Workshop Description
The powerful processes stirred up by loss, grief and transition may move us beyond the reach of words.
This highly practical, skills-based workshop will offer participants the opportunity to experiment with a wide range of creative techniques which can be used both to contain the pain of loss and the fear of the new/unknown, and to offer healing at a profound level.
We will also explore how different techniques may be appropriate at different stages of the process of letting go or of making changes.
Techniques explored may include, amongst others - small worlds, containers, collage, writing, movement and landscaping, two-chair work, projection work.
We will cover at least 5 techniques during the workshop, chosen according to the needs of the participants.
Tutor:
Andrea Perry, BSc(Hons) Psychology practiced as a Dramatherapist, counsellor and manager in mental health following a post graduate diploma in Dramatherapy (University of Hertfordshire). She was Chair of the British Association of Dramatherapists (1995-97). She qualified and practiced as an integrative psychotherapist (post-graduate diploma from the Minster Centre, London, 1996). She taught integrative counselling at Kingston College, and worked for many years as a supervisor. She is the author of two books on procrastination and another on claustrophobia. She now offers consultancy to individuals and a wide variety of organizations, runs a publishing company, writes for the national press and is a regular contributor to Psychologies magazine and BBC radio.
This highly practical, skills-based workshop will offer participants the opportunity to experiment with a wide range of creative techniques which can be used both to contain the pain of loss and the fear of the new/unknown, and to offer healing at a profound level.
We will also explore how different techniques may be appropriate at different stages of the process of letting go or of making changes.
Techniques explored may include, amongst others - small worlds, containers, collage, writing, movement and landscaping, two-chair work, projection work.
We will cover at least 5 techniques during the workshop, chosen according to the needs of the participants.
Tutor:
Andrea Perry, BSc(Hons) Psychology practiced as a Dramatherapist, counsellor and manager in mental health following a post graduate diploma in Dramatherapy (University of Hertfordshire). She was Chair of the British Association of Dramatherapists (1995-97). She qualified and practiced as an integrative psychotherapist (post-graduate diploma from the Minster Centre, London, 1996). She taught integrative counselling at Kingston College, and worked for many years as a supervisor. She is the author of two books on procrastination and another on claustrophobia. She now offers consultancy to individuals and a wide variety of organizations, runs a publishing company, writes for the national press and is a regular contributor to Psychologies magazine and BBC radio.