Course Information

  • FOUNDATION - Unit 1 and 2
    • Two independent but consecutive units (Unit 1 and Unit 2)
    • The Foundation Course is a pre-requisite for further training in IDT
    • Most course participants enrol in the Foundation Course as a package
    • Does not require artistic ability.
  • INTERMEDIATE (3 Days)
  • ADVANCED (3 Days)
  • WORKING WITH CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS (2 Days)
  • GROUP WORK (2 Days)
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FOUNDATION Unit 1
FOUNDATION Unit 2
  • A two-day training workshop
  • Introduces the basic method and principles of IDT
  • The course builds through a series of topic modules each presented within the format of theory, demonstration, practice, reflection/questions
  • Lots of hands on practical learning
  • Learn to read clients overt and covert messages
  • Presumes participants have a mature level of interpersonal competency, a working knowledge of helping frameworks, and an ability to put their own needs aside while they attend to others
  • Focusses on what to do and how to do it
  • By the end of unit one you will be able to use IDT with clients
  • A two-day training workshop
  • Introduces the IDT map of the Therapeutic Process
  • Learn to work with therapeutic intent to adapt counsellor interventions to meet client need
  • Recognise multiple levels of issues and how client needs change
  • Recognise and work with multiple ‘parts of the client’
  • Focusses on what you are doing and why
  • Must have completed Unit 1


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INTERMEDIATE
  • A three day training workshop
  • As clients layer themselves onto the page they can be seen to move through distinct ‘levels of work’
  • This workshop helps participants recognise which level the client is available to work at, and how to shape appropriate level-specific interventions
  • The focus is on building counsellor resourcefulness and confidence and keeping clear boundaries between the clients work and the counsellors work
  • Focusses on seven vertical levels of work
  • Each level has its own particular function and unique set of tasks
  • The Course has a typical IDT training format of high information input, demonstrations, hands-on experiential sessions, and group discussion
  • The Intermediate Course takes much of the content of Unit 2 considerably further
  • You will gain increased confidence in helping clients work with unconscious material and the uncertainty of not-knowing
  • Must have completed Foundation Course
ADVANCED
  • A three day training workshop
  • Provides an in-depth exploration of the IDT Therapeutic Process
  • Helps recognise clients’ needs, tasks and challenges to formulate appropriate stage specific interventions
  • A robust hands-on experiential training
  • Focusses on the seven horizontal ‘stages of change’ in the IDT Therapeutic Process
  • Must have completed Foundation Course
  • Learning Outcomes include:
    • Accurately read which stage the client is at
    • Anticipate stage-specific risks and dangers
    • See the big picture and not get caught in client content
    • Match session management to stage requirements
    • Expand your ability to bring safety and containment
    • Learn how to work at deep levels with sub-personalities, archetypes, metaphor and symbol

​WORKING WITH CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
  • A two day training workshop
  • Children and adolescents have different developmental capacities requiring us to modify our use of IDT
  • The course maps the key developmental stages of the young person to provide guidelines for interventions
  • One of IDT’s principles is to ‘be where the client is’. This includes meeting their psychological age
  • Learn to work collaboratively, developing the page with the client
  • Develop your advocacy skills further using the page for the young person
  • Learn to recognise when the psyche retreats to an earlier developmental phase (regression) and how to work with it
  • Increase your awareness of transference and counter-transference in the working relationship
  • This workshop is valuable to not only those who work with young people. All clients have the capability to regress to an earlier developmental phase
  • Must have completed Foundation Course
GROUP WORK
  • A two day training workshop
  • An experiential workshop on how IDT can be used when working with groups
  • Will improve your group facilitation skills and awareness
  • A safe and non-threatening way of working, where clients talk less about themselves and more about the page
  • Group work is an efficient and cost effective way of working with clients
  • Participants learn by watching others and projecting onto their pages
  • Collective goals can reduce individual performance anxiety
  • Must have completed Foundation Course
  • The workshop looks at:
    • Nature of groups
    • Group process
    • Group culture
    • Facilitator role and style
    • Contracting
    • Multiple agendas
    • Conflict and safety
    • Projection, transference and counter-transference
    • Themes and purpose
    • Developing group programmes and activities