Purple Therapy by Anthea Benjamin
ORGANISATIONAL SERVICES
INCLUDING CONSULTANCY
Anthea is a Group Analyst who offers a range of supportive services to organisations in the form of consultancy for organisational change to improve inclusion and address changes within teams. This often includes reflective spaces for senior management team members, staff reflective groups and team supervision services.
Organisational consultancy can offer rich insights into how teams / groups/ teams interact, behave and respond to each other. Fears, hopes and patterns of behaviour that don’t normally get observed in daily life can be studied and discussed in an atmosphere of deep insight and kindness. The groups offered provides an opportunity to work through a range of issues, helping you experience healthier ways of relating in teams and organisational settings.
For more information on services, availability and fees, complete the web contact form leaving brief details of your enquiry. Anthea aims to respond to all requests within 48 hours.
Training Services
Anthea offers comprehensive training in a range of settings to enable individuals to develop good working skills and knowledge to enable them to work more in depth therapeutically. Anthea’s training focuses on a range of themes from working with adoption, looked after children, adolescent development, impact of trauma on children and young people and adults, attachment, loss, grief, working with anger, working with groups and other key topics within psychotherapy. Workshops can be designed in line with your requirements and your team's commitments.
Group Therapy Services
Group therapy is a form of psychotherapy that involves one therapist working with several people at the same time.
How does group therapy work?
Groups can be as small as four people, but group therapy sessions often involve around eight individuals. The group typically meets once or twice each week for 90 minutes.
What does a typical group therapy session look like?
In many cases, the group will meet in a room where the chairs are arranged in a circle so that each member can see each other in the group.
Members will then talk about issue that are affecting them in their lives and support each other, challenging each other and offer insight into each other’s lives enabling each other to grow.
The group conductor will support the group to go deeper and understand how they share differences and similarities and can be a resource to each other.
Group therapy is a powerful way of addressing relational patterns and difficulties in action with other group members that leads to lasting change.
Reasons to use group therapy
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Group therapy allows people to receive the support and encouragement of the other members of the group. People participating in the group can see that others are going through the same thing, which can help them feel less alone.
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Group members can serve as role models to other members of the group. By observing someone successfully coping with a problem, other members of the group can see that there is hope for recovery. As each person progresses, they can, in turn, serve as a role model and support figure for others. This can help foster feelings of success and accomplishment.
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Group therapy is often very affordable. Instead of focusing on just one client at a time, the therapist can devote his or her time to a much larger group of people.
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Group therapy offers a safe haven. The setting allows people to practice behaviours and actions within the safety and security of the group.
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By working in a group, the therapist can see first-hand how each person responds to other people and behaves in social situations. Using this information, the therapist can provide valuable feedback to each client.
This being human is a guest house
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they are a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still treat each guest honourably.
He may be clearing you out for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.
- Rumi