The Berne Institute 

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The understanding and experience of group psychotherapy is important for every TA professional and for anyone who works in groups. This therapy marathon experience will be experiential and also a training experience. We will analyse and demonstrate the different styles and processes of leadership and work that can be done in a group setting according to the theory and practice of Transactional Analysis and Process Group Therapy.

Group members will have the opportunity to learn experientially how to create and maintain a safe group setting and boundary; how to use therapeutic language, metaphor and imagery in groups; how to use process contracting; how to do impasse resolution and redecision work in a process group; how to use the whole group to facilitate individual change; how to use the individual to facilitate group change; how to do deconfusion work in a group setting; how to work with the transference and countertransference and how to make closure in a group process.

The Process Group Therapy Training is especially recommended for counsellors and therapists in TA training. It is an opportunity for anyone who is not in training at The Berne Institute to gain group therapy or accredited advanced TA training hours, and for Berne Institute trainees to gain MSc credits for Core Discipline IV. These training events are frequently over-subscribed so early booking is recommended.

Timings: weekend groups: Friday 7 - 9.30 pm, Saturday 9 am - 7 pm, Sunday 9 am - 1.30 pm; weekday groups: first day 9.30 am - 7 pm, second day 9 am - 4 pm.

Fee: £175.00 (booking deposit £75). (Cheques to "A. Lee", please)
 

This will be a one-day experiential workshop for couples to explore and experience the vitality of their relationship. There will be structured exercises and opportunities for sharing, developing communication, emotional literacy, and intimacy. Often, with our partners, we get into limiting patterns of behaviour and don’t take the risk or the time to share honestly our feelings, expectations, and yearnings; this workshop aims to provide, through exercises and group process, the opportunity to open our hearts to the vitality of the relationships that are important to us, claiming the pain and the joy, while honouring our self and our partner and our relationship.

Timings: 10 am to 5 pm.

Fee per couple: £165 (booking deposit £75).
 

Adrienne Lee is a Certified Transactional Analyst in the Psychotherapy field with over 30 years' clinical experience, accredited by the European Association for Transactional Analysis, UKCP registered psychotherapist, Master Practitioner in Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Time Line therapist, a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst and co-director of The Berne Institute. She focuses on Process Group Therapy and the integration of transpersonal and relational psychotherapy with traditional TA.

General information

Location: all our workshops are held at Berne House, 29 Derby Road, Kegworth DE74 2EN. Kegworth is some ten miles south of Nottingham. Our training centre, Berne House, is on the main A6 through the village, one mile from Junction 24 on the M1. If you would like more detailed directions, or a list of local accommodation, we shall be glad to provide it; please contact the Course Registrar at Berne House.

Times: please note the timings stated above for each workshop. Exact starting and finishing timings may vary from one marathon group to another, and will be notified to you with your booking acceptance. There are normal breaks for lunch and refreshments. We provide light refreshments for breaks. Kegworth offers a wide range of restaurants, hotels and pubs for buying lunch.

Bookings: to book a place on any Berne Institute workshop, or for further information, please write or call: The Course Registrar, The Berne Institute, 29 Derby Road, Kegworth DE74 2EN (tel/fax 01509-673649). Or you can email us here >>.

Payment: when paying your fee for any of Adrienne Lee’s group therapy training marathons, please make cheques out to "A. Lee". Please do not make cheques for these events out to The Berne Institute.

If you have sent a booking deposit, the balance of the fee is payable on arrival—please make cheques for the fee balance payable as shown above.