Greetings from Sunway Counselling and Wellness! 

We are proud to present you a workshop happening on 7 to 9 August 2023 about using Family Therapy modalities in Individual Therapy. 

An individual’s struggles are not limited within the four walls or in isolation.
Families greatly shapes a person's life experiences and affects their well-being. It's important to consider how family dynamics may contribute to a person's struggles.
Alternatively, family dynamics can be a valuable resource for a person to overcome struggles. Including family theories into individual therapy provides a more comprehensive understanding of the individual’s struggles.
 This 18-hour skills-based workshop aims to focus on incorporating systemic perspective and family modalities into individual therapy, covering theories, tools and skills of different family modalities.
Some of the tools and skills covered in this workshop include genogram, circular questioning, sequencing and enactments.
This workshop highly encourages participation by including case discussion and case studies amongst participants to equip more in-depth understanding and skills application throughout the workshop. 

Learning objectives

In this workshop, the participants will:

1. Gain tools and skills set in family modalities from interactive learning in training.
2. Improve knowledge about family modalities and application of such modalities in individual therapy.

It is our wish to have participants to be engaged and effective learning experience from the workshop. Therefore, it is encouraged for participants to fill up a case summary template to bring into the workshop. It is optional to share, and more details will be given upon confomration of registration. Be prepared to engage for case discussion and presentation, as there are rich opportunities in learning and engage the skills and tools of family therapy to engage more social and relational resources in therapy. 
 

Pre-requisites 

1. This programme is designed for: 
   • Licensed and Registered Counsellor
   • Clinical Psychologist
   • Psychiatrist 
   • Social Worker 
2. Practitioner must be actively seeing or providing therapy to individual clients (at least the past year). 

Workshop Details
Date: 7th, 8th & 9th of August 2023
Time: 9:00am - 5:00pm 
Venue: Function Room 3, Sunway University
Trainer: Darrel Lourdes 
Organiser: Sunway Counselling & Wellness, Student LIFE, Sunway University. 

Workshop Fee (Per Pax)
Group-of-3: RM 690 (before 30 June 2023) 
Early bird: RM 750 (Before 30 June 2023) 
Normal rate : RM850 (Effective on 1st July 2023 onwards) 
*Registration closes on 21st July 2023 and on first come first serve basis. 
*Morning tea and lunch will be provided throughout the training. 

Cancellation Policy

1. No cancellations are allowed, but a substitute participant can attend at no extra charge if the organiser is notified in writing at least one week before the programme. The substitute participant must fill out a registration form.

2. If the organiser cancels the program, they will provide either an alternative day and time for the programme or a full refund to the participants. However, the organiser is not responsible for any incidental costs that a participant may incur as a result of the programme's cancellation.

Trainer's brief profile: 
Darrel Lourdes has been working as a licensed and registered counsellor, working with mainly couples and families in Andolfi Family Therapy Centre. He has a Masters in Counselling, a Certificate in Family Therapy and is currently being supervised by Professor Andolfi, a master family therapist. He has completed his Graduate Diploma in Multigenerational Family Therapy with the University of Rome in 2022. Prior to getting into counselling, he worked at Intel and Shell for more than 20 years. He was the HR Director of Shell before pursuing a career in counselling. Since then, he has been relentlessly seeing many couples and families across ages. He is actively seeing 10 to 12 families and couples per week since 2019.

Workshop Itinerary
Day One - 7th August 2023 (Monday) 
0830 : Registration
0900 : Introduction & Understanding Systemic Therapy
1035 : Morning Tea Break 
1105 : Relocating the problem into the system 
1245 : Lunch
1345 : Working with interactive patterns 1
1515 : Rest break 
1535 : Working with interactive patterns 2 
1700 : End 

Day Two- 8th August 2023 (Tuesday) 
0900 : Looking at history
1035 : Morning Tea break 
1105 : The use of genogram (History Mapping)
1245 : Lunch
1345 : Enactments
1515 : Rest break 
1535 : The self of the therapist
1700 : End 

Day Three - 9th August 2023 (Wednesday) 
0900 : Recap 
1035 : Morning Tea break
1105 : Case Review/Discussion
1245 : Lunch
1345 : Case Review/Discussion 
1515 : Rest break 
1535 : Review & Closure 
1700 : End 

• The above itinerary is subject to change to optimize participant's learning experience. 
• e-Certificate will be emailed to participants upon completion of the three-days workshop.
• A total of 6 CPD points (Knowledge and Skills component 2) by Lembaga Kaunselor Malaysia will be given to licensed and registered counsellors upon completion of the three-days workshop. Kindly provide us your KB/PA registration number during registration. 

For any further inquiries, kindly email us at counselling@imail.sunway.edu.my 

We hope to see you there! 

All tickets are now sold out. Registrations are now closed. 
Thank you for your interest!