Advanced Professional Development Group

Supervision & Psychotherapy Training, 2025 - 2026

Facilitator: Deborah Blagden (TSTA)

Venue: Castle Quay, Nottingham. 

Dates: 8 Wednesdays within 2025 - 2026 

Timings: 10.00am – 5.00pm      

Annual membership fee:

  • £600 (SPTI Members)
  • £660 (Non-Members)

Begins: Wednesday 7th May 2025.

Group is limited to 12 participants.

Enquiries:

Please contact Collette Colver via email: info@janus-cpd.co.uk 

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Dates:

  • Day 1 - Wednesday 7th May 2025
  • Day 2 - Wednesday 25th June 2025
  • Day 3 - Wednesday 30th July 2025
  • Day 4 - Wednesday 24th Sept 2025
  • Day 5 - Wednesday 12th Nov 2025
  • Day 6 - Wednesday 17th Dec 2025
  • Day 7 - Wednesday 4th Feb 2026
  • Day 8 - Wednesday 29th April 2026

Who is the group for:

Qualified practitioners who are wanting on-going advanced professional development

and are interested in:

  • Wanting to develop their supervisory and/or teaching skills.
  • Sharing ideas, theories, and application
  • Writing or publishing
  • Obtaining supervision hours
  • Acquiring CPD hours
  • Exploring new theory and creating ideas
  • Receiving and giving supervision of supervision


Aims of the group:        

  • To experience on-going stimulus, support, feedback and significant relationship with colleagues.
  • To provide continuous professional development (CPD).
  • To discuss and develop Psychotherapeutic theory and methods.
  • To keep up to date with and contribute to developments in the Psychotherapy organisations.
  • To get supervision on clients, ethics, training, and professional issues.
  • To develop and discuss training programmes.
  • To learn, discuss and practise different approaches to supervision.
  • To get supervised supervision.
  • To learn teaching methodology, share teaching techniques and resources.
  • To get supervision on teaching.
  • To prepare and practice teaching and conference presentations.
  • Research and writing projects in Psychotherapy.

Venue and resources:

The group is facilitated by Deborah Blagden Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (TSTA) in the Psychotherapy Field, Certified Transactional Analyst (CTA), MSc (Psych) PG. Dip BSc. CQSW. Dip Sup. & UKCP Registered Clinical Psychotherapist, Supervisor & Trainer. Deborah is an experienced group facilitator

and the group will be supported administratively by Collette Colver.


The group will benefit from access to a virtual learning environment and our physical premises at Castle Quay. Castle Quay has amenities on site including kitchen and toilet facilities, a library and resources room, and comfortable meeting rooms. For more information please visit: Venue. 

 

Please note: The group is offered by Janus-CPD in partnership with SPTI, as part of the continuing professional development programme.

Group Contract: 

  • Agreed “menu” format for the day.
  • Open to all advanced Psychotherapists and Counsellors.
  • Closed group membership.
  • This group is open to all modalities.

Fees:

We will normally meet 8 days per year. The annual fee of £600 / £660 will be a membership fee for the year, not an attendance fee.

The fee may be paid in full at the time of booking your place, or as two instalments of £300 / £330 due 20th March 2025 and 20th May 2025. A payment must be received by 20th February 2025 latest to secure you membership.

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