Inner Child Workshop | Your Inner Child

Online Inner Child Workshop

When: Over two consecutive mornings. Saturday, 29th November and Sunday, 30th November

Time: 10am-1.30pm.

Price: £95

Number of participants: up to 12 people.

This online inner child workshop has been written for counsellors and psychotherapists and allied health professionals including pastoral workers. My approach to inner child work has developed over the past fifteen years. I am a humanistic-integrative, developmentally based, relationally focused psychotherapist, supervisor and Gestalt groupwork facilitator. As well as being underpinned by humanistic theory and principles I draw on object relations theory, child development, neuroscience and psychodrama. There is also ample room to integrate the individual's spirituality.

My approach is distinctive in the way I seek to focus equally and simultaneously on helping the client to grow towards becoming a mature, psychologically healthy adult whilst at the same time helping them identify the unique qualities that make them them - including neurodiverse qualities - by liberating their eternal inner child, and at the same time helping them, from their adult perspective, to recognise and learn to relate lovingly to their wounded inner child or children.

The workshop is experiential, drawing on your professional and personal experience as well as your book-learning; I do not use PowerPoint or breakout rooms and this helps create a sense of working together as a group online, something many participants have highlighted as a very positive experience. After the workshop you will receive handouts, a bibliography to accompany this training and a certificate of attendance.

When paying by bank transfer please put your name and 'November 25 YIC' in the heading. Also, please WhatsApp / email me to let me know you have paid.

Mobile: 07875 816 205 / email: inner_child@yahoo.com Once you have paid I will send you a receipt.

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Name of account: NLP Vision
Sort code: 40 - 35 -18
Account Number: 1450 40 89

"I was lucky enough to come across Catherine and her inner-child work at a time when I needed it most. Exploring and identifying aspects of my inner child safely, with clarity and wisdom, acted as catalyst in a healing process, which almost half a decade later, I’m still engaged in. It gave me the language to map out an emotional and developmental inner landscape, pointing me towards parts of myself that were hidden, neglected and frozen in time. It also gave me tools to converse with courage, compassion and gentleness with these fragmented and wounded parts that felt ‘there but not there’.

This course of rediscovering and lovingly reconnecting with my wounded inner-child parts, led directly to another parallel process: identifying with renewed clarity with my emerging adult self, bringing much needed intention and direction to this process. It made it easier to recognize my needs, what inspires me, what makes me want to sit up and dance and what makes me want to cry. Naturally, working with my inner child/children and my emerging adult self, has also deeply impacted my clinical and therapeutic work as a child psychiatrist. It has helped me relate more easily to the emotional complexities of working with young people and their families, creating safer spaces for these complexities to be expressed and worked through".

Workshop approach:

The aim of this inner child workshop is to introduce my three-pronged approach. During the workshop you will have the opportunity to explore how this model relates to yourself and potentially to your client work.

This approach involves recognising and where relevant deconstructing child-based notions of what it means to be an adult. At the same time it involves learning what it means and how to become more adult. This includes learning to develop and utilise inner and outer resources to actively create your most adult self within the givens of your relational, social and cultural context.

At the same time we will explore how as an adult we can identify and learn to connect compassionately with our wounded inner child or children. Developing this inner relationship is a life-long process.

The final element - but not sequentially as all parts are worked with simultaneously - in this approach is to explore and liberate your eternal inner child. This can be thought of as the temperamentally authentic, creative, and spiritual part of you. The eternal inner child can be thought of as capturing something of your essential nature.

Together this three-pronged approach creates a simple, trauma informed, resilience focused approach to self-actualisation. The aim of this humanistic-integrative approach is to facilitate the growth and integration of the whole adult person whilst working with developmentally arrested parts and states. This facilitates recovery and growth of the whole person.

This inner child workshop is experiential and encourages some self-disclosure and sharing from both me and you as participants. Because the workshop is experiential I do not record the sessions as this may inhibit the free flow of sharing. I suggest people consider the space from which they are joining the online workshop, both their literal physical space but also your emotional space and your needs in and around engaging in this workshop. Although therapeutic the workshop is not intended to be personal therapy. I seek to support both the individual and the group process as we reflect together on this inner child approach.

This way of learning seeks to create an ideal environment for understanding and integrating this inner child model into your life and clinical work.

General outline of the two days:

Day 1 Saturday, 29th November, 10am-1.30pm

10am-11.30am: Warm up, contracting / group ethos, introductions, principles

11.30-11.45am break

11.45am-1.15pm: Liberating your eternal inner child

1.15pm-1.30pm: Closing exercise

Day 2. Sunday, 30th November. 10am-1.30pm

10am-10.15am: Reconnecting as a group

10.15pm-11.30am: Growing adult maturity

11.30-11.45am break

11.45am-1.15pm: Identifying and learning to relate lovingly to your wounded inner child parts

1.15pm-1.30pm: Closing reflections

"I really enjoyed the day. What was great was the way you presented the topic. It was really relatable and perfectly communicated in a way for me to understand, also it was fantastic the way we all stayed as a group and were not split off into breakout rooms. It meant that we were able to hear everyone's story or thoughts" (Amanda).

In a secure and confidential group space you will explore:

How to debunk child-based views of being 'adult'
How to grow your adult self
How to identify your eternal inner child and liberate it
How to identify and connect compassionately with your wounded inner child or children
How to navigate shame processes
How to apply this approach to you and your clinical setting

Catherine O'Riordan: Integrative Psychotherapist, Supervisor, and Gestalt Groupwork Facilitator

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Amanda

Thank you so much!! So lovely to meet you and the group. I thoroughly enjoyed your workshop, the fact it was a group effort I feel I learnt so much more that way.

Katrina

I want to say how much I connected with your Inner Child Workshop and I have found myself integrating this into my practice with tremendous results. The imagery for our eternal child & wounded child, the three words etc. have really helped simplify yet deeply help clients connect with their parts. I also use the Road Trip letter which is a powerful tool. I also liked your delivery style, lack of PP and your pacing.

Mamas

I was lucky enough to come across Catherine and her inner-child work at a time when I needed it most. Exploring and identifying aspects of my inner child safely, with clarity and wisdom, acted as catalyst in a healing process, which almost half a decade later, I’m still engaged in.

It gave me the language to map out an emotional and developmental inner landscape, pointing me towards parts of myself that were hidden, neglected and frozen in time. It also gave me tools to converse with courage, compassion and gentleness with these fragmented and wounded parts that felt ‘there but not there’.

Denise

I wanted to feedback how much I enjoyed this training. I found the day, and the information stimulating and thought provoking both personally and professionally. The concepts you explained made perfect sense and I found it a simple yet really effective way of approaching personal growth and change around our inner childhood wounds. I already knew and use the Tonkin ‘fried egg’ model, so your model was a really helpful development of this. And I have already integrated the concept into my work with a couple of my clients!

I also wanted to thank you for making the space feel safe for me, enabling me to keep quiet my imposter syndrome and my shame inactive.