CAT CPD: Reflective & Relational Practice with teams & organisations

Reflective and Relational Practice with teams, groups and organisations

A CAT approach using letters, mapping and voice work

This one day CPD will focus on the skills and tools of working with groups and teams for routine reflective practice sessions. It will show how such work is tied to individual and interpersonal interactions but also to organisational culture. The key skills of establishing and maintaining reflective practice and working contextually will be demonstrated and explored. Mapper anxiety, zooming in and out between picture and detail and bits of writing and voice work will be explored. A particular focus will be on unmet relational needs in contemporary organisational cultures and how to give voice to this and notice, name and negotiate our needs and those of clients and patients. Guided team and group work exercises both in small groups and the bigger group will be the basis of experiential learning and skill development using simulated case material. Participants should go away with a renewed interest in CAT as a simultaneously emotionally focused and personal educational approach and an organisationally or systemically alive model. As well as CAT practitioners, managers and staff with no experience of CAT or therapy are welcome to attend.

Steve Potter has been teaching reflective practice to groups and teams for the past twenty five years (www.mapandtalk.com) and is the author of two books on CAT and various articles and chapters. He is based in East London and is a past chair of ACAT and of ICATA.