Short Courses

Continue your professional development at Jansen Newman with our Short Courses.

Our short courses contribute towards the professional development hours required by many PACFA member associations. Courses are 30 hours in duration and held in a variety of ways, either as four consecutive days, weekends, short sessions during a semester and during Summer School in January each year.

The fee for all short courses is $600.00.
(Early Bird discount fee - $450 - if enrolment & payment are received one month before course commences).

It should be noted that not all short courses are held each year. If minimum student numbers are not reached courses may be changed or cancelled.

Jansen Newman also offers Supervision to JNI graduates and other suitably qualified counsellors and psychotherapists.

• Adolescent Issues and Therapy
• Coaching Skills for Psychotherapists, Couple Therapy
• Focusing: Enhancing the Body Mind Connection in Therapy, Human Sexuality: Myths & Realities
• Narrative Therapy, Sandplay Therapy
• Spirituality & Psychotherapy: Making Space for Meaning, Wonder & 'Not Knowing'.

Adolescent Issues and Therapy

Presented by Jan Alexander
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This elective prepares students for a variety of roles in youth work, residential care of young people and child/adolescent therapy.

Areas studied are:

• Specific cognitive and other developmental features of children
• How society reacts to young people
• Problems in an intercultural context
• A wide range of appropriate strategies and approaches to working with young people
• Types of organisations and institutions which contain, cope with, or counsel young people
• Residential treatment of young people
• Counselling children
• The child in the dysfunctional family
• Children at risk

Duration:   30 hours

Coaching Skills for Psychotherapists

Presented by Barbara Jones, Grad Dip Comms Mgmt; PG Dip Psychotherapy
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This experiential course aims to introduce participants to coaching skills that can be used successfully with clients, colleagues and personally.

Participants will develop proficiency with a fundamental model of coaching that can be transferred to a variety of coaching situations including executive management, workplace and personal development coaching.

Distinctions between coaching, mentoring, counselling, psychotherapy and teaching will be made as the micro-skills of coaching are practiced. Emphasis will be on the essential nature of working within an evidence based framework.

Practical work will draw heavily from cognitive behavioural and solution focused theories and techniques of behavioural change.

The course will balance theory and practice and participants will be encouraged to engage in interactive learning through discussion and experiential practice. Also encouraged is self coaching and co-coaching, giving the course a strong personal development emphasis.

Areas covered include:

• Coaching defined
• The ethics of coaching
• Suitability for coaching
• Positive psychology
• Evidence-based practice
• Applications for coaching
• Problems or solutions?
• The solutions focused approach
• The GROW model of coaching
• The micro-skills of coaching
• Core beliefs and values
• The stages of change model
• Letting go and change
• The house of change
• Emotional intelligence
• Psychological mindedness
• The skill:will matrix
• Optimism and pessimism
• Motivational interviewing
• Beck’s cognitive distortion
• Coaching for stress prevention and management
• Development of goals and action plans
• Coaching and supervision for coaches
• Distinctions between coaching, mentoring, counselling, psychotherapy and teaching

Duration: 30 hours

Couple Therapy

Presented by Elisabeth Shaw

BA Hons (Psych), Dip Fam Therapy, M (Community Management), Grad Dip Prof Ethics, M (Couple & Family Therapy), Cert IV A & WT

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Elisabeth has been training therapists to Masters level since 1992 and she has been a therapist since 1985. She was the Manager of Community Services at Relationships Australia and has published books and papers on a number of topics, including Couple Therapy and Ethics.
The subject focuses on developing and enhancing students' understanding and skills in working with couples. An interactive process is encouraged through discussion, research and activities to integrate theory, personal learning and practical application. Experiential learning is facilitated through delivery of theoretical concepts, discussion, small group work, personal reflection, practical use of counselling skills, readings and teaching video.
In brief the range of topics include:
- Values in relation to couple relationships and couple issues.
- Brief overview of some models of Couple Therapy.
- Key indicators of happy relationships and problematic behaviours established in research.
- Integration of relevant theory and therapeutic skills & interventions.
- Skills for working with couples in particular populations, eg in a stepfamily
- Skills to develop sensitivity in working with diverse populations such as same sex couples and issues of cultural difference.
- Working with abuses of power.
- Case plans & making effective referrals to other professional(s).
- Indications and initiations for termination.
- Professional standards for keeping client files.
- Ethics and legal issues in working with couples.

Duration: 30 hours

Focusing: Enhancing the Body mind Connection in Therapy

Presented by Jane Quayle, B Counselling & Human Change, Certified Focusing Trainer; Certified Focusing Oriented Therapist, Dip Dru Yoga Therapy; Dip Remedial Massage
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Usually we refer to our thoughts and feelings to guide us in life, yet there is a more profound knowing: our "felt-sense", the body's own wisdom. Focusing is a process that enables us to access this inner knowing. In this experiential workshop you can learn how to consistently tap into and trust your inner knowing.
Your body never just holds your struggles, it also holds the way forward. Through Focusing you naturally arrive at your own healing and a lasting and deep change in your relationship with yourself.

You can use the skill of Focusing to enhance your own life and to enhance the work that you do with clients. It is a method which can be integrated with and supports any modality of psychotherapy. The importance of body-sensing in healing was discovered by Dr Eugene Gendlin in collaboration with Carl Rogers at the Universiry of Chicago in the 1960's.
This workshop will include:

• What is Focusing?  The research and theory which underpins this practice.
• How can I use it for myself and for my client?
• Gendlin’s theory of how emotional healing and change are possible.
• The practice of Focusing and how it integrates with other modalities of psychotherapy.
• Experience accessing your body’s felt-knowing.
• Explore the relational aspect of Focusing – how to listen to and respond to the body-sense.  Focusing as a Mind / Body interaction.
• Clearing a Space; finding a clearer space to be present to your client whilst honoring your own needs, noticing what you are left with after the client session is over.
• Working with your internal judge or critic.
• The place of Focusing in self–care for people in the helping professions; exploring issues of transference and counter-transference.
• Thinking from your creative edge – how does the body-sense support the forward movement in your life?

Duration: 30 hours

Human Sexuality: Myths and Realitites

Presented by Elizabeth Riley,  BSc, Dip Homeopathy, M Counselling, GradDip Counselling, Cert IV Assess & Workplace Training
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What is Sexuality

• Counselling sexual issues in relationships
• Sexual dysfunction
• Sexual preferences
• STD's & HIV
• Surrogates, Sex workers & prostitution
• Sexual Abuse
• Sexual Practices
• Alternative Relationships
• Cross-dressing
• Transgender Issues
• Intersex Conditions

Duration: 30 hours

Narrative Therapy

Presented by Adrian van den Bok MA (CulPsych-Narrative Studies), Dip Psychotherapy/RelCouns, Cert Internship
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In this experiential course participants will engage with the idea that our experience, including our most intimate sense of self, is profoundly shaped by how things are "storied'. We will examine the way we accord value to some aspects of events and circumstances and not to others, the role of language, how taken-for-granted discourses inform our meaning-making... and how all this can be turned to therapeutic advantage.
Key narrative concepts will be discussed; the practices and skills associated with these will be illustrated; and by drawing on their own stories, participants will have vivid, first hand experiences of narrative from both a practitioner's and client's point of view.
Ultimately, the course intends to develop the sort of insight and skills that make for a life more consistent with the hopes, visions and values of participants and their clients.
Topics covered will include:

• The social construction of identity
• The role of social contexts in the renegotiation of identity
• The centred and de-centred or relational self
• Post structuralism, language and culture
• Foucault and the normalizing gaze
• Power relations and ethics
• Public representation and private testimony
• Unpacking a roblem-saturated story
• Re-authoring conversations
• Insider knowing and expert knowledge
• Externalising conversations
• Interviewing a problem
• Narrative letter writing
• Outsider witnessing practices
• Re-membering practices
• Narrative therapy in relationship counselling
Duration: 30 hours

Sandplay Therapy

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Sandplay, like art therapy and dreamwork, provides a window into the unconscious. It is a healing tool that promotes growth and an expansion of the participant's consciousness.

Sandplay Therapy works by using real symbols from life (utilising small objects, pieces and figures), that can reveal deep unconscious and psychic processes in a similar way to dreams. This can lead to profound shifts in levels of understanding and emotional healing.

In the Jungian tradition, a basic premise of the therapy is that deep in the unconscious the psyche has a natural ability to heal itself, which is instinctual if left free to operate naturally in a protected environment. It is the therapist's and client's mutual trust in the client's innate inner guidance that allows it to work. In that sense, Sandplay Therapy could be considered the purest, or least contaminated of the therapies.

Sandplay is an excellent treatment modality for clinical depression, post partum depression, grief resolution, eating disorders, asthma, separation, generalised anxieties, ADD/ADHD and is also a useful adjunct to Behavioural Therapy.

This exciting elective is intrinsically experiential. Participants will gain an understanding of the modality's theoretical background, how it taps into the unconscious, why it works and some of the ways it can be facilitated using symbology and archetypes. Participants will also be taught how to facilitate class members thereby gaining first hand experience.

Other areas covered include, working with children, existential crisis, working with couples and individuals, stages of Sandplay Therapy, therapeutic efficacy, specific issues, trusting the process, working in the 'Here and Now', being the co-journeyer and the integration of mind, body and spirit.

As can be seen, this is an invaluable tool to augment a therapist's existing skill base.

Duration: 30 hours

“Spirituality & Psychotherapy: Making Space for Meaning, Wonder & Not Knowing"

Presented by Kevin Keith, BBA, MBA, MA, STL, MPhil, GradDip in Counselling & Psychotherapy
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This course provides a practical, reflective & theoretical look at the important impact of spirituality on contemporary practice of psychotherapy. In addition to experiencing first-hand various relevant spiritual practices - especially mindfulness, breathing techniques, meditation & employment of imagination - specific focus is given to discussion of the potential relevance of notions of the sacred, healing & wonder, whether emerging from the client's world or the therapist's world. A careful & respectful effort will be made to differentiate spirituality from religion, acknowledging the history & emergence of practices from theistic as well as atheistic/agnostic belief systems. The course aims in a practical way to clarify & enhance each participant's experience of "knowing  & not knowing" within intrapsychic, interpersonal & therapeutic domains of life.
What might be the goals of psychotherapy & how might these align with contemporary notions of the good life & well-being? An interdisciplinary approach, employing analysis & insights from philosophy, psychology, anthropology, history & the arts, facilitates exploration of difficult but vital questions around notions of consciousness, sexual intimacy, transcedence, frameworks of meaning & inspiration. Consideration will be given to alternatives for moving beyond the simplistic pathologising of human suffering to broader modes of meaning, acceptance & healing. The course seeks to promote a measured, honest dialogue amongst participants & to honour & respect difference.
The course will also include: