Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for Teams and Services

I design reflective practice days, workshops, and trainings for teams who want to think together about the emotional, symbolic, and organisational life of their work. These sessions create spacious, imaginative containers where groups can explore the themes that feel most alive for them.

How sessions are shaped

I usually meet with team leads or organisers beforehand to sense what is wanted. From these early conversations, a few possible directions often emerge:

Creative reflective practice
Working with stories such as The Death Mother, The Singing Bone, or other fairytales as symbolic frames for exploring themes like organisational neglect, vitality, trust, risk, or imaginative repair. Story and metaphor open associative thinking and deepen collective inquiry.

Thematic reflective practice
Focusing on motifs that are already circulating in the team — change, uncertainty, belonging, rupture, or renewal. These sessions weave storytelling, dialogue, and group analysis to help teams think at client, team, and organisational levels.

Theory‑focused workshops
A more structured exploration of group analytic concepts, boundaries, containment, and the social unconscious. These sessions offer grounding theory alongside space for applied discussion.
Teams often begin to sense what they most need: a particular story, a recurring theme, or a theoretical thread that wants more room. The final shape of the day grows from this shared noticing.

Format
Sessions can be offered:
Online — via Zoom or another platform
In‑person — at your organisation or team away day
Half‑day and full‑day formats are available. A typical rhythm for a half‑day is 75 minutes, a 30‑minute break, then another 75 minutes. Larger groups follow a similar structure with adjustments as needed.
A review conversation with organisers is offered afterwards to reflect on themes that emerged and consider next steps.

Examples of past workshops
A police wellbeing service exploring Unwanted Visitors through The Tiger Who Came to Tea, thinking about intrusion, overwhelm, and the emotional labour of frontline work
A charity‑based psychology service reflecting on trust, betrayal, and repair using Hansel and Gretel as a symbolic frame
An NHS neonate service working with themes of MDT dynamics, care, and the pressures of high‑stakes environments
Teams using symbolic material to think about organisational strain, care, and resilience, and how these circulate through group life

Booking
If your team is exploring similar territory, I’m always happy to think together about what kind of container might serve the work. Online events for groups can be booked directly, or we can arrange a bespoke session shaped around your service’s needs.