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Major new PCW Opportunities coming soon
By Nick Kemp on 9 February 2017 in PCW training I am currently planning a major overhaul of how Provocative Change Works will be taught. This will include greater emphasis on skill development, access to unreleased video material, 1 – 1 opportunities to work with myself, the development of an advanced practitioner training, creating specialized niche trainings, access to the extensive Frank Farrelly for Provocative Therapy archive and a planned route to developing a future training group for PCW. This process will take some time to fully complete and a more detailed schedule will be first shared with existing PCW practitioners and students and then...
The PCW Exploration Group and the value of improvisation
One of the biggest challenges in teaching provocative change works and provocative therapy is teaching students the need to improvise in client sessions. This is an essential skill for any effective coach or therapist. I talked to Frank Farrelly, the creator of Provocative Therapy extensively about this. He regularly lamented the fact that many workshop attendees wanted him to explain his work one piece at a time in a logical, digital, sequential sequence. Frank of course never obliged for two reasons. The first was that provocative style communication doesn’t work this way when working with clients and secondly dumbing down...
Pro bono work with PCW by Nick Kemp
Since creating the PCW model over a decade ago, each month I generally see a number of pro bono clients in my Nick Kemp Therapy Leeds clinic. These are generally referred from Leeds community health from Liz, a longstanding senior worker. I have always taken the view that its important to work with a wide demographic of people and of course these clients would be unable to afford my standard session rates. Most of these clients are extremely distressed and many are unable to read or write, so Liz will complete the client information for them. Typical conditions include anxiety,...
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