Sheffield meeting

On Monday 12th November, Emmy (UK Partner for Dilemma), Digby and myself (UK Partner and Researcher for Sheffield) met in ScHARR to discuss the CEP project. We were joined by Julie Foers and Steve Preston from the Finance department here in ScHARR. It was really helpful to go through the work packages and remind ourselves of what we are committed to doing for CEP. It was also very helpful to have the support of Julie and Steve who will be looking after the finances for the University of Sheffield, and ensuring that we record our project activity and spending in the right way.

In the meeting, we looked at the work that Dilemma Training have done in preparing a new Moodle site which will contain the course materials, and enable the partners to start customising them for their own students' needs. So although the partnership has been a little slow to take off, it is brilliant to see that so much progress has already been made on the course materials and their new home.

We hope to make telephone contact this week with the French and Belgian partners to move forward on the arrangements for meeting up face-to-face.

Emmy's new book

Good news- our UK partner from Dilemma Consultancy Ltd., Emmy van Deurzen, has a new book called "Psychotherapy and the Quest for Happiness" being published shortly by Sage. This book has been informed in part by Emmy's work as a partner on the previous SEPTIMUS project, along with her lifelong experience as a psychotherapy practitioner and teacher (Emmy is Director of the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling in London. I am sure it will be required reading for the students who enroll on the CEP courses in the future.

Planning for the partner meeting

We have been trying to organise our first partner meeting, but it has proved difficult to contact partners to find a time when everyone can attend in Sheffield. We had scheduled a meeting in Sheffield for Monday 10th November, but our Belgian partner may not now be able to travel. So we will either rearrange the meeting for the coming weeks in Leuven, Belgium, or we will hold a smaller meeting here in Sheffield as scheduled, possibly with the French partner, possibly just with the UK staff.