Registration closes @ 9am on 24.03.26
The main aim of CBT is to enable the client to become their own therapist, through self-discovery of what is maintaining their difficulties and how to overcome these to move towards their therapy goal. A vital component to help facilitate this is through an in-between session task. This can be challenging for the client to undertake, therefore it is important that we maximise learning, whether the task is completed or not.
Do any of these questions or statements ring true for you?
- I wish I could practice an intervention before doing it in therapy for real.
- It would be helpful to have a dress rehearsal so I could give my best performance.
- The convenience of online webinars is great, but I often leave without feeling more skilled.
- I’m not getting the most out of the in-between session task.
OCTC is pleased to announce The Practice Lab, a new way to develop skills, hone interventions, and gain expert feedback.
We are pleased to be offering an opportunity to gain experiential knowledge and skills-based practice that is often missing from a webinar teaching format. The online workshop we are introducing is different, it is highly experiential, focussing on skills as well as knowledge, and run by an expert in the topic. Places for these experiential workshops will be allocated on a first come first served basis and limited to 14 participants only.
This workshop is aimed at therapists at any level but would like to increase their confidence in this area, or who may have drifted away from best practice. Whilst my experience is working with psychosis, the in-between session task is a core CBT skill, and this workshop is transdiagnostic and is designed to be applicable for many presenting difficulties.
This workshop will equip participants with the knowledge and skills to:
- Review an in-between session task to generate learning.
- Use this learning to either enhance existing formulation or create a virtuous formulation.
- Use this learning to consider next steps.
Certificate of Attendance
A digital certificate that states the hours of live participation in the workshop will be emailed to you after the training event. You must attend the workshop live to receive a certificate.
New: Workshop recording is now available to attendees
By attending this workshop I understand I am giving my consent for the workshop to be video recorded and for this video recording to be available to people attending the workshop live and for it to be sold separately, for the amount of time determined by OCTC and outlined in the purchase agreement. My name, if displayed onscreen, and my image will make up part of this recording. Recordings are the property of OCTC and making copies of these recordings or sharing login details is not permitted. Please do not reveal details which may compromise the anonymity of clients.
The recording will be available to view for a period of three months.
Presenter
Richard Blackwell, Senior Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist
Rich is a senior cognitive behavioural therapist specialising in CBT for psychosis. He has over 15 years’ experience working in various Community Mental Health Teams. This includes Assertive Outreach, Recovery and Early Intervention for Psychosis Teams. He is currently helping to develop the Psychosis & Bipolar Pathway within Swindon Community Mental Health Services to provide and ensure everyone has access to CBT for psychosis and bipolar. With a background in Social Work, Rich found his passion for CBT in 2016 studying at OCTC. He was awarded a distinction from the University of Oxford in the PG Diploma CBT for Psychosis and Bipolar in 2018. He now works part time for OCTC as a tutor for the PG Certificate in Enhanced CBT (Psychosis and Bipolar) and is a BABCP accredited CBT therapist within the Psychological Therapies Service in Swindon.
Additional Information
Cancellation & changes policy
If you cancel more than 14 days prior to your booked event, we will refund your fee minus a charge of 15% to cover our administration costs. We regret that cancellations 14 days or less before the booked event cannot be refunded or changed/transferred.
If you wish to change/transfer your booking after confirmation we will do our best to accommodate you if you notify us 14 days prior to your booked event, and if there is space to do so. However there will be an administration charge of £15 per change/transfer.
Confidentiality
Workshops often contain clinical material. This is always anonymised as far as possible but delegates are none the less reminded to respect confidentiality.
All that is discussed in your therapy sessions will be treated as confidential, with the following exceptions.
We are required to seek supervision by our professional body (The British Psychological Society or equivalent) as a means of ensuring good practice. We will usually inform your referrer of your progress, but the details that we disclose will be discussed with you. We do have a statutory obligation to break confidentiality under rare circumstances, namely, if we believe that a client is of danger to themselves or to others (under the Mental Health Act, 2001) or if we believe that a child is at actual risk of physical or sexual abuse (The Children Act, Section 47, 1989).
If we felt that it would be helpful to request additional medical, social or legal information, we could only do this with your consent. Similarly, should another medical, social or legal professional request information from us, we would not release this without your consent.
Disclaimer
OCTC makes every effort to ensure that this programme is delivered as advertised. However, should a presenter have to cancel, we will endeavour to find another suitable presenter. We will inform attendees as soon as is reasonably practical and, if requested, will offer a refund. In the rare event that we are unable to substitute a presenter, we may cancel a workshop and refund payments already made by attendees. OCTC will not refund travel and accommodation costs that attendees may incur.
All the workshops in this programme are carried out by highly experienced therapists and trainers. The individual presenter is responsible for the content of the workshop and any views expressed do not necessarily represent those of OCTC.
Although highly informative, none of the open workshops or workshop series confer a formal qualification or assurance of competence in CBT (or a specialist area of CBT) since we are unable to assess attendee competency within the training event. However, credit and award-bearing courses that lead to formal qualifications are offered by OCTC in conjunction with the University of Oxford. More about these courses is available on our website www.octc.uk
Levels of competence
Before booking a place on a workshop, please ensure that it is pitched at the appropriate level of competence for you. The guide to levels is as follows:
Basic
Basic workshops are for people from a variety of backgrounds, who have at least one year’s clinical experience. Cognitive behavioural knowledge is not necessary for attendance at these workshops, though in practice, a number of attendees will have some skills in the area, and are refreshing/updating their knowledge.
Intermediate
Intermediate workshops are directed towards people who already have knowledge of CBT, and experience in using cognitive formulations and treatment methods – for instance, they are able to identify and test automatic thoughts, and design behavioural experiments. Most participants will be using CBT as part of their clinical practice, and may still be acquiring new CBT skills.
Advanced
Advanced courses are directed towards those professionals who use CBT routinely as part of their clinical practice. They have probably undertaken a significant number of training courses and/or workshops, and use a broad range of cognitive behavioural strategies to work with a range of presentations at varying levels of complexity.
Making reservations
Bookings can only be considered confirmed after we have received your online registration or application form and payment (or invoicing details, including an official purchase order document).
The registration closing date for each workshop is shown on the workshop description page. Please note that no applications received after this deadline will be permitted.
If you are booking a workshop place for someone else, you must complete your own details in the billing field, but ENTER THE WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS NAME/ADDRESS in the shipping field. If you wish to order items using a paper order form instead of online, you can view or download an order form in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format. Once downloaded, print it out, fill it in, and send off with your payment [cheque made payable to OXFORD HEALTH NHS FOUNDATION TRUST] to the address on the form.
Refreshments
The cost of the workshops includes hot drinks on arrival, mid-morning and mid-afternoon, but not usually lunch unless stated. However, for workshops that do include lunch, if you have any special dietary requirements please let us know at the time of application.
Accessibility requirements
We welcome applications from diverse backgrounds. If you have any particular needs, please contact us
prior to booking.