Upcoming training events and workshops
(* CPD Certificates will be available for all our eligible training events and workshops)
"When you have met one autistic person, you have met one autistic person": Current developments in working with autism" (online workshop)
by Jennifer Randall (CBT Therapist)
We are excited to be able to offer a workshop facilitated by an experienced CBT Therapist who works in adult mental health services in the NHS. Jen also ahs a growing private practice. She will be providing a comprehensive update about the current thinking about autism. She will talk about why the long-standing "Theory of Mind" has been proven to be to narrow, and unhelpful. Further she will explain why Asperger's is no longer "a thing". She will be sharing her specialist knowledge and talk about her experiences working with adults who have an experience of autism.
This workshop would be of interest to all those in the helping profession who work with children and adults with autism. Those working in social care or school settings (such as social workers and teachers) will learn more about engaging and working with parents of children with a autism, or present as autistic themselves.
This workshop can be taken as part 1 followed by the workshop by Prof Rudi Dallos on working systemically with families and autism and the SAFE model in schools.
Date: October 2024
Times: 10:30-15:30
Cost*: £99.50
(Delegates will receive a certificate for 5 hours of Continuing Professional Development -CPD or Continuing Educational hours.)
For further information and booking, please send an email to:
info@kaconversations.com
We are looking forward to meeting you and work with you at this event.
* (20% discount available for students and for colleagues from the African continent)
Working with more than one person: A systemic introduction (online workshop)
If you are a counsellor or therapist that works with individuals but would like to have some ideas of including significant others in their work, then this brief online presentation could be for you. Dr Ramón Karamat Ali (Couple and Family Therapist) will be sharing his experiences and knowledge about systemic ways of working therapeutically.
Date: Autumn 2024
Times: 9:30-12:30
Cost*: £35.00
(Delegates will receive a certificate for 2.5 hours of Continuing Professional Development /Continuing Educational Units.)
For further information and booking, please send an email to: info@kaconversations.com
Looking forward to welcoming you.
* (20% discount available for students and for colleagues from the African continent)
The KA Conversations Systemic Summer Conference:
"Celebrating systemic conversations in our personal and professional lives"
(in-person)
We are excited to inform you of this new Systemic Conference to kick start the Summer which will showcase the creative work of systemic professionals. It will be an opportunity to learn, to connect with colleagues and friends, and to make new connections with others.
Then after lunch (a chance to catch up and meet with colleagues and friends), there will be several workshops led by practitioners sharing their expertise and passion for systemic work.
With experience of organising other systemic conferences in the past, we know this will be a wonderful event, made special by all those attending (presenters and participants alike).
Date: Friday 14 June 2024
Times: 9:30-17:00
Cost*: £97.50 (lunch included)
(All delegates will receive a certificate for 7 hours of CPD/CEU.)
(*early bird rates:
(10% discount before 1 May 2024)
Location: Quaker Meeting House, Liverpool, UK
For further information and booking, please send an email to:
info@kaconversations.com
We are looking forward to meeting you at this exciting Conference!
Other events we are at:
Annual AFT Conference (online)
Date: 14-15 Sept 2023
Dr Ramón Karamat Ali chairs a session (Fri 15 Sept.) which will showcase two research projects by Masters students:
From the Masters programme at the Tavistock Centre (M6) in London, UK: Alimun Nessa on her research project "An Exploration of the Experiences of female South Asian Systemic Psychotherapists working in the NHS".
From the Masters Programme in the North West, UK (Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust): Lynn Gardiner on her completed research project by delivering a presentation "Building Bridges: Social Workers and CAMHS Practitioners".
Further info see: www.aftconference.co.uk/programme.
"The Couple Relationship in Child and Adolescent Mental Health: Co-parents or intimate partners?" (Stellenbosch Psychology Department Colloquium)
Date: 31 October 2016
Time: 13:00 (SA time)
Venue: Room 3002, Psychology Department, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Dr Ramón Karamat Ali will be contributing to the programme of CPD events of the Psychology Department by presenting on the topic of how to consider the adults of children who are referred for mental health concerns. He will share his perspective and through case material illustrate how best to approach this potenital thorny issue. His experience as a couple and as a family therapist will be combined to offer a perspective which can help therapists and counsellors consider the parents in the lives of the children and adolescents about whom there are concerns, in order to maximse the beneficial impact of their psychological therapeutic support provided.
Further information:
Please contact the administror of the Psychology Department, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
Derbyshire AFT branch presents a one-day workshop:
Adolescent Self-Harm in the Family: a systemic-attachment perspective" (online)
Date: 23 May 2024
Times: 10:00 -13:00 (UK time)
Dr Ramón Karamat Ali will be offering an interactive workshop to its members on the topic of adolescent self-harm. It is hosted by the Derbyshire branch of the Association of Family Therapy and Systemic Practice (AFT).
For further information and to book, please contact DAFT via email: derbyshireaft@gmail.com.