Trainings 2008

The 'Enabling Children to Speak About Feelings Through the Arts' Series

Cost: £110 for each day

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 6th September 2008
Enabling Children to Speak About Feelings Through Emotional Literacy Games and Exercises (Ages 4-16)
Trainer: Ellie Baker
Registered Integrative Child Psychotherapist, Trainer in Integrative Child Psychotherapy and Parent-Child Therapy (IATE, London). Consultant and Trainer in Parenting and Communication Skills. Founder of HeartSpace, Holistic, Education and Art Related Therapies.

Saturday 13th September 2008
Enabling Children to Speak About Feelings in Small Groups with Circle Time Techniques (Ages 4-16)
Trainer: Anna-Michele Hantler
Psychotherapist and Education Consultant and Trainer to many LEAs. Consultant on bullying and emotional literacy. Set up anti-bullying programmes in many schools. Specialist in working with children with emotional and behavioural difficulties.

Saturday 11th October 2008
Enabling Children to Speak About Feelings Through Life Story Work (Ages 4-16)
Trainer: Richard Rose
Richard is responsible for directing and developing the activities of the Mary Walsh Institute, including its range of higher education qualifications up to MA level in therapeutic child care, a series of vocational training programmes for the child care workforce, and professional consultancy throughout the UK. With a background in local authority child protection and practice teaching, he joined SACCS in 1997 and created the Life Story process, a major part of the renowned SACCS Recovery Programme. This programme is fully described in Richard’s book forming part of the SACCS Delivering Recovery series (co-authored by Terry Philpot). ‘The Child’s Own Story - Life Story Work with Traumatized Children’ is published by Jessica Kingsley.

Saturday 8th November 2008
Enabling Children to Speak About Feelings Through Sandplay and Puppetry (Ages 4-16)
Trainer: Simon Harrison
UKCP Registered Psychosynthesis Psychotherapist, Counsellor, Trainer for Childline.

Saturday 29th November 2008
Enabling Children to Speak About Feelings Through the Arts
(Ages 4-16)
Trainer: Ellie Baker
Registered Integrative Child Psychotherapist, Trainer in Integrative Child Psychotherapy and Parent-Child Therapy (IATE, London). Consultant and Trainer in Parenting and Communication Skills. Founder of HeartSpace, Holistic, Education and Art Related Therapies.

Saturday 13th December 2008
Using the Arts to Improve Parent-Child Communication (Ages 4-16)
Trainer: Ellie Baker
Registered Integrative Child Psychotherapist, Trainer in Integrative Child Psychotherapy and Parent-Child Therapy (IATE, London). Consultant and Trainer in Parenting and Communication Skills. Founder of HeartSpace, Holistic, Education and Art Related Therapies.

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