Amplify the potential of your work, practising utilising visualisation for your own wellness and expand the horizons of your therapeutic offer.
Visualisation is a process of pause and creative reflection, transporting your consciousness through a path of calm, recollection and retreat; a restorative and harmonising tool for you and for your clients to re-imagine being and becoming.
Benefit from a guided interactive break from the demands of your surroundings, espouse synchronies and serendipities, moving at a gentle pace through landscapes for recovery, healing, spiritual connectedness and encounters with memories and thoughtfulness.
The first part of the workshop is a gentle hour in the group space, where you are guided to retrieve your own unique individual pathway, reviving the ‘sensorium’ of your embodied, conscious and subconscious being with the world, in and through a facilitated process of visualisation.
The second part will be dedicated to feedback on your reflections, findings and discoveries, as well as questions on the possibilities and potential of visualisation in your work and practice. There is a comfort break between the two sessions.
Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event
- Participate in an evocative journey to practise the possibilities of visualisation.
- Spend time with the group to share your understandings, reflections and questions, in a responsive and reflexive process for self-discovery and professional development.
- Appreciate the value of processing ‘self’ in diverse ways and enable pathways to healing and discovery through reimagining ‘being present’ with and for others.
Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?
- Anyone working in the helping professions or training to become a coach or therapist, wanting to build on a range of approaches and gentle skills. Suitable for anyone hoping to engage in reflection and pause, individually, and to apply this technique in therapeutic contexts. Especially relevant to therapists, coaches and socially-engaged practitioners working with individuals.
How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?
- The visualisation process offers a facilitated, supportive and intentional moment that contributes to expanding your therapeutic offer, as well as providing space for meaningful connection with your inner thoughts and others’ responses to this creative and evocative experience.
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-).
