Tutor information
Graham Wilson
A PhD in animal behaviour, and initial career in organisation development followed by psychotherapy training, led Graham to practise as an executive confidant for 20+ years. He has taught counselling, psychology and photography at Oxford and elsewhere for a decade. Recently retired as Coordinator of HE Counselling Courses at Guildford College, his research interests include the use of imagery to provoke positive behavioural change within communities. Graham currently leads programmes of therapeutic photography within Oxfordshire. He has written more than ten textbooks.
Courses
This course helps any coach deepen their practice in various ways: enhancing intervention skills, better understanding clients' needs, drawing on evidence, exploring attitudes to work/clients, and expanding client bases and professional standing.
This course will help anyone interested in using coaching, whether professionally, as a life skill, or to achieve better results in their work with others. Thought-provoking and practical, this course explores the theory and skills of good coaching.
Whether you are a counsellor already, keen to understand the power of this approach, wish to integrate it into your own practice, or a professional in one of the many disciplines that have been influenced by it, then this course should fascinate you.
Explore the definition and history of emotions; the innate/constructed debate; core emotions, positive emotions and psychopathology; provoking their outward expression; role in motivation and behaviour; the connection to wisdom, values, and religion.
This course helps any coach deepen their practice in various ways: enhancing intervention skills, better understanding clients' needs, drawing on evidence, exploring attitudes to work/clients, and expanding client bases and professional standing.
Drawing on psychology, sociology, anthropology and education, this day aims to help coaches of all backgrounds, and levels of experience, explore recent developments that affect their practice, highlight sources and pinpoint themes to watch in the future.
Discover how emotions can be conveyed through photography. By blending psychological theory with technical practice, this course will help you deepen your work, engage with your audience, and provoke positive change.