Tony Buckley

 

Character is a persistent model of insight and change for over a century.  This presentation is a whistlestop overview of that history highlighting the relevance of theory in facilitating therapeutic change in treatment settings.

The topic explores how character dovetails with attachment theory and  models which examine developmental themes.  The presentation is lively, informative and interactive enabling participants to become curious about their own sculpting through early life experiences.

The nature of character is to become fixed almost in a Darwinian sense of natural adaptation like animals to their habitat in the wild. The secrets within the theory is that although resistant it is also highly plastic and clients can become their own agents of change in areas where these adaptations become maladaptive in context of their modern lives.

Different adaptational strategies will be outlined incorporating embodied elements and aspects affecting gesture, musculature, posture, emotion, movement, thinking and behavior patterns.  Participants will take away many useful insights and intervention tips.  Limiting and dysfuncitonal beliefs are studied as central coalescing forces of character.

An additional workshop will be offered for experiental exploration of themes and skills exploring fixity and plasticity dynamics of personality and character.

 

 

 

Tony Buckley, BA, is een BACP-geregistreerde therapeut (170042) met een BA Hons-graad in counseling, een diploma in supervisie en een certificaat van onderwijs. Tony heeft meer dan 25 jaar ervaring op therapeutisch gebied, waaronder supervisie, privépraktijk en het beheren van counselors in zowel een universitaire omgeving als een adolescente counselingdienst binnen de vrijwilligerssector.

Hij is de manager van de Counselling and Trauma Service for Transport for London (London Underground), die een tijdelijke traumadienst aanbiedt. Tony is voorzitter van de UK Association of Sensorimotor Psychotherapists en een internationale Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Trainer.

Hij is co-auteur van "the Role of the Body in Fostering Resilience: a Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Perspective" (2019), gepubliceerd in het Journal of Body Movement and Dance Psychotherapy.