A Journey to Presence: Building Compassion Satisfaction preventing Compassion Fatigue.
A five day, (five nights, Sunday evening to lunchtime on Friday) residential programme for therapists to build the skills for rest, resilience and recovery both in their professional practice and in their lives outside their practice. 30 contact hours, approved as 15 CPD points. Incorporating a balance of Theory, Practice and time for Integration.
Location/Venue, Date(s): Ballyvaloo Retreat Centre
September 24-29th 2023
To book, please visit: https://www.ballyvaloo.ie/event/a-journey-to-presence/
Cost: €700 (Full Board included, 5 nights, all meals and refreshments. All individual en-suite bedrooms)
Education Objectives of the Training:
To provide participants with knowledge about:
1. Our action tendencies around Compassion Satisfaction and Compassion Fatigue based on current research.
2. Practical skills for increasing Compassion Satisfaction and reducing Compassion Fatigue.
3. An understanding of the Concept of Therapeutic Presence, Kinaesthetic empathy, Somatic Countertransference and Somatic resources.
4. Space and time for rest and integration of acquired material.
Facilitators:
Dr Marko Punkanen PhD
Is a music therapist, dance movement therapist, trauma psychotherapist, certified Sensorimotor psychotherapist. He is a supervisor in private practice, is a trainer with the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute and is a trauma psychotherapy trainer in the university of Oulu. He is actively involved with the trauma psychotherapy, music therapy and dance movement therapy training in Finland and trains psychotherapy trainers.
He has over 20 year’s experience in the treatment of severe traumatization. His specialist area is the treatment of complex and attachment trauma the bodily symptoms of trauma (somatoform dissociation) and the use of the body in trauma treatment. He is founder and director of the Nyanssi Therapy Centre which offers music therapy, dance movement therapy, psychotherapy, vibroacoustic therapy (VAT) and supervision services in Lahti Finland. He is the co-founder of the first extensive vibroacoustic therapy VAT training in Finland and he has studied the use of VAT in drug rehabilitation. He is one of the founders of the VIBRAC Skille- Lehikoinen Centre for Vibroacoustic Therapy and Research. From 2007-2011 Marco worked as a researcher in the Finnish Center of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Music Research in the University of Jyvaskyla. He was part of the research team which investigated the perception and preferences of emotions and music by depressed patients and the efficacy of improvisational individual music therapy for depression.
Michael Dillon MIACP
B.A, B.D, Grad Dip Marketing and Management RT, Certified Sensorimotor Psychotherapist. Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy Level 9.
Michael is currently director of Ballyvaloo retreat and conference centre where he oversees the development and delivery of programme activities. He is former CEO of the Ford Counselling and Psychotherapy Centre, Wexford where he had clinical responsibility for therapists and has also worked with the HSE CIPC and SHIP counselling services in the South East. He worked for many years with the MEND programme assessing applicants for the Domestic Abuse Intervention Programme and facilitating group programmes. He is an accredited psychotherapist for over 15 years and is a certified Sensorimotor Psychotherapist. He was a founding member Irish Sensorimotor alumni Chapter and a Steering Group member until January 2023. He has a small private psychotherapy practice, specialising in trauma work. He has facilitated wellness days for nurses and teaching staff and inputted on Dance therapy training in Finland.
Full schedule is available HERE
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