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tPCA Residential Conference 2025: Compassion as 'a way of being'.

We welcome all those involved in promoting and developing the person centred approach through counselling, supervising, teaching, studying, writing and research.

Friday 11 July to Sunday 13 July

The Hayes Conference Centre, Swanwick, Alfreton, Derbyshire, DE55 1AT

Theme for the 2025 conference

In these turbulent times, the 2025 conference will focus upon what it means for us as person-centred practitioners to have compassion for ourselves, others and our community. We welcome proposals for one and two hour workshops and presentations, from individuals and teams. If you have an idea and/or would like support with creating or facilitating a workshop/presentation please feel free to contact us at conference@the-pca.org.uk.  

Presenters (or teams of presenters) receive £80.00 discount on the full conference fee and we ask that, as a presenter, you do attend the full conference (residential or non-residential).  If you have any questions or queries at all just get in touch, we are happy to help.

Meet the Conference Team

Following many years of organising interesting and enjoyable conferences Eva,  Janet and Pauline have decided to step back and support the development of a new conference team.

We are:

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Debbie Bentley: I work in private practice offering person centred counselling, clinical supervision
(individual and group) and CPD workshops. I also facilitate the PCA's monthly Education and
Research SIGs, and am currently completing a Doctorate.

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Moira Bishop: I have been passionate about the Person-Centred approach since I first read Person-
Centred Counselling in Action, it was like coming home. I ran an agency offering Person-Centred
Counselling to anyone regardless of how much they could pay. I was then asked to teach Person-
Centred Counselling at the local college and I spent 27 years there.

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Danny Cottrell: I am a person-centred counsellor, supervisor and tutor. I currently support children living in residential and foster care settings, and am particularly interested in facilitating reflective practice sessions for carers and social workers.

Costs

Residential rates include refreshments and meals.  All rooms are single occupancy with ensuite facilities.

Non-residential rates and Saturday day rate include refreshments, lunch and dinner.

A discount is available for tPCA members of £30 for the full conference and £20 for the day rate.  Membership of tPCA is £38.00 (and is free for trainees);  you can find out more and join here.

Full conference, residential
before 20/1/25:    £375
after    20/1/25:    £410

Full conference, non residential
before 20/1/25:    £235
after    20/1/25:    £265

Day rate (Saturday)
before 20/1/25:    £125
after    20/1/25:    £145

Bursaries
Each year we offer a small number of bursaries, to enable attendance at the residential conference,  by those who might otherwise struggle to afford the fee.  These have all been allocated for this conference, however we do hold a waiting list in case further bursaries become available following donations. Please email Kathy at admin@the-pca.org.uk to find out more. 

Donation to the Bursary FundI
f you would like to make a donation to the bursary fund, to support the attendance of people who may not otherwise be able to attend, you can do so here.  

 

Book for full conference
Book for Saturday only

Cancellation policy

We understand that situations arise that mean that attendees may no longer be able to attend and wish to cancel their place and receive a refund. 

If we are able to resell your place we will give you a full refund; if we are not able to resell your place you will receive a partial refund, depending on when you cancel. 

Before 11 Jan 25:  100% refund on cancellation

Before 11 Jun 25:   50% refund on cancellation; full refund if we can resell the place

After    11 Jun 25:     0% refund on cancellation; full refund if we can resell the place 

Programme

Information about the programme will appear here, as it beomes aviailable.