About this event
Person-centred therapist Andy Whitehouse and land artist James Brunt offer an invitation to play, to improvise a creative response to the environment we find ourselves in using materials found in the landscape. This could be anything from stones on a balcony through to leaves in a wood or pebbles on a shoreline or riverbank. Can we find an empathic response to our environment, and create something in which we find our own meanings. How might that transfer to and refresh our practice as therapists? What is exposed in terms of our conditions of worth when we step into improvisation, and how can this help us to truly find ourselves? The benefits of play and improvisation, drawing on the ideas of Rogers and Winnicott, are broadly explored with an invitation to participants to step outside in their own neighbourhood, as James and Andy broadcast from a Yorkshire landscape. Share what you find when you shake off the shackles and allow yourself to play!
Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event
- Enhanced understanding of empathy.
- Increased recognition of factors that inhibit our capacity to improvise in our practice and in our lives.
- New creative routes into symbolisation of experience to offer to clients when working outdoors.
Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?
- Therapists, educationalists. community workers and creative practitioners
How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?
- Increased freedom in improvisation, an improved confidence in empathic response, and a broader range of activities to offer to the client for their own reflection and personal development.
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.
Andy Whitehouse
Andy Whitehouse is a person-centred therapist, supervisor and trainer who’s love of the foundations of the person-centred approach has led to him teaching at The Metanoia Institute. He is also a creative person who has used this aspect to explore themes central to the person-centred approach in music, film and installation.
James Brunt
James Brunt creates elaborate ephemeral artworks using the natural materials he finds in forests, parks, and beaches near his home in Yorkshire, England. This form of land art involves detailed patterns, textures, and shapes formed using multiples of one kind of material. Brunt collects twigs, rocks, and leaves and arranges them in mandala-like spirals, geometric patterns and concentric circles.
