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We have been taking extensive feedback through many channels regarding the Saturday Groups for members and are relaunching this service with comprehensive changes in response to member needs and desires. We can assure that all feedback is regarded by BeeLeaf to be significant and helpful and our staff have had several meetings over the last few months figuring out what has made attendance low and how the groups have not been meeting their objectives.

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.

You’ll notice that we’ve changed the front page of the website! To make it more relevant, we’re showing current CCP news items here, and the information that was previously on the front page is now available on the new About CCP page.

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!

As you know BeeLeaf has been sponsoring the running of a monthly Practice Group for its members. Numbers and feedback have told us that an NLP-type Practice Group does not best serve members’ needs as there are a range of great groups of this kind up and down the country that are closer to people’s home and set up especially to meet these desires. Instead, we want to go back to the idea that BeeLeaf practice groups should specifically serve the needs of members and trainees building their path towards professional practice and registration.

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.

A warm welcome to Carol West, who is our new part-time member of staff at BeeLeaf. Carol is going to provide the much needed admin support in our busy growing organisation and is already a firm favourite with Dibley!

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.

If you’ve attended any of the Research Interest Group (RIG) meetings that Tom Werner has facilitated over the past year, you’ll probably have had an email from Tom or Pam about a RIG Evaluation 2008-2009 survey that Tom is conducting.

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.