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DATE FOR YOUR DIARY

 Date:              25^th January 2016

 Time:             7.00pm – 9.00pm

Venue:            The Schoolhouse Hotel, 2-8, Northumberland Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.

Topic:            Working Systemically within Hierarchies

Given the hierarchical nature of our current educational system, the Café will focus on using a Systemic approach to engage with challenging and distressed young people in schools.

Speakers:

David Carter:   Principal, St. Paul’s School, Finglas

Peter Caffrey: Family Therapist, St. Paul’s School, Finglas

Marian Deaton: Senior Social Worker & Family Therapist, HSE Dublin North City & County CAMHS.

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) = 2 hours. CPD certificates will be issued by the Family Therapy Assoc. of Ireland (FTAI).    

Date for your Diary Systemic Cafe 25th January 2016

Date:              28^th September 2015

Time:             7.00pm – 9.00pm

Venue:           The Schoolhouse Hotel,  2-8, Northumberland Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.

Topic:            Integrating Crossdressing: A toolkit

Speakers:

Gloria Jameson:  Happily married for 25 years, Gloria Jameson is a lifelong crossdresser and has been out in the Dublin scene for nearly two decades.  Gloria recently founded an information website about transvestism in Ireland www.thehiddenpeople.ie

Dermod Moore: Psychotherapist, Trainer, and current chair of IAHIP, Dermod lectures in psychosexual psychotherapy, and is experienced in writing about, and working with, sexual and gender difference.

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) = 2 hours. CPD certificates will be issued by the Family Therapy Assoc. of Ireland (FTAI).     See you @ the Systemic Café

Systemic Cafe 28th September 2015 Integrating Crossdressing

DATE FOR YOUR DIARY

   Date:              25^th May 2015

   Time:             7.00pm – 9.00pm

   Venue:           Hampton Hotel (formerly Sachs Hotel)

                           19-29, Morehampton Road, Donnybrook, D.4

Topic:            How Statutory Registration might impact on membership of FTAI and the practice of members  employed within statutory sector, especially in circumstances where they are not employed as Family Therapists

Denis Murray and Valerie O’Brien will speak to this topic, and open discussion to the floor.

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) = 2 hours. CPD certificates will be issued by the Family Therapy Assoc. of Ireland (FTAI).

Date for your Diary Systemic Cafe 25th May 2015

A Systemic Orientation to Keeping Practice Thriving with Families and their Networks

This event is co-sponsored by the Family Therapy Association of Ireland and University College Dublin (Family Therapy Training Programme, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital)

One Day Workshop

With 

Jim Wilson

Date:                   5^th December 2014

Venue:                Ashling Hotel, Parkgate Street, Dublin 8.

Time:                   9.30a.m. – 4.30p.m.

“The mere fact that we recognize the importance of ideals that are better than our existing practice does not in itself mean we are hypocrites or humbugs. It is normal. The whole point of having ideals at all is to criticise current practice. If there were a society whose ideals were no more than a description of its existing behaviour it would be almost inconceivably inert “Mary Midgley, “Science and Poetry” (2001).

This workshop will emphasise a social – relational attempt to keep practice alive in Mental Health and Social Care settings where the endless manufacturing of diagnoses and explanatory theories for problems of living lack a corresponding appreciation of the skills necessary to create contexts of care, curiosity and competence as the basis of sound “humanualised” practices.

“In most…. treatments there is a rush towards meaning leaving the present moment behind. We forget that there is a difference between meaning, in the sense of understanding enough to explain it , and experiencing more deeply “Daniel Stern in “The Present Moment in Psychotherapy and Everyday Life” ( Norton ,2004 )

Jim will offer a “Possibilist” orientation to Practice where creativity, spontaneity and critically reflective thinking are characteristic features, to counter the false dawn of utopian cure-alls or the gathering darkness of pessimism about what can or cannot be achieved. Themes will include;

• Doing what is realistic and negotiable in therapy and family work.
• Expanding the practitioner’s repertoire of possibilities in child and family meetings
• Creating useful connections with clients and patients
• Broadening the range of methods and movement in family sessions.
• Illustrating Possibilist practices in Supervision
• Generating useful dialogue beyond “resistance” , tired explanations, and false certainties, in professional discourse and case meetings

JIM WILSON worked until recently as a Consultant Systemic Psychotherapist (part –time) with Greenwich CAMHS. He is author of papers on aspects of family therapy, its politics, supervision and the treatment of child mental health concerns. His books; “Child Focused Practice; a Collaborative Systemic Approach” (Karnac 1998 ) and “The Performance of Practice ; Enhancing the Repertoire of Therapy with Children and Families“ (Karnac 2007) have been translated into several languages. Jim offers training, consultation and supervision to staff in Mental Health and Social Care organizations in the UK and Europe. He is a founding member of the Open Network for Dialogical Practices (established 2011).

PLACES ARE LIMITED, SO EARLY REGISTRATION IS ADVISED

Please contact FTAI at amdpsy@gmail.com or 01-2722105 to obtain a booking form

Dr. Imelda McCarthy, Fifth Province Centre, Dublin, made a presentation, on behalf of the FTAI, to Katie McGing at the recent FTAI AGM on the 1st March 2014, and spoke about Katie’s enormous contribution to Family Therapy in Ireland as follows:

It is such a delicious privilege to honour Katie McGing, one of the five founders of our Association. Next year, FTAI will be 40 years old and our honoured guest will be all of 90 years old.

In 1974, the Irish Association of Social Workers had a team of five people organise events around the Year of the Family. This team of Social Workers included, Katie McGing, Philip Kearney, Barbara Kohnstamm, Susan Lindsay and Josephine Glynn. At the end of the year, the IASW suggested that this team continue their work outside of the association and so the Family Therapy Network of Ireland, as it was known then, was born in 1975.

Since the outset, Katie was a generous, dynamic and creative force. She opened her home to meetings along with Angela Walsh and she also organised peer group sessions at her agency, St. Michael’s House where she was a senior Social Worker. Here, groups of us had opportunities to see some families using a one way screen. She also invited Virginia Satir to Ireland on a few occasions in the early days. Also, it was Katie who honoured Virginia at the First International Family Therapy Association in Dublin in 1988. Virginia had been invited but unfortunately had died of pancreatic cancer a short time before the meeting. Katie was also on the ‘core group’ of the Network for many years. This was a group of seven who met regularly plotting and planning a future that might unfold.
We dreamed of training programmes and I remember getting Feedback, our Newsletter, up and running on an old Gestetner machine in the Mater Child Guidance Clinic at the time. How far we have come, Katie, from those heady days of conversations in circles on the floor drinking wine. We can remember Margaret Mead’s words – “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”.

Well that small group of seven in the early days made possible what we have today – a complex National Association, Master’s degree programmes in Family Therapy, major national training institutions, several PhD’s which have addressed family and systemic therapy together with internationally recognised therapists.
We have come a long way, thanks to Katie, her dreams and her team of 1974 and 1975. Katie, FTAI honours you and celebrates your wonderful 90 years.

KATIE MC GING HONOURED AT FTAI AGM 2014