Short Courses

Short Courses for Professional Development

2009 SUMMER SCHOOL PROGRAM DATES AVAILABLE BELOW

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

Our short courses may 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).

Our Short Courses are listed below. 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. Further information can be found under individual course listings below.

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

• Adolescent Issues and Therapy
• Coaching Skills for Psychotherapists (SUMMER SCHOOL 2009 see dates below) 
• Counselling Adult Survivors of Sexual Abuse
• Couple Therapy 
• Focusing: Enhancing the Body Mind Connection in Therapy (SUMMER SCHOOL 2009 see dates below)
• Human Sexuality: Myths & Realities (SUMMER SCHOOL 2009 see dates below)
• Hypnotherapy and Creative Visualisation 
• Introduction to Gestalt Therapy
• "Knowing & Not Knowing": Intimacy in Psychotherapy & Everyday Life (SUMMER SCHOOL 2009 see dates below) 
• Mediation in Practice
• Narrative Therapy (SUMMER SCHOOL 2009 see dates below)
• Sandplay Therapy
  

Adolescent Issues and Therapy

Presented by Jan Alexander
 
Call 1800 777 116 for further information

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

Next Course Dates 2009: January 17th & 18th and February 7th & 8th (session times - 9am to 5pm)

Call 1800 777 116 for more information or to enrol

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

Counselling Adult Survivors of Sexual Abuse

Presented by Robyn Lamb  B Soc Stud

Call 1800 777 116 for more information  

This workshop does not focus on psychopathology and interventions. There are no formulas, instead participants are encouraged to consider a way of involvement and presence that listens. One of the gifts of working with those whose childhood has known betrayal and severe pain is that often they have not developed the illusions we so often live with when it comes to the dilemmas of our existence, such as death, evil, suffering, powerlessness and ambivalence.

Participants will explore the shaping power of shame and contempt as it develops into a relational style. Very often this way of being generates more suffering than the original abuse. There may be no greater challenge for a therapist than to learn to be richly present to those experiencing shame and its consequences. This workshop is an invitation to drop technique and knowing and allow our clients to teach us as we enter their world with courage and compassion.

Duration:  30 hours

Couple Therapy

Presented by Paul Bogacs BA Theology, MSc Marriage & Family Therapy 
  
Call 1800 777 116 for more information 

As a result of their wide experience in working with and educating couples, David Jansen and Margaret Newman have developed a model of couple therapy that embraces many of the proven approaches as well as incorporating their own strategic and theoretical methods.

The approach is theoretically multi-modal and integrative and places emphasis on the role of the system, skills training, education and pertinent insights into each individual. A special emphasis is placed on methods of change and motivation of the couple.

Couple Therapy will include:

• Brief historical overview of couple counselling
• Introduction to the Jansen Newman model of couple therapy
• The role of couple education in helping couples
• Helping clients to communicate effectively and resolve issues
• ‘Love’, what it means to each partner; what makes or breaks it
• Contracts in relationships
• Individual levels of differentiation and its implications
• Examining strategies — ‘how to's’ in working with couples
• Exploring different strategies for motivating clients
• Determining the rationale for individual psychotherapy in couples work
• Viewing of live counselling sessions and/or videotapes of live sessions
• Structured role plays and skills practice

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

Next Course Dates 2009: January 12th, 13th, 14th & 15th (session times - 9am to 5pm) 
  
Call 1800 777 116 for more information or to enrol 

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 workkshop 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

Next Course Dates 2009: January 19th, 20th, 21st & 22nd (session times - 9am to 5pm)

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An outline of the course is set out below: 

• 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

Hypnotherapy and Creative Visualisation

Presented by Eileen Davis BA (Psych), MA (Psych), MA (Ed), Dip CH Certificate of Teaching, MAPS, Registered Psychologist

Call 1800 777 116 for more information 

This experiential elective aims at giving participants valuable skills to develop and use successfully with clients and personally. Participants are given the opportunity to practise techniques and to design their own visualisation scripts in a supportive environment.

There is particular emphasis on the use of language and counselling skills to support the skills of hypnotherapy.

Participants interchange between client and therapist when techniques are being practised. Self-hypnosis is also taught.

You will learn about:

• Suggestibility
• Induction techniques
• Visualisation techniques
• The therapeutic nature of hypnosis
• Conscious versus Unconscious
• Designing your own visualisation scripts
• Self hypnosis
• Scripting
• Use of Voice - pacing, timing, intonation
• Ethical considerations

Duration:  30 hours

Introduction to Gestalt Therapy

Presented by Michael Reed BSW, MSW, PhD

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This elective is suitable for psychologists, social workers, psychiatrists, occupational therapists, psychotherapists and counsellors.

This elective provides an introduction to the principles and core concepts of Gestalt Therapy theory, methodology and contemporary practice. Emphasis is placed on assisting students to understand and apply the Gestalt approach to their personal and professional experience, including the group process. Particular attention is given to the core concepts of:

• Awareness
• The personal narrative
• The cycle of experience
• Organismic self-regulation
• Contact, contact styles and boundary functions
• Dialogue and the personal conversation
• The paradoxical theory of change
• Experimentation and a unit of work

Duration:   30 hours  

“Knowing and Not Knowing": Intimacy in Psychotherapy and Everyday Life

Presented by Kevin Keith, BBA, MBA, MA, STL, MPhil, GradDip in Counselling & Psychotherapy

Next Course Dates 2009: January 27th, 28th, 29th & 30th (session times - 9am to 5pm)

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This program highlights our evolving understanding of that vital yet mysteriously elusive reality termed “human intimacy”. Special attention will be given to notions of romance, sexuality and spirituality. The course also seeks to highlight parallel dimensions and contrasts between personal and therapeutic relationships. The discussion seeks to foster an integrated path for understanding psychotherapeutic intimacy beyond the inadequacies of diagnosis, symptomology and pathology.

An outline of the course is set out below:

• Identifying and assessing recent approaches to understanding the Self and Relationships
• Philosophical and Spiritual Perspectives: Embracing the diversity and limits of what and how we can know and cannot know.
• Our Lifetime’s Challenge of Intimacy: Relationships, Sexuality, and Gender.
• Healing and the Present Moment: Implications for Psychotherapy.

Suggested Pre-Reading will be provided to all registered participants: 4 articles maximum.

Duration:  30 hours

Mediation in Practice

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This subject will focus on the practice of mediation in particular contexts.  It examines dispute resolution theory (including the origins and evolution of mediation as a form of dispute resolution), and explores the principles and practice of mediation, with a particular emphasis on the process of conducting a mediation. 

While the course will cover an understanding of the various uses of mediation, the main focus will be on the application and practice of mediation in workplace settings.  It will also examine the application of ‘family law’ mediation.

An exploration of theory and key principles is integrated with practical work in mediation process and skills.

Topics will cover areas such as:

• Defining mediation
• Dispute resolution theory
• Uses of mediation in Australia and globally
• Causes of conflict in the workplace
• Application of Mediation in the workplace
• A model for conducting a mediation
• The law and mediation
• Mediation micro skills

Duration:   30 hours

Narrative therapy

Presented by Adrian van den Bok MA (CulPsych-Narrative Studies), Dip Psychotherapy/RelCouns, Cert Internship

Next Course Dates 2009: January 28th, 29th, 30th & 31st (session times - 9am to 5pm)

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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

Presented by Doreen Patenall BCHC and Gail Pemberton MA (Couns), Grad Dip (Psy & Relationship Couns)

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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