This is a longer and expanded version of a workshop held in July 2021 and January 2022. Much of the content will be repeated, but we are allowing EXTRA time for a good Q and A session. NB This is a 3 hour talk.

After the same talk in January 2022, an Online Events 'regular' said

"Best Webinar yet on Online Events. Very Inspiring, Many thanks."

John Vesey, Counsellor and Osteopath

Because the impact of trauma is held in the body - as well as the mind - the healing of child sexual abuse happens most effectively when both mind and body are involved. Pesso Boyden System of Psychotherapy (PBSP) is a body-based therapy.

As Bessel Van der Kolk - renowned trauma specialist said of Al Pesso's work, when talking about Trauma and Abandonment: “It’s the only thing that I feel really works, and that’s the stuff I learned from Al Pesso [which] is to actually give people a visceral experience of what it would have been like as a small kid to have people be there for you.”

In his book The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel van der Kolk also said, “The healing tableaus of [PBSP] structures offer an experience that many participants would have never believed was possible for them: to be welcomed into a world where people delight in them, protect them, meet their needs and make you feel at home.”

PBSP has a comprehensive theoretical framework for working with child sexual abuse. This impacts bottom up, brain stem responses, reflexes and automatic survival patterns as well as with the top down parts, involved in thinking, speaking, and our current emotional awareness.

Juliet will share a PBSP model: the 10 themes that commonly arise when working with people who were sexually abused as children. Juliet will be showing 4 short films, which are extracts of client sessions, to give a powerful illustration of how PBSP works with the body.

Whilst recognising that the majority of people attending this talk will not be trained PBSP therapists, Juliet hopes to alert them to some of the more obscure needs of clients who are dealing with these issues.

For those therapists wishing to experience a PBSP session, or send their clients to a PBSP therapist for one session – www.pessoboydenuk.org

For therapists interested in attending a post graduate training of one year or three years, to become a PBSP therapist, www.pessoboydentraininguk.com

SPECIAL OFFER: For those wishing to watch a complete, unedited, online structure (client session) from start to finish, create an account at jandw.thinkific.com, find the talk https://jandw.thinkific.com/courses/PBSP-Live-Therapy-Session-1 and use the code free_str1 to watch it free of charge.

• The website for Juliet’s book, Landscapes of the Heart: The working world of a sex and relationship therapist. Over half of this is about Pesso Boyden. Info about it, articles on PBSP, and you can also purchase it at www.landscapesoftheheart.co.uk

• To be notified when there is a space in a Pesso Boyden Workshop with Juliet click here https://forms.gle/NKKX1VsKqShzXSpc9

• Recordings of webinars and talks – including the Exploring Shame Series 1, which was 7 webinars that William and Juliet did in 2020-2021 with Online Events. www.jandw.thinkific.com/ Create an account and then you can watch free talks, free previews, and purchase various items including Exploring Shame Series 1. There are also poetry readings, talks on ritual, relationship issues, and films and talks about the Pesso Boyden System of Psychotherapy.

• For courses by Juliet Grayson, William Ayot and their team, including dates of many other workshops www.therapyandcounselling.co.uk

• Sign up to be on Juliet and William’s mailing list https://therapyandcounselling.co.uk/sign-up-for-info/

• For those who are curious about Pesso Boyden System of Psychotherapy there is a forum here https://onlinevents.mn.co/share/FdUUd5fAqE_WP3x_?utm_source=manual and a Facebook page for PBSP in the UK https://www.facebook.com/groups/PBSPUK

• Onlinevents have set up a forum for William and Juliet where you can ask questions and find out more about other offerings they have https://onlinevents.mn.co/share/N-9HevToO7P4DRH8?utm_source=manual

• Quote from Bessel van der Kolk https://therapyandcounselling.co.uk/trauma/

• For those therapists wishing to experience a PBSP session, or send their clients to a PBSP therapist for one session – www.pessoboydenuk.org

• For therapists interested in attending a post graduate training of one year or three years, to become a PBSP therapist, www.pessoboydentraininguk.com The next training starts in 2023, and will be largely online, with 3 modules of 5 days each which will be 'in person'.

• For therapists thinking of Working With Couples – details of the 6 modules designed by Juliet Grayson are here https://therapyandcounselling.co.uk/certificate-in-working-with-couples/ and the dates for modules coming up are here https://therapyandcounselling.co.uk/ (NB you can do just one module, or all 6 modules. Your choice)

• Resources for i) people struggling with sexually inappropriate behaviour and those who might cross the line and commit an act of sexual violence, ii) their families, iii) the therapists who work with them, and iv) their victims. www.sexuallyinappropriatebehaviour.org

• Poems by William Ayot, and information about other workshops he runs www.williamayot.com. His books are for sale on here www.williamayot.com/shop/

This 2-hour workshop will be recorded and you can use the ticket function to pre-purchase the recording before the event. This will be useful for colleagues who are not able to attend the event live and also for those who attend the event live and want to watch again.

This workshop will be hosted on the Zoom meeting platform where we will use our camera and microphones to interact with each other as a group.

To support practitioners in this time of extraordinary circumstances we are offering access to this group for a self-select fee.

The self-select fee is a radical inclusion policy to open learning for all colleagues. The guide price for this event is £20.00, however, we appreciate that income varies greatly in different locations and circumstances. Please contribute what you can to help us maintain inclusive professional training.

All the colleagues at ONLINEVENTS and the presenters we collaborate with are committed to working in a manner consistent with the BACP Ethical Framework, which can be accessed on the link below. When registering for this event you are agreeing to be present and interact in a manner that is consistent with this Framework.

https://www.bacp.co.uk/events-and-resources/ethics-and-standards/ethical-framework-for-the-counselling-professions/

Juliet Grayson

Juliet Grayson is a sexologist, psychosexual psychotherapist, coach, teacher, and has worked as a psychotherapist since 1991. She specialises in working with couples and sexual problems. As a psychotherapist she is UKCP registered, NLPtCA accredited, COSRT accredited, and PBSP accredited. She has a private practice in South Wales (UK) and on Zoom. Juliet designed and runs (alongside her team) a six modular programme (16 hours per module).

This teaches therapists, counsellors, psychologists, coaches, and health professionals how to work with couples and relationship issues. This course is approved by COSRT for CPD.

Juliet was a co-founder of StopSO (Specialist Treatment Organisation for Perpetrators and Survivors of Sexual Offences). StopSO has a UK wide network of psychotherapists and counsellors who offer therapy in the community for those at risk of sexual offending or re-offending. The aim of StopSO is to help potential perpetrators in order to stop new victims of sexual abuse from being created. This is a cost effective way of protecting society.

Website | https://therapyandcounselling.co.uk/ | www.landscapesoftheheart.co.uk | www.sexuallyinappropriatebehaviour.org

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