Safe Space provides access to a wide range of trauma training, with an annual CPD programme including in-person workshops and online world-class therapists.
With thanks to Fife Voluntary Action Community Health and Wellbeing Fund for making these specialist events possible.
Sunday 18th and Sunday 25th October 2026
10.45am - 4.45pm both days
2-day workshop which offers a theoretical framework to examine links and commonalities between these areas, drawing on experiential working, case discussion and group demonstration, to include:
- The distorting effects of shame
- Links with overwhelming emotion & depersonalisation
- Effects on body image
- Survivors' perspectives
- Inter-related physiological & psychological dimensions
- Implications of recent findings in neuroscience research
- Flexible & creative empathic responses to shame-based communication
- Impact of policies and procedures
- Further learning resources
Sunday 8th and Sunday 15th November 2026
10.45am - 4.45pm both days
2-day workshop integrating theoretical, experiential and practice elements, to explore the threads of relating which can be subtly affected by traumatic experience, to include:
- The nature of empathy (the spectrum; fundamental aspects of humanity and connectedness; congruent communication)
- The impact of trauma (developing sense of self; silence, secrecy and confusion)
- Conflicting personal dynamics in relation to the unspoken (acceptance/rejection; a framework to understand and explore merging/withdrawal)
- Somatic reactions (adrenaline; sexuality; dissociative experiences)
- Developing understanding of "professional" vs "personal" processes (aspects of supervision; commitment to self-care
External participants are welcome to join at a cost of £100 for workshop 1,
and £200 for both workshops 1 and 2
Please contact Safe Space directly to book
Skills and Process Guidance with DID
Sunday 30th August 2026
Keeping perspective on fragmentation without losing sight of the therapeutic tasks in the room.
Eating Disorders
Sunday 4th October 2026
Moving from compulsion to exploration, the central role of the self-concept, and the significance of comfort and self-control in relationship to food and people. Skills and techniques to develop insight and influence using grounding and titration.
Chairwork with Internal Parts and External Others
Sunday 1st November 2026
Talking to rather than talking about. Sidestepping guilt or blame and black/white characterisation to develop self-responsibility and a more defined inner world. Unfinished business and blocks to moving forward. We will also touch on a particular use of chairwork with parentification and neglect.
Narcissistic Threads in Relating and Communicating
Sunday 29th November 2026
The balance and structure of power in self and relationship; how do I receive the attention I need to hold myself together when I’m expected to change. The profound need for positive self-emotion, and the amygdala influence in regaining recognisable control.
Suicide and the Instinct for Integration
Sunday 6th December 2026
Drawing on the relationship and the client’s history to activate and validate cognitive, sensory and emotional motivations in suicidal pre-occupation. Developing security in entering the client’s perspective without overwhelm.
Inside the Relationship
Sunday 17th January 2027
Drawing out random thoughts, emotional reactions, and ‘unprofessional’ responses which can distract us from becoming insightful about the implicit dynamics taking place in energy bodies and mirror neurones. Both the hardest and easiest client relationships which might benefit from enlightened exploration.
OCD and the Need for Security
Sunday 21st February 2027
Action that resolves the fear of wrong doing and causing hurt by being a flawed person. How we can emphasise the instinct and the relief rather than questioning the nature of the problem. This workshop will include aspects of self-injury, eating disorders, rigid routine, and habitual thought processes, and explore how we enter this experience in a way that creates space for clients to perceive the possibility of space.
Shame; dysregulation; sensorimotor psychotherapy
Access to modules and presentations by Carolyn Spring, Babette Rothschild, Christiane Sanderson, Bessel van der Kolk, Pat Ogden, Peter Levine, Cathy Steele and others, via Nscience, NICABM and The Awake Network.