lot more detail, download the full report on Stoic week here.
New Year's FunThe internet certainly offers the opportunity for psychologists and philosophers to provide us with fun or make a fool of themselves, depending on which way you look at it.
Those of you familiar with Professor Windy Dryden, doyen of the REBT/CBT world in the UK and author of well over 100 books, may well appreciate his recent ventures into the world of popular music. Yes, it's
Moves like Dryden ...
If that's a bit too modern for you , then try this
animated Blues-Rock Version of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations created by Donald Robertson.
Psychotherapy, Counselling & Coaching Availability UpdateI currently have a few slots avail able for coaching, counselling or psychotherapy in Central London on Thursdays and Fridays or from the comfort of your own living room via Skype.
E-mail me at
t...@timlebon.com if you are interested.
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Live Happily and WiselyTim
