Text Box: WORKSHOP FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS Counsellors, Teachers, Social Workers Vision Building, Conflict Resolution Stress Management LEARN WAYS TO SUCCESSFULLY INCORPORATE ART AS AN EXPRESSIVE THERAPY INTO YOUR PRACTICE and to ENHANCE YOUR EXISTING SKILLS WITH ART THERAPY Develop non verbal communication skills. Ideal for support agencies to incorporate into one on one counseling group or family work. Ideal to incorporate into Professional Practice as a tool to enhance conflict resolution in day to day practice, enhance communication. PLEASE EMAIL FOR FURTHER INFO STUDIO19 email Workshops can be conducted in your workplace by arrangement. One day or two day workshops

 

The advantage of art therapy

 

is that even though children and adults are not always able to verbalise what is happening for them or how they feel, interaction in art therapy may be totally non-verbal until there is confidence to communicate verbally.

The art helps hold that quiet space.

 

Alternatively there are those who may over-verbalise, blocking feelings and thoughts which need expression; here interaction may be totally verbal until there is courage to mark a blank piece of paper, work with clay make a mask, or create an art work. In other words, art contributes to a fine balance within the therapeutic relationship attending to more aspects of a personality than would otherwise be accessible.

 

  WORKSHOP

 

*Why Art Therapy Helps.    *How it Works  * Visual Thinking and Expressing What Words sometimes cannot.

*Mediums—horses for courses

 *Reconnecting with your intuitive creativity – an integral part of the skill.

*Old messages about being creative.   *Reflecting the visual. 

*Theory of the creative process: difference between thinking and intuiting.  *Working in the Now.

*Stimulating the imagination and creativity. 

*Creative Visualisations.

*Holding up the mirror to the picture.  *Attending observing and listening. 

*Art and children.

*Leonardo’s Device.  *Group Mandala. *Group Dynamics  - Team Building –Working Together

A Team Effort—Conflict Resolution

 *Putting skills to practice       

*Closure.

 

Workshops may be conducted in your workplace and may take place on 1 day or over a weekend with greater

activities and interactive techniques incorporated.

 

 

 

OBJECTIVES

Through experiential art therapy techniques and exercises to  build skills that  may be used by Professionals to enhance existing  skills— extending communication skills into non verbal, visual and tactile forms using Art Therapy skills. To Look at Group Dynamics with application to own work practice in Team Building and Conflict Resolution.

Professionals learn skills by applying a series of art expression work exercises to their their own lives and work. Accent is on developing intuitive creativity and understanding of non verbal communications, metaskills, parallel process and field interventions to enhance communication skills. Developing the means to use art in your own supervision and stress management