Feedback from the  Training Day

Q1 What has been professionally/clinically useful within the training?

The ways of focusing upon thoughts rather experiential examples on behaviour in order to get beyond ego states

Discussion around love and fear places

The experiential examples

The focus on thought/thinking was refreshing

To work as part of a group, group supervision sessions

The experience of group supervision and seeing how it works well given the time

It has given me ideas around exercises to use within my own supervision practice. I will no doubt reflect on much of today and integrate useful aspects into my work

Exploring you thought process and behaviours

To reconnect with myself and challenge my thoughts, focus on relationships

Watching and working with Robin and the group

The role play with Robin and 5 members of the group, one presenting

Role modelling a way of being

Robins knowledge and delivery is amazing his willingness to be constantly open to the group needs

So many links to client and supervision work throughout the whole day

Useful space that I am very grateful for

Different perspective on my work and use of self within my work

Q2 What has been personally useful for you within the training?

Reviewing a difficult relationship and learning something about it

Sense of self, learning love and fear, to let go – go with my thought processes

Looking at the power of fear to prevent love of life

The fear/love stuff led me to consider something from a perspective I had never considered previously. It was very enlightening.

Exploring work with oneself, safely in the group and observing the group work. It was all amazing

Being still and quiet

Exploring the fear

The emphasis on thinking

Challenged my way of seeing thoughts as less important than feelings – BIG TIME!!

I have felt nourished and challenged love and fear is all around me at this particular time

Q3 What might you encourage more of?

All the above

All fine, a good balance

These types of sharing and learning experiences

Cake

Being still and quiet

More playing, moving around

Robing to talk more on spirituality

Nothing it was fluid and responsive to the group at just the perfect pitch for me

Q4 What might you encourage less of?

I cannot think of anything, I enjoyed all aspects

Avoiding your fears

Nothing

Q5 One sentence you would like to say to the facilitators?

As ever, I’ve really valued your openness, challenges and sense of humour

Thank you, loved every minute of the day – Hope Robin will come back next year.

Thank you for organising this event so well, for all the learning it’s given

Thank you for an enlightening day

Robin was amazing, both in knowledge and as a person

Fab

Loved the challenges in a safe and accepting space

Thanks you for the training

Just thank you

You are a gift to us

Thank you for a day of insightful reflection

Q6 One Sentence you might like to say to the next group of students?

It’s very helpful

If you come with an open heart and mind you’re in for a treat.

Engage, participate, trust.

Embrace it, its powerful

You get out what you put in, be brave

This is gold dust

Open your mind and savour the experience

Go with the flow – anything might happen

Be present, and give of yourself in order to develop

Come with an open mind and a willingness to enquire of yourself

Q7 Would you recommend this training? And Why?

It’s healthy to notice what your mind is doing.

Yes

Yes, Robin is so insightful- such a special person to be around.

It gets to the heart of what we defend against and is excellent personal and professional development

Yes it was a genuine, encouraged participation and growth /understanding

100% yes, you learn on a deeper level

Yes I love the intimacy and getting away from the story

Yes, well organised, great location wonderful facilitators loved the last one, this was just as good

Yes it feels like Robin has his heart in his work

Yes if nothing else it is a rewarding and nourishing experience to spend a whole day in the company of inspirational people

Yes, all aspects of this day are special

It’s been valuable use of my time

Feedback from the Workshop

Q1 What has been professionally/clinically useful for you within the Training?

Working with my colleagues and appreciating/learning from them the difference in the way we work individually.

Useful exercises, especially playing the role of my client

Experiential, thought provoking and challenging. It will help me reflect on my practise and engage in more instinctive and whole body engagement with my client.

To work on the negative thoughts and feelings within me, when working with clients.

Space for reflection on practice and personal experiences, and understanding the connections of both and how they may exist in the counselling room 

Reflecting on my resistance to felt sense opportunities! I will be using this/taking to supervision more.

The exercises allowed both personal and professional reflection and growth – a good balance of the two.

All of it! Specifically though I like the exercise where we embody the client – got more depth to the insight of her.

Q2 What has been personally useful for you with the training?

Role paly of playing a client that I had particular difficulty working with and gaining a better understanding of themselves

The Grounding nature of the day, re-visiting skills

Reflecting on my own experience of loss and how it could impact on counselling. Accepting that I have negative emotions around some clients.

To accept my previous losses, still impact on me and to stop trying to move away from them.

Spending time with colleagues and learning from them . Taking time to think about my losses, and paying attention to my responses.

Seeing how far I have come from being a counselling Level 2 trainee.

Exploration of change of my own emotions towards clients when working with them.,

Personally I felt able to challenge some of my perceptions of death/grief/loss and began to connect with the experience/feeling.

Q3 What might you like to encourage more of?

The Role play mentioned above in peer supervision

More skills exploration within our team in our work place would definitely encourage further training.

More training like this please.

Sitting with the feeling of loss

All of it

Peer groups on loss and bereavement

To be more open/vulnerable about the impact of loss both within myself and with my clients

Q4 What might you like to encourage less of?

N/A, nothing.

The narrative

Targets

Shorter breaks

Trying to solve someone’s grief /loss for them

Q5 One sentence you would like to say to your facilitators?

Thanks you for sharing your knowledge and experience

Thank you! Can we book you again for any further CPD?

Thank you so much for this wonderful enlightening day. Am refreshed!

Thank you for challenging us and encouraging us to do so with our clients

Thank you for sharing your expertise, caring and directness.

You’ve helped me to learn more about my fear today in me

Very knowledgeable and insightful, thank you for sharing that with us

You have a gentle approach yet felt safely challenged!

Q6 One Sentence you might like to say to the next group of students?

Enjoy

Enjoy and immerse yourself in it.

Be honest

Be brave and open, and participate as fully as you can

Engage look for opportunities and check out forgotten things

Stay open, receptive and reflective to get the most out of any training

Take the risk it’s worth it.

Q7 Would you recommend this training

 Yes. If yes why? Very informative and excellently presented.

Yes, I learned a lot, great tutor, left me wanting more

Yes, it will make you think.

Yes, Great venue and intimate enough for help learning.

Yes because it is a good reminder of the basics of what I do, but at a higher level

Yes absolutely yes. I felt Lesley really cared about us; this made a big difference to how I listened. Refreshng learning.

Yes, very enjoyable and useful

Definitely yes, I have learnt so much about myself and how I can be more effective with clients

                               (Score: 5 = excellent, 4 = good, 3 = average, 2 = less than average, 1 = poor)

What has been professionally/clinically useful for you within the Training?

The openeness of the trainer

Connecting with deeper parts of myself

4 selves

Thinking about existentialism

What has been personally useful for you within the Training?

Learnt new skills and ………..

Greater understanding

Increased self-awareness and lots of intellectual stimulation

The exercise of the ‘four aspects of ourselves’

Time to allow insight to settle

Looking at configurations of self

One sentence you would like to say to your facilitators?

Thank you for the facilitating and great day, really enjoyed it.

Amazing, inspirational – lovely demeanour

Great mix of a bit of theory and a safe enabling space to process emotion

A superb workshop, thank you

Thanks for the freedom to learn

You’re a breath of fresh air, I would like to learn more from you. Thank you

One sentence you might like to say to the next group of students?

Enjoy!

Amazing training

Trust yourselves and enjoy it

Let yourself get involved

You’re in safe hands, enjoy and prepare to play

Comments from the evaluation forms;

What has been professionally/clinically useful for you within the training?

Gaining insight, knowledge and skills to use professionally

Fish bowl, I found extremely useful. Loved watching and taking on board the powerfulness of skill being seen.

Working with dreams

What has been personally useful for you within the training?

Self-awareness of one of my dreams confidence in skills practice

Insight into my dreams

Some self-acceptance and more understanding of my self

A change in my dream and a possible shift in my feelings around the dream

To experience the power of working with my dream and the dreams of another

My own re-curing ‘stuff” and seeing it from a different perspective,  as a client presenting my dream to a therapist.

Greater insight into how therapists can use dream work when working with clients.

What might you encourage more of?

Nothing, absolutely spot on training day, got more than I thought from it

Massive Thank you

The same please

More of the same, Thank you it was fascinating and insightful and fun!

Not sure yet

What might you like to encourage less of?

Nothing, perfect balance of theory and practice

Biscuits, but I could be shot!

One sentence you would like to say to your facilitators?

Wow just Wow, so grateful to have had the pleasure of your amazing knowledge

Thank you.  Excellent

FAB

Thank you for the privilege of sharing today with me

Thank you for sharing your knowledge in an insightful and fascination fun way

Just to say Thank you for everything. This training has touched on many different levels and will give me much more to work on and reflect on in coming months.

One sentence you might like to say to the next group of students?

Amazing training day to fully engage and embrace

Do it!

Definitely do it - Amazing

I’m sure you will enjoy and get a lot out of it.

Be open to trying out techniques which may take you out of your comfort zone. This really does work!

Richard Davies was an excellent facilitaor for this workshop, it was facinating to listen and learn from him.

Would you recommend this training?

Yes 100%, Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes

If yes, Why?

Fantastic, It was beneficial clinically and personally, So much to be learned, So Enjoyable

For all the above reasons.

(5 = excellent, 4 = good, 3 = average, 2 = less than average, 1 = poor)

Comments from the evaluation forms

What has been professionally/clinically useful for you within the training?

Theory, learning all about Jung who I like but struggle to understand

Having an introduction to working with dreams  - something to explore further

Deep knowledge of Jungian dream theory

I have enjoyed the training of Jung and his work

A different language to ‘making sense’

Development and knowledge in this area, opening mind to other ideas

Revisiting Jung and being reminded of the alchemy within the therapeutic relationship and discovering ways of understanding metaphors and possibly phobias.

What has been personally useful for you within the training?

Being able to talk through my recent dream and thing about it’s meaning with support from the group

Exploring meanings and making my own meaning

Meeting others and sharing experiences. Possible talking this forward to exploring my own dreams

Gaining an insight 

It has helped me take a look into me

To reflect on where I am with it all

Engaging with the shadow within my own dream

What might you encourage more of?

Would like a similar one day exploration – perhaps an introduction to existential therapy

An example of seeing it played out professionally (fishbowl)

More pairs work rather than all ‘whole’ groupwork

Direct example of application to client work and working with children

Perhaps a skills experience (in pairs or triads)

What might you like to encourage less of?

Summarising

Sitting down

Nothing because it was only one day

One sentence you would like to say to your facilitators?

Thank you! I enjoyed the training and would like to follow this with further CPD

Very insightful deep day, inspirational knowledge

Fantastic thank you

Interesting but could we have more pairs work with our own dreams please

Thank you for your open willingness to share your experience and knowledge

Thank you, your depth of knowledge, your willingness to share Jung and being open and accepting of any challenges from the group

One sentence you might like to say to the next group of students?

I think it was beneficial to do both days and I would have struggled with day 2 on it’s own

Start recording your dreams in your notes

Jung’s work, ideas etc. are fascinating

Would you recommend this training?

Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes

If yes, Why?

Because we all dream and this gives confidence in how to work with clients and their dreams

Fabulous amount of knowledge and insight

Lots of knowledge gained from it

Great personal development in a truly holistic sense

Just to sense of Jung’s ideas and to play with exploring  dreams from a different perspective

If no, why not?

(5 = excellent, 4 = good, 3 = average, 2 = less than average, 1 = poor)

Evaluations

Has this training impacted on you professionally?        

Yes, it’s shone a light on some of my blocks and defences

Made me reflect on myself, and the data that I collect

How important to feel held in the group. Saying that – I have experienced this in my training but on my CPD days over the years this has been almost non existent

How every piece of data is welcome?

Yes, thought provoking re assuring and importance of relationships/heart.

Yes reminded me about process

Made me completely evaluate how I worked in a supervisory role

Freedom from the feeling I have to ‘know it all’

I feel the training has impacted on me professionally and personally, everything is valuable that a supervisee brings to a session; I will remember Data – Content –Process

I loved the experiential way of learning – no names, or titles/job roles = no judgements

I feel as though it has helped me focus more on the ‘what is’ rather than what can I do about it

It has given me greater insight into process

Yes certainly, it has given me a whole new perspective on working with clients, particularly the projective identification discussions.  Also ‘data’ – and not get caught up in it.

I have a more in depth understanding of the emotions involved in a group process

It’s taken some of the pressure of having to know- everything is data

Yes, new way of being, how to enhance supervision practice

Yes, made me reflect on myself, the data that I collect, my self-awareness important. Given areas for CPD ‘projective identification’ and parallel process.

How has this training impacted upon you personally?

Loved the feeling of freedom of letting some things go

It’s given my confidence a boost. The group supervision was most enlightening. I will definitely continue with my work and stop thinking I should retire.

Pay more attention to me – look more at projective identification

Yes I feel more confident and self assured

Able to speak and show courage

Made me rethink my behaviour within my personal life and relationships

Able to identify my core belief and how to challenge this

It has helped me to see that I am more comfortable in large groups than I thought

I am good enough!

It has been freeing and given a sense of liberation

To strive to be more free, to break rules (occasionally)! To be present!

Data - to remain unemotional to be aware of my personality, how it affects relationships

Freed up to be curious and explore the process

Impact on self-beliefs and unhelpful responses

Lot of processing on own issues

Provided material for Personal development

What did you find least useful and how would you improve this?

Everything was useful

The area I had the most problem with was the idea of not complaining, to start internally (made sense by the end of the day)

Everything was useful

Found the whole day useful

What areas have you identified for further professional/personal development?   

Need to look at blocks and identify them in counselling

Another day with Robin?

Need to do more around parallel process and projective identification

To learn more about ‘projective personality’

More of the same

Stay with embodied feelings and trust that something will come up

I feel I would like to be part of a larger supervision group at some point

Continuing to attend training events as and when identified, to read more!

To continue with the development of group supervision

Continuing opening my heart and my awareness

Do you have any feedback to offer the facilitator/s?

Well organised, lovely venue.

Great day- venue -food -company and of course the work with Robin Shohet

Thank you for organising such an informative, challenging and compassionate facilitator in Robin.

Thanks for an excellent day

Lovely location and lunch

Fab place, very calming – more of the same please

Wonderful day

Enjoyed the pace of the day, calming and soothing but packed full of learning

Venue was brilliant

Just great!

Thank you for facilitating a very enjoyable, pleasant and worthwhile day in a beautiful location

A really valuable day, which I thoroughly enjoyed. Thank You. I really appreciated your sense of fun, almost mischief which played to my inner silliness!

It was excellently organised and facilitated, with a sense of warmth and welcoming

Very open and genuine, very informative and experiential

Excellent, thank you for the challenge and helping me towards deeper insights

Excellent facilitator

Any other comments are welcome.

I’m looking forward to taking part in many more training days.

More Please

Everything is welcomed

Just love Robin now! Will read his book from cover to cover.

Thank you

When are you putting on another day that I can go to?

Can’t wait for anther training event

A very insightful day, had an impact on my thoughts of supervision. Permission to question, to be freer of constraints

Appreciated wheat and gluten free options

Feedback from the one day workshop  held on 14/3/17

Has this training impacted upon you professionally?

Yes

Yes, Its consolidated my knowledge, taught me to be more self aware

Reinforced and affirmed what I have known

Yes, so much more to learn

Allowed some valuable ‘breathing space’ and a safe environment to consolidate learning and experience

Increased confidence to talk to children about their bereavement

Yes, I feel more aware of how to contain a child’s feelings safely, recognising how I impact upon the process.

Yes

Yes

I’m feeling more emotionally aware, good to hear from others in different professions.

Yes

How has this training impacted on you personally?

Greater insight into bereavement unresolved

Yes, I’m going to ensure, I do more self care

An opportunity to re-connect with my grief and check in with my grieving process.

Love and Loss.

I’ve been able to get in touch with my feelings and needs.

I reflected on my past experience of loss and thought about the impact on me today.

I feel thankful that I have had the time and space to feel the feelings that I have felt throughout the day. It has reminded me that I need to continue to give myself more time and space.

It has made me realise that I need to look after myself to be able to help others effectively.

It has made me more self-aware and made me think how a child would feel after bereavement.

Very much so, realisations.

To look at my own coping strategies.

What did you find least useful and how would you improve this training?

All very good.

I found it all useful.

I found it all helpful but would have liked to hear some of the theory in more depth (new and developing theory).

Sharing as a group and in pairs was the most useful.

I love to make notes, - a good thing was I didn’t need to, but still felt I should be doing!!

Probably the PowerPoint at the end, I felt that I was switching off a bit. Useful if a longer course though?

None, it was all useful.

I felt all the content was useful.

Nothing.

I enjoyed all the activities.

What areas have you identified for further professional /personal development?

Personal work on bereavement.

Need to update myself again regarding theories/research into grief. This research can help to validate a person’s response to grief.

Mindfulness.

Further reading and further experiential training.

Self Care, Self Care, Self Care…

To read the theories re grief/loss to further my knowledge and also to refresh my knowledge.

I would like to read more and possibly attend further events, thinking of retreats. Keep considering my own self-care.

To learn more about bereavement counselling for children.

I am interested in learning more about bereavement counselling.

To continue PD as it’s good to recall and further my knowledge

Professional -  to look at body language, noise and movement in session,

Personal -  to consider talking to family and avoid avoiding issues.

Do you have any feedback to offer the facilitator/s?

Very well presented, personable and professional.

The facilitator’s tone of voice, demeanour ensured a calm safe environment.

I found client examples helpful and would enjoy more of this.

I felt looked after.

Thank you, lovely mix of facilitating styles that complimented the range and learning styles in the group.

I felt safe and comfortable with how the course was facilitated. It was well planned and delivered sensitively. At no point did I feel intimidated by the facilitator’s vast experience in this area.

I felt safe quickly and relaxed, which allowed me to learn I also felt contentment that allowed me to explore aspects I wouldn’t normally do on a training day.

I have enjoyed the day, Thank you.

I have really enjoyed today, (and the food was excellent)!

Well organised and very clear, Thank you

Fantastic venue and food

Any Other comments are welcome

Lovely venue and excellent food, thank you kitchen staff.

Room quite cold in the morning, which distracted me from focussing a little.

Really informative.  I learnt from people working in different settings and their experiences.

The pace was helpful, the venue and food was great. Having regular breaks gave time to reflect.

I only wish it had been longer J

The environment was so relaxing and peaceful, just what I needed, thank you.

A lovely setting for this course, the food was lovely.

It was emotional but therapeutic, sharing experiences with people I only just met.

I would be interested in other training opportunities, via email would be great.

Feedback From

The above One day workshop held on 6th January 2017

Using the 12 Step Programme.

Overall did you find this training? Very Helpful – Helpful – Little Help- No Help

All but one attendee said very helpful, one other said helpful.

What parts of the training was most helpful?

The group discussions about the 12 step programme

The Jellinek Curve and Jenny’s thought provoking insight into AA, and challenging my own beliefs. Being with other therapists is very reparative after a difficult week

The whole training was insightful in a professional and personal sense

The whole day was brilliant, but the Jellinek curve is the thing I will be using the most

Aspects of the Jellinek Curve – discussing the problems around working with addictions

What were your feelings after this session?

Glad I came, I felt lighter and less stressed about work.

Inspired

Privileged and grateful.

Felt reflective and energised.

More understanding about addiction

Anything to say to the facilitator?

Great Admiration for Lesley Wilson

Fantastic

Thank you!

Thank you for allowing me to clear my mind.

Thank you.

What in particular did you learn about the subject matter?

Broadened my knowledge around The 12 Step Programme.

Change is individual as is recovery

It was all new to me and was a great learning experience

Jellinek Curve as a way of appreciating ambivalence around drinking

More understanding about addiction and the meaning of addiction. The long term support and the group work.

Other Comments

I think I would benefit from some extra supervision as I currently have a very complex caseload and some of what you’ve said today has struck a chord with me/refocused me.

Thank you I loved it.

Excellent Course

• The training has given me a greater insight into the world of play and how it can be incorporated into my work.  Thank you for this unique look into the world of play and how to let the inner child out.  I felt the strong boundaries set at the beginning enabled me to feel safe to just enjoy.

• Thank you for this experience! Journey, adventure of Learning.

• This Training has given me an invaluable basic knowledge and insight into working with children.  All the course was excellent.,but more time would be beneficial. More Please!

•  An excellent course and I would be keen to learn about future training events

• Given me greater insight, tools and techniques for working with children - not necessarily in counselling setting.  Found the personal examples really helpful and experiential nature of the workshops makes the stuff stick

• Expanded on my experiential work and how to interact with children.  I realise how the simplest thinkgs can have the greatest effect.

• Massive learning.  I think it was well done, we did not waste time or get involved in some unproductive talking.  I've enjoyed it!

• Good to use tools and experience play, will give confidence using (particularly pictures) with my adult clients.  Very welcoming and interesting. Good course.

"Facilitator continuously checked out what was working and what wasn't; also what we wanted, so we could own our own responsibility for learning.  Thank you it has been great, much appreciated!!"
"I feel in the 2 days you could not have put any more effort or work in. Thank you for giving me this experience and learning process."
"Felt had time to share and ask, enjoyed all aspects, increased my learning and gained new ideas to enhance my practice"
"A lot packed into 2 days.  Really useful"
"Lesley was professional and very organised but fantastic at promoting our own learning abilities.  Thank you!!! It's been a really rewarding experience"
"I feel that the course was facilitated well and we covered a lot - I felt the facilitation was very good/relaxed/informal - non intrusive.  A great two days"

"Learning to recognise and acknowledge my own feelings/instincts - and trust them."

"Learning to tune in more to how others in the group are responding to me and each other"

"To be fully aware of the dynamics that play out thoughout the day and to hold the group appropriate. Great week-end, Many thanks"

"I've really enjoyed the group and looking forward to July"

"The experiential nature of the groupwork training and animal game. It was all useful for me, even the uncomfortable stuff."

"The role-play was most challenging but the most useful! Really enjoyed Lesley's style, I feel very comfortable and engaged in the training environment she creates.  Thank you I'll be looking out for more or your training courses. I like your style."

"I found it valuable to refresh and update on attachment theories - working in groups especially client counsellor roles.  I look forward to reflecting on the sessions and reading up on Attachment to support me in my client work. Thank you"

"Seeing how my own attachment history and experience impacts upon my client work.  I think you managed a potentially difficult balance of therapist and non-therapists to provide an accessible and informative day, accounting for everyone's needs. Many thanks"

 "Exploring Endings; Concept of 'Attachment Style'; Being in a group situation to observe other situations and have other members of the group observe and comment on mine"

"As usual I have learnt so much from Lesley because she keeps the sessions lively and interactive.  I really enjoyed the day and would like to do more workshops if I had the chance"

"Just a 'whistle stop' tour of a most interesting subject. I learnt a lot about myself/other people/service users"

"Groupwork, Analysing personal experience"

"Having no previous knowledge of the subject this was a thorough yet brief introduction.  The session on the care giver and looking at Behavioural/Physical/Emotional responses was very self revealing. Very informative and given me a lot to think about. Thank you"

"I found attaching the theory to situations really useful as it allowed me to see how it fit.  Thank you very much, I really enjoyed the day and learnt an

awful lot, not only about clients but myself."



I think the session was a lot better than I thought it was going to be and done in a fun way but very useful

Entertaining, enjoyable and well presented!  Came away from the meeting with more confidence about ability to do the job

Found it easy to talk to the facilitators. Came away feeling more positive and upbeat

Defining our personalities was a very useful exercise it explains how different we all are.

I found this session very good and informative and also fun to do in a relaxed atmosphere

The whole day was very good, I thought both ladies were very open and honest and made me feel at ease.  The outlook on the life survey was excellent and I felt the results I had from the survey

were exactly me!