Trainee Placements

We currently have two to three placement opportunities for 2nd year students who are studying on the Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy at The University of Edinburgh.

To apply please complete the attached form below and send to mail@wellspring-scotland.co.uk

Trainee Application Form 2017

Upcoming Events

Gary Smiths’ Weekly Therapy Group

Date: September 4, 2017

Life Journeys

Date: September 9, 2017

‘Life Journeys’ – A creative exploration of your personal story
9th September 2017- Saturday 10.30am – 4.30pm

In this one day-workshop participants will have the opportunity to explore the question: ‘Where do I come from? Where am I going?’

Drawing on psychodrama, image making, journaling and guided visualization, this workshop will support you to explore your past and imagine a positive future. We will acknowledge your strengths explore what has influenced you, what has fed your passion and what has held you back.

Workshop Leader – Gary Smith, UKCP Reg. Psychodrama Psychotherapist, MBACP (accredited).

Cost – £60 Early Bird £45 – if paid by 9th August
Maximum group size 12 participants.

Understanding You, Me and Us

Start date: September 30, 2017

End date: October 1, 2017

The Official TA 101 introduction to Transactional Analysis
Understanding You, Me and Us

30th September & 1st October 9.30am – 5.00pm

Transactional Analysis (TA) brings together theories of human development, personality and communication in a powerful system of psychological models.

It offers an easily accessible framework for understanding our experiences, for identifying where problems in communication are taking place and for enabling personal change.

It is used in education, in organisations and in counselling and psychotherapy.

On completion of the two day TA 101 workshop you will:

1) Understand the core TA theories of personality, human development and communication.
2) Understand how to apply these models to your own development and to the personal and work relationships you have in your life.
3) Receive the official TA 101 certificate issued by the institute of Transactional Analysis and recognised in the worldwide TA community.
4) Have completed the pre-requisite training and gained the understanding of the models, needed to consider further training as a TA professional.

The TA 101 can be considered to be for both personal development and professional development.
There is always something new to learn about ourselves and others. It is an exciting journey and I invite anyone who is interested to join me on this introductory weekend on Transactional Analysis. Whether your interest is in personal development or you have thoughts of pursuing further training you will learn a lot about yourself in a safe but exciting environment.

I hope to see you there
Paul Redpath PTSTA

The cost of the weekend is £140
Early Bird to be booked by 30th August 2017 – £120

Living Our Dreams

Start date: October 6, 2017

End date: October 7, 2017

Living our Dreams

A workshop at Wellspring with Kim Ward and Maggie Mackechnie

6th and 7th October 2017

7-9pm on Friday 6th and 10.00am – 4.00pm on Saturday 7th October

Since time memorial, there have been many theories and methods for considering and working with dreams and dream-like material, as a way of tapping into other realms of consciousness, which carry messages for our lives and the lives of our communities – if only we can read their symbolic language.

The things we marginalise or neglect in our everyday lives often appear in our night time dreams and experiences as disturbances or dream figures, strange feelings and moods and stories which may even reach new and often mysterious resolutions. Concepts of the Dreambody (Arny Mindell) and Embodied dreams (Core Process) give us tools to reconnect with our night time dreams through bringing more awareness to our body experiences, the subtle sensations and perceptions we tend to marginalise in our everyday lives. Through connecting deeply to our body sensations and how we sense the world around us, gives us a better chance to comprehend our dreams, and gently wake up to their messages.

We will contemplate these more subtle experiences that manifest in our visual, auditory, kinesthetic and proprioceptive channels of awareness. And discover attitudes or meta-skills which can ease our access to the dreaming realms.

In this workshop lead by Kim and Maggie, we will create a space to share our dreams with other dreamers and learn to move between everyday reality and Dreaming. With the idea that reality has its roots in Dreaming, then surely reconnecting with our dreams can inform us or help us find a sense of direction in our broader lives, by making more conscious, the subtle connections between dreams, our relationships and the world around us.

Workshop Leaders:

Kim Ward works as a therapist and trainer of Process Work. For many years now she has looked to her dreams as guides for her life and helped others connect more deeply with different dimensions to add greater meaning and compassion to their daily living experiences.

Maggie MacKechnie is an experienced dream therapist and counsellor. She began in a therapeutic dream group with Dr Winifred Rushforth in 1977 and completed a dream work training in 1991.
Maggie has led small groups at Wellspring and in community settings as well as larger group events in residential conferences which have incorporated expressive arts, ceremony and performance.
Maggie trained as a Buddhist psychotherapist at Karuna Institute.
She has found that Tibetan Buddhism has given deeper meaning in work with her clients in that the function of symbols seems to integrate psyche, imagination and the sacred, and she would like to share this.

Fee: £60 or £45 Early Bird if paid by 6th August 2017

Maximum participants: 12

Reflective Awareness & the Mindfulness of Feeling

Date: October 28, 2017

Reflective Awareness & the Mindfulness of Feeling

A Wellspring Workshop on Relational Mindfulness and Early Relational Wounding

Edinburgh: October 28th, 2017 9.30-5pm

This one-day workshop will introduce participants to therapeutic skills and approaches for decoding the distress of early trauma and moving towards establishing a therapeutic holding which can expand from the client/therapist relationship to the inner world of the client. Within therapy sessions clients are frequently communicating subtle invitations for therapists to meet them in their distress and difficulties in ways which can promote transformational reflective awareness and a more empowered identity. Corrective re-experience is a life long task of the self, requiring higher developmental awareness, patient endurance and a depth of self-compassion.

Over the day we will learn how to become more able to detect these cues and respond to these invitations for longed for meaningful contact.

Aspects of Eastern and Western psychology will be drawn upon to enrich the power of sensitive relationship, use of self and therapeutic attunement.

Cost: £60 Early Bird pay by 28th October £50

Tutor: John MacFadyen, Therapist at Wellspring, a Core Process Psychotherapist and member of the teaching team at Karuna Institute, Devon

For further information please contact: John MacFadyen on 07788976022 or email – johnmacf@morham.org

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