We are looking for suitably qualified and experienced counsellors/therapists /psychologists to facilitate our “Heart Of England Model”  for domestic abusers, both males and females.

Our programme ran very regularly in London and Birmingham and more recently in Wakefield. We had facilitators available to largely cover those requirements.

In the light of the decommissioning of the DAPPs by the MOJ it has meant that geographically our clients are emerging from all over the UK, England Scotland and Wales.

We extended our programme “up north” to the Wakefield / Sheffield area with a view to extending to Manchester/Liverpool  regions.   However it became apparent we probably needed to move with the times and we have now consequently altered the format to an 8 x 3-hr zoom format plus a 1 day face-to-face. Zoom is currently carried out on  4 successive Sunday and 4 successive Wednesday evenings, 6.30 – 9.30 on the Sundays and 7.p.m. -10.00 p.m on the WEdnesdays.

We invite interested parties to make contact with a view to seeing how we work. PLease provide a brief outline of the experiences and training you consider relevant.

To take part in this please email David at temperdv@gmail.com

We work in a highly intensive model as above a closed group, led by a male and a female facilitator working co-operatively together.

Originally the view of the training required was to “take part” in two  courses  to get a feeling for the content and understand something of the make-up of clients and how our group process works, it is with both male and female clients, very few females but …..   And then to deliver two courses with an experienced facilitator before branching out.

With the advent aof Zoom the early part of that training has now been   condensed down to a) a zoom meeting to understand and practise “pair talking”   b) a zoom meeting to to understand the theoretical  underpinnings c) a face-to-face day with other trainees to undertake “experiential exercises”  – for which compensatory expenses would be paid.

Background knowledge is very much Attachment theory and being accustomed to a psychodynamic way of working with experiential exercises. Some of the reading which has influenced the improvements in the work over the last 30 years are contained in this link