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IDT – A VERSATILE MODALITY FOR DIFFERENT AGES, PERSONALITY TYPES AND CULTURES

Being a page-based modality, the IDT method is substantiated by both neurological and psychological research that validates IDT’s practice of systematically alternating between left-brain and right-brain processes to increase counsellor effectiveness and client progress.

By putting their situation onto a page (using images and words), the client is able to gain a new perspective and access inner resourcefulness.

The IDT office regularly receives unsolicited testimonials from enthusiastic IDT practitioners. Here are two examples from this year’s enrolments – one from Australia and one from New Zealand.

Counsellor, Cumberland Women’s Centre, Australia, August 2011
I have just had a great IDT experience with an elderly and illiterate client. For words I asked the client to write on the page in her own way, that it didn’t have to be in English nor in her own language (Lebanese). After all, words are symbols anyway ....... The client suffers from PTSD symptoms with a background of long-term childhood sexual abuse and experiences of domestic violence in her adult life. She had great difficulty expressing how she felt in words. After explaining the IDT process ..... we proceeded with an IDT session. The transition from external to internal issues and then back to the present specific to new directions occurred spontaneously and fairly rapidly. The fact that this woman was from a CALD (Culturally and Linguistically Diverse) background, with very basic oral English skills and who perceives the counselling process culturally alien, on top of the fact that she is illiterate, was not a barrier to a successful IDT session. The client felt ‘better inside’ as a result of the session and expressed appreciation. Moreover, she found it so helpful she was willing to try the IDT process again at her next counselling session.

Counsellor, Te Manawa Services, New Zealand, February 2011
As an up and coming IDT therapist, I am continuously amazed by the simplicity of IDT therapy and how powerful it is at engaging the most resistant clients. For weeks I had a client aged 18 years whom by request of the Court was required to attend counselling once per week ...... he did not want to be there. Some weeks he would just sit and look at his feet, I was lucky if he even said hello!
This week I decided that things would be different so I took along my crayons, board and paper and started drawing. I drew a man sitting in a room, he was weighed down by lots of books, people and garbage .... I put words on the page, sad, angry, hacked off and as I did this I watched his attention be drawn to the page .... Before long I captured his interest .... I held up the page for him, and quietly asked him if there was anything that he would like me to add to this page, he then proceeded to pick up a crayon and scribble over the face of the man on the picture and wrote the word shame.... He then surprised me and took the board, crayons and paper got a new page and started to draw. In one corner was a man, he was very small and dark and heavy, in the other corner was a child and a woman with a big black band around them that was so very thick, between them both was a long path with words; destruction, alcohol, drugs, violence, anger, sadness, too late and in large black letters he repeated the word shame..... he continued to write words.
He proceeded to draw a little boy sitting in a cot alone, I asked him to put words to this .... sad, lonely, isolated, beaten, hurt, bruises, help .... “What does help look like?” He then drew a person. I asked him to name that person, his Mum .... he wrote more words, loving, kind, caring, safe and preceded to tell me about his childhood of violence, beatings and isolation. Tears came to his eyes as awareness grew .... “I’ve repeated the cycle!” He looked at his picture and picked up a crayon and began to draw a fresh piece of paper ......
Through IDT he has become consciously aware of repeating a cycle of abuse that initially he could not see, this process also enabled him to see a path through his shame giving him choices he hadn’t realised that he had. ....Cunning, baffling and powerful, IDT changed this man’s life and his family’s life, empowering him. This man continued coming for further sessions and embracing the process of IDT he now lives a life free of violence and abuse.

Research – IDT is pleased to be able to offer financial support and non-academic supervision for an experienced researcher to evaluate the effectiveness of IDT and produce publishable copy. Expressions of interest are invited.

IDT has recently obtained accreditation with the Australian Association of Social Workers. This is the third Australian organisation to accredit IDT for earning professional development points. We will continue to seek accreditation with other Australian and New Zealand professional associations.

With the 2011 course programme over half way through completion, we are delighted to advise that (despite the increasing financial tightening in both N.Z. and Australia) our 2011 enrolments to date now exceed those for the whole of last year. A majority of people enrolling have heard about IDT through a colleague or associate. There is no better endorsement than a recommendation from someone with first hand experience!

Auckland Teacher Trainee Required - The IDT 2011 teacher trainee programme is nearing completion. The teaching team has been extended to cover the main centres of N.Z. however we require a teacher for the Auckland and Northland area. Applicants need to have been using IDT for a minimum of 2 years, have completed the IDT Advanced Course and be a full member of a suitable professional association. Expressions of Interest are now open. Please contact the IDT office, we would be pleased to discuss this with you directly.

A reminder, the 20% discount offer on the standard fee of all remaining 2011 courses expires on 28th September. Enrolment forms and fees must be received in full by this date. See below for the schedule of courses remaining for this year. The 2012 course calendar will be issued in October.

FOUNDATION COURSE	Unit One	Unit Two
Palmerston North	23- 24 September	26-27 September
Christchurch B	23- 24 September	26-27 September
Auckland C	23- 24 September	26-27 September
Hamilton B	4-5 November	7-8 November
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COURSES	Course	Course Dates
Wellington	Children & Adolescents (Unit 4)	15-16 September
Christchurch	IDT Supervision (Unit 8)	27-28 October
Auckland	IDT Supervision (Unit 8)	7-8 November
Hamilton	Children & Adolescents (Unit 4)	24-25 November
Auckland	Children & Adolescents (Unit 4)	28-29 November
MASTERS COURSE	Course	Course Dates
Wellington	IDT Masters Class	6-8 October
Auckland	IDT Masters Class	27-29 October
Christchurch	IDT Masters Class	16-18 November

IDT-based Supervision – uses the page to quickly reveal matters of projection, counter transference and parallel process. Different strategies for 1:1 supervision, supervisor led groups, peer groups and self-supervising will be reviewed. Participants in the 2-day workshop are invited to bring recent case work for discussion and role playing.

The IDT Masters Class – provides a 3-day training in working effectively at all levels of work and providing practical guidelines for recognising and responding to the clients’ underlying issues. The Masters Class can be included as training towards the IDT Supervisor or IDT teacher.

Agency Based Training - Managers of service agencies advise that their staff report that IDT produces breakthrough results with challenging clients, provides new tools for team consultations, results in more satisfying and enduring changes for clients, an increase in practitioner confidence and a faster turnaround of cases.

IDT offers a range of short training courses and would be pleased to discuss the training and support needs for your agency staff. Whilst agencies regularly enrol their staff as individuals in our ‘public courses’, it is generally more cost effective to organise in-house course. IDT has had enjoyed over 7,800 enrolments in its N.Z. and Australian training programmes to date. Contact the IDT office for further information.

IDT Business Licenses - Enquiries from Canada, Singapore and the UK have been received this year for IDT training. Due to this increasing interest, IDT is entering into the next stage of business growth by offering the opportunity to own and operate your own IDT training centre. Expressions of interest are invited.