DBT and Trauma

Symposium and Roundtable
organised by: by Christine Kupfer & Global Mental Health Network & EICSP
The Dark Side of Meditation: Understanding and overcoming difficulties on spiritual paths and in mindfulness practice.
I will be contributing the following talk: When the spiritual path goes astray.Opening to spiritual relationship entails vulnerability. It means stepping beyond the safe boundedness of individual self-consciousness into a wider arena of experience, which can be welcome and life enhancing, but also has the potential for danger and breakdown. The Spiritual Crisis Network offers the message that, while the dangers need to be taken seriously and managed responsibly, this experience has the potential to lead out of stuck places, to dealing with past hurts that have been buried, and to growth and fuller life. This message contrasts with the message of hopelessness and a damaged life that medical diagnosis can convey. This talk will introduce the work of SCN and the ideas and research behind this rethinking of spiritual/psychotic experience.
Date and Time:      Sat, 29 February 2020:      12:30 – 17:30 GMT
Violet Laidlaw Room.     Chrystal Macmillan Building, University of Edinburgh.     15A George Square.    Edinburgh   EH8
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Introduction to applying DBT for emotional resilience
15 November 2019. 9.30 - 16.30    Newcastle

 When the going gets tough in therapy, emotions often appear to be the problem. They either take over or are avoided.
DBT has a weallth of skills and wisdom for managing emotions. However, emotions also have the potential to be the solution.
Using DBT skills to help an individual to get their emotions to work for them, as well as to stop them working against them, is the way to build true emotional resilience.
This will be an interactive workshop where you will be invited to explore new skills and approaches using your own clinical examples.

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BPS Psychotherapy Section Annual Conference 2019
The Outsider: Inclusion and exclusion in the therapeutic relationship.
Powerpoint link
 Speakers: Dr. Farhad Dalal: Dr Phil Cox (Psych.D, C.Psychol): Dick Blackwell: Isabel Clarke:
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XX Annual Course of Schizophrenia.
“IMAGINATION, REGRESSION AND RECOVERY IN PSYCHOSIS
Madrid 26th – 28th November 2015
SPEAKERS

J. Strauss, L. Davidson, P. Lysaker (USA),
I. Clarke (United Kingdom), R. Mezzina (Italy),
M. Hernández Monsalve, G. Lahera (Madrid),
JM. Blanqué, M. Montoro (Barcelona), G. Roldán (Granada),
L. Tost, C. Hdez A. de Sotomayor (Tenerife),
y M. González de Chávez (Madrid)

For the full programme see:
 www.cursoesquizofrenia.com
 
Links to my presentations:
Presentation 1:
Bringing psychosis in from the cold. Seeing anomalous experiencing in the wider context of  human cognition .

Presentation 2:
 “What is real and what is not”. A therapeutic approach to psychosis that takes experience seriously and undermines stigma.



BABCP SOUTHERN BRANCH
Comprehend, Cope and Connect
 A TWO DAY WORKSHOP     Presented by Isabel Clarke   Tuesday 8 and Wednesday 9 October 2019
LONDONBRANCH of the BABCP
Comprehend, Cope and Connect (CCC): Taking experience seriously and so getting to the simple heart of the complex problem
Presented by Isabel Clarke
Friday 5thApril2019Times:10.00am to4.30pm (Registration from 9.30am)Venue: BPS Office, 30 Tabernacle Way, London, EC2A 4UEhttps://www.bps.org.uk/contact-us

For more information: 

https://www.babcp.com/files/Branch/London/Lon219-event-info.pdf

Presenting at BABCP Annual Conference. Glasgow 2018. 1717th-20th July 2018
Strathclyde University Technology and Innovation Centre
 A Skills Workshop.
Comprehend, Cope and Connect:Adapted CBT for mental health acute crisis and whole team working
Sean Harper, NHS Lothian and Isabel Clarke, Southern Health Care NHS Trust
Poster presented:   
 Preliminary Evaluation of a programme devised for IAPT non -responders, delivered within italk (Hampshire IAPT) between 2016 and end 2017.
Authors: Peter Phiri, Georgios Giannis, Hazel Nicholls & Isabel Clarke
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CRAZYWISE CONFERENCE
Exploring Wisdom in Madness
Rotterdam. 02.12.16

I will be chairing and presenting on: Psychosis and Spirituality Re-evaluated.
More Information
I will be giving a talk, title: Schizotypy and the Experience of Transliminal Phenomena
at the Royal College of Psychiatrists' Special Interest group in Spirituality Conference:
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Hallucinations and Spiritual Experiences: Voices, Visions and Revelation’
Date Friday 25th November 2016
Time 10:00 – 16.30
Type Conference
Venue RCPsych, 21 Prescot Street, London E1 8BB
Programme
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BPS Transpersonal Section Annual Conference. "Spirituality, Psychology & Wellbeing: Transpersonal Psychology in Practice"

17th - 18th September.Highgate House in Northamptonshire.2016
Keynote: Psychosis and spirituality - finding your way and helping others (link to powerpoint)
Other keynotes: William Bloom
Glenn Hartelius and Itai Ivtzan
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BABCP 44th Anual Conference. Symposium on
Psychologically Informed Acute Care: A Whole Service Approach.
The Emotion Focused Formulation approach in Hampshire, Surrey Borders, Sheffield and Edinburgh.
 15th - 17th June. Belfast. Waterfront Centre.2016
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Towards Psychologically led Acute Inpatient Services: the Comprehend, Cope and Connect Model'.

 1 day  Workshop Stirling, Scotland  Friday 15th June.

The event will be arranged by BPS Psychosis and Complex Mental Health  Faculty and will be free to PCMHF members (and those who sign up for PCMHF membership at £15). Details of how to sign up will follow in due course.
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Acute and Crisis Network of the PCMH Faculty day conference 19.04.18
Towards Developing Psychologically Lead Acute Services: The Comprehend, Cope and Connect book and the role of the Approved Clinician for Clinical Psychology within the Acute Inpatient Wa
 

CONFERENCES (not clinical home page!) See Home page for the more recent conferences.
DCP Annual Conference 2018.  CARDIFF

17 – 18 January 2018. Mercure Cardiff Holland House Hote
Paper contributed to the Symposium: Personality Disorder Complexity. Working with people who have personality difficulties.
The Complexity Gap. Developing a service for those who fall between Primary and Secondary Care.
 And
Co-facilitating a workshop with Lucy Johnstone:
Working in diagnostically-based systems: challenges and strategies.
 
I am contributing to this programme around a community screening of Crazywise:
Rewriting Psychosis
Saturday 20 January, 2pm – 6pm, The Station, Bristol, BS1 2AG

This community screening of award-winning film C R A Z Y W I S E will be include speakers, debate and snacks.
The event aims to bring together people who experience psychosis, those close to them, health professionals, activists and researchers to build a new narrative where thriving and resilience are a potential outcome, rather than hopelessness and stigma.

24th November 2017   workshop for:
BABCP North East and Cumbria Branch
"Taking Experience Seriously in Psychosis"
 

Acute Adult Mental Health Care Conference
How can Psychological Practitioners Help?
9th May 2017.   Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre, 108 Stamford Street SE1 9HH
Along with:Russell Razzaque; Dave Harper; Rumina Taylor; John Adlam; Julie Fraser; Lisa Wood; Claire Williams.


Contributed paper to the PCMH Symposium at DCP Conference 2017, Liverpool.
'COMPREHEND, COPE AND CONNECT. Update and Survey.

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Symposium presented at the DCP 50th Anniversary Annual Conference,
2-4th December 2015

 Psychologically Informed Acute Care: the Emotion Focused Formulation Approach (EFFA).
 The need for a more psychological approach throughout Acute Care is well attested.  EFFA is designed to meet this need through providing a whole service approach encompassing both individual, collaborative, formulation and group work designed to teach skills.  The groups are designed for delivery by the wider staff group, thus distributing psychological mindedness and a psychological orientation to treatment throughout the multi disciplinary team. Originally piloted in one centre (Durrant et al 2007), the Emotion Focused Formulation approach is now being applied in acute care across the UK. This symposium will report evaluation results, impact  and progress from three centres: Hampshire, Sheffield and Surrey and Borders .

Presentations:
Investigating the efficacy of a whole team, psychologically informed,
acute mental health service approach. David Araci.  Hampshire.
 
Changing the Narrative with people who present in crisis across the acute and rehabilitation care pathway.
 Linda Wilkinson, Kate Oldfield. Sheffield
 
Enhancing Recovery: Service-User Experiences of Emotion-Focused Formulation in Acute Care Services
Dr Anna Preston and Miss Mahalia Torgbor. Surrey Borders
 
The perspective of the service user: Accounts of taking part in the Intensive Support Programme (ISP) at an acute in-patient facility. Jane Birrell and Donna Rutherford.
 
 

Powerpoint of my workshop presented at the ISPS UK Residential Conference
The University of Exeter, September 7th & 8th 2016 on
 Therapeutic Relationships:
 

Meeting the challenge of extending the good therapeutic relationship with the individual practitioner to the whole team.
 

XX Annual Course of Schizophrenia.
“IMAGINATION, REGRESSION AND RECOVERY IN PSYCHOSIS
Madrid 26th – 28th November 2015
SPEAKERS

J. Strauss, L. Davidson, P. Lysaker (USA),
I. Clarke (United Kingdom), R. Mezzina (Italy),
M. Hernández Monsalve, G. Lahera (Madrid),
JM. Blanqué, M. Montoro (Barcelona), G. Roldán (Granada),
L. Tost, C. Hdez A. de Sotomayor (Tenerife),
y M. González de Chávez (Madrid)

For the full programme see:
 www.cursoesquizofrenia.com
 
Links to my presentations:
Presentation 1:
Bringing psychosis in from the cold. Seeing anomalous experiencing in the wider context of  human cognition .

Presentation 2:
 “What is real and what is not”. A therapeutic approach to psychosis that takes experience seriously and undermines stigma.



 
UK Spiritual Crisis Network – 2nd International Conference
May 13 @ 10:00 am - 5:00 pm 

MENDING THE GAP
Global collaboration towards a more humanistic understanding of mental health and anomalous experiences
http://spiritualcrisisnetwork.uk/event/uk-spiritual-crisis-network-2nd-international-conference/

SCN leaflet p.1 and  SCN leaflet p.2

Presentations etc.
Things Unseen Podcast.
Shamans and Sacraments: the meaning of rituals
This discussion can be viewed on:
 
http://www.thingsunseen.co.uk/publisher/things-unseen/page/6/
 
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
A shaman undergoing a ritual burial and a Catholic attending mass seem poles apart –
yet both rituals answer similar needs
The presenter for the programme is Jane Little. Contributors are a Catholic writer, Peter D Williams and Shamanic Practitioner, Nick Shaman, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Isabel Clarke. Wednesday, November 27, 2013

SCN National UK conference 
Evolving a New Paradigm: The Spirituality and Mental Health Breakthrough
10am – 5pm, 12th June 2015
Mundesley Hospital, Gimingham, North Norfolk, UK
 Emma Bragdon
Russell Razzaque
Catherine Lucas
Mick Collins
Charlie Heriot-Maitland
(and me)
 
 SCN talk – Managing the Threshold
7 October @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Myself and Daniel Hadjiandreou.
Kingsley Hall Community Centre (www.kingsley-hall.co.uk) in Bromley-by-Bow.
http://spiritualcrisisnetwork.uk/event/volunteer-social-day/

The Spiritual Crisis Network presents:
 
Release the potential within spiritual crisis
Honouring the Journey and Creating a Sharing, Caring, Containing Community.
 
8th October. 15.00 – 18.00.
 
Consciousness Healing Centre, Stroud
 
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on 10th October workshop, along with John Wetherell, for Camden MIND 2016

Title: MYSTICISM and MADNESS. Exploring the Threshold.

 
An evening talk for Brighton Soteria:

Soteria in the Pub: Spiritual Crisis – a fresh perspective on unusual states of mind, with Isabel Clarke
January 28th 2016
 
 http://soteriabrighton.co.uk/events/soteria-in-the-pub-unusual-experiences-and-recovery/ 


Hampshire Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy 2015
The Psychology of Spirituality ,  Isabel Clarke
DATE: Apr 15th, 19:30
At 7.30pm, Chandlers Ford Methodist Centre SO53 2GJ Free to members, L5 to non members.


Psychosis and Trauma: A one day conference
Friday 6th March 2015   9.30am -3.30pm
Friends Meeting House, Friargate, York, YO1 9RL
The conference is aimed at people who are experiencing mental health problems, their families and professionals. The day will focus on exploring psychosis as an understandable response to difficult and traumatic experiences.
Speakers: Bob Johnson    Peter Bullimore       Angela Kennedy    Isabel Clarke

CHCC Mental Health Chaplains’ Annual Study Conference 2014
Journeying Outside the Walls
What lies beyond a traditional understanding of Spiritual Care?
High Leigh Conference Centre, Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire
Tuesday 2nd – Thursday 4th September 2014
Programme

  Wessex Psychotherapy Society on Wednesday 17th September 2014
 
Mindfulness and the balancing act of being human.
The need to create reflective space to consider the unhelpful patterns of relating and doing that cause distress and dysfunction,  is common to most therapeutic approaches.
As a psychologist, I am interested in what is going on here. Why do we so easily get tied up in these tangles? Why is being human so difficult?
As a therapist  working in severe mental health settings, and therefore with teams, I am interested to demystify therapy and spread psychological understanding of mental distress throughout the staff group – with the idea that all will feel confident to support the service user with psychological understandings  and coping skills.
 Mindfulness  is at the heart of all of these concerns.
 
 Islam and Emotional Well-being workshop
 
Solent MIND and Southampton University
 
14th March 2014
Mindfulness, Wellbeing and Coping with Unusual Experiences
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Royal College of Psychiatrists' Special Interest Group in Spirituality Conference 14th April 2014.
Speaking on:
"Transcendence and the transliminal"                      
 
The human faculty to step beyond the boundedness of the individual self into a place of connection has long been recognized by religious traditions and spiritual practitioners. The concept of the ‘transliminal’ (Thalbourne) has been introduced into the discourse by Claridge in research into schizotypy – or openness to unusual experiencing. This talk will attempt to bridge the psychological/scientific and spiritual divide by combining the evidence of experience with a theory of cognitive architecture, in order to unpack the way in which the person operates both as a discrete individual and embedded in relationship, including relationship with the ultimate: that which is beyond human knowing. Thus, with respect for both science and mystery, the aim is to reach a richer understanding of a crucial but elusive aspect of human experiencing.
 
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Tuesday 16 July 2013
Trauma and Psychosis: Reflections on the Latest Developments
Division of Clinical Psychology — Psychosis & Complex Mental Health Faculty Early Intervention Network
The Bentley Hotel, Newark Road, South Hykeham, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 9NH

The correlation between childhood trauma and increased risk of psychosis in adult life has been well documented (e.g. Read et al, 2005; Varese et al, 2012).
We aim to reflect on recovery-oriented practice in supporting service users who have experienced these adverse events, through a combination of a keynote address by Professor John Read and experiential workshops led by Isabel Clarke, Peter Bullimore and Angela Kennedy.

 
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On Monday, 2 April 2012, a day Workshop on:

Unlocking the Potential of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
A DBT Informed approach for use across clinical presentations and settings

organised by the BABCP DBT Secial Interest Group.
Venue: British Psychological Society, 30 Tabernacle Street, London, EC2A 4UE. Flyer, more details.