A workshop designed for qualified practitioners and senior trainees, interested in furthering their understanding and use of creative arts processes within their client work.  

It offers a combination of theoretical delivery and experiential learning , structured over two weekends. Delivered within an integrative and relational framework, it incorporate aspects of TA, Gestalt and Jungian modalities. The origins and value of the imagination, of play and of creative living, will be referenced, primarily from the work of Donald Winnicott, paediatrician and psychoanalyst.  

A certificate of attendance will be given to those successfully completing the four day module.

‘The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity.’ Carl Jung

This workshop explores the value of image and mark-making, and the potential of ‘found’ imagery.

Image and metaphor offer languages to express what may not be conveyed in words, offering bridges to unconscious and transpersonal material as sources of symbolic and metaphoric insight.

In the therapeutic space, an image can serve to express, embody and contain personal experience and feeling states; the therapists shared image or metaphor, can equally attune to a clients experience, fundamentally communicating the sense of being heard and ‘existing’ in relationship.

This four day workshop offers opportunities to directly engage with visual imagery and metaphor, through a range of art materials and experiential exercises.

Tutor: Suki Abbott (UKCP reg. Integrative Arts Psychotherapist.) runs a successful private practice in the Weald of Kent, offering psychotherapy and clinical supervision. She works with children, young people and adults. A qualified trainer since 1991, Suki has delivered training in Humanistic Counselling locally for a number of years, including more recently at the Link Centre.

Suki has an extensive background in working with the arts, including ten years in the North of England as a Community Arts facilitator, working with voluntary sector groups and organisations, engaged with campaigns, exhibitions and performance. She has worked in a range of settings as an arts psychotherapist, including residential contexts, working with clients and staff teams supporting person centred practice and offering creative arts interventions to clients with various special needs.

Costs

1 x four day module              £ 295.00

Venue

The Link Centre, Headway House, Jackies Lane, Newick, Sussex, BN8 4QX