About this event
The process of ‘understanding through making’ offers a powerful catalyst to elicit personal and interpersonal connection through creative practice, pausing, collecting and collating. Utilise this practice as a way of engaging new clients, or colleagues, welcoming creative ideas (yours and others’), visualising priorities and facilitating interaction through our creative potential (that hidden source, we all have).
The 2-hour session is designed to offer a joyful, practical and soul-nourishing space to welcome the power and potential of creative exercises, facilitated by art practitioner, community artist and scholar Dr Francesca Bernardi (CATA, FRSA). Making together and responding to materials in ways that release tensions, bringing forth intuition and dialogue, collage-making can offer routes to sharing and enabling intentions that are not reliant on talk, questions or external demands.
Essential materials:
Newspapers, magazines, unwanted books or any printed materials, cloth, card, bus tickets, anything you can stick together and repurpose.
Plus A4 (letter sized) card, cardboard or heavy paper.
Glues stick (or tape) or PVA glue + brush or a little spatula, or any other glue (suitable for paper and card).
Your joy and any other materials you may like to use on the day.
Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event
- Broadening your skills-set to welcome creative modalities in your day-to-day, therapeutic communication and process.
- Make time for a playful and joyful process in your therapeutic offering and space, establishing connection, thoughtful affinity with clients, and colleagues, and your own creative intuition through an openness towards creative exercises.
- Expand your professional offering, create with clients to establish rapport, set goals, and establish a joyful space for exchanges that are not solely based on words (helpful for clients of different ages as well as those whose first language, or language of choice, is not English).
Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?
- Clients, coaches and therapists.
How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?
- Rekindle your creativity and engage your multiple communication tools, to welcome creative modalities in your day-to-day, therapeutic work and process.
- Make time for a powerful and joyful process in your therapeutic offering and space.
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.
Dr. Francesca Bernardi
Dr Francesca Bernardi (PhD, FRSA, MA, QTS), is a creative facilitator and coach, community artist, writer and advocate. She trained in Art and Design education and therapy and has worked as a teacher and artist-in-residence in schools, alternative provision and further education. She most consistently engages in multi-disciplinary research, setting up creative environments for critical participatory work with marginalised communities. Francesca has published international research on arts-informed methodologies, autism, childhood and children’s rights; is founding chair of the Antonio Gramsci Society UK, international board member of the Disability Without Abuse Project (Los Angeles), Councillor and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) and Associate Member of CATA (Canadian Art Therapy Association). Francesca is a Visiting Lecturer in Childhood Studies and Research Methods at the Carnegie School of Education (Leeds Beckett University) and Arts Therapies at the University of Roehampton, Francesca is also a translator (Queen’s University Belfast; Routledge).
