If for any reason you haven’t yet received your copies by post, or if you’ve forgotten the password to the Community page, please contact the BeeLeaf office for further details.

If for any reason you haven’t received this update, please contact the BeeLeaf office to ensure that the office has your correct current email address.

• The first is that we’ve now set up a CCP research email group, like the existing CCP members’ group, but specifically to support discussion and sharing about psychotherapy research.
• And the other is that we’re trying out digital recordings of the RSG meetings, so if you missed the last meeting on 7 November you can now download and listen to a recording. BBC iPlayer watch out!

For more details on both these developments, please go to our Community page. And please note that all CCP members will shortly receive an email from the BeeLeaf office about a new password to access the Community page.

From September 2009, the Practice Groups for CCP members will be replaced by CLINICAL PRACTICE GROUPS.

Feedback has shown us that the widest held desire from this slot is a Clinical Practice Group, with specific reference to the Case Studies requirement for Registration. These peer-lead groups will provide a supplement to, not a replacement of, peoples’ existing Clinical Supervision and are intended to fulfil peoples’ thirst for ongoing modality specific discussion and support, relevant to their case studies and research ideas.

Note: Attendance can be counted as Continuing Professional Development. It is your responsibility to obtain a signature from the Group Leader on your CPD Log.

Future Dates

17th October 2009
Subject: Peer Vision of Participants’ Case Studies

21st November 2009
Subject: Peer Vision of Participants’ Case Studies

12th December 2009
Subject: Peer Vision of Participants’ Case Studies

All meetings take place from 10.00am to 1.00pm on the 6th Floor, Physics Building, Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), 327 Mile End Road, London E1 4NS (view street map or campus map, courtesy of QMUL), about 8 minutes’ walk west from Mile End tube station.

A subsidised fee of £7 per session will be charged to participants. Each session will have a nominated group facilitator.

These groups are for CCP members only. Booking is not necessary, but places are limited, and are prioritized for those on the Clinical Practice unit of the Diploma or on the Advanced Diploma.

From September 2009, the Research Interest Groups for CCP members will be re-branded as RESEARCH STUDY GROUPS

The change of name for this service is to emphasise that the purpose of the groups is to support trainee and accredited psychotherapists to meet their Masters level study and project requirements in research for Registration as a Psychotherapist with BeeLeaf and UKCP.

To this end, we will be bringing in two experienced researchers as new Group Leaders with a variety of experience in NHS and other sites of psychotherapy research, offering support of a range of research methods and studies relevant to psychotherapy, and with a passion to support Psychotherapists to learn about and achieve credible research in their field, with a view to publication in relevant journals.

The core themes of the RSGs will be the projects and proposals of trainees and members. Suggested research papers for group study will usually be nominated by trainees as relevant to their projects. Group Leaders will also be available to advise and reassure regarding the steps to complete a proposal and project and to facilitate peer support and discussion in these endeavours.

Note: Attendance can be counted as Continuing Professional Development. It is your responsibility to obtain a signature from the Group Leader on your CPD Log.

Future Dates

October 10th 2009 – Group Leaders: Selena Chandler and Elizabeth Butters
Subject: TBC based on previous meeting

November 7th 2009 – Group Leader: TBC
Subject: TBC Two Presentations of Completing Research Projects by BeeLeaf Members

January 9th 2010 – Group Leader: TBC
Subject: TBC

All meetings take place from 10.00am to 1.00pm on the 6th Floor, Physics Building, Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), 327 Mile End Road, London E1 4NS (view street map or campus map, courtesy of QMUL), about 8 minutes’ walk west from Mile End tube station.

A subsidised charge of £15 per session will be applicable to attendees who are not enrolled on the Research Dissertation Unit.

These groups are for CCP members only. Booking is not necessary, however in order to fully participate in the group, participants will be expected to read before arrival the paper under discussion, which will be circulated to all CCP members and posted on the Research e-forum.

From September 2009 the groups will be taking on two dynamic new formulae that are intensely focussed on prioritising the needs of the students and members and upholding the identity and purpose of BeeLeaf and CCP as a community serving best standards in psychotherapy training, provision and development. We have received some excellent suggestions from trainees and members about changes, big and small, and these will be incorporated into the new structure of the groups. Please do your part to make these new services work for all.

Naturally any confidential items and downloads for CCP members will still be kept on the password-protected Community page.

We’re hoping in due course to allow any CCP members to post news items here, and we’d like to include lots more photos as well as text. So if you’ve any images you’d like to see here, or any other suggestions, please email Mike Shallcross or the BeeLeaf office!

So from September the Practice Groups will have a new format that has more relevance and is more akin to the identity of the community by focussing the time on Case Studies. The emphasis will be on cases brought by participants to support the Case Study element of the Diploma assignments and to supplement Clinical Supervision with modality specific peer and group Supervision, with hours that can be added to your Continuing Professional Development Log.

Please watch this space for further details, and in the meantime I’m sure we would all like to join in thanking Tracy Jarvis for having organised the program of Practice Groups over the last months.

Please address all future written correspondence to:
BeeLeaf
FAO Carol West
34 Grove Rd
London
E3 5AX

Please do not send correspondence, such as essays, monitoring forms et cetera to Pam Gawler-Wright as this greatly delays their processing, sending them down the wrong route to a person who may not be available to attend to correspondence for up to a week.

And please do not include additional notes and information for Pam in these submissions; instead please use the dedicated e-mail address care@beeleaf.com as directed in your Handbooks and Manuals.

It is most important that anyone who has attended a RIG over the year fills this in so that we can continue to improve the RIGS along with all aspects of the training so that people’s needs are best met.

Even if you have already given informal feedback verbally or in writing to Pam or the office, please take the short time to fill in the questionnaire (click on the link above) so that your feedback can be processed in an efficient manner.