Workshop

Dreams in Counselling and Psychotherapy;

A Client-Centred Approach



One Day Course



FREE YOURSELF FROM THE LIMITATIONS OF TRADITIONAL DREAM INTERPRETATION


Date;
To be Confirmed
Venue;
GALWAY
Pathfinders Holistic Centre, (N17)
Cummer, Galway.



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IACP REVIEW

See IACP Review of this unique course in
Spring 2010 edition of Eisteach Magazine


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IRISH TIMES

(Tuesday 7th Sept 2010)

See feature on Paul Bradley in Health Section

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/health/2010/0907/1224278341690.html


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TESTIMONIALS

Recent participants were asked to rate the course;

71 psychotherapists and counsellors rated the course – Excellent

54 psychotherapists and counsellors rated the course – Very Good


Set of written testimonials and endorsements
signed by psychotherapists and counsellors from all over Ireland
who have participated on this course is available on request

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This unique course offers you;



A proven, practical, Person-centred methodology to use Dreams in your work with clients.


A methodology that can be integrated into any theoretical framework or counselling perspective.


A demonstration and fundamental understanding that;
Everything comes from the client;
that the therapist does not have to interpret, analyse or explain the dream,
and the entire meaning of the dream can be evoked using a client-centred approach.


Invaluable insight into utilising Dreams for furthering your own
personal and professional growth.


(No prior knowledge or experience of working with dreams required)



Please note this is a One Day course




Date to be Confirmed


Price; €100 Time; 10.30am – 5.30pm





PLACES MUST BE PRE-BOOKED

TO RESERVE YOUR PLACE
EMAIL or TXT or PHONE
Paul Bradley
087 959 8840 / email pauljbradley@eircom.net





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Dreams in Counselling and Psychotherapy;
A Client Centred Approach


A One-Day Course for
Psychotherapists and Counsellors


‘Free yourself from the limitations of traditional Dream Interpretation’


‘We discover new oceans when we lose sight of the shore’ Anon


This course will introduce you to the immensely creative
therapeutic resource that is available through dreams and
offers you an opportunity to experience and learn
a unique and entirely Client-centred approach to Dreamwork.

Specifically designed for Counsellors and Psychotherapists
it will be of particular benefit to any therapist seeking to
integrate Dreamwork into their therapeutic practice.

This course serves as a highly practical guide to an understanding of dreams
and offers you a methodology that can be integrated into
Humanistic, Integrative, Person-Centred or any theoretical framework or counselling perspective.

The course illustrates the deep-healing and transforming role
of dreams in the psychotherapeutic process and clearly
demonstrates the methodology of how to elicit the
meaning of the dream from your client utilising a
Person-Centred approach.

It clearly shows how dreams can give you the therapist,
a precise and objective statement about the psychological reality
that is confronting your client and how dreams can inform
you of the specific issues that the client needs to address.

The course will demonstrate how utilising dreams in the
psychotherapeutic process is a highly practical way of
accessing material from your client that is
inspirational, significant and immediate to your clients specific needs.

In addition, from a therapists perspective you will gain
invaluable insight into using dreams for
furthering your own personal and professional growth.

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PLEASE NOTE;
NO PRIOR KNOWLEDGE OF WORKING WITH DREAMS REQUIRED
Course topics include;
· Introduction to Therapeutic Dreamwork
· Basic concepts and principles
· Association, Amplification and Explanation techniques
· Dream types inc; Recurring / Nightmares / Vivid / Archetypal etc
· Dreams and the Psychotherapeutic Process
· The Practical Skills of Person-centred Dream Interpretation;
Methodology for working with dreams in a therapeutic practice
· Dreams and the Spiritual Dimensions of Healing
· Your Dreams;
You have the option to bring own dreams
and experience the method for yourself



Date to be Confirmed


Time; 10.30am – 5.30pm Price; €100
Venue; Pathfinders Holistic Centre, Cummer, Galway



Places are limited to facilitate learning and integration


Places must be reserved / A deposit secures. Please phone;

Paul Bradley on 01 651 0888 / 087 959 8840
email; pauljbradley@eircom.net
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Paul Bradley is a Psychotherapist based in Maynooth Co. Kildare.


* Individual consultations also available




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IACP – EISTEACH MAGAZINE



THIS COURSE WAS HELD AT THE IACP South Eastern Region AGM.
SEE REVIEW BELOW AND IN SPRING EDITION OF EISTEACH




IACP Workshop Review
The Art of Dream Interpretation


Presenter: Paul Bradley

Venue: Brandon house hotel, New Ross, Co. Wexford
Dates: 17th & 18th October 2009

Reviewed by: Ursula Ryan MIACP


Paul Bradley is a Jungian Psychotherapist, Dream Analyst and Group Facilitator.
The aim of the workshop was to give counsellors and therapists an introduction and practical guide to dream interpretation.
The workshop was attended by 18 counsellors and therapists.
Day 1
Paul introduces himself, his own background and the personal experiences that led him to develop a keen interest in Dream Work.
Like all of us at the workshop, dreams have held a fascination for him and we wait in excited anticipation to delve into the mysterious realm of the unconscious dream world.
Paul provides a handout at the start of both days of the workshop allowing us to follow the theory without getting too anxious about taking notes. He explains that this workshop will be 80% practical allowing some in the group to process their own dreams with him while the rest of the group observe. In the two weeks previous to the workshop he had sent emails to all the participants with guidelines on remembering our own dreams and writing them down so that we would all have dreams to process if we so wished.
Paul has a person centred approach to interpreting dreams and it is through this approach we learn that it is in fact the client, not the therapist, who interprets their dream. The client has the information about their own dream and the role of the therapist is to LISTEN to the detail of the clients dream.
Dreams are made up of images and each image has a specific meaning for the dreamer. The therapist records detail of the images and helps to establish the personal associations to the images in the dream. The therapist explores any feelings the dreamer has to these associations and finally relates the dream to everyday life. The dreamer reaches his/her own AHA moment when light is shed, through this process, on the meaning of their dream.
It is difficult to understand initially how the process develops before we see the work in action. We are encouraged to hold the image of a river in mind, a river moves as it flows. As we work on dreams we start to see how the process starts to move from images to associations, from associations to feelings. It gathers momentum and flows; the therapist gently guiding and aiding this process.
By the end of the first day either by being directly involved in the process (Paul working on our dream) or through observation, we all had a good initial grasp of dream interpretation and were eagerly looking forward to day 2.
On day 2 Paul recapped on the previous day, encouraging us as therapists to trust the process and to trust ourselves within the process. We quickly moved on getting to grips with more material on dreams, I was most thankful for the handout on this day. We covered the various Dream Types, these include; daydreams/fantasies, anxiety dreams, recurring dreams, nightmares, prophetic dreams, compensation dreams and archetypal dreams.
Paul covered detail on each type while the compensation and archetypal dream types evoked most discussion and exploration.
This review doesn’t allow the space to cover all the detail however to note for interest, compensation dreams play an important role in our natural tendency for homeostasis/balance. Archetypal Dreams are dreams that feature figures, objects, experiences not experienced in everyday life e.g., gods, demons etc. The contents of the Collective Unconscious are made up of archetypes, humans inherit the outline of these archetypes however each individual fills these in according to the way we experience our lives. Huge discussion ensued around archetypal dreams and the Collective Unconscious, which was very thought provoking and genuinely could have taken up the full day and more. However we were also eager to get on with more practical demonstrations of dream interpretation. Thus the remainder of the day involved Paul working on dreams within the group, again allowing us to learn through participation.

Those who had their dreams interpreted/ and the observers, all felt that this was a very gentle and safe way of working with clients.
The therapist only goes where the client leads them before finally integrating the dream into the client’s psychotherapeutic process.
Watching the process was fascinating and most insightful. I must say personally I felt honoured to share in the experience with the group.
On a final note the overall feeling was that the workshop had been very well presented and had real value for us in our day to day work as counsellors and therapists.
Paul has an extremely gentle and most respectful way of working, which was so reassuring and I believe added greatly to the enriching experience felt by those attending his workshop.


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Read what Psychotherapists and Counsellors from all over Ireland are saying
about this unique course -


Please note a set of written testimonials and endorsements signed
by therapists who have participated on these courses is available on request.


Samples of Testimonials;

'I really felt you took the fear out of working with dreams for me. I can
now see that not working with a dream that a client would bring would be
like ignoring an important gift that neither the client nor I may have seen
before...thank you very much for a great two days training'
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'I will be recommending your workshop to others as I feel this is a really
important part of our work that you have taken the fear out of for us'
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'The mystery about dreams and interpretation that I learned from other
training was taken away and I feel more confident to work with clients
dreams now'
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'I learned so much and felt more confident at the end of the weekend about
further work on my own dreams and those of the people I work with in
therapy'
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Your presence Paul is inspiring in that you completely hand it over to the
client. Your attention to detail was fantastic. Real natural ability to put
the group at ease. The ease in which it was delivered. I felt very safe and
supported. Thank you for sharing your care and knowledge in such a gentle
relaxed way. I really enjoyed and feel privileged to have spent time with
you'
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'Paul, I have been to dozens of workshops over the years and have never met
a facilitator so earnest as you were around our welfare. Such a break from
the usual type of workshop'
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'I have a complete new insight into working on dreams'
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'I really enjoyed my two days and I loved every minute of the course.. Thanks
so much. More courses on dreams please'
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'It was so nice to have a facilitator who tried to make the ambience so
comfortable. You are so intuitive and such a gentle quality in the way you
work. Great learning in this weekend'
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'Great balance of theory and practical and plenty of room for discussion..
...How relaxed it was, the facilities, the presentation - Excellent. I am so
delighted to have done this workshop'
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'You are really skilled - Excellent, very informative, well done'
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'Just to say a huge thanks Paul for an exceptional experience and for the
gift of your presence and peace during the weekend'
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'I really enjoyed it. Beyond my expectations. Not only do I feel more
confident about working with dreams with clients but I gained great personal
insights'
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'Thanks a lot for a great couple of days, I learnt a lot and enjoyed myself'
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'Comfortable setting, small group, skill and ease of facilitator, great
attention to detail..really enjoyed the weekend, thank you'
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'The safe nice atmosphere in the group, the warmth and presence of Paul to
each person..Thanks very much. Very insightful and very useful'
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'Relaxed and respectful atmosphere of the presenter..very relaxed ambience,
very generous host'
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'Very useful, very good learning experience, brought a lot of insight'
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'Enjoyed the venue, the material, the attention to detail, the pace of
working, the hospitality and caring nature of Paul during the weekend’
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