Training days

Enabling Children to Speak About Feelings Through the Arts

Cost: £125 for each day (10.00am-5.30pm. Registration: 9.30am-10.00am)

These days are designed to enable child professionals to help children to speak about feelings through the arts and to know how to respond when they do. Children’s primary language for feelings is not one of literal words; however, enter the realm of image and metaphor, and given the right art media, they often speak profoundly and with ease. By and large, the training days will be structured with case material in the morning, demonstrating how children and adolescents have been enabled to speak about their feelings through a particular art form. In the afternoon there will be time to experience for yourself the communicative power of the art form. You will take away a host of safe tools and techniques.

All training days are run by Senior Integrative Arts Psychotherapists or Integrative Child Psychotherapists with years of experience of working with children in both education and psychotherapy.

Saturday 29 May 2010
Calm, Creativity and Competence: Learn Relaxation, Calming Techniques and Guided Visualisation to Enable Children to Access Learning and Positive Confidence (ages 4-16)
Trainer: Ellie Baker
Research shows that relaxation techniques, creative visualisation and guided meditations help to regulate children’s emotions and stress levels and this in turn enhances their capacity to access learning. In this training you will learn the basic skills required to lead both groups and individuals in these processes. You will be empowered to help build children’s self esteem, enhance their imaginative capacities and learn how to support the creation of a calm, creative and competent learning environment. You will also have the opportunity to experience for yourself the calming and healing effects of guided visualisations.

Saturday 10 July 2010
Enabling Children to Speak About Feelings Through Sandplay (ages 4-16)
Trainer: Roz Read
Learn how to use the sandtray and miniature toys as a creative and fun intervention for exploring children's relationship to self, others and life experiences. Whether one-to-one, groups, classroom or in the therapy room; there is a place for this patent, ready-made tool that offers the child the structure and psychological safety to communicate what he needs. You will hear case studies, learn practical skills and have the opportunity to experience sandplay yourself.

Saturday 11 September 2010
Helping Children with Anger (ages 4-16)
Trainer: Anna-Michele Hantler
This day offers essential skills to enable children and teenagers who are locked in anger to be able to move from discharging their feelings to the capacity to reflect. The tools and techniques are designed so that children and teenagers will feel interested and enthused rather than shamed or embarrassed. A vital day for anyone working with challenging children/teenagers who present with oppositional defiance, conduct disorder and other forms of anti-social behaviour.

Saturday 16 October 2010
Enabling Children to Speak About Feelings Through Multi-Arts (ages 4-16)
Trainers: Ellie Baker and Stuart Lane
Children’s primary language for feelings is not one of everyday language; however, enter the realm of image and metaphor, and given the right art media, they often speak profoundly and with ease. Through the use of case studies, supporting theory and experiential exercises you will learn how to use painting, drawing and other art media to support children to speak about their feelings in safe and contained ways. You will leave with practical tools and techniques that are suited to one to one work, groups and the whole class.

Saturday 6 November 2010
Bullying: Effective Tools and Hands-On Interventions (ages 4-16)
Trainer: Anna-Michele Hantle
This day offers a wealth of creative and innovative tools and techniques for practitioners working with children/ teenagers who bully. Underlying reasons will be addressed so that intervention is appropriate for each specific child. The day will address how to have that vital therapeutic conversation with children/teenagers who gain pleasure in hurting others or who lash out as a result of how they themselves have been treated.

Saturday 27 November 2010
Enabling Children to Speak About Feelings Through Emotional Literacy Games and Exercises (ages 4-16)
Trainers: Ellie Baker and Stuart Lane
On this training day you will learn about the neuroscientific needs behind the playing of games and how the introduction of particular games can develop social and emotional intelligence. You will gain understanding about which child needs which game and how to start to think about these needs. A rich tool bag of techniques, age appropriate games and creative ideas will enrich whatever work you do with children..

Saturday 11 December 2010
Using the Arts to Improve Parent-Child Communication (Ages 4-16)
Trainer: Ellie Baker
This important area of work is often the missing link in helping children to talk about feelings and this training will support you to find creative and meaningful ways to build warm and positive relationships between parents and children. Finding the words to describe our inner world is often just too hard for adult and child alike so the Arts can provide a bridge to communication. You will learn how to support conversation, healing and repair using various Arts forms and techniques. You will find ways to support parents and children to build on their strengths and bring joy and creativity into their relationships.

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