Are you a counsellor looking to introduce more creativity in your practice but unsure where to start? Do you wish you could offer more to your clients but feel limited by your current skills and knowledge? Or maybe you’re feeling stuck in a routine, using the same techniques repeatedly, and yearning for a fresh approach.
If any of this resonates with you, our Course is the perfect training for you.
Discover the Power of Creative Activities in Therapy.
Imagine transforming your counselling sessions with hands-on creative activities across various mediums. This approach is more than a trend, it’s a powerful modality to enhance your effectiveness as a helping Professional. Here’s why creativity is making waves in therapeutic contexts:
- Uncover Unconscious Motivations: Creative activities help bring unconscious beliefs to light.
- Develop Intuition and Self-Awareness: Engaging in creative processes fosters trust in intuition and deeper self-awareness.
- Access Hidden Memories: Creative methods can unlock past experiences that words alone cannot reach.
- Unlock New Perspectives: Creativity can release areas where clients are stuck, going round and round the same thought pattern.
- Work Through Issues Safely: Creative interventions can allow clients to process issues without triggering emotional responses.
About the Course
Our Introductory course offers a comprehensive introduction to using practical creativity in therapy. You’ll learn to create a safe and inviting space for clients to explore their unconscious mind in ways that words alone cannot achieve.
It’s designed for those who want to be more experimental and creative but don’t necessarily see themselves as traditionally artistic. It’s ideal for counsellors, therapists, art therapists and coaches eager to integrate practical creativity ethically and competently into their practice.
This is an experiential course, and you will be working in pairs to learn and experience The ChrisLin Method.
PARTICIPANTS ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE VIDEO AND AUDIO ON AT ALL TIMES.
This Introduction in creative skills will enhance your practice, enrich your professional toolkit and rejuvenate your counselling approach. Embrace creativity to offer more to your clients and see how it transforms their journey.
Join us and discover a new dimension of therapy that goes beyond words.
This course will introduce you to The ChrisLin Method and specifically the 5-steps and 9- Core Questions that will form the bedrock of your creative practice and develop your confidence to work in this way. This Method has been developed over years of working creatively with clients and documented in our acclaimed book “The ChrisLin Method, 5 Steps for Working Creatively with Imagery & Metaphor”
In the course you’ll learn to:
- Introduce Creativity to a Client: Understand how to establish a creative and safe environment for your clients.
- The Process of Creation: Giving time and space for clients to develop a creation
- Exploring Creation: Increase your ability to be curious and explore the client’s creation, using The 9 Core Questions
- Integrating Change: Exploring different integration methods
- Closing the Session: Aligning the clients goals and new way forward
CPD & Foundation Certificate
You will receive an Onlinevents CPD Certificate for attending this course.
You can convert this certificate to a Foundation Certificate in the ChrisLin Method by attending this course and evidence of attending 4 Awakening Creativity Workshops.
Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event:
- Understand how to establish a creative and safe environment for your clients and engage them in creative work.
- Experience how to be curious about the clients creation and expertly apply The 9 Core Questions
- Learn how to somatically integrate the change the client has experienced and successfully close a creative session
Who is This Course Appropriate For?
- This course is ideal for counsellors, therapists, art therapists and coaches eager to integrate practical creativity ethically and competently into their practice.
How May This Course Impact Your Practice?
- This course makes working creatively with clients accessible to all practitioners. It is designed for those who want to be more experimental and creative but don’t necessarily see themselves as traditionally artistic.
Presenter
Christina trained as a humanistic psychologist and counsellor in the early 1980′s and then went on to develop skills in Art Therapy and sand play, and became a NLP Trainer, hypnotherapist and a Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling Practitioner. Christina brings a deep understanding of the structure of clients thinking and over 35 years’ experience to the ChrisLin Method. She has worked as a counsellor, personal coach, team consultant and executive development coach and today she is a Coach Supervisor, Executive and Leadership coach and works with individuals using her unique 2-day Chrysalis process.
Lindsey found her real calling and moved from a career in the Tech sector in Sales and HR to qualify as an NLP practitioner, trained in many approaches including Clean Language, Transactional Analysis, CBT and Motivational Interviewing and is CIPD qualified. Her work is highly influenced by Bessel van der Kolk, Peter Levine and Stephen Porges and she brings her knowledge of systemic processes and coaching skills to co-develop the creative interventions of the ChrisLin Methods. Today she works with corporate and private clients who are at a significant crossroads in their lives, including those who are Neurodiverse.
Christina and Lindsey are co-authors of The ChrisLin Method, 5 Steps for Working with Imagery and Metaphor.
