training
Overview
The Counselling Centre offers a variety of training opportunities which benefit from taking place within an active Counselling Service.
These include an 8 week Introduction to Counselling Skills Course and a one year Certificate Counselling Course. These provide the opportunity for professional development, increased self awareness and a foundation for Diploma trainings.
In addition we also provide regular opportunities for qualified and student counsellors, both from within and external to our service, to attend short courses, clinical workshops, training days and educational week-ends on specific subjects such as short term counselling and marital/couples counselling. These provide opportunities for the ongoing learning and further development of theoretical understandings and practical skills as well as an environment to meet and share experiences with other counsellors and therapists.
In addition to the above, we offer placements for suitable applicants who are undergoing compatible training and have reached the appropriate level.
To register an interest in a particular course, workshop or placement, please email your request or telephone 0118 978 7879 or write to us at The Cornerstone, Norreys Avenue, Wokingham, RG40 1UE.
CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) Skills Course
Learn more about CBT and add to your strategies for client work.
An 8 day course facilitated by Berkshire Counselling Centre and taught by experienced tutors from the Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre.
To be held on Saturdays, 09.30 - 16.30
between January and April 2010.
Venue. The Cornerstone, Norreys Avenue, Wokingham, Berkshire, RG40 1UE.
Cost. £875.00. Reduction of £50.00 if booked by 1st November 2009.
Reduction on request for Groups of 4 or more and for BCC Counsellors.
Dates. Saturdays as below:
16th and 23rd January 2010 Assessment and Formulation
20th and 27th February 2010 Basic Therapeutic Skills
6th and 13th March 2010 Working with Depression
10th and 17th April 2010 Working with Panic, Social Anxiety, Health anxiety
and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (O.C.D.)
For further information and downloads click here. To gain more details and an Application form, please email your request or telephone 0118 978 7879 or write to us at The Cornerstone, Norreys Avenue, Wokingham, Berkshire, RG40 1UE.
Introduction to Counselling Skills
The Introduction to Counselling Course is run annually on Thursday evenings between 7.30 and 9.45pm, between January and March.
It will be held at the Cornerstone Community building in Norreys Avenue in Wokingham and the cost will be £95.00. This course will provide an introduction to listening and counselling skills, a brief look at psychological development and the opportunity to develop self-awareness. All are welcome and no experience is necessary.
For further information click here. Please request more details or an application form by clicking email or telephone 0118 978 7879 or write to us at The Cornerstone, Norreys Avenue, Wokingham, RG40 1UE.
Certificate in Counselling Skills
The Certificate Course also opens the door to further Diploma level trainings in Counselling. The 2009/10 Course begins in late September 2009 and will finish in July 2010. It is planned that the Course will run again in September 2010.
This course runs over three ten week terms and three Saturdays. It is held on Tuesday evenings between 7.00 and 10.15 pm at the Cornerstone building in Norreys Avenue in Wokingham.
For further information click here. For more details or to register your interest in the September 2010 course please email your request or telephone 0118 978 7879 or write to us at The Cornerstone, Norreys Avenue, Wokingham, RG40 1UE.
Professional Development
If you would like to learn more about the Professional Development programme email your request or telephone 0118 978 7879 or write to us at The Cornerstone, Norreys Avenue, Wokingham, RG40 1UE.
We will reply to all those expressing an interest.
Past Event - 2009 Couple Counselling Course
Learn more about Couple Counselling and add to your strategies for client work.
Venue. De Vitre Room, The Cornerstone, Norreys Avenue, Wokingham, Berkshire, RG40 1UE. Cost. £425.00 for External Applicants. £250.00 for Berkshire Counselling Centre voluntary counsellors able to see couples at the BCC. Dates. Saturdays as below:
26th September 2009 Syllabus. The Course is intended for qualified counsellors with experience of individual work. It will be taught experientially and include:- partner choice and styles of attachment, the impact of family systems, the stages of a relationship, sex and sexuality, anger and emotional expression and the aging process. It will also explore the implications of working in a triad rather than a dyad, including theoretical understanding and skills practice. Refreshments. Tea and coffee will be provided but please bring a packed lunch or make your own arrangements.
For further information and downloads click here. For further details and a Booking Form please email or telephone 0118 978 7879 or write to us at We hope to be running this course again between September and December 2010 and as there are limited numbers if you are interested contact us by email or the above telephone or address and we will send you details when they are finalised. Being held at the Cornerstone building, Norreys Avenue in Wokingham on Saturday 7th November 2009, 10.00am - 4.00pm. For the person who either loves, cares for, or treats the ‘addict’, the experience can be frustrating, hurtful and terrifying as the ‘addict’ seems to descend into a spiral of destruction. Nothing I say, do, offer, change or threaten will divert them from this path. And more often than not, we can be left with the choice of continuing to support or leave the person to their untimely and awful death. For the person with the addiction, what is at stake is their emotional, psychological and sometimes physical survival. He or she eventually descends into a dark spiral of need, mania and loneliness, continually striving to feel safe, part of the world and to belong. The irony is that in striving to feel safe he or she becomes more and more unsafe and in danger of death but even then cannot let go of an insatiable need that drives them onward to manipulate, beg, borrow and steal in ever greater quantities. In these two paragraphs then, the dilemma is set: on the one hand the carer, partner or family member cannot seem to let the ‘addict’ go to their self chosen destruction and on the other hand the ‘addict’ cannot seem to let go of this insatiable appetite and driven mania that has besieged them. In this workshop you will have the opportunity to explore this stuck and locked in experience through: ♦ Addiction and Cutting Edge Neuroscience Led by Prosentis (Addiction Consultancy Training & Management ) Presenters Venue. The Cornerstone, Norreys Avenue, Wokingham, Berkshire, RG40 1UE. Cost. £60.00 (£45.00 for BCC counsellors). Dates. Saturday 7th November 2009, 10.00am - 4.00pm. Drinks and biscuits will be provided and a buffet lunch can be booked for an additional £5.00. The Workshop is expected to be popular so please book early to avoid disappointment. For further information and downloads click here. For further details and a Booking Form please email or telephone 0118 978 7879 or write to us at Being held at the Cornerstone building, Norreys Avenue in Wokingham on Saturday 6th December 2008, 10.00am - 4.00pm. For further information and downloads click here. For further details and a Booking Form please email or telephone 0118 978 7879 or write to us at Being held at the Cornerstone building in Norreys Avenue in Wokingham on Saturday 19th April 2008, 10.00am - 4.00pm For further information and downloads click here. If you would like to register please email your request or telephone 0118 978 7879 or write to us at Being held at the Cornerstone building in Norreys Avenue in Wokingham on Saturday 1st December 2007, 10.00am - 4.00pm For further information and downloads click here. If you would like to register please email your request or telephone 0118 978 7879 or write to us at
A 6 day course in Couple Counselling for qualified counsellors with a minimum of one year post qualifying counselling experience.
To be held on Saturdays, 10.00am - 4.00pm between September and November 2009.
3rd, 24th and 31st October 2009
14th and 28th November 2009
The Cornerstone, Norreys Avenue, Wokingham, Berkshire, RG40 1UE.Past Event - 1 Day Workshop led by Prosentis "Narcissism, Addiction and the Failure to Mourn"
♦ The framework of Ovid’s Greek Myth of Narcissus and Echo
♦ Addiction as a Form of Melancholia and Co-dependent Relationships
♦ Addiction as the Failure to Mourn
Phil Joslin: MA in Counselling, BA (Hons) in Theology.
Lee Hughes: BSc (Hons) Biological Sciences (Pharmacology and Psychology)
Keith Joslin: Substance Misuse Counsellor
ProSentis Training Operations & Co-ordination Manager
The Cornerstone, Norreys Avenue, Wokingham, Berkshire, RG40 1UE.Past Event - 1 day workshop led by Professor Andrew Samuels "The Father's Body: Clinical, Cultural and Personal Revisions"
(previously: "Masculinity and the Role of the Father").
The Cornerstone, Norreys Avenue, Wokingham, Berkshire, RG40 1UE.Past Event - 1 day workshop led by Dorothy Rowe "My Dearest Enemy, My Dangerous Friend: the nature of sibling relationships"
The Cornerstone, Norreys Avenue, Wokingham, Berkshire, RG40 1UE.Past Event - 1 day workshop with Dr Moira Walker "Understanding and Working with Dissociation"
The Cornerstone, Norreys Avenue, Wokingham, Berkshire, RG40 1UE.
