The Time to Think Coaching Course in the Cotswolds, 7 & 8 October online 31 October & 26 November 2024 follows on from the Thinking Partnership. Contact me to find out more.
The Thinking Partnership is a unique, inspirational course to develop your skills and presence in helping people to generate their own best thinking in ways they never thought possible. This course, taught by Linda, Global Faculty member of Time to Think, is available for a maximum of 4 people.
The Thinking Partnership is a unique, inspirational course to develop your skills and presence in helping people to generate their own best thinking in ways they never thought possible. Taught by Linda, Global Faculty member of Time to Think, the course is available for a maximum of 4 people.
My Time to Think Foundations of Facilitation course in the beautiful Malverns is an inspirational course to develop your skills and presence in helping groups and teams to think really well, together. And you'll be apply your learning immediately in all kinds of group and team meetings and events.
What are we learning as psychologists and coaches, about working with people and the climate and ecological crisis?
The Climate Psychology Alliance (CPA, https://www.climatepsychologyalliance.org/) and the Climate Coaching Alliance (CCA, https://www.climatecoachingalliance.org/) are working with common purpose and practice with people and the climate and ecological crisis. What are we learning? And how is our work evolving?
Join Linda Aspey (member of both organisations) and Stu Pickles (a Global Coordinator of the Climate Coaching Alliance) in conversation, for an interactive discussion where we can all explore questions like:
What might be some of the key (generalised) differences between psychologists and coaches in relation to their respective approaches working with people on the climate and ecological crisis.
What might we be able to learn from each other?
And what might be some areas of opportunity for collaboration between CPA/CCA, and between psychologists and coaches?
You don't need to be a member of either organisation to join us on in the event. To register for a free place visit here:
https://www.climatecoachingalliance.org/event/climate-psychology-alliance-cpa-and-climate-coaching-alliance-cca-learning-and-collaboration/
Whether you're a sustainability professional, small business owner, local council/government worker, student, consultant, looking to switch careers, or anything else besides, come along and meet others interested in sustainability. No charge to attend, and the first drink is free if you register.
These 3 hour workshop are built on the “Work that Reconnects” a series of experiences used all over the world that facilitate the building of individuals, communities and organisations into potent and resilient forces for positive change.
With a General Election looming and global concerns around the climate crisis deepening, this is an opportunity to ask questions and engage with Alex Chalk, MP, (Conservative), Max Wilkinson (Liberal), Julie Farmer (Labour), Tabi Joy (Green) along with a local businessman and resident, Eoin Mcquone, Chief Carbon Coach, Founder and Managing Director of Go Climate Positive. The questions and discussion will focus on local, national and global environmental and sustainable issues which are important to you. Chaired by Linda Aspey.
Whether you're a sustainability professional, small business owner, local council/government worker, student, consultant, looking to switch careers, or anything else besides, come along and meet others interested in sustainability. No charge to attend, and the first drink is free if you register.
These 3 hour workshop are built on the “Work that Reconnects” a series of experiences used all over the world that facilitate the building of individuals, communities and organisations into potent and resilient forces for positive change.
Whether you're a sustainability professional, small business owner, local council/government worker, student, consultant, looking to switch careers, or anything else besides, come along and meet others interested in sustainability. No charge to attend, and the first drink is free if you register.
From the Ground Up aims to inform and encourage residents to explore more about how they can make a difference in their home, business/work, lifestyle choices, community and globally. The Festival concept has proved to be engaging, interactive and fun.
Now in its third year, the Festival’s central theme for 2024 will be AIR. The impact of pollution and increased carbon emissions; how it is changing the Earth and the world in which we live. And, also the hopeful news about what is being done to mitigate the damage and potentially create a better, cleaner environment in which to live. This will encompass clean space for health and wellbeing, technological initiatives, our lifestyle choices and urban solutions. In brief, an opportunity for all to meet, chat with and listen to those from a diversity of organisations who have a link around the theme.
With participants and speakers throughout the day, it is a unique opportunity for visitors to engage with and, find out more about what is happening, both locally and further afield, discuss options and be inspired to make positive decisions for a more sustainable way of living.
All this will be free to the visitor!
Linda will be presenting a session from 1.45 to 2.30pm on “Three Stories of our Time”.
Some stories can trick us, us, some can paralyse us, and some stories can enliven, restoring our sense of purpose in this rapidly changing world. Which story might you be living now, and which might you choose?
These 3 hour workshop are built on the “Work that Reconnects” a series of experiences used all over the world that facilitate the building of individuals, communities and organisations into potent and resilient forces for positive change.
Whether you're a sustainability professional, small business owner, local council/government worker, student, consultant, looking to switch careers, or anything else besides, come along and meet others interested in sustainability. No charge to attend, and the first drink is free if you register.
Whether you're a sustainability professional, small business owner, local council/government worker, student, consultant, looking to switch careers, or anything else besides, come along and meet others interested in sustainability. No charge to attend, and the first drink is free if you register.
These sessions of 1.5 hours to a full day are built on the “Work that Reconnects” a series of experiences used all over the world that facilitate the building of individuals, communities and organisations into potent and resilient forces for positive change. Available as an in house or public event.
This one and a half day online group programme with Linda Aspey will help you build your motivation, creativity, courage and resolve to take action, moving you from a sense of isolation and confusion about climate change and environmental loss to a sense of participation and purpose as we all continue to undergo tumultuous and rapid changes during our lifetime. It is available on demand for organisations and groups.
This combined group and 1:1 programme with Linda Aspey in the Cotswolds will help to move you from a sense of stuckness, isolation and purposelessness towards a greater sense of meaning, purpose, clarity & agency, as we continue to undergo tumultuous and rapid changes during our lifetime.
Whether you're a sustainability professional, small business owner, local council/government worker, student, consultant, looking to switch careers, or anything else besides, come along and meet others interested in sustainability. No charge to attend, and the first drink is free if you register.
How can your current skills and strategies potentially add value to conversations around climate, environmental and social issues that the client may not have brought but could help the client to achieve the best from their coaching?
Talking about climate change can be tricky. Come along and explore why with me, and how it needn’t be! A free event hosted by Sustainable Brailes near Banbury in Oxfordshire, on the evening of 14 September 2023 - spaces are limited so booking is essential.
Whether you're a sustainability professional, small business owner, local council/government worker, student, consultant, looking to switch careers, or anything else besides, come along and meet others interested in sustainability. No charge to attend, and the first drink is free if you register.
Would you like to talk with friends, family and colleagues about climate change but you're not sure how?
Come along and be part of our pop-up intimate session at ALSO23, hosted by me, where you'll get to explore, understand and simplify some of the complex psychology behind why climate change can be so hard to talk about, take in and to take action on.
You'll leave feeling much better informed and more skilled to have better climate conversations.
You can book tickets to the festival here. https://www.also-festival.com/events/climate-conversations/feed
This one and a half day online group programme with Linda Aspey will help you build your motivation, creativity, courage and resolve to take action, moving you from a sense of isolation and confusion about climate change and environmental loss to a sense of participation and purpose as we all continue to undergo tumultuous and rapid changes during our lifetime.
It’s 30 years since PCCS Books published its very first book – a short guide to using counselling skills on the telephone. Since then, we have published more than 200 books on counselling theory and practice, critical psychology and mental health. The aim of this conference is to celebrate those 30 years, and all those books, and to pay tribute to our co-founder Pete Sanders, who died in 2022. Inspired by Pete’s vision, PCCS Books has always argued that the professional is political: that politics has a place in the counselling room and counselling has a role in the battles for social justice. This conference will be an opportunity to discuss and debate the challenges that face counsellors and mental health practitioners today – resisting the medicalisation of talking therapies; tackling social injustice; challenging racism in counselling training and practice, and fostering agency and hope in the face of climate change.
Join us online to debate the key professional and political challenges facing counselling in the 21st century.
Morning –
De-medicalising mental health
with Joanna Moncrieff, Lucy Johnstone and John Read
Politics, class and social justice in counselling
with Mick Cooper and Katy Woodger
Afternoon –
Decolonising counselling
with Neelam Zahid, Sarah Henry and Delroy Hall
Holding hope in the face of climate crisis
with Nick Totton and Linda Aspey
Tickets
Tickets are priced to enable a wide audience, from £25 to £50, and include access to the recording of the conference.
Speaker Biographies
Dr. Lucy Johnstone is a consultant clinical psychologist, author of 'Users and abusers of psychiatry' (3rd edition Routledge 2021) and ‘A straight-talking guide to psychiatric diagnosis’ (PCCS Books, 2nd edition 2022); co-editor of 'Formulation in psychology and psychotherapy: making sense of people's problems' (Routledge, 2nd edition 2013); and co-author of ‘A straight talking introduction to the Power Threat Meaning Framework’, 2020, PCCS Books) along with a number of other chapters and articles taking a critical perspective on mental health theory and practice. She is the former Programme Director of the Bristol Clinical Psychology Doctorate in the UK and has worked in Adult Mental Health settings for many years, most recently in a service in South Wales. Lucy was lead author, along with Professor Mary Boyle, for the ‘Power Threat Meaning Framework’ (2018), which outlines a conceptual alternative to psychiatric diagnosis and has attracted national and international attention.
Joanna Moncrieff is a Professor of Critical and Social Psychiatry at University College London, and works as a consultant psychiatrist in the NHS in London. She researchers and writes about the over-use and misrepresentation of psychiatric drugs and about the history, politics and philosophy of psychiatry more generally. She is currently leading UK government-funded research on reducing and discontinuing antipsychotic drug treatment (the RADAR study). She is author of numerous papers and her books include A Straight Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Drugs Second edition (PCCS Books, 2020), The Bitterest Pills: The Troubling Story of Antipsychotic Drugs (2013) and The Myth of the Chemical Cure (2009) (Palgrave Macmillan). Website | https://joannamoncrieff.com Twitter | @joannamoncrieff
Dr. John Read worked in the UK and USA for 20 years as a Clinical Psychologist and manager of mental health services. He joined the University of Auckland, New Zealand in 1994, where he became Director of the Clinical Psychology doctoral training programme. He held the same position at the University of Liverpool when he returned to the UK in 2013. He is currently Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of East London and Chair of the Institute for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal. He is the author of over 150 research papers, co-editor (with Jacqui Dillon) of Models of Madness: Psychological, social and biological approaches to psychosis (Routledge, 2013) and founding editor of the research journal Psychosis: Psychological, Social and Integrative Approaches.
Mick Cooper is an internationally recognised author, trainer, and consultant in the field of humanistic, existential, and pluralistic therapies. He is a Chartered Psychologist, and Professor of Counselling Psychology at the University of Roehampton. Mick has facilitated workshops and lectures around the world, including New Zealand, Lithuania, and Florida. Mick's latest of many books explores the contribution that counselling and psychotherapy theory and practice can make to wider social progress and justice. Psychology at the Heart of Social Change: Towards a Progressive Vision for Society is published by Bristol University Press, 2023.
Katy Woodger is a psychotherapist and supervisor in practice since 2009. Katy co-chairs the National Association for Trauma Specialists at the University of Nottingham and is also a member of an advisory board chaired by Sir Keir Starmer, which informs professional responses to sexual violence. Katy is about to complete a PhD at the Open University through the Grand Union doctoral training partnership between the Open University, Brunel University London and the University of Oxford. Katy’s research explores service user experiences of mental health organisations. Katy is a contributor in Counselling, Class and Politics: Undeclared Influences in Therapy (2018) and #MeToo Counsellors and psychotherapists speak about sexual violence and abuse (2020) both published by PCCS Books.
Sarah Henry is a published author, person-centred counsellor and counselling tutor. She is a contributor the book People Not Pathology: Freeing Therapy From The Medical Model, writing a chapter focused on the overmedicalisation of Black people. Sarah has also presented nationally about the impact of race and ethnicity within the counselling and tutoring relationship. Born in England to a Black British mother and Jamaican father, Sarah's formative experience was a notable dynamic of complementary and clashing norms. Elements of this disparity continue into adulthood and inform her work, both implicitly and explicitly.
Neelam Zahid - I’m an Integrative Counsellor, Psychotherapist and Clinical Supervisor accredited by the BACP and have worked as a therapist since 2003. I previously worked within higher education for over a decade and currently have my own private practice. I’m also the Deputy Course Leader for the Foundation year at the Minster Centre and teach on the Introduction to Counselling Skills Course. In addition to this, I’m currently a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Westminster teaching on the B.Sc. Psychology and Counselling and Introduction to Counselling Skills Course. My areas of interest are intersectionality, difference, and diversity and have contributed to the following publications: The Handbook of Transcultural Counselling and Psychotherapy (2001, eds Colin Lago) and Black Identities + White Therapies: Race, Respect + Diversity (2021, eds Colin Lago and Divine Charura).
Dr. Delroy Hall - Counsellor, Coach and Trainer with over three decades of experience, Delroy Hall is a trained counsellor, wellbeing practitioner, trainer, and independent scholar. Delroy has given lectures and academic papers nationally and internationally. He has extensive keynote speaker experience and has lectured at Harvard University and Boston College Massachusetts, USA. Delroy has coordinated mental health projects and is currently working with Birmingham Community Health Care Trust (BCHC) facilitating the Inclusive Leadership component on their ‘Inspire Leadership Programme. He is also coordinator for a Black Male Suicide Prevention programme under the auspices Sheffield Health and Social Care (SCHC).Since April 2020, Delroy has hosted live wellbeing sessions on Facebook and now it is shown on LinkedIn, Twitter and soon, YouTube. Delroy is the Chaplain for Sheffield United Football Club. As a former four hundred metre hurdler, ranked No 2 in Great Britain in 1979, Delroy keeps fit and is presently training for various aqua bike events in the UK.
Nick Totton has been a body psychotherapist for forty years, and a supervisor and trainer for nearly as long. He has written a number of books, including Embodied Relating: The Ground of Psychotherapy, Wild Therapy: Rewilding Inner and Outer Worlds, and (forthcoming from PCCS Books) Different Bodies: Deconstructing Normality. He is the founding editor of Psychotherapy and Politics International, and a previous chair of Psychotherapists for Social Responsibility and the Psychotherapists and Counsellors Union. Nick has a daughter and two grandchildren. He lives in Sheffield with his partner and grows vegetables.
Linda Aspey is a leadership coach, facilitator, psychotherapeutic counsellor, BACP Fellow, and activist. She works with people and organisations to support them in engaging and acting on climate, environmental and social crises.
Please Note - We at PCCS Books are sorry to say we have had to take the difficult decision to move this day to a purely online event, previously we had planned an in-person and online conference. The costs associated with hiring a venue and covering speakers’ travel mean that it is very expensive to organise such a day. Unfortunately, we have not been able to sell enough tickets, at the non-subsidised price, to get close enough to covering our costs, so we have been forced to rethink the day.
Thankfully Onlinevents have very kindly stepped in and agreed to facilitate the conference online on the same date as originally planned.
All our speakers have likewise been very accommodating and agreed to adapt their presentations to an online-only conference.
This online event will build on the BACP Climate Anxiety seminar of June 2022 and deepen your understanding and confidence in working with this increasingly important area.
The event will explore 3 different approaches to helping people to live with climate change and to manage the potential impacts on their mental health.
The event will be hosted by Linda Aspey who will also present on “The work that reconnects” (aka Active Hope) and how it can be useful in therapeutic work.
Linda will be joined by two other contributors, Christie Wilson and Fred Ehresemann.
Christie is a psychotherapist from Psychology for a Safe Climate (Australia) who will discuss her climate journey and work as a climate-aware practitioner supporting counsellors, therapists and communities affected by climate induced weather events. .
Fred is a Mental Health Nurse based in Bristol specialising in children, young people and family mental health, and in using the Solution Focused approach in relation to climate change.
Programme
This online event will begin at 9.30am on on Thursday 4 May with a welcome from Linda Aspey and will conclude at 1.05pm
Working with climate change and its impact on mental health programme (pdf, 149kb)
Who is this event relevant to?
This event is relevant to therapists, counsellors and psychotherapists who would like to learn more about climate anxiety, the acknowledgement of the impact and the best practice guidelines. The event will build on the BACP Climate Anxiety seminar of June 2022 and deepen your understanding and confidence in working with this increasingly important area.
Booking
Please log in to BACP and book your place online.
Catastrophic climate change, the destruction of our ecosystem and accelerated species extinction hang over us all. How can coaches, counsellors, psychologists and psychotherapists hold their own fears, let alone those of their clients?
In Holding the Hope, contributors from a range of cultural backgrounds and professional disciplines – coaches, counsellors, psychologists and psychotherapists – discuss our inter-relationships with the natural world, indigenous practices and understandings, our betrayal of our children and young people, maintaining a sense of meaning and agency and, above all, how to go on practising at the edge of despair.
To launch the book, contributors will be coming together to make short presentations about their chapters, followed by an opportunity for participants to talk in more depth in small-group ‘meet the author’ workshops.
Contributors at the launch: Roger Duncan, Niki Harré, Robin Shohet, Hetty Einzig, Nick Totton, Caroline Frizell, Chris Johnstone, Maggie Turp, Pedro Oliveira, Matthew Painton, Yasmin Kapadia, Fred Ehresmann, Caroline Hickman, Jo McAndrews, Andy Miller.
PCCS Books - The book is available to pre-order online for £21.50 including free p & p in the UK.
An eBook will be available on publication date, ISBN to follow.
ZOOM
This workshop will be hosted on the Zoom meeting platform where we will use our cameras and microphones to interact with each other as a group.
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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.
As the climate crisis worsens, increasingly more coaches are looking at ways to respond, discuss and promote sustainable practice. These approaches are increasingly sought after amongst corporations or clients with aligned views or ESG goals. The Joint Global Statement Group Roundtables are a unique collaboration between professional bodies, all co-signatories of the Joint Global Statement on climate change. Our goal is to extend the reach of coaching and discuss how coaches can mobilise the agenda to introduce and promote discourse around climate change, eco diversity and activism. We will begin by asking the provocative question: Should we be thinking the unthinkable?
This one and a half day online group programme with Linda Aspey will help you build your motivation, creativity, courage and resolve to take action, moving you from a sense of isolation and confusion about climate change and environmental loss to a sense of participation and purpose as we all continue to undergo tumultuous and rapid changes during our lifetime.
A Climate Café offers a place where fears, uncertainties and hopes about our climate crisis can be safely expressed. It's a confidential, respectful, thinking and feeling space where you can meet with others and talk informally about what climate change and ecological breakdown means for you, perhaps find common ground, and listen to others' diverse experiences and feelings.
A Climate Café offers a place where fears, uncertainties and hopes about our climate crisis can be safely expressed. It's a confidential, respectful, thinking and feeling space where you can meet with others and talk informally about what climate change and ecological breakdown means for you, perhaps find common ground, and listen to others' diverse experiences and feelings.
A Climate Café offers a place where fears, uncertainties and hopes about our climate crisis can be safely expressed. It's a confidential, respectful, thinking and feeling space where you can meet with others and talk informally about what climate change and ecological breakdown means for you, perhaps find common ground, and listen to others' diverse experiences and feelings.
With the Earth in Mind is a systemic framework developed by Linda Aspey that invites people to explore what they think, feel and desire to do about climate change and the intertwined issues of social injustice and environmental destruction.
A Climate Café offers a place where fears, uncertainties and hopes about our climate crisis can be safely expressed. It's a confidential, respectful, thinking and feeling space where you can meet with others and talk informally about what climate change and ecological breakdown means for you, perhaps find common ground, and listen to others' diverse experiences and feelings.
