CBT Skills Bootcamp - Agenda Setting, Visualisations and Core Beliefs

What will this workshop involve?

• This workshop is a hands on, experiential practical session focusing on 3 key skills essential to effective CBT practice.
• For each of the three skills there will be a short overview followed enabling participants to work to practice these skills followed by supportive, constructive non-judgmental feedback.
• With breaks and opportunities for reflection, the session will be a distintive opportunity for you to brush up on key skills.
• For each skill we will examine (i) Agenda Setting (ii) Visualisation (iii) Working on Core Beliefs.
• This will help participants firm up on key techniques, tackle challenges and expand their application.
• The workshop is open to all CBT therapists or therapists using CBT in their practice whether in training, newly qualified or experienced.
• Due to the participatory nature of the workshop places are limited to 12.

The Key Skills

In each of the Bootcamp sessions we will cover 3 different skills which are interrelated. For this workshop the key skills are:

1. Agenda Setting
2. Visualisations
3. Core Beliefs

Anonymous Feedback from previous delegates of similar workshops:

• Really helpful, as a trainee extremely important to clearly identify and stay focused on presenting issue
• Very helpful session on case formulation. Helped reinforce the utility of formulation to enable a better therapy process.
• I am a cpunsellor/psychotherapist and have been using CBT as my main treatment orientations over the past 2 years. This workshop was very interesting and useful and added to my knowledge. Thank you Patrick I always enjoy your workshops
• A very clearly explained, interesting and immersing workshop. Thoroughly enjoyed!
• Very useful. Formulation had always been something i struggle with. So glad to start this at the beginning of my cbt journey.
• Informative and snappy and some great ideas thank you
• Very helpful workshop in helping to integrate Case formulation into practice. Easy to understand and very practical.
• I'm an assistant psychologist and I've always found it difficult to grasp the best way to carry out case formulation in collaboration with clients but this workshop was exactly what I needed to learn about how to work collaboratively.
• Very useful and informative. I look forward to attending further webinars on this topic.

• Perfect!!!
• Really helpful, helped me realise I need more training!
• A really useful and detailed journey through an area often taught poorly on major courses, and then not done well.
• Practical examples really helpful
• I really enjoyed the session . As a student it was extremely helpful to my learning and work with clients.
• Very useful and practical, lots of learning
• I have found this workshop helpful. I struggle with integrating theory to practice at times so I look forward to looking over the notes and slides. Thank you.
• Great presentation of applied CBT skills and courses are covering a wide range of topics.
• I am student CBT therapist and found this workshop on formulation helpful in breaking down and simplifying process. I have leaned new techniques and approaches and now feel more confident about formulation.

• Very thorough and useful exploration of case formulation. As a student it has all made much more sense.
• Much better than I anticipated. Talks through all parts in a way that makes it very easy to understand. Very grateful to have found these webinars!
• I am a trainee CBT therapist. I found this session incomparably illuminating in terms of its ability to draw together the various levels of conceptualisation, and how it is paramount to bringing the therapy to life for our clients.

• Very interesting,loved the interactive aspect of the workshop. As a new graduate, i have little experience in cbt and found it very insightful and i have learned a lot

• Really informative and helped me to re-connect with formulations

• A great workshop Prof Patrick McGhee explained everything very well. I will look forward to the next one!

• This was very interesting and enjoyable. Direct and informative . Thank you. Wish there was more time!!

• Very good presentation - does what it says on the tin. Informed, enthused and helped.

CPD

A Certificate of Attendance will be issued to all delegates confirming 3 Hours Skills CPD

Resources

A full set of slides, with extensive clickable links to free online resources, is sent free to all delegates after the event. This also includes references to key sources and further reading. Additionally, an anonymous summary of participant contributions is provided free of charge.

Presenter

Who is leading this webinar? Professor Patrick McGhee is a CBT therapist, psychologist and UK National Teaching Fellow. Educated at the universities of Glasgow and Oxford, he has completed CPD programmes at Harvard Business School and Ashridge. In 2017 he was a Visiting Fellow/Scholar at the universities of Cornell, Yale and MIT in the USA. He has taught, researched or practised in psychology and therapy for 30 years. His first post was a Research Fellow in Psychiatry and Psychology at St George's Hospital Medical School, University of London. He is the author of Thinking Psychologically (Palgrave) and co-editor of Accounting for Relationships (Methuen). He is an occasional columnist for the Guardian, the BBC and the Times Higher. He currently works in private practice in Greater Manchester. He has full accreditation from the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies.

AGENDA 

09:30 - 09:45

Introduction and Welcome

09:45 - 10:30

Agenda Setting - Basics, Briefings and Barriers

10:30 - 11:15

Visualisations

11:15 - 11:30

Break

11:30 - 12:15

Tackling Core Beliefs

12:15 - 12:30

Summary and Next Steps