Mapping our voices : how cognitive analytic methods help the process of change
Wed, 18 Sept
|Webinar
Come and spend a half day making diagrams and writing short letters and personal notes to the different voices in reciprocal role procedures at the heart of our work using live examples and engaging with the process of change. Go away with new skills in writing therapeutically for our voices.
Time of Event
18 Sept 2024, 13:00 – 16:30
Webinar
About the Event
A CAT diagram is a meeting place of an array of voices both past and present, self and other which are inwardly and outwardly directed. This workshop focuses on the skills of writing short letters or personal notes to back and forth between this array of voices in order to deepen feelings and understanding of emotional roles and their contribution to different sides of the self. The letters or personal notes when read out and reviewed can help in the pre reformulation stage or the middle and final stages of therapy. They can help give voice to feelings that have been bypassed or that offer a key to changing target problem procedures.
CAT tools and methods can help us connect with and trust our voices more fully. Whether as therapists or clients we speak with the voices given to us and developed within us in childhood, in school and society.
We carry the voices of others as if our own. (see our post on Therapy with the Voice).
Our personal, professional and organisational voices meet with a complex and powerful mix of overvalued, undervalued and devalued voices in our helping and working relationships.
We can learn to pay attention to micro shifts in the registering and inflexion of our voices and vocalisations in search of moments of narrative freedom?
It is through our voices that we take ownership of unmet needs, untried feeling skills and ways of relating to our selves and others in the world to mitigate hard to manage feelings.
This half day introductory workshop is repeated for the fifth time due to popular interest.
The workshop is led by Steve Potter and Lucy Cutler. We have been working on a book about CAT as an voice focused therapy for the past few years and have a series of exercises to introduce in working therapeutically with the voice as a way of enhancing pragmatic and relational approaches to therapy using the conceptual tools of reciprocal role procedures, diagrams, process mapping and in session and between session therapeutic writing. This workshop goes well with the Mapping transference workshop.