Inside the CPD Workshop for Student Counsellors: Grid Society at Active Learning, Guildford

Team Gridmoves
Nov 24, 2024
3 min read

Updated: Oct 3

From Partnership to Presence: The Spark Behind Our Guildford Workshop

You might remember our earlier post, “How a Counselling Partnership and a Competition Brought a Grid Society Workshop to Guildford,” where we shared how Counselling First and CPCAB ran a competition for training centres.

The prize was a visit from Grid Society to deliver our signature workshop, “Confront the Grey Voices: Overcome Your Inner Critic.” This was a CPD workshop for student counsellors.

The participants were second-year counselling students. They were thoughtful, open, fully engaged, and brought insight, energy, and a willingness to be challenged.

This experience began because Maggie King entered the competition and it unfolded the way it did because of who she is: deeply committed to her counselling students’ growth.

The Big Day at Guildford: A Grid Society Workshop Recap

After weeks of preparation, we travelled from London to Guildford College filled with excitement. From the moment we arrived, the reception was warm and genuine.

We set up immediately, preparing the room with our signature Grid Society workbooks and creating an atmosphere designed for clarity, reflection and inner work.

Maggie and her two co-lecturers were incredibly supportive throughout the day. They helped everything flow with ease and brought a calm, grounded presence that shaped the tone of the room beautifully.

Counselling Students

The participants were second-year counselling students; they were thoughtful, open and fully engaged. They brought insight, energy and a willingness to be challenged. Every student contributed. In true Grid Society fashion, we rewarded the first few brave voices with Grid Society gifts, building momentum and encouraging honest participation.

They took to the tools quickly. Their ability to self-analyse and apply the frameworks in real time was powerful to watch. One of the standout moments was hearing them use Grid Society language back to us before the session had even ended. That level of resonance is always the proof.

Thank You, Maggie

We are thankful to Maggie and her team for creating the space that allowed this workshop to be what it was. It was a day of insight, courage and clarity. And we left knowing that the impact would continue long after we packed up and left the room.

Visual from Grid Society’s online CPD workshop showing a laptop, printed workbook, and slide deck used to teach tools for qualified and student counsellors.

JOIN OUR CPD WORKSHOP

IT'S TIME TO UPGRADE YOUR TOOLS

Innovative strategies to silence the inner critic and strengthen your client's self-esteem.

🫵

Workshop: Go!

Enhance your toolkit with visual & practical tools that align with theory.

“Metaphors enrich counselling by making intangible experiences tangible. They bridge abstract emotions and concrete images, engage memory and emotion and help clients externalise parts of themselves, like the inner critic”

BOOK YOUR SPACE NOW!

ONLINE

Workshop: Join 4 Reasons

You want to broaden your toolkit with client-ready methods that meet modern challenges in the room.
You support clients facing self-doubt, perfectionism or imposter syndrome, and you want a clearer, more effective way through.
You want strategies that align with the models you have been trained in, without abandoning your theoretical ground.
You are ready to use a framework that helps clients verbalise their emotional state, so you can work at greater depth with clarity.

About - Silencing the Inner Critic

Silencing the Inner Critic is a 6-hour live CPD workshop co-created by Counselling First and Grid Society. Backed by over 100 verified reviews and officially endorsed by CPCAB, this session is designed to expand your practice, not replace it, offering modern tools that work seamlessly with your existing modality.

Whether your clients spiral into overthinking, freeze under pressure, or carry a harsh inner narrative, this workshop gives you adaptable strategies that help them express what they are feeling, so you can work at greater depth, not just surface level.

The day is structured, practical and rooted in real-world application, no roleplay, no over-theoretical content. Just a proven framework you can use in the counselling room immediately.