Advanced Professional Development Group

Supervision & Psychotherapy Training, 2025 - 2026

Facilitator: Deborah Blagden (PTSTA)

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 experienced group facilitator and Provisional Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (PTSTA) Deborah Blagden and 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 February 2025 and 20th April 2025. A payment must be received by 20th February 2025 latest to secure you membership.

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