Getting to Core Pain with DDP and Art Therapies: Pathways To Healing

Overview

At this conference, two leading psychotherapists, trainers, and prolific authors, will demonstrate how they enable clients/service users to get to core pain and from there on to healthy adaptive emotions and quality of life.

Dr Dan Hughes will discuss and demonstrate using his model Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy and Dr Margot Sunderland will discuss and demonstrate using the art therapies.

Both will include an abundance of case material including moving film footage of a) actual client sessions and b) different therapeutic practitioners discussing cases of how they enabled their client to get to core pain.

Core Pain: The Background

Studies on therapeutic change and on why therapy works when it works, show that in order for a therapeutic relationship to be effective, people must get to core pain underneath secondary symptomatic emotions (e.g. depression, anxiety, hopelessness, anger). Getting to core pain means naming and expressing the deepest most authentic feelings we have.

To quote “When you access core pain in a therapeutic relationship, a type of internal bell often rings and tells you. Yes, this is it. This is what I most truly feel. And with this, a sense of relief, release and peace of having arrived at the right place. And a core emotion always holds vital information for your life and the actions you need to take.” (Leslie Greenberg 2021, founder of emotion focused therapy).

Whilst this day focusses mainly on work with children, teenagers and parents. It also provides vital learning for people working with adults.

Places are limited

Early booking is recommended.

About the presenters

Dr Dan Hughes

Internationally acclaimed Clinical Psychologist. Founder of Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy. Originator of PACE used by practitioners/parents all over the world. Decades of ground-breaking profoundly moving therapeutic interventions with vulnerable children and their families.

Prolific author including: 'Building the Bonds of Attachment'; 'Healing Relational Trauma'; 'Attachment Focused Family Therapy'; 'Attachment Focused Parenting'; 'Brain Based Parenting'.

Dr Margot Sunderland

Founding Director Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education (Higher Education College Academic Partner of the University of East London). Director of Education and Training Centre for Child Mental Health. Director of Innovation and Research Trauma Informed Schools UK (TISUK). TISUK has delivered training to over 20,000 school and community staff across the UK. They have University of East London and DfE approved trainings. Currently undertaking a random control trial for Home Office and Youth Endowment Foundation, on trauma informed practice in schools.

Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychotherapist with over thirty years’ experience. Author of over twenty books in the field of child mental health, which collectively have been translated into eighteen languages and published in twenty-four countries. Author of the internationally acclaimed book, ‘The Science of Parenting’ (Dorling Kindersley) which won a First Prize in the British Medical Association Book Awards (popular medicine) and endorsed by the world’s leading affective neuroscientist, Professor Jaak Panksepp. The book has also been voted as one of the top brain books of our time by The Dana Foundation.

About the venue

Divisible Space, 1 Sugar House Lane, Sugar House Island, London, E15 2QS

The Institute for Arts in Therapy & Education (IATE) is located in the heart of the stunning creative quarter known as Sugar House Island. Offering an inspiring selection of creative event spaces, it has been carefully designed to create a unique and stimulating environment for your event.

Refunds: We regret we cannot offer refunds for non-attendance to our events.