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"THE GIFT REFUSED" BY WILLIAM AYOT
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Attachment Informed Couple Therapy 4, 5 & 6 July 2025
EARLY BOOKING DISCOUNT ENDS IN 5 DAYS
ON SUNDAY 4TH MAY!
ONLINE WORKSHOP OVER 3 DAYS
FEEDBACK FROM PREVIOUS COURSE ATTENDEES:
"Nuanced, high quality training that supports both personal and professional development"
Rene Crouch, Counsellor and Psychotherapist
"This was a well paced, experiential and really informative course. Nicola is a warm and highly knowledgeable trainer who laces her explanation of theory with plenty of relatable examples. "
Janie Cruse, Person-Centred and Integrative Counsellor
"Interesting, thought provoking, enabling and powerful - would recommend to all therapists working or considering working with couples."
Sally L, Counsellor
Date: Friday 4th – Sunday 6th July 2025
Times: 1.15pm (BST) start until 6.00pm (BST) each day.
Alternative Dates and Timings: Please click links as timings may vary Thursday 13th – Saturday 15th November 2025
Location: Online
Trainer: Nicola Jones Scroll down to see more about the trainer
Cost: £215 if booked by 4th May 2025 IN 5 DAYS,
£235 if booked by 4th June 2025,
£250 Full Price
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Attachment theory provides the most reliable and research-based approach to working with couple clients available today. As such it will enrich your practice as it helps you to get to the heart of your clients’ issues: their needs for security, connection, intimacy and love. It enables a deeper appreciation of how close relationships are formed which directly correlates with how to help couples understand and resolve their problems. It explains the fundamental importance of close relationships to our wellbeing and across the lifespan ‘from the cradle to the grave’ (Bowlby, 1979).
Learning objectives :
- Learn key concepts of attachment theory, infant brain development and relevance to couple relationships particularly internal working models of close relationships
- Explore interaction of attachment styles and internal working models in a couple
- Understand interaction of the various motivational systems (sex, caregiving, care seeking, intimacy, exploration) involved in intimate adult relationships to ascertain and evaluate couples’ issues
- Identify key triggers of the attachment system and consequences of this system being triggered
- Apply learning to a case study
- Reflect upon personal attachment style and internal working model. Implications for practice
- Tools, exercises and practical strategies to enhance clients’ awareness of their attachment style
- Introduction to developmental trauma, intergenerational transmission of insecure attachment and trauma
Who is this workshop for?
Any counsellor or psychotherapist is welcome to join this workshop. Couples therapists will benefit. But since so many therapy clients have relationship issues, we also welcome one-to-one counsellors, psychotherapist and health workers. This workshop is also open to people who are training as a therapist / counsellor.
About the trainer:
Nicola Jones is an experienced relationship therapist and an accomplished trainer and facilitator. She trained with and worked for Relate, trained with The Bowlby Centre for 2 years and is accredited by the National Counselling Society. She has an MA in Gender Studies, SOAS, University of London (2008).
Nicola has supervision with those who worked with or were supervised by John Bowlby. She is Vice Chair of the International Attachment Network and works privately in Bristol with individuals, couples and families.
Her first career was as a lawyer and family business adviser. Nicola has presented internationally on a range of matters related to social justice.
Maximum numbers: 18
FOR FULL INFORMATION ON THIS COURSE CLICK HERE
Approved for CPD : This course has been approved by NCIP- National Council Of Integrative Psychotherapists and endorsed by the International Attachment Network. This course will give you 14 hours of CPD.
Cancellations: Any request to change (eg defer to alternative dates) or cancel your place at a workshop, that is made at less than 21 days before the course start date will be charged in full. Any cancellation / amendments / requests to defer before 21 days, will be subject to a 12.5% handling charge.
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YOUR FREE POEM FROM WILLIAM AYOT
The Gift Refused
No one can hurt me the way you hurt me
with a sloppy word or a gift refused.
No one but you can wield the twisted wand
of enchantment and abandonment
so ruthlessly, so thoughtlessly.
A casual remark and I am your boy again,
the pair of us pinned in the family album,
longing and loathing and saying we mean it.
Or you, years later, beyond all knowing,
with your hormones shot after the operation,
instinctively pushing me away in disgust
when I finally thought you might want me
to hold you.
.....................Easier to say no in the light
of such a learning, easier to stop chasing
the notion of a love that maybe never existed.
Yet here I am in the gloom of Intensive Care,
keeping watch like the father over the way,
waiting by the shell of his only daughter.
Humming a lullaby, hoping against hope
William Ayot
Small Things That Matter
2003
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