CPD Weekend 2026
Join us on 13th-15th November for a weekend of connection & powerful CPD workshops
Join us for our annual weekend of connection, community and SIRPA specific CPD workshops!
Professional development that nourishes you, your practice and your community
Charney Manor, Oxfordshire, OX12 0EJ
Friday 13th Nov - Sunday 15th Nov 2026
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Ready to deepen your practice, nourish yourself and connect with your community?
The SIRPA CPD Weekend is so much more than a collection of workshops. It’s an invitation to step out of the busyness of everyday practice and into a supportive, thoughtful space where learning, reflection and connection naturally unfold.
Designed for SIRPA Informed and SIRPA Practitioners, this weekend offers high-quality CPD alongside restorative, nurturing sessions that support both you and your work.
Led by Those Who Truly Know the Work
The weekend is led by Georgie and the experienced and dedicated SIRPA Membership Board — practitioners who live and breathe the approach and understand its nuances in real-world practice.
Their depth of experience, shared language and authenticity create a learning environment that feels grounded, relevant and genuinely supportive.
CPD is powerful when it deepens learning, turning existing knowledge into confident, skilful real-world practice.
“Being led by people who truly ‘get it’ and model authenticity helps us all to be more authentic.”
A Thoughtfully Curated Programme
Across the weekend, you’ll take part in a blend of practical workshops and experiential, reflective sessions.
This balance allows learning to be integrated at a deeper level — not just intellectually, but personally.
The programme supports you to:
- deepen your understanding of the SIRPA approach
- explore how to integrate it into your own professional context
- reflect on beliefs, patterns and responses that influence both client work and personal wellbeing
Many participants describe the weekend as feeling retreat-like: spacious, grounding and nourishing, while still offering robust, relevant CPD.
"A really well thought through programme, great mixture of content. I will take so much away with me and filter not only my practice with clients but my own wellbeing and approach to life. Well done SIRPA team!!!"
Learn Together, Across Disciplines
You’ll be held in a collegial, inclusive space alongside practitioners from a wide range of professional backgrounds.
These cross-disciplinary conversations enrich learning, strengthen professional relationships and reinforce shared foundations of SIRPA-based practice.
There is time to ask questions, share experiences, reflect together and learn from one another — all within a community that understands the complexity of the work you do.
N.B. We will have a Facebook Group for you to join so we can share information in the leadup to the event and this will include a form for you to submit your dietary and room preferences.
"What a privilege to spend a CPD weekend with a group of inspirational, compassionate, wise and wonderful people. I feel filled up and so grateful to be part of the incredible SIRPA community. Keep doing what you are doing everyone, your work is so valuable and important!"
Timetable
(full session descriptions for each session are provided after the timetable)
Friday 13th November
1:00pm – For those interested in meeting beforehand for a walk, we are planning an easy/moderate 2 hour walk near the venue.
4:00pm - Check-in at Charney Manor. The weekend officially begins!
5:00pm – Welcome with Georgie Oldfield An introduction to the weekend, setting intentions and outlining key themes.
5:15pm – Getting to know each other session with Zoe Thompson A facilitated session to build connection and create a supportive group environment.
6:30pm - Dinner and relax with your colleagues
Saturday 14th November
8:00am – Guided Hypnosis: Preparing Your Energy for the Day (optional and led by Zoe Thompson) A calming guided practice to ground, centre, and prepare for the day.
8:30am - Breakfast
9:30am – Categories of Trauma – led by Georgie Oldfield: An overview of the SIRPA trauma framework, exploring how unresolved trauma shapes beliefs, behaviours, and traits, and clarifying scope of practice.
10:00am - Clinical Relevance of trauma and the SIRPA approach: keeping the client and therapist safe – led by Irralee Andrzejowska and Pippa Cossens: A trauma-informed, experiential workshop focusing on safety, grounding, and supporting both client and practitioner.
Coffee Break - at a suitable time
1:00pm – Lunch
2:00pm – Beliefs, Behaviours, Traits and the Art of Change - led by Catherine Pollitt: A reflective exploration of subconscious beliefs and patterns, supporting insight and meaningful change in personal and client work.
3.30pm - Tea Break
4:00pm – SIRPA's Chatty Shack: Small-group discussions to explore questions, share experiences, and deepen understanding of SIRPA in practice.
5:00pm – End of the day, optional 30-minute Restorative Session: Gentle restorative practices to relax, unwind, and integrate the day, choose from: •Yoga Nidra with Carole Randell •Restorative Movement class with Irralee Andrzejowska
6:30pm - Dinner
Sunday 15th November
8:00am – Morning Meditation session (optional and led by Catherine Pollitt) A guided meditation to support presence, grounding, and clarity.
8.30am - Breakfast
9:30am – Spreading the word – led by Zoe Thompson: A practical session on communicating SIRPA-informed work with confidence and authenticity.
11.00am - Coffee Break
11.30am – Pre-assessment forms - panel discussion: A cross-disciplinary discussion on using pre-assessment forms effectively, including confidentiality and GDPR considerations.
1:00pm - Lunchtime
2:00pm - Gentle Walk for those who want to stay and connect for longer
4:00pm - Final check out and leave
"You receive a great welcome at the CPD weekend- everyone is so friendly and we all have a lot in common to chat about. It is good learning in a relaxed manner with lots of time to ask questions. I would definitely recommend the CPD weekend."
Session Descriptions
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Categories of Trauma
Led by Georgie Oldfield
This session offers a concise and accessible overview of the trauma framework taught within the training, exploring how unresolved trauma can lead to self-induced pressure through learned beliefs, behaviours, and personality traits. Georgie will explain the origins of common traits and triggers, and how they develop as adaptive responses. The session will also introduce a safe, trauma-informed approach to supporting clients by working with the physiological response to unresolved trauma in the present moment, rather than revisiting or processing the trauma psychotherapeutically. This foundational session sets the scene for the workshops throughout the day and clarifies the distinct roles and scope of practice of SIRPA-Informed professionals and SIRPA Practitioners, and how each can effectively support clients using this understanding.
Clinical Relevance of Trauma and the SIRPA Approach: Keeping the Client and Therapist Safe
Led by Irralee Andrzejowska and Pippa Cossens
SIRPA is not talk therapy or trauma therapy and most of us are not trained trauma therapists. However, many of our clients, like all humans, have experienced small T and some big T trauma. SIRPA training provides education of up-to-date trauma science so that we can be trauma-informed in our work. This workshop will reinforce our understanding and will include experiential work to cover:
- Understanding how unresolved trauma affects the mindbody and the impact this can have on each individual
- Explanation from lived experience
- Experiential demo and practice throughout the morning of grounding and safety practice to use with clients
- Keeping the client safe
- Keeping the therapist safe
Beliefs, Behaviours, Traits and the Art of Change
Led by Catherine Pollitt
A gentle dive into the many faulty beliefs, limiting behaviours and personality traits that sit within our subconscious and quietly guide our choices and actions in everyday life — often without our awareness. This session offers a compassionate inquiry into their origins and how they connect with one another, both personally and within our work with clients.
Through reflective and experiential exercises, we will explore what may be holding each of us back, while considering and accepting the truth behind new, more empowering beliefs. From this place, participants will be supported to redefine refreshed commitments that can be carried forward into meaningful positive change — for ourselves and in how we navigate beliefs in client work.
The Chatty Shack
Facilitated Small Group Discussions
Whether you’re curious about how to integrate the SIRPA approach into your existing practice, working with a complex client situation, or exploring ideas to develop your work, this is a supportive space to ask questions, exchange insights and learn from one another. In small groups this is an opportunity to explore the bigger questions that have emerged from the day, share experience across disciplines, and deepen your understanding through conversation.
Spreading the Word
Led by Zoe Thompson
This will be a practical and experiential session designed to support you in sharing this work more confidently and clearly with the wider world. Through group discussion, reflection on real-world experiences (such as Pain Cafés, community events and exhibiting), and gentle somatic and visualisation practices, participants will explore accessible ways of talking about their work, engaging an audience, and communicating with impact.
The session includes practical tips for presenting and facilitating groups, alongside embodied preparation to help you feel grounded, authentic, and resourced whenever you talk to clients about this approach.
Pre-Assessment Forms – Panel Discussion
This interactive panel brings together professionals from different disciplines to explore how pre-assessment forms can be used effectively in day-to-day practice. The discussion will look at adapting forms to suit different clients, contexts and professional roles, with practical insights from across professions.
There will be space for questions and discussion, alongside guidance on GDPR, confidentiality and the safe handling of client information, helping you use pre-assessment forms with confidence and clarity.
"A wonderful weekend of connection with so many lovely individuals all championing the holistic approach of mindbody health, whilst also being guided to delve deeper into some topical personal & professional development. Uplifting, informative and forward focused!"
Pricing
SIRPA Members
Membership has its perks!
SIRPA member weekend tickets are subsidised so you receive 15% off. You can find the discount code in the "Member Benefits, Discounts & Affiliate Info" course on New Zenler. Use this code at the checkout.
Weekend Tickets
Enjoy the full experience!
Weekend tickets give you access to all sessions and a hassle free, incredible weekend. Flexible payment plans are available. Staying for the full weekend is the best way to meet people, have those all-important informal chats, and feel most connected within the SIRPA community.
Day Tickets
New for this year!
If you can’t make the full weekend, day tickets are a perfect way to join in. This ticket allows you to attend all of the Saturday sessions and leave the day feeling inspired and uplifted.
Choose the option below which feels right for you:
(payment plans are available for weekend tickets only.)
Weekend - 10 month payment plan
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Weekend - 6 month payment plan
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Weekend - 4 month payment plan
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NOTE: Cancellations more than one month before the event will receive a 50% refund. We’re unable to offer refunds for cancellations made within one month of the event—thank you for your understanding.
