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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COURSES
IDT professional development courses provide a range of further practical training opportunities for Foundation Course graduates in the use of IDT with clients including, IDT with Children & Adolescents, Couples & Family Work, Group Work and IDT-based Supervision
The two-day PD workshops apply IDT to particular aspects of special professional interest.
(Please note that only a selection of these topics are available each year)
- Children and Adolescents
- Couples and Family work
- Group work
- IDT-Based Supervision
By the end of a two-day PD workshop, participants will be able to apply IDT to match the client’s particular degree of capability.
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Course Descriptions:
Using IDT with Children and Adolescents
Children and adolescents have different developmental capacities, and therefore require us to modify our use of IDT from the way that we work with adults. (Similar modifications can also be required when we find ourselves working with age-regressed adult clients). This course maps the key developmental stages of the young person, and provides guidelines for matching our IDT interventions with the child’s readiness and capabilities. Principles and techniques for working with different age groups will be presented, and we will role-play typical scenarios. Examples of child and adolescent imagery will also be presented.
Couples & Family Work
The basic IDT method (taught in our Foundation Course) is designed to take the individual client into their inner world, whereas a ‘group client’ generally requires us to focus more on inter-personal dynamics and matters of collective intent. We therefore need to use the IDT page in quite a different way. IDT-based Couples Work uses jointly-constructed visual metaphors to reframe conflict, generate insight, and start a remarkable process of collaborative decision-making.
IDT Group Work
Group work offers special benefits that cannot be achieved in one-to-one counselling. This workshop will provide IDT activities to help you accurately identify group needs, plan matching programmes, create an environment of safety and openness, use metaphor, develop guided drawings, match drawing cues to group needs, and open and close sessions. You will leave this workshop with increased confidence and heaps of practical IDT skills that can be used during a group session and across the life of an ongoing group. IDT has a unique capacity for making groups more effective. Specifically this workshop will practice the use of IDT to address issues of group culture; contracting; multiple agendas; conflict and safety; differences in the level of participant readiness; group dynamics as well as issues of leadership and counter-transference.
IDT Supervision
This workshop outlines the unique aspects of using IDT in supervision (for both supervisor and supervisee), and covers strategies for Supervisor-led groups, Peer group supervision, One-to-one supervision, and Self-supervision. Participants are invited to bring drawings and case-notes of two current cases to share with the class. Please note that these IDT Supervision workshops are experiential and remain focussed around IDT practice, and will include matters of contract, counter-transference and transparency. This workshop is designed to supplement your ongoing regular supervision, not replace it.
These workshops provide a range of further practical training opportunities for Foundation Course graduates in the use of IDT with clients , including case work, working at depth, and using IDT with children and adolescents, couples, and in group work.