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Title: ‘Therapeutic focus in PIT: Trauma, Being and Relatedness’

Friday 4th April 2025 1.30-4.30pm

Gaskell House Psychotherapy Centre, Swinton Grove, Manchester

This half-day conference takes place in Manchester at the home of the Conversational Model.

The theme for the event is therapeutic focus. Drawing on the work of Russell Meares and colleagues, we will examine how the Conversational Model works with trauma in the life histories of people with borderline conditions. We will then explore what might be the essence of the model in its aims, with reference to other contemporary approaches to psychotherapy. And as ever there will be ample time for a conversation in the room to share our responses and reflections.

The conference sessions will offer:

  • An overview of how the sense of self is disrupted by trauma in borderline conditions
  • An explanation of how the Conversational Model aims to integrate trauma into ordinary consciousness
  • A consideration of PIT in relation to emerging transtheoretical evidence for the core actions across all psychotherapies
  • Opportunity to discuss these concepts and how to use them to inform our clinical work

Programme

1.30Traumatic impacts on the selfSimon Heyland
2.30Reconstruction, reparation, responsiveness – is there a therapeutic essence to PIT?  Dan Beales
3.30Plenary discussion 
4.30Close 

**This event has limited capacity so we anticipate it selling out. Please book early to avoid disappointment**

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Members’ rate £20 (Associate Associate + and Full Members

Non-Members’ rate £30

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2025 CPD Events