About this event
This gentle and evocative session offers the space to consider the ‘crisis’, drawing on its potential, starting from its original connotation (the Ancient Greek words “krisis” and “krino,” meaning “to judge and decide” and “turning point”), to recognise and reclaim our capabilities, strength, creativity and clarity. The session includes guided activities, applying the process of generative thinking and writing (moments of creative meaning making – in words, marks, doodles), to engender an appreciation of our creative resourcefulness in moments of adversity, reviving our awareness of helpful solutions, innate wisdom and compassion, and reconnecting crisis with our primordial intuition.
Working with the group’s synergies, it is possible to explore collective consciousness and strengths, and evoke self-compassion, to attend to the task of ‘meeting the crisis’ and ‘reframing’ its apparent challenges in future occurrences.
Please bring your favourite note-making / doodling tools.
Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event
- Participate in this workshop as a way of untangling negative assumptions from revelations of strength and authentic resourcefulness, in our own and our clients’ readings and interpretations of a crisis (or any word associated with challenge, fear, adversity and deep seated uncertainty, all of which matter).
- Practise utilising short intentional exercises to support clarity and compassionate decision making based on personal strengths and lived experience, beyond or in addition to spoken interaction.
- Explore the potential of group work for meaning-making, to offer generative spaces for compassion and action.
Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?
- Anyone hoping to engage in reflection and meaning-making; therapists, coaches and socially-engaged practitioners.
How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?
- This workshop offers the tools to support individuals and groups facing uncertainties or difficulties, redressing the unhelpful connotations that are associated with a crisis (challenge or decision making) and their entanglement with potentially adverse conditions.
RECORDING
This workshop will be recorded and you can use the ticket function to pre-purchase the recording before the event. This will be useful for colleagues who are not able to attend the event live and also for those who attend the event live and want to watch it again.
ZOOM
This workshop will be hosted on the Zoom meeting platform where we will use our cameras and microphones to interact with each other as a group.
SELF-SELECT FEE
The self-select fee is a radical inclusion policy to open learning for all colleagues. The guide price for this event is £20.00, however, we appreciate that income varies greatly in different locations and circumstances. Please contribute what you can to help us maintain inclusive professional training.
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All the colleagues at ONLINEVENTS and the presenters we collaborate with are committed to working in a manner consistent with the BACP Ethical Framework, which can be accessed on the link below. When registering for this event you are agreeing to be present and interact in a manner that is consistent with this Framework.
Dr Francesca Bernardi
Dr Francesca Bernardi (PhD, FRSA, MA, QTS), is a creative facilitator and coach, community artist, writer and advocate. She trained in Art and Design education and therapy and has worked as a teacher and artist-in-residence in schools, alternative provision and further education. She most consistently engages in multi-disciplinary research, setting up creative environments for critical participatory work with marginalised communities. Francesca has published international research on arts-informed methodologies, autism, childhood and children’s rights; is founding chair of the Antonio Gramsci Society UK, international board member of the Disability Without Abuse Project (Los Angeles), Councillor and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) and Associate Member of CATA (Canadian Art Therapy Association). Francesca is a Visiting Lecturer in Childhood Studies and Research Methods at the Carnegie School of Education (Leeds Beckett University) and Arts Therapies at the University of Roehampton, Francesca is also a translator (Queen’s University Belfast; Routledge) and an editorial board member of the journal Disability & Society.
