OLT Workshop: Therapeutic Writing*

OLT Workshop:   Therapeutic Writing*

Have you ever suggested, or thought about suggesting, a writing task to a client?

Would you like to learn more?

This online workshop is led by Gill Jones, MA, MBACP Sen. Accred, Director, OLT.

The workshop will be held on 3 consecutive Monday evenings from your own computers, using your Word program and Skype:

June 15, 22 and 29th  2015                 1800 – 2000 (UK time)

The aim of this workshop is to help participants explore and/or extend their experience of therapeutic writing.

A piece of creative writing which is suggested for its therapeutic value can be a powerful tool. It can become a written record of a formative experience which can be re-read again and again. It can touch emotions that perhaps can’t be expressed in any other way and can help organise intrusive and disjointed thoughts.

This experiential workshop gives you a chance to experience the power of therapeutic writing for yourself.   Writing tasks are done during the three evenings of the workshop, along with sharing and witnessing of other members’ writing and discussion/exploration of how various writing tasks might be introduced to the work with clients.

At the end of the workshop, you will have completed pieces of personal writing on three themes (Who Am I? Where have I come from? Where do I want to go?). You will have had all (or parts) of them witnessed by other members of the group and witnessed their personal writing in turn. The group will have discussed different writing tasks and how they may be used therapeutically with clients.

Further details and online application form can be found by following this link:

http://www.onlinetrainingforcounsellors.co.uk/therapeuticwriting.htm

*Therapeutic Writing in this context means creative writing. It does not include cognitive thought records, food diaries or other record keeping.

Your input needed on website workshops

Every online counsellor needs a website.

preferable a website you can manage yourself

And doesn’t cost an arm and a leg.

At the moment OLT provides a short course on how to achieve just that with WordPress websites. This course covers the basics and the design of a website.

But we are aware that some of you are maybe just looking for a section. You may already know the basics and just want to know about design. Or about copywriting and marketing. That is why we are thinking of breaking up this course into several shorter workshops. You could choose to follow all [at a discount] or just pick one or two.

We need you to tell us if we are on the right path with this and what workshops you would like to see included so please fill out the poll below.

 

 

Why attend an OLT workshop?

As you may have read we are getting ready for our autumn workshops. We try to add more every year and on subjects that are of interest to our students.

Latest in these are our practice building workshop and course. It is not or almost not touched upon in our therapy training and yet if you are in private practice it is so important to be able to get clients. We are here to help you with that.

All our workshops are written and researched by the tutor giving them. They have put a lot of time and effort into this and keep the workshops up to date.

You will work in small groups. Often our students indicate that they value the group learning very much and it adds to the learning experience.

Outside of the meetings your tutors can be reached through email and are always willing to help if you get stuck.

Most workshops are only offered a few times per year. But if you can provide a small group yourself most tutors are very willing to hold the workshop at a time that suits you. This would be perfect for institutions and group practices.

And don’t forget that our workshops come with CPD hours. You don’t have to leave the comfort of your own home to learn new skills and earn CPD hours.

You can see an overview of workshops here.

And if you have any questions please don’t hesitate to get in contact with us.

Workshops for the fall season

Attending an online workshop is a very good way to find out if online work is for you. Next to our longer courses, OLT also offer some workshops and one short course.

 

If you have never had a look at them why not visit our website page. We have just updated the lay out as wel, hopefully making it more inviting. You can see what the workshop is about, who will lead it and what you will learn.

The short course is new for this fall. OLT aim to help you get started with online marketing as well. It is part of being an online counsellor. You need a good website and some idea on how to market yourself online if you are in private practice. The new course will teach you how to set up your own website and how to keep it updated. This course will run for 8 weeks [with a 1 week break after week 5]

 

Another new item at OLT are our downloadable courses.  The first in this series is the “email counselling skills” course. It is not a full online counselling course. But if you are in doubt if online counselling is for you, this course could be a good start. You will do this course on your own, so can do it at any time that is good for you. Some email contact with a tutor is included but not as intensive as with our other courses and workshops.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us! We love to talk to you.

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Creative/Therapeutic Writing Workshop

We need more participants. OLT are running a Creative/Therapeutic Writing Workshop which begins on Monday June 30th and runs for 3 Mondays 6 – 8 pm.

Do you suggest writing tasks to clients?      

Have you tried doing them yourself?

Writing like this in a workshop offers you an opportunity to develop your self-knowledge and awareness as well as increasing your toolbox of writing tasks which you might suggest to clients.

 

There’s no travel involved – the workshop runs via your computer and the internet.

 

Join this online Writing Workshop to experience working and sharing your writing in a confidential online group. Find out more on our workshops page. www.onlinetrainingforcounsellors.co.uk/workshopsandshortcourses.htm

Facebook business page workshop

At OLT we want to look at all aspects of having an online practice.

How many of you recognize the following?

You have finished your training and you feel pretty confident that you will be a good counsellor and you can’t wait to start your own practice. But then you realise that you have received no or almost no information on how to start your practice during your training.

We want to help! That is why we will be offering more and more workshops and short courses covering marketing topics.

On March 8th our Facebook business page workshop will make it’s debute.

• There will be 3 two hour meetings between the group and the tutor.
• A handbook with information
• Tutorial videos
• A private Facebook group to ask questions

If you are interested you can find more info on this page of the website.

Our aim is to offer this workshop several times per year. If people are interested also on week evenings.

In the fall we will start our short course on how to build and maintain your own WordPress website. And we aim to add more workshops soon.

You can help decide which workshop will come out next. Please fill in our poll below.

If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact us. We love to hear from you.

Introduction to Marketing

On the weekend of June 9/10 2012 we will be running our new workshop “introduction to marketing” for the first time.

• Can you really afford not to have a website in these days that social media are getting more and more important?
• Do you have a website but are not happy with it?
• Or do you have a website that you have no control over yourself?

In all these cases this new workshop is for you!

We will cover:

What the structure of your website should look like

How many pages it should have to be efficient

What you should and shouldn’t put on a home page

What works on other pages

A short introduction to using keywords

A short introduction to WordPress

See what those who did the pilot for the workshop had to say about it:

Before this workshop I was daunted at the prospect of marketing my practice online. Thanks to the workshop I now feel I have a detailed action plan to follow that makes promoting my business much easier than I thought it could be. I would recommend this course to anyone looking to market their business effectively and raise their online profile.

Haven’t stopped thinking about how I can improve my website since!

I learned about the importance of a blog, changing website content regularly and what to put on my website. Can’t wait to put it into practice.

I now know the importance of producing a website which is attractive to prospective clients and which is sufficiently active to interest Google. I liked he powerpoint presentation and your willingness to work through the pages at a pace which suited the group. I also liked the honest way you answered our questions.

So don’t miss this chance to learn more about websites.  Apply here!