CURRICULUM VITAE

Peter Zelaskowski      

Date of birth 17th September 1960

Address: Barcelona, Spain

Phone: (0034) 628 915 040 or (0034) 93 6759276

E-mail: peterzelaskowski@ono.com

 

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CURRENT WORK

 

(Since 2001) Lecturer in the theory and practice of group analysis, tutor, large group facilitator: Masters (Universidad de Barcelona) Art Therapy, METAFORA Centre d'estudis d'art terapia, Papin 29, 08028, BCN. www.metafora.org

 

(Since 2003) Co-leader clinical supervision group, lecturer in case presentation & large group facilitator, Masters (Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona) Dance Movement Therapy.

http://magno.uab.es/_r_masterdmt/inici.htm

 

Affiliate Counsellor Barcelona, PPC Worldwide – Employee Assistance Programme.

www.ppcworldwide.com

 

I am in private practice as a Psychotherapist & Supervisor www.groupworks.info

 

 

ACTIVE MEMBERSHIPS

 

§ Registered with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy www.psychotherapy.org.uk

§ Clinical Member Universities Psychotherapy & Counselling Association www.upca.org.uk

§ Since 1998, member of the internet based Group Psychotherapy Forum.

§ Since 2000, member of the Barcelona Network of English Speaking Therapists www.barcelonanest.com

 

 

EDUCATION & TRAINING

 

SCHOOL: King Edward VI School, Aston, Birmingham. 1972-1979

HIGHER EDUCATION: University of Sheffield. 1980-1983 BA (Hons) Political Theory and Institutions with minor in Existential Philosophy

 

PSYCHOTHERAPY TRAINING

University of London, Goldsmiths College. 1988-1991

Professional Diploma in Group Psychotherapy - UKCP registration in 1999

 

Honorary Attachment (Group and Individual Psychotherapy) The Psychotherapy Unit, St. Bartholomew's Hospital, Department of Psychological Medicine  Sept 89-July 94

Supervisor (group): Dr. Vivienne Cohen (Group Analyst)

Supervisor (individual): Joan Reggiori (Jungian Analytical Psychologist)

 

TEACHER TRAINING

1.  University of London, Institute of Education. 1986-1987  PGCE in Social Studies.  Specialism: Gender in Education UK-DES number: RP86/51712

2. Trinity College Cert. TESOL, Next Training, Barcelona (October 99)

 

 

 

SHORT COURSES GIVEN

 

28th May 2010: La Massana, Escola de Arte, Barcelona: Teorías y técnicas grupales (4 hours/Spanish).

 

March 2010: 8 hour short course given in English in Metafora’s International Workshop on how the arts and group therapy have combined.

 

10th June 2008: ‘Las Artes y Psicoterapia’: introductory course given in Spanish on the ways in which psychotherapy and the arts combine. Metafora, Centre d'estudis d'art terapia.

 

(Since 2002) ‘El Arte de Convivir’: introduction to living and working in groups. A short course of between 4 and 8 hours given annually in Spanish as either part of Metafora’s Art Therapy summer school or Metafora’s introductory courses in art therapy.

 

 

COUNSELLING/PSYCHOTHERAPY EXPERIENCE

 

1991-1999 Group Psychotherapist, Assessment  Counsellor & Lecturer in group theory.

WPF Counselling, University, 23 Kensington Square, London.  W8 5HN Tel: 0207 937 6956

Supervisors: Derek Love and Kay Preston

 

Oct 98-July 99 Psychotherapist (waiting-list project)

Bexley and Greenwich Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services

 

1993-1998 Group Psychotherapist

Open Door,  Hornsey Young People's Consultation Service

12 Middle Lane, Crouch End, London. N8 8PL Tel: 0208 348 6235

Supervisor: Group Analyst, Dr. Harold Behr

Team Supervisor: Psychoanalyst, Dr. Anthony Bateman

 

June 97-July 99 Employee Assistance Programme Counsellor, Kent County Council Support Line, Astley House, Hastings Road, Maidstone, Kent  ME15 7SQ. Tel: 01622 670531

Solution focused brief therapy (7 session model) for workers in affiliated organisations.

 

Jan 98-May 98 Psychotherapist (waiting-list project)

Invicta Community Care NHS Trust, Sevenoaks Hospital Clinical Psychology Service

 

Oct 89-July 94 Honorary Group and Individual Psychotherapist

The Psychotherapy Unit,  St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London

                                                                                                                         

Founder partner GODOLPHIN GROUP THERAPY PRACTICE

48 Godolphin Road, Shepherds Bush, London. W12 8JF

 

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 

Feb 94-Dec 97: Individual Learning Support Teacher

Southwark Education Learning Support Service, 2 Davey Street, London. SE15 6LH

 

Sep 89-Dec 93: Teacher-in-charge, The Alternative Education Centre

18 St Mary's Road, London. SE15 2DW.  Southwark Education Authority

 

Sept 88-Aug 89: Teacher of Sociology and Economics

Copthall School, Barnet Education Authority

 

Sept 87-Aug 88: Teacher of Sociology

Enfield County School, Enfield Education Authority

 

PAST PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

 

· 2008-2009 Member of the International Association for Group Psychotherapy and Group Processes www.iagp.com

· European Association of Transcultural Group Analysis

· Group Analytic Society – former Associate Member

· Professional member (former Secretary) - British Association of Group Psychotherapists

· Goldsmiths Association of Group Psychotherapists (Former Chair and co-founder)

· Psychotherapists and Counsellors for Social Responsibility - Education Group founder member

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

Zelaskowski, P. (1997). Group Psychotherapists and Schools. Group-Analytic Contexts

Zelaskowski, P. (1998). The Suboptimal Group. Group Analysis, 31:4, 491-504.

Link to a collection of writings posted on the Group Analytic Society website: http://groupanalyticsociety.co.uk/?page_id=131

My Way - column for the newsletter of the British Association of Group Psychotherapists:

http://www.groupworks.info/writing/cover.htm

outsider magazine – contributor (2001):

http://www.groupworks.info/writing/bcn.htm

 

CITATIONS

 

Bledin, K. (2006). Empty Spaces in Group-Analytic Psychotherapy Groups. Group Analysis, 39: 203-213.

Hopper, E. (2003). Traumatic experience in the unconscious life of groups: the fourth basic assumption. Jessica Kingsley Publications: International Library of Group Analysis.

Nitsun, M. (2000). The Shadow of the Group in the Dawn of the 21st Century: The Journey from Varniai. Group, Vol. 24, Numbers 2-3, 115-122.

Rowland, C. (2003). Against the clock – time-limited dynamic group work in a student counselling service.  Psychodynamic Practice: Individuals, Groups and Organisations, Vol. 9, Issue 4, 463–483.

 

 

CONFERENCES AND TRAINING ACTIVITIES

 

§ Group Analytic Society ‘Median Group Dialogue’ 1991-1992, convened and conducted by Sheila Thompson and Kevin Power.

§ British Association of Group Psychotherapists workshop on ‘The Suboptimal Group’, March 1997.

§ International Association of Group Psychotherapists' Congress - London, August 98. Paper presented: ‘The Suboptimal Group.’

§ European Federation of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists, Group Section Congress - Barcelona, May 1999, “From Fragmentation to Cohesion.”

§ 3er Congreso Nacional de la Asociación de Psicoterapia Analítica Grupal – Sitges, Spain.

November 1999.

§ Solution Focused Brief Therapy and Working with Depression, PPC Affiliate training course, Oxford, Spring 2004.

§ Keynote address to the Goldsmiths Association of Group Psychotherapists’ annual conference, paper entitled: ‘Exploring Our Roots’, 22nd May 2004

§ European Association for Transcultural Group Analysis Congress, “Europe, Myths and Realities”, Budapest, 25th - 28th May 2006.

§ IAGP III Regional Mediterranean Congress, Barcelona, February/March 2008. Paper presented: ‘Adrift on the Med: a Northern European Moves South’ – presented in Spanish.

§ 14th European Symposium in Group Analysis (GAS): Dublin, Ireland, August 2008, “Despair, Dialogue, Desire.”

§ Barcelona Network of English Speaking Therapists workshop opening talk on: ‘Networks, Network Theory and Social Networking’, 25th May 2010.

 

 

PERSONAL PSYCHOTHERAPY

 

1988 – 1992 Member of Psychotherapy Group conducted by group analyst Tom Hamrogue at the Institute of Group Analysis

 

 

LANGUAGES SPOKEN

 

English mother tongue. Fluent Spanish.

 

 

NB. The gaps in my working career between the summer of 1999 and 2002 can be accounted for by house husbandry and fatherhood (my second child was born at that time), adapting to life in Spain and various posts as a teacher of English as a foreign language.

 

Peter Zelaskowski

May 2010