'Enabling Children to Speak About Feelings Through the Arts'
These days are designed to enable anyone working with or living with children to help them 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 everyday 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, these training days will be structured with case material in the morning, demonstrating how children and teenagers have been enabled to speak about their feelings through a particular art form. In the afternoon there will be time for participants to experience for themselves the communicative power of the art form. Participants will take away a host of safe tools and techniques.
Working with image and the imagination with Karen Stallard
This day will include some theory around using the arts therapeutically and the creative process, but much of the day will be responding to images and making art, reflecting on the process and towards the end of the day collaborating together in small groups to exhibit the art to one another.
Embodied Exploration with Polly Teale
Polly explores the ways we carry our history in our body and how we might hold the wounded parts of ourselves with curiosity and compassion. Our bodies and brains are hardwired to protect us from danger, but we often anticipate a threat that is no longer present. Using embodied work and clay she shares ways to encourage creative exploration of our inner world.
Enabling Children to Speak About Feelings Through Storytelling with Ellie Baker
During the day we will explore why stories are such a powerful tool for working with children and young people and consider a number of ways to work with them. Underpinned by up-to-date theory the day will bring experiential learning and creativity to the fore. Through encounters with imagination and creativity children can learn to symbolise their feelings into meaning and find voice, expression and description for their inner worlds, which can then be witnessed and heard by an empathic other.
Enabling Children and Young People to Speak About Feelings Through Body and Movement with Carla Barber-Doyle
This training will be an introduction to exploring how to work with the body and movement as an image; how to explore our own bodies as works of art, and how we can use them to heal.
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Company Registration 11457893
WELLMINDS UK LIMITED
Palladium House, 1-4 Argyll Street,
London, United Kingdom, W1F 7LD
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