Previous Melting Pot Events:

November 2007 - Official Launch of our New Training Programme
for Mindfulness-based Cognitive-Behavioural Therapies

London, 27th November 2007

In addition to TIR and Life Stress Reduction, we now offer training in Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) with Patrizia Collard PhD, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) with Martin Wilks MSc. All three of these approaches are highly effective and enable clients to be mindful in different ways.

We are put this special presentation event (as part of our Melting pot Presentation Programme) on the 27th November 2007, so that you can have the unique opportunity to observe a real live demonstration/experience of each of the therapies.Click here for further details of the therapies.

June Melting Pot Special Guest Speaker:
The Second Happy Birthday of The Melting Pot!

We Celebrated the 2nd year of Networking and Presentations at the Melting Pot

On this happy occasion our very special guest was Marian Volkman.

Marian K. Volkman is seen as one of the most senior technical people in the development of TIR and metapsychology. Marian is a principle author of many of the TIR and metapsychology workshops. Marian is also the author of "Life Skills" and "Turtle Dolphin Dreams".

She will give a talk about:

TRUE LOVE

Love has always been the subject of big debate, enduring speculation and thoughtful introspection. How understanding the mechanics of dysfunctionality in relationships helps us to have the kind of relationship we want:

What makes some people too needy and clingy?
What makes some people flinch at intimacy, even if it's something they say they want?
What is "true love"?
How can we achieve "true love"?
Marian will discuss intimacy, communion, co-/counter- dependency and more.

Some brief definitions:

* In Wikipedia Intimacy is defined as both the ability and the choice to be close, loving and vulnerable and that it requires identity development.

* Knowing thyself is crucial in order to be able to share your self with another.
* Co-dependency (or co-dependency) is a psychological condition in which someone exhibits too much, and often inappropriate, caring for other people's struggles.

* Counter-dependency is a psychological condition opposite of co-dependency.
May Melting Pot Special Guest Speaker:
Do you want to dramatically increase your client base?
Learn some great techniques to generate new clients effectively and ethically.

If you are genuinely interested in attracting new clients and increasing the amount of work you do with your existing clients then you should attend this FREE Melting Pot presentation.

* Attract new clients
* Really engage your clients attention
* Increase your clients' interest in therapy/ personal development
* Develop your practice
* Introduction to Emotional Scale Mapping and Future Emotional Scale Mapping

Hosted by Henry Whitfield, MSc CTF this event features proven and exciting new techniques for boosting your therapy practice. Developed with Adam Caplan, MA MBA, who has extensive commercial experience in Sales and Marketing specifically in relation to client-facing practices.

April Melting pot Special Guest Speakers
Jeanette Locke-Thompson - talked about being diagnosed with Serious Health Condition
Tiana Justine Rigby - a presentation on Living well with illness
and
our host Henry Whitfield
February Melting Pot Special Guest Speaker,2007
This event was unfortunately cancelled, but we are planning to repeat it later in the year - Let us know if you would be intersted to attend.
We are happy to announce the first of the 2007's presentations and networking Melting pot events.
We will start by presenting our NEW One Year Professional Accreditation Programme by Henry Whitfield - our host.
He will demonstrate the TIR approach with a

LIVE Demonstration of a TIR session

And also describe Traumatic Incident Reduction and Life stress reduction as a forms of a highly integrative counselling approach incorporating Mindfulness. Most of the tools used in TIR and LSR enable the client to achieve greater equanimity with respect to his/her mental and physical environment.
According to Cayoun (2003) equanimity is the ability to remain unperturbed by an event experienced within the framework of one's body and thoughts as a result of objective observation. This implies that unless one is aware of an actual (internal) experience, one cannot be equanimous towards it. This defined, equanimity relies on awareness on one's thoughts and body sensations.

December Melting Pot Special Guest Speaker, 2006:
Nick Duffell, was the special guest speaker at the Melting pot on the 7th December 2006.
He presented his book "The Making of them" and discussed his work with boarding school survivors and the issues of boarding.
Click here for the Melting pot blog article
Read a Chapter of the Book NOW

November Melting Pot Special Guest Speaker, 2006:
Henry Whitfield Advanced TIR and Schema trainer presented on:
Goals and Self-actualisation - Introduction to the Schema coaching workshop
In order to be happy, one must be working on one's own goals, working towards one's own ideal situation. Many people have never been invited to explicitly inspect their visions and to organise their lives with a view to realising them as closely as possible in the physical world.
Click here for the Melting pot blog article

October Melting Pot Special Guest Speaker, 2006:
Our Special guest was Nicola Martin, Principal of the Institute of Clinical Hypnosis. Her presentation was entitled: 'The Benefits of Using Hypnosis in Conjunction with TIR'
Click here to view ICH Website
Click here for the Melting pot blog article

September Melting Pot Special Guest Speaker, 2006:
Marian Volkman, CTS, CMF, Trainer Ability Enhancement Services
Marian Volkman discussed at the Melting Pot the concept of happiness and how Applied Metapsychology can contribute to human wellbeing.
Click here to read the article on the Melting Pot blog

July Melting Pot Special Guest Speaker:
Shamanic Soul Retrieval given by Johnathan 'Spirit Bear' Brooks
Johnathan 'Spirit Bear' Brooks is a Native American from the Cree and Northern Cheyenne tribes of Montana, North America. He was the first person in the UK to win a prestigious international team management and leadership award from Landmark Education, UK. Has been a coach and a mentor since 1997 and is currently coaching for a London charity called KIKAS, a charity supporting teenagers (16-26 years old), as an online coach/mentor as well as his own private practice. Johnathan is a Life Purpose Coach and Transformational Healer using Shamanism and a Master Practitioner in NLP.
Click here for the Melting pot blog article
Click here to go to Johnathan's website

Henry Whitfield MSc CTF also gave a presentation. He talked about Traumatic Incident Reduction and Life Stress Reduction - a new integrative approach to general counselling incorporating mindfulness.
Henry Whitfield also presented on the subject of integrating cognitive case formulation with Mindfulness, on 21st June at this year’s Mindfulness conference, University of Bangor.

June Melting Pot Special Guest Speaker, 2006:
Henry Whitfield MSc CTF gave a talk on Traumatic Incident Reduction and Life Stress Reduction as a new integrative approach to general counselling incorporating mindfulness.
Click here for the Melting pot blog article by Henry Whitfield

May Melting Pot Special Guest Speaker, 2006:
Donald Robertson is a Senior Clinician Hypnotherapist (NCH), Registered Psychotherapist (UKCP) and the Training Director of The HypnoSynthesis® Centre. The presentation he gave was entitled:
The Way of Hypnosis: Hypnotism as a Philosophical Therapy
To find out more about Donald Robertson, the Hypnotherapy Clinic, Self-Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy Training Courses, please visit:
www.HypnoSynthesis.com
Click here for the Melting pot blog article

April Melting Pot Special Guest Speaker, 2006:
The host of the Melting Pot - Henry Whitfield MSc CTF, talked about Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR) as a Mindfulness-based therapy
If you would like to read a mini article on the subject Mindfulness you could find one in the Spring Issue of TIR-Viewpoints Newsletter.
To receive a free copy of the Newsletter please request it by calling free on 0800 849 6723
or by sending an email to info@tir.org.uk.

February Melting Pot Special Guest Speaker, 2006:
Charles Stone TFTdx was our special guest speaker.
Charles Stone TFTdx is a Thought Field Therapy Diagnostic Practitioner and Course Director of Callahan Techniques Algorithm Training. Thought Field Therapy is a rapid treatment for the removal of Stress, Anxiety, Panic Attacks, Fears, Phobias, Anger, Guilt, any emotional upset. It is a very simple and unobtrusive treatment that is fast and effective, a straight forward technique for resolving difficult emotional and psychological issues.

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2005 December Melting Pot:
Our host Henry Whitfield talked about critical issues in understanding and overcoming trauma.

2005 November Melting Pot:
Our special guest was John Durkin. He is a former fire fighter and now a trauma counsellor, a Research Psychologist and a Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) Trainer. John spoke about Psychological Stress and Trauma Resolution for Fire, Rescue & Emergency Services and his related research project.
Click here for the Melting pot blog article by John Durkin

2005 October Melting Pot:
The very Special guest speaker was Barry Fairburn.
Presentation was on "Self Inc. - motivation and realisation of Goals".
This talk was relevant to our Schema training.
Barry trained and worked at the Institute for Research in Metapsychology in California, helping to develop Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR).
Click here for the Melting pot blog article about Barry Fairburn

2005 September Melting Pot:
Guest Speaker Sally Ingram - Presentation on Self-harm.
Hosted by Henry Whitfield - presentation about the model of TIR
Click here for the Melting pot blog article by Sally Ingram

2005 August Melting Pot:
Henry Whitfield gave a presentation on Critical Issues in Overcoming trauma.

2005 July Melting Pot:
Special guest was Tim Rowe. He made a presentation on Personal development.
We had very interesting discussions on Online counselling and Personal development.

Launch date - 1st June 2005.
The first monthly networking Practical Psychology event was hosted by Henry Whitfield - TIR Coordinator for UK and Advanced TIR Trainer. He talked about the influence of trauma on the human condition and TIR.
Our Special Guest was Angela Hall, Director of Counselling in Prisons (CIP) Charity and her presentation was about CIP's experience of Trauma work with Prisoners and Bereavement. She also made use of demonstration exercises.
Click here for the Melting pot blog article