Confer - continuing professional development, seminars and conferences for psychotherapists, counsellors and psychologists
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
THE SPEAKER
Having originally studied medical sciences, Franklyn Sills has a long history of training and clinical practice in both psychotherapy and craniosacral therapy. Co-founder in 1987 of the Karuna Institute, he lectures on Buddhist psychology, object relations, shock, trauma, pre-natal and birth psychology. His recent studies include the neurophysiology of stress and trauma.

Franklyn was a Buddhist monk under the most venerable Taungpulu Kaba Aye Sayadaw of Northern Burma, and also studied in the Zen and Taoist traditions, thus bringing a rich understanding of the Buddhist tradition to his innovative work in psychotherapy. His experience in the cranial field has convinced him that the body must be included in any form of therapy. His published books include The Polarity Process, Craniosacral Biodynamics, and most recently Being and Becoming, Psychodynamics, Buddhism and the Origins of Selfhood. Franklyn teaches internationally in America, Germany and Switzerland.
“Franklyn Sills is a true pioneer, working in fields that can seem so different and yet which yearn to come together in intelligent and comprehensible ways: psychotherapy, Buddhism, and prenatal psychology. (…) Sills wears his immense learning lightly and is an affable and empathic guide into some difficult and mysterious areas of human suffering… “
Professor Andrew Samuels


THE MINDFUL PRACTITIONER
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VENUE
EDINBURGH
Kirkland Room
South Hall Complex
Pollock Halls
University of Edinburgh
18 Holyrood Park Road
Edinburgh
EH16 5AY
DIRECTIONS AND MAP
DATE
Saturday 31 March 2012 - Edinburgh
SCHEDULE
09.30 Registration begins
10.00 First session
11.15 Coffee
11.45 Second session
13.15 Lunch
14.15 Third session
16.00 End
CPD HOURS
Certificates of Attendance for 5 hours will be provided at the event.
PROGRAMME DETAILS
FEES
  • Self-funded £90 + VAT
  • Organisationally-funded £180 + VAT
REFRESHMENTS
The fee includes light refreshments and handouts. Lunches can be bought at the venue.
BOOKING CONDITIONS
Regrettably, refunds cannot be given in any circumstances. However, you may give your place to another person if you let us know that person's name at least 24 hours before the event begins. We reserve the right to change a speaker at one of our conferences. However, if a solo presenter cancels we will offer a refund or transfer.

THE MINDFUL PRACTITIONER
Developing embodied awareness, felt-experience, and affect regulation in the psychotherapeutic relationship
A ONE-DAY SEMINAR LED BY FRANKLYN SILLS
SATURDAY 31 MARCH 2012 - EDINBURGH
ABOUT THIS EVENT

This one-day seminar is designed to support the psychotherapist’s capacity for sustaining a state of presence in the therapeutic relationship, particularly when working with traumatised or challenging clients/patients. The day will combine psychoanalytic theory, attachment and neurobiological research with an exploration of the therapeutic value of mindful atunement. The seminar includes a workshop element to develop our capacity for ‘witness consciousness’ with the purpose of strengthening our capacity to be fully present.

We will explore:-
  • An overview of the Buddhist concept of presence
  • The generation of selfhood from pre-natal and early experience
  • The nature of the wounded self
  • The importance of the therapist’s holding frame in the light of early experience
  • The neurobiology of the mindfulness of sensation and feeling tone
  • The neurobiology of presence, mindfulness and trauma
  • The importance of present-time awareness in healing traumatisation
  • How a mindful presence allows for a deeper inquiry into the patient’s suffering
  • Developing the capacity for ‘witness consciousness’ as a therapeutic tool

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