The solution oriented approach focuses on solutions right from the beginning. While the problem is always acknowledged, we encourage the discovery of what will be most useful for the student or their clients to move respectfully towards a beneficial outcome. This is achieved through a rigorous attention to language skills that encourage gentle but profoundly useful changes in our ability to observe, communicate and move the therapeutic conversation towards solutions.

Learning is emphasised rather than pathological classification and treatment. Clients are assumed  to be capable and resourceful, adding to clinical effectiveness with personal and professional satisfaction.

This workshop will be of interest to all practitioners who value client centred approaches to working with human beings. Completion of the 3 day intensive workshop can lead on to the diploma of solution oriented counselling. This will also provide an opportunity to join the learning community we are creating. 

The centre of effective therapy
CET was created in 1988 to offer an opportunity for any interested individual to continue their learning in the essential context and components of effectiveness of hypnosis, counselling and coaching for individuals, couples and families.

Our programmes are built on the widely divergent contributions of such giants as Milton Erickson, Humberto Maturana, Fernando Flores, Rafael Echeverria, Julio Olalla, Werner Erhard and Lao Tzu and encourage creative expansiveness in participating individuals. We explore an approach to therapy grounded in the solution orientation and emphasizing individual styles and the therapeutic relationship over mere technique.

Traditional learning, which is about information, theories and classification, is more widely being seen to be insufficient to prepare us for work with patients. Seasoned health workers are seeking out learning experience that support the exploration of their own style and effectiveness, rather than yet another ‘technique’.

Our programmes encourage respectful interactions so that shared learning experiences of individual differences happen in a safe and supportive environment. Participants frequently notice that this leads to a pivotal influence not only on their professional work, but also their personal lives.

We emphasise practicality in learning with each individual patient through respectful listening and collaboration - in a shared experience for what may be missing for them that they have been overlooking, or can learn, so that they can take charge of their own experience again. 

What you will learn:
• The evolution of counselling throughout recent history.   
• A method of creating genuine rapport.
• Questions to connect clients with their overlooked resources.
• Conversations to engage clients in their counselling process.
• How to create possibilities even in the most "resistant" or "chronic" situations.
• How to include moods and emotions in solutions


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Hobart
Venue:
CET, The Milton H Erickson Institute of Tasmania
The Coach House
336 Elizabeth Street
North Hobart 7000

Dates: April 15 - 17, 2009

Times: 9.00 am - 3.00 pm

Cost: $495 [incl GST]


Melbourne
Venue:
Blue Angel Gallery
67 Glenferrie Road
Malvern 3144

Dates: April 1 - 3, 2009

Times: 9.00 am - 5.00 pm

Cost: $660 [incl GST]



Contact:
Rob McNeilly, 0433 273 352,  rob@cet.net.au, www.cet.net.au
Gabrielle Peacock, 0418 549 421, gabrielpeacock@cet.net.au, www.cet.net.au


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