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Relational Skills in CAT Supervision (non-residential) - offered by Sussex Partnership
17th September 2015 to 19th September 2015

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Relational Skills in CAT Supervision offered by Sussex Partnership, leading to accreditation by ACAT

A non-residential, intensive skills training course lasting two and a half days

East Brighton Community Mental Health Centre, Brighton General Hospital BN2 3EW 

1.00 pm Thursday 17th to 4.00pm Saturday, 19th September 2015   

Cost: £260 

Aims: 
This intensive two and a half day non-residential course is open to any CAT Practitioner interested in CAT supervision.  It is particularly designed for trainee CAT Supervisors or CAT Practitioners with 16 cases completed who are thinking of training in supervision.  For trainee supervisors it offers an ACAT-approved alternative to sitting in with a senior supervisor.  The course has run previously as a residential course at Holland House and has also been highly valued as an opportunity for qualified and experienced supervisors to look more intensively at their own practice as part of their CPD.  This non-residential version of the course in Brighton is being hosted by Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and is intended to run once only.  It will not replace the residential Holland House course which will continue to run annually.

The course will offer:
•    Demonstrations of, and practice in, the relational competencies of being a CAT supervisor
•    Opportunities to explore therapist and supervisor styles and their personal and professional implications 
•    Reflection upon the theory in practice of the ‘dialogic, cognitive and analytic’ understanding unique to CAT’s relational supervision
•    A framework for on-going reflective, relational practice as a CAT supervisor whether directly for individual therapy or indirectly with staff teams and individuals

Methods: 
Skills practice and supervision of the key aspects of CAT will be demonstrated step by step through role play by the trainers followed by role play in small groups of three by the participants.   This skills work will be alternated with personal reflection groups which will explore common enactments in the role of the CAT supervisor.  Issues relating to being active, authoritative and flexible within the zone of the supervisee’s learning will be explored.  There will be two key presentations relating to CAT supervision on the topic of Transference and Counter Transference and therapeutic moments in the context of a dialogical and analytic approach to relational skills in the supervision of CAT.   Part of the ethos of the course will be the shared experience of being a community of supervisors committed to CAT.  Participants will bring details of a recent or current case, with which they are familiar, as the basis of role play.  

Please note that the course is intensive and that the hours are long on each day, continuing into the evenings. The course will begin with a welcome and an introduction to the aims and methods at 1.00 pm on Thursday, 17th September 2015.  Teaching will continue until 7.00pm and there will then be an evening meal in a local restaurant for all participants (cost not included in the course fee).  Teaching starts at 9.00am on Friday, 18th September and continues until 9.00pm that night.  Teaching starts at 9.00am on Saturday, 19th September and the course finishes at 4.00pm.  

Trainers for the course: 
Steve Potter is a widely experienced trainer and supervisor in CAT who has worked at all levels of CAT training. He is chair of the International Cognitive Analytic Therapy Association and was, for many years, a teacher of social group work and skills in group and interpersonal relations.  Steve is attracted to CAT as a versatile, relational framework for mapping and tracking our psycho-social patterns of being in the world and their implications for mental health. 
Jane Stephens is a CAT Psychotherapist and Supervisor.  She co-facilitated the Practitioner Training in Southampton, and currently holds the role of National External Examiner for Supervisor Training in ACAT. Jane works in the NHS and in Private Practice, and has a keen interest in adapting her work both for 6 sessions and also for the longer term. 

Venue: 
The course will take place at East Brighton Community Mental Health Centre on the site of Brighton General Hospital, Elm Grove, Brighton BN2 3EW.  Car parking charges apply within the hospital site, including in the evenings and at weekends.  

Enquiries and Booking:
Please contact Niki Larsen on 01273-621984 ext 3192 or by email: niki.larsen@sussexpartnership.nhs.uk

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