Newsletter May 2024
As we return to lighter evenings, with blossom and leaf buds on the trees, here at APPCIOS we are looking forward to thinking together with all the members of our community, in courses, webinars and free discussion groups.
We are planning a free conference in the Autumn Term and we will keep you posted about the date and theme for the day.
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APPCIOS Library
Our library has been blossoming too…
APPCIOS has a free library, open to all members of the Community: we are always updating the shelves with great papers, articles and videos of interest. Just go here to see a list of new arrivals!
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Join Our Free Discussion Groups!
All our Discussion Groups are listed here.
You do not need to be a paying member of APPCIOS to join them, but you do need an account on our community site. If you are reading this, you probably have an account already. If you don't, please contact our Admin team here.
A Space to Think. This is a space where everyone can bring their thoughts and questions about the psychoanalytic implications of everyday life and contemporary public concerns; and explore how we apply this approach to organisational dynamics, human relations and individual mental health. Go here to find out more.
Film Discussion Group - Jackie Horsburgh has kindly taken over from Richard Pratt as convenor for this group. If you are interested in joining just send an email to Jackie Horsburgh & Susan Maciver and they’ll give you more information and the date of the next meeting.
A psychoanalytic reading group, run by Annie Pesskin. Find out more about this here. Guest speaker - Marchelle Farrell discusses her new book, Uprooting, on 10 July 2024 at 7.30pm.
The Reflective Practice group runs on alternative Thursday’s and is facilitated by Tony Burch. You can contact him here if you are interested in joining.
Webinars
To join our CPD webinars you need to be a paying member. Click here to find out how to become a paying member.
You can find a full list of our webinars here.
What’s new:
We are pleased to announce that Emma Higgs and Mark Waddington will be running a year long Work Discussion Group with with Process group attached, starting in September.
When & Where: Meetings will take place over zoom, weekly during term time, on Monday’s 2.30-4pm. Meetings start on Monday 16th Sept 2024 It is recommended that participants sign up for a minimum of 1 year
Supervision Group for Parent Infant Psychotherapy - run by APPCIOS full member Rosalind Field who is inviting expressions of interest now.
When & Where: Initially 10 x1.5 hrs sessions offered weekly online on a Tuesday at 12.00 from 24th September 2024
Lynne Amidon & Phil Faulknerwill begin a Psychoanalytic Experiential Process Group. This is ideal for, but not exclusively open to, members who wish to move to full membership but either lack personal analytic therapy or would like to understand themselves better in groups. This group will start in September 2024
Andrew Briggs will run a 10-week webinar: 'The individual in the Group and the group in the individual: An introduction to some of Bion's ideas'. on Thursdays, 7.30pm-8.30pm. We will keep you posted when the dates have been confirmed.
Andrew Briggs will be delivering his 10-week webinar; ‘Observing Organisations’. on Tuesdays 9.30pm-10.30pm. Dates in September will be posted out in a separate mail out as before.
Trudy Darien and Devika Dhar will run the webinar on Race on 10th June -1st July 2024, Mondays 6.30pm-8pm. Please click on the link, and register your expressions of interest for our seminars by sending an email.
Devika Dhar and Phil Faulkner continue to offer our Infant Observation webinar. Please register your interest by clicking on the link. This is a rolling programme and you can apply to start at the beginning of each term. The seminars are held on Thursdays 4pm-5.15pm and the process group runs fortnightly on Wednesdays, 6pm-7pm.
All of these webinars are considered core webinars as part of the Psychodynamic Organisational Therapy Training and would count towards relevant portfolio experience. They are also excellent CPD opportunities. As always, the running of all webinars depends upon take-up on a first come first served basis so we would encourage you to register your interest or sign up as soon as possible. Trudy Darian is lead co-ordinator of all webinars and can be contacted here should you need help in registering your interest.
The APPCIOS Top-Up Training: leading to BPC registration as a psychodynamic psychotherapist.
We are currently collecting expressions of interest for the new cohort of trainees. If you are an experienced psychoanalytic or psychotherapeutic practitioner who wishes to deepen and develop your clinical practice, broaden your client group and develop your capacity to work in a range of settings - in particular via Zoom follow this link.
Mentoring in APPCIOS
A big thank you to the team of mentors who support our newer members. The role of mentor is central to the supportive and developmental ethos at the heart of APPCIOS. All new members who enter at Associate Member and Senior Associate level are offered a mentor, often an experienced full or senior associate member. Our mentors offer their mentees a termly meeting, which is a reflective space to share experiences and explore ideas and possibilities for connection and development. Many members are looking to gain full membership and progress on a path to organisational membership with the BPC and others are looking for support, spaces to think and develop thinking, an opportunity to connect with a psychodynamically minded community. Would you be interested in becoming a mentor? You could start with one or two mentees, and I am available for support should there be any queries, and we meet as a mentor group termly. The mentoring relationships we make with colleagues are the links that form the network for those of us thinking psychodynamically in organisational settings that is, APPCIOS. If you think you would like to join the mentoring team, get in touch for an informal chat veronica.ohare@outlook.com.
TAX - Claiming the APPCIOS subscription as an expense.
We have now registered as an approved organisation with HMRC so that our members may claim their subscriptions as an expense.
We should appear on the official list after the end of April 2024.
This is what the HMRC website says about it:
Professional fees and subscriptions
You can claim tax relief on:
· professional membership fees, if you must pay the fees to be able to do your job
· annual subscriptions you pay to approved professional bodies or learned societies if being a member of that body or society is relevant to your job
You cannot claim tax relief on life membership subscriptions, or for professional membership fees or annual subscriptions you:
· have not paid yourself (for example if your employer has paid for them)
· have paid to professional organisations that are not approved by HMRC
You can claim for this tax year and the 4 previous tax years.
Sad News
Obituary for Gail Phillips: 1949 - 2024.
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Gail Phillips, who died on April 3rd, was a longstanding member of APPCIOS: she taught and guided others in teaching webinars on therapeutic supervision and infant observation. Many APPCIOS members will remember her from her reliable and thoughtful presence at our Psychosymposium and at a Space to Think. Everyone who worked with her appreciated her unobtrusive intelligence and her generosity. Gail trained as a child psychotherapist relatively late in life, after a long career as a solicitor, and after the traumatic early death of her husband. I first got to know her when she was a student, and we started meeting regularly soon after she qualified. As a couple she and David had built their own local community around their four children, their neighbours and their friends, and after David’s death, Gail kept that community alive, while managing a new career and a growing family that eventually included eight grandchildren. So psychoanalytic thinking and organisational thinking both came naturally to her, and she kept them in equal balance. She was as stalwart in her support of IPCAPA and its child psychotherapy training as she was in her support of APPCIOS; and through her, many other IPCAPA psychotherapists developed an interest in our work. Gail was with APPCIOS from the very beginning, at a time when organisational thinking was unusual amongst child psychotherapists: she and I watched it grow together. Her quiet resilience strengthened its foundations, and helped to shape it.
Jenny Sprince.
And finally:
We would love to be able to provide everything for free, but keeping APPCIOS going costs money and we rely on your contributions and the subscriptions of our paying members.
You’ll find a donate button at the top right-hand corner on every page of our Site, just under the APPCIOS logo.
With warm wishes
Team APPCIOS