Workshops

Friday 1st September, 11:00 - 12:30pm

Maximizing Your Supervision Experience – Being a Competent Supervisee

Julie Steward

Are you getting the most of your supervision sessions? Is Supervision meeting your needs as a practitioner? Would you like to increase your knowledge and understanding of the supervision process? Would you like to develop skills to improve your supervision experience? Then this workshop is for you!

Julie is a registered Social worker with 25 + of experience. She has her own practice as Professional Supervisor & EAP clinician. She frequently facilitates workshops for practitioners and organizations focusing on supervision, best practice, professional wellness and more.

Rewire Anxiety and Worry. Neurological Insights and Processes

- Kathy King

It will explore the neurological and rewiring of anxiety. It gives an insight of the Cortex based anxiety as compared to Amygdala. The workshop gives an understanding of the specific interventions that assist in alleviating these complex areas of anxiety and worry.

Kathy is an educator and therapist. She has a diploma in teaching, Advanced Certificate in Therapy studies and behavior Science and Supervisor. Has run seminars in NZ and many other nations. Kathy has written seven Lives Transformed teaching manuals and ten programs.

Understanding the Complex Dance Between our Internal Neurobiological Systems and Environment After Trauma

- Bex Smith

A simple explanation to empower our clients to understand their internal responses in order to navigate the external world This workshop aims to equip those working in the area of trauma( all ages).

Bex is a local from Christchurch, working in private practice and regional Co-rep for NZCCA. She works with clients of all ages focusing on understanding the brain\body\emotions connection, reactions and responses to trauma.

Using Creative Arts in Therapy

- Lis Rate-Smith and Jenny Waldron (Tainui)

This workshop will offer some ways of incorporating creativity into counselling practice. This will be a hands on workshop run by Lis Rate-Smith and Jenny Waldron (Tainui). Limited to 20 attendees.

Lis and Jenny work with Drug-Arm in Christchurch. Drug-Arm works in the drug and alcohol and prison sectors. Drug-Arm has an art studio where they offer therapeutic art groups and one on one counselling and support.

Friday 1st September, 1:45 - 3:15pm

Moving From Surviving to Thriving

- Charlotte Bell

An integrated approach to working with complex trauma. I will be sharing the approaches I found that support clients who have experienced early severe trauma. I will cover how modalities of neurofeedback, somatic processing, developmental needs-meeting strategies, and polyvagal theory to assist clients to make a significant shift in their lives.

Charlotte works as a psychotherapist, facilitating the Life Unlimited counselling team. She has a special interest in early childhood deficits and abuse and how they impact on adult life. Charlotte trained in biblical counseling with YWAM and Psychotherapy at AUT and has completed the Spiritual Formation Programme with Spiritual Growth Ministries.

Stigma Secrecy and Shame Around Unplanned, Unwanted, or Difficult Pregnancies Ending in Termination

- Carolina Gnad

A helper come alongside those negatively impacted we may feel challenged by conflicts in values and beliefs.

Carolina has a background in nursing and is currently practicing as a counsellor & supervisor with Dawning Counselling Services. She was the founder of P.A.T.H.(Post-abortion Trauma Healing), which folded in 2021. Carolina is married with three adult children and 10 grandchildren.

The Whole Person: An Integrative Model

- James de Beer

People from all walks of life suffer more and more from trauma, depression, and anxiety with other co-existing problems. Working with the whole person can bring to the surface those extra therapeutic factors necessary to create forward momentum.

Has dedicated for the past 35 years to counseling, coaching, and consulting with the sole purpose of helping those in need to enhance their well-being. Never stopped learning, researching, or looking at best practice intervention models. He has a Master of Counselling and is an Author.

Using Creative Arts in Therapy

- Lis Rate-Smith and Jenny Waldron (Tainui)

This workshop will offer some ways of incorporating creativity into counselling practice. This will be a hands on workshop run by Lis Rate-Smith and Jenny Waldron (Tainui). Limited to 20 attendees.

Saturday 2nd September, 11:00am - 12:30pm

A Dialogue: ‘Ko tōu iwi hei iwi mōku - Your people will be my people’. Creating inclusive and connected communities

- David Moko

Ko Te Arawa te Waka, ko Tapuika te Iwi ko Mātaatua te waka ko Ngāti Pūkenga
ki Maketū te iwi are David’s tribal affiliations.

Born in Te Puke, David grew up in Tokoroa. As a committed Jesus follower, he has a deep interest in national and international missions, developed strategic relationships living and working in 49 countries that helped shape him in a fulltime career pathway in Christian ministry his whole adult life.

David values relationships and connectedness. He’s an includer and a bridgebuilder of people, a philosophy around which he orientates his life. David is passionate about decolonising theology as an educational, spiritual, and
material project rooted in indigenous histories, context and ontologies.

One Wild & Precious Life

- Dr Ruth Lawson-McConnell

In these complex times of living through a pandemic, facing a cost-of-living crisis and the mounting eco-anxiety following the collective trauma of Cyclone Gabrielle, many are asking existential questions, such as: Where is the world going? How am I to live in these precarious times?

Ruth is a sought-after counsellor with 30 years experience of counselling adults, children, adolescents and families. She divides her time between private practice counselling, parenting consulting, supervision, presenting professional development seminars, conference speaking, academic research and writing as well as teaching (adjunct lecturer Masters of Counselling, Morling College, Sydney). Ruth is qualified to the highest level and is a gifted and empathic counsellor, specialist supervisor, compelling speaker and teacher.

The Changing Face of Leadership Practices.

- Dr James Arkwright

The nature of leadership and practices has evolved in the 21st century. Leadership is more organic, collaborative, and distributed, managing complexities and facilitating the growth of others has become more critical than factors related to being a charismatic figure. This workshop is relevant for all those who have responsibilities for working with others, including mentors, supervisors and team leaders.

Dr. James teaches in the School of Social Practice and BTI’s postgraduate programmes. He is the Acting Principal. He has a special interest in narrative therapy, having safe and effective counselling processes for people who have experienced trauma and abuse. James completed his doctoral thesis in 2011.

The Heart of the Relationship for Every Child

- Judi Jacobsen (Childplayworks)

This interactive workshop will briefly open up the what, why, and how of’ the relationship for every child’ which inherently becomes the core philosophy in the Child-Centred Play Therapy (CCPT) approach to working with children. In doing so, we will explore some effective ways of communicating with tamariki and understanding, so they feel heard, which will accordingly strengthen our relationships with tamariki in counseling, home, school, and community. Everything is drawn from the CCPT approach.

I live in Taupo , with my husband of 51 years. My background in education led me on a quest for an answer to the significant unmet emotional needs of tamariki. Reading Virginia Axline’s iconic book ‘Dibs in Search of Self’ (outlining the life-changing, non-directive play therapy process for ‘Dibs’), I was inexplicably drawn, and began
my journey into CCPT. A counsellor, supervisor, trained play therapist, and the Founding Director of ChildPlayWorks Charitable Trust.