Slay Your Dragons with Compassion - Malcolm Stern

An exploration into finding the balance between tough love and compassion, where safety emerges for the client as a result of the therapists authenticity, capacity for compassionate enquiry and having a powerful internal toolkit at their disposal.

In this workshop we will be learning from each others' sharing of examples and understanding the unique gifts that we bring in the therapeutic art that we practice.

Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event

• deeper insight and confidence in our own practice
• when to wield the sword to cut through obfuscation and when to allow our compassionate selves to deepen the journey with a client
• to speak our truth and to avoid harm

Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?

• practitioners, supervisors and trainees

How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?

• a deepened capacity to embrace our strengths, highlight our weaknesses and give confidence and insight

RECORDING 

This event 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 it again.

ZOOM 

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

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.

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If you are not a member of a professional organisation, we ask that you participate in a way that is both authentic and respectful, fostering a space of mutual learning and professional engagement.

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Malcolm Stern

Malcolm Stern has worked as a group and individual psychotherapist for more than 30 years. He is Co-Founder of Alternatives at St James’ Church in London and runs groups internationally.

His approach involves finding where the heart is and helping individuals access their truth. His London One Year Group is the centrepiece of his work and has been successfully operating since 1990. In it he creates an environment of trust, integrity and community, where participants can become skilled in relationships, communication and managing difficult conversations. The ultimate learning is to Slay your dragons with compassion. Malcolm’s new book Slay Your Dragons with Compassion (published October 2020 by Watkins) describes 10 practices for thriving in an unstable world, all distilled from his thirty years of intense group work. The book is filled with practical exercises, which are combined with real and compelling stories from the therapy room.

Website | www.malcolmstern.com

LinkedIn | Malcolm Stern