This event provides insights into the process of co-creation, an opportunity to engage priorities, share common and divergent meanings and create a ‘roadmap’ for the therapeutic process with those we serve, or for self-healing.
Across two hours, in the first part of the session gather for reflection and guidance and create a sense of order in the process of care and meaning-making, informed by personal values, the present, and future hopes. During the second part, delve into the possibilities for channelling values as primers, in an exchange of ideas and significances, informing the therapeutic dialogue. Through an experiential facilitation of the process, reflect on, travel through and envisage a framework for discovery and healing (please bring a note pad or loose paper, pen/pencil for this part of the workshop).
Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event
- Understanding the essence of the therapeutic process is important for therapists, coaches and clients alike. This session can contribute to strengthening clarity, through writing and co-creating a viable pathway that nourishes personal reflections, priorities and hopes, as well as the therapeutic relationship.
- Formulating a roadmap of intentions, informed by values, can elicit new perspectives and expertise; and, the activity itself can become a valuable source of guidance in our therapeutic encounters with individuals and couples.
- Participate in a facilitated experiential exploration of your values, and utilise this process to identify and shape a pathway relevant to you, revitalising your own self-knowledge and eliciting self-compassion and recognition, in ways that can be adopted in your professional role.
Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?
- Coaches, Therapists (working with individuals and couples), and anyone interested in values-informed work, hoping to engage in personal reflection and collective meaning-making.
How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?
- Understanding and working with values can provide the vocabulary and the tools to navigate personal priorities, creating a shared understanding that can help strengthen engagement in the therapeutic process, providing a visual/literal/tangible roadmap for self-reflection and a helpful aide-memoire for the time in-between sessions.
Course Content
Presenter
Dr. Francesca Bernardi PhD is an advocate, author, coach, and artist, with expertise in MA supervision, dis/ability and community engagement. Francesca has an extensive background as a teacher and artist-in-residence, working with children and adults in various settings, including schools, alternative provision, further and higher education, corporate settings, museums, and public spaces (Tate Museums and the RSA.org). She’s dedicated to working with parents and caregivers of children and young people with dis/abilities who have experienced school exclusions and other forms of social discrimination.
Francesca engages in multi-disciplinary and arts-informed practices with marginalized communities, and individuals experiencing loss and homelessness. Her approach is non-hierarchical, socially just, and creative, aiming to nourish healing and personal agency while honouring the wholeness of individuals’ personhood, choices, and capabilities.
Francesca has published her work on autism, arts-informed methodologies, childhood, and children’s rights in books and journals (Bloomsbury, Routledge, Taylor and Francis). She is the founding chair of the Antonio Gramsci Society UK, board member of the Disability Without Abuse Project (2020-), and an Associate Member of CATA/ACAT (the Canadian Art Therapy Association 2021-).
