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Conference 2004 Keynote speakers Margot Sunderland – Neuroscience and its relevance of to the future of counselling in education This keynote aims to empower all those involved in therapy in education, through providing an understanding of how therapeutic intervention and psychological awareness in schools, can offer so much to children on a neurobiological as well as psychological level. In other words, the high quality relational experiences integral to the emotionally healthy school, the 'one to ones' and the therapeutically based small groups can have a profound effect on a child's developing brain, changing fine details of their neurobiochemistry and neuroanatomy. Furthermore with all recent governmental emphasis on National Healthy schools, therapy and counselling have now an even greater role to play than ever before. This presentation will therefore address the premises that in order to promote social change via therapy in education, a knowledge base of neuroscience is key. Hence when therapy in education is informed by the latest scientific research, its potential to have far reaching effects on children and therefore society as a whole, is greatly strengthened. "Neuroscience riches are now so vast that all subfields of psychology must begin to integrate a new and strange landscape into their thinking … This new knowledge will have great power to affect human welfare." (Jaak Panksepp 1998 p.11) Margot Sunderland, Integrative Child Psychotherapist and Integrative Arts Psychotherapist is Director of Education and Training at The Centre for Child Mental Health, London. She is author of 20 published books in the field of Child Mental Health, one of which won a BMA award. She is also founder of Helping Where It Hurts, a 'therapy in schools' organisation, which operates in several primary schools in North London. For 18 years Margot was Principal of The Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education which runs two Masters Degree programmes in Integrative Child Psychology and Integrative Arts Therapy (leading to UKCP registration). Margot's research area is The Power of Human Interaction on the Hardwiring and Chemical Balance in the Brain. She has been studying with top neurobiologists from the USA. Margot's first career was a Drama and Dance teacher in secondary schools. Camila Batmanghelidj – Shooting and talking Camila Bamanghelidjh has a training in Fine and Performing Arts. She knew since she was nine years old that she would work with vulnerable children. She trained as a psychotherapist and lay on a psychoanalytic couch five days a week for sixteen years in search of boredom, she says it never arrived, however the couch did break once! Her life is never without an adventure. She described her work as a vocation for which she has to raise £2million a year. In her early twenties Camila set up The Place To Be, currently a national programme offering therapy in schools. In her early thirties Camila set up Kids Company which delivers both practical and therapeutic interventions to exceptionally vulnerable inner city children. In her early forties Camila guarantees she will not run a camel sanctuary, anything is possible!
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