CPD for Therapists

Run by Gill Coleby, The Coleby Centre offers a series of workshops, based on Gill's 27 years experience as a psychotherapist and Stephen Johnson's book "Character Styles" 

These workshops explore the 7 different character styles that can develop during the first 5 years of life - what causes these character types to develop, the injury in body,mind and spirit to the developing child.  We explore the thoughts, feelings and behaviour specific to each character and what can we expect to see in adulthood, in the clients sitting in front of us.  Based on development psychology, attachment theory, object relations theory and character analysis. These workshops aren't just about describing and interpreting though, as we'll also explore active methods of intervention from the different theories which can help people to change.
In the Character Styles series:


THE USED CHILD - The Narcissistic Experience

THE EXPLOITED CHILD - Hysterical Defences & the Histrionic Personality

THE DEFEATED CHILD - Social Masochism & Patterns of Self-Defeat

THE OWNED CHILD - The Symbiotic Character

THE ABANDONED CHILD - The Oral Dependant Character

THE HATED CHILD - The Schizoid Experience

THE DISCIPLINED CHILD - The Obsessive-Compulsive Personality


New to the series:

THE EMPTY MIRROR - Exploring Maternal Narcissism

2020

Due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, we have decided we need to suspend all the planned trainings for the foreseeable future.


However, we are working at producing the  workshops as  fully integrated online trainings, offering you the opportunity to continue your training in the safety of your own home.


Please register your interest in these trainings and we will keep you updated on when they will be available again.

Register Interest

To make sure we keep our groups small and deliver quality sessions, we operate a booking system.  We occasionally have a waiting list if we are oversubscribed for one session but don't quite have enough people to run a second one.  Please complete the form to register your interest and we'll let you know of the next available programmes.


Due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, we have decided we need to suspend all the planned trainings for the foreseeable future.


However, we are working at producing the  workshops as  fully integrated online trainings, offering you the opportunity to continue your training in the safety of your own home.


Please register your interest in these trainings and we will keep you updated on when they will be available again.

Register Interest