Teaching for Learning: A Workshop with Clare Simmonds

This event is for all Qualified Members of the bpf

Taking on the role of teacher in a psychotherapy/psychoanalysis training programme is something that many clinicians do, often without formal preparation. Teaching practice thus develops ‘on the job’, and the main resource (at least initially) that teachers refer to are the experiences that they had as students when training.

This workshop is an opportunity for experienced and beginning teachers, and those thinking of teaching in the future to critically evaluate their current or future teaching practice through the lens of recent developments in learning theory, and to share practice with like-minded colleagues.

Key areas of focus in the workshop will include:

• The planning and preparation phase of teaching
• The choice and use of readings in teaching sessions
• Balancing didactic and interactive activities
• Managing transitions in teaching sessions
• The role of teacher in moderating discussions
• Working with the some key conundrums and conflicts that can arise in teaching session

Facilitator: Clare Simmonds

Clare’s initial career was in the field of primary education in New Zealand. As a recipient of a Fulbright scholarship, she then completed a PhD in the philosophy of education at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Alongside her subsequent work in the field of educational research and medical education in the UK, Clare trained as a psychodynamic psychotherapist (WPF) and more recently as a Jungian analyst with the British Jungian Analytic Association (BJAA) at the BPF. She now works in private practice in London and Buckinghamshire.