Location, times and cost

This supportive, friendly group will run at 5-6pm once a month on a Saturday at the Holiday Inn Royal Victoria Hotel, Victoria Station Road, Sheffield, S4 7YE (off Park Square roundabout, near Victoria Quays). The room is called Victoria 5 and is on the annex next to the top car park. The door is between the top car park and some steps leading up from the hotel to a small garden with seating.

This is our training room where we run our hypnotherapy training course. This means that, provided the group doesn't become too big for the room, there will be no charge. If a charge does become necessary in the future it would be small, to cover the room hire, expenses, and admin. Obviously, provided you are on the emailing list, we will notify you of any changes.

Please find the dates on the main events page here.

Atmosphere and content

The atmosphere will be informal and the discussion open to anything of interest, including thoughts on individual cases, techniques and ethics. If anyone wants to give short presentations on specialisms and interests that would be great (and a good way to build a referral system from peers). There is a whiteboard and flipchart. Please bring your own food and drinks or you can buy them at the hotel.

Who is it for?

Hypnotherapists of all persuasions, interests, and any professional membership are welcome. You must be in a professional body or have every intention of joining one. You might be a new therapist or very experienced; you may be wondering how to get started with your nice new certificate or buckling under the weight of qualifications and gongs!

About the co-ordinator and facilitators

The co-ordinator is me - Paul Peace. I am a National Council for Hypnotherapy Accredited Supervisor and GHR one-to-one supervisor, practising hypnotherapist, hypnotherapy trainer and Chartered Psychologist. My qualifications are: Certificate in Hypnotherapeutic Supervision, PhD and BSc Psychology, Hypnotherapy Practitioner Diploma, GQHP, NLP Master Practitioner, Master Practitioner of Timeline Re-patterning, and EMDR trained.

Karen Bartle, BSc Psychology, DipH, HPD, GQHP, DipNLP, hypnotherapy trainer and health psychologist in training, will help to facilitate the group.

Meeting the supervisory requirements of professional bodies

The peer group would not be sufficient supervision for new therapists (though it is a great addition). I can provide separate differential supervision if this is required. It should qualify as peer vision if you are experienced and no longer needing differential supervision. If there is interest I will consider running a differential supervision group as well.

Ground rules

Supervision groups seem to come and go, quite often because of deteriorating group dynamics after the initial excitement, and particularly group politics and people not feeling valued. I want this to be enjoyable and to this end everyone attending the group is bound by the following ground rules:

• Respect axes of difference (gender, sexuality, ethnicity, age, ability, etc.).
• Respect differences of opinion. If necessary, challenge the point not the person and with a non-emotive, calm, respectful tone and language.
• No domination of airtime by individuals - everyone should have access to equal voice.
• Respect the venue.
• Confidential information is to be contained within the group and preferably client's names should not be used.
• Gentle awareness raising of your practice, your skills, CPDs you run, and your professional bodies and allegiances, etc. is fine. However, no one is to use these sessions as a pushy or lengthy marketing exercise that makes people uncomfortable. The final judgement about this rests with the person on the receiving end of such pitches!
• Turn off mobile phones.
• If anything is troubling you, including people breaking the ground rules, discuss it with me rather than letting it become entrenched.

As well, there is no such thing as a 'silly question'. If we have a problem with people saying, "I know this might sound silly but…" I will install the equivalent of a swear box (a self-esteem box?) and it will cost you! Proceeds to Chrystal Radio at the Sheffield Children's Hospital. And please keep me up to date with changes of contact details.

I run a very busy practice so I would be grateful if you could contact me by email rather than telephone once you have decided to join the group.

Attending

Please let me know if you plan to attend so I can get a feel for numbers.

If you know anyone who might like to come along please ask them to contact me by email.