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Choir of Brave Voices: Keeping Perspective: Helping Clients Find Strength in Difficult Times Workshop with Gillian Walter and Shirley Smith

In this October workshop, practitioners will explore how to help clients maintain perspective during challenging...

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In this October workshop, practitioners will explore how to help clients maintain perspective during challenging times. Using art, poetry, and reflective exercises, participants will learn practical techniques to support clients in recognizing their strengths and finding clarity amidst adversity. Through creative reflections, expressive art activities, and guided discussions, practitioners will work through their own cases / challenges to experience this way of working first hand and gain tools to help clients navigate difficulties with resilience, transforming challenges into opportunities for growth.

This session will empower practitioners to guide clients in finding balance and maintaining a sense of perspective, fostering resilience and adaptability through life’s storms.

Session outline:

In this monthly series of workshops, participants will learn creative approaches to help clients navigate anxiety and uncertainty. Leveraging art, poetry, and seasonal themes, practitioners will gain fresh perspectives to support clients in embracing uncertainty and finding calm amidst the unknown. Each session draws inspiration from the changing seasons to provide tools for deeper understanding and growth in client practice.

  • Opening Reflection: Defining the supervision case and question through individual, guided reflection.
  • Art Exploration: Participants explore a selected piece of art in pairs or small groups, discussing what emerges with their supervision question in mind. Emphasis on noticing other participants’ perspectives.
  • Poetic Resonance: Reading the accompanying poem, followed by brief inquiries into words, phrases, and salient points that resonate.
  • Second Reflection: Re-reading the poem, focusing on the individual supervision question.
  • Creative Pairings: Breakout rooms for paired discussions on new, creative perspectives for the participant’s question.
  • Group Debrief: Collective reflection on insights gained.

Art and poetry pieces will reflect the month and season, selected from Gillian’s ‘Choir of Brave Voices’ publications. Participants will receive these materials in PDF form, along with reflective practice prompts and background information to support personal and professional practice and client reflection.

Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event

  • Apply creative and reflective approaches to help clients manage anxiety related to uncertainty.
  • Use artistic and poetic prompts to explore clients’ responses to unpredictable situations.
  • Develop new strategies to foster resilience and adaptability in clients facing the unknown.

Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?

  • Therapists, counsellors, supervisors, coaches and other professionals interested in enhancing their reflective practice and client work through creative approaches.

How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?

  • Integrating creative reflection techniques into professional reflective practice supports practitioner learning and growth. Including these techniques in client work helps professionals address anxiety related to uncertainty, providing fresh approaches and stability in unpredictable times. This workshop will empower participants to use creativity as a tool to enhance their own practice and clients’ resilience and adaptability, fostering more dynamic and effective professional relationships.

Presenter

Gillian Walter

Gillian is a coach, supervisor, mentor, and author accredited at master practitioner level by the ICF and EMCC. She is accredited as a supervisor by the EMCC, EASC, and CSA. She founded Inside-Out Coaching and Brave Voice Books. Her expertise lies in combining creative and transformational tools with reflective practice to encourage personal and professional growth. Gillian’s work integrates her belief in the power of metaphor and storytelling, especially in supervision. Her first book, ‘Choir of Brave Voices’, encourages readers to develop their reflective practice and explore different perspectives to deepen their emotional, mental, and physical resourcefulness. these spaces for peer creative reflection bring an infinite mirror hall to each individual case reflection.

Shirley Smith

Shirley has extensive cross-cultural experience as a coach, mentor, and supervisor. Her background in global human resources gives her a unique perspective on leadership development. Shirley has developed expertise in using creative tools and art-based approaches to explore difficult dynamics when language falls short. Her work with imagery and embodied approaches, honed over 30 years, provides clients with a new way of thinking and processing their experiences, applicable both in-person and virtually.