With Gill Ingram
16th November 2008
In recent years the psychotherapeutic world has proposed that relationships between siblings is as formative in our development as the relationship to our parents.
In this workshop Gill Ingram will help participants think about their own sibling relationships, or lack of them, by starting with a lecture and slide presentation of the rivalry between two artist 'brothers' — Matisse and Picasso. Her contention is that intense rivalry can be as creative as it is destructive.
Gill will then create a framework for the participants to think about and then process their own sibling patterns both within their family of origin and in the context of their professional' families' in the work place. Hopefully some creative resolutions might emerge.
Gill Ingram has worked as a psychodynamic counsellor in Oxford since 1989. She has specialized in brief therapy at the Oxford University Counselling Service and from 1992 — 2005 set up and provided counselling provision for Stowe boarding school. She has been a tutor on the Postgraduate Diploma in Psychodynamic Studies at Oxford University since its inception until now.
Until last year she also trained and supervised Civil Service Welfare Officers in London. Before that she carried out trauma debriefing programmes for Civil Service staff groups having worked with the effects of political violence in N Ireland in the late 80's.At the same time she was also a student counsellor at the University of Ulster from 1979/89.Prior to her time in N Ireland she worked for seven years as a psychiatric social worker in Fulbourn Hospital, Cambridge. During this time she undertook her core psychodynamic training at the Tavistock Clinic.
Gill has always been interested in linking artistic forms with psychoanalytic theory. This is the basis for the paintings and theories presented in this workshop which will hopefully act as a stimulus to generate thinking amongst the group about their own experiences. In the final hour after tea Rosemary Napper TSTA will facilitate a discussion about how these ideas are understood within a transactional analysis framework
This workshop is from 9.45 – 4.45pm and is limited to 12 participants. Cost £80 plus VAT (£14) payable to TAworks Ltd.