We鈥檙e delighted to welcome back our free in-person Making Connections events.

These regular face to face conferences take place throughout the year and give you the chance to network with other members and our divisional executive members.

Programme

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10.00am 鈥 10.30am Registration
10.30am - 10.50am Welcome from 香港六合彩精准资料
10.50am 鈥 11.35am No more stigma, no more shame: let's talk about eating disorders, presented by Emma Salazar
11.35am - 11.45am Comfort break
11.45am 鈥 12.30pm Gestalt Chair-Work, presented by Stefan Charidge
12.30pm 鈥 1.30pm Light lunch
1.30pm 鈥 1.50 pm Local member two-minute platforms
1.50pm 鈥 2.40pm Connecting together
The room will be divided into different areas of interest, for more focused and structured networking. You鈥檒l be encouraged to move around the room and engage with colleagues, volunteers and 香港六合彩精准资料 staff to network, share ideas and meet new people with similar interests. You鈥檒l be able to add a new area of interest if yours isn鈥檛 represented.
2.40pm 鈥 3.10pm Refreshments
3.10pm 鈥 3.55pm Putting up our hope umbrellas in the ACE downpour, presented by Nancy Burn
3.55pm - 4.00pm Event close

This programme is subject to change.

Presentation information

No more stigma, no more shame: let's talk about eating disorders

10.50am 鈥 11.35am

This session aims to provide an overview of the various presentations of eating disorders (EDs) and the crossover with neurodiversity and complex emotional and relational needs. Common driving mechanisms behind, and maintaining factors of EDs will be explored using the two main modalities of MANTRA and CBT-E. Practical tools and strategies for 鈥榠n the room鈥 with clients with EDs will be presented alongside a handful of brief case studies to bring the contents to life. The session will also focus on mythbusting assumptions and stigmas surrounding eating disorders, as well as endeavouring to alleviete the common anxieties and nervousness expressed by practitioners when encountering clients with EDs. The session contents draw from Emma鈥檚 years of experience as a specialist eating disorder psychotherapist and clinical lead of an adult community eating disorders service, as well as lived experience of having personally recovered from an eating disorder.

Gestalt Chair-Work

11.45am - 12.30pm

The purpose of this session is to provide insights and tools regarding Chair Work, which can facilitate significant insights and personal growth. The session will offer experiential examples regarding fear, beliefs and internal judgements that can become most debilitating and also evoke anxieties, panic and shame.

Putting up our hope umbrellas in the ACE downpour

3.10pm 鈥 3.55pm

The importance of adverse life experiences and the impacts that these can have is something that is regularly discussed in public life as well as within our practice with people of all ages.听 One of the key therapeutic tasks that we perform for our clients is holding the hope but what hope is there is the face of the overwhelming evidence of the impact of traumatic situations and events in our childhood?


Fortunately not every person with a high Adverse childhood experiences (ACE) score is impacted to the same degree, and there is strong evidence that positive childhood experiences act as a neutralising agent. Sharing this research allows us to reflect on those protective factors, both within our own experiences and with clients and also allows us to be part of the positive effect, putting in to practice what research shows helps clients mitigate some of the impacts of their adversity.