About this event
This is the third workshop in a series of three events: Silence as Primer, Kindness as Primer, Play as Primer.
‘Play as Primer’ is a joyful provocation towards play practices for eliciting memories and past experiences that can help clarify the present and give the inner child permission to be, contributing to self-discovery and healing.
This session offers a space to explore a range of definitions of play and practical opportunities to extend these ideas to working with clients of different age groups. The emergent possibilities of play can also be applied to working within a group dynamic, in communities and in business, and with individual clients who may prefer creative modalities for action and healing.
Defining and re/defining play, intentionally, can elicit unexpected solutions, priority-setting and therapeutic pathways. Play can serve as a method for interaction and intervention that has the potential to engage clients’ creative authority and participation, with and beyond words. Play also allows for an appreciation of aesthetic, transformational and material possibilities, emerging in concrete and poetic ways, that can (and should) remain inexplicable, mysterious, even sacred.
Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event
- Expect an interactive space for reflection and action that offers a series of ideas to ponder upon as well as ‘playful’ statements that invite a material response from each member of the group. For this purpose, please bring with you (small) found objects, for example: paper cutouts from magazines and newspapers, paper cups, bus tickets, business cards, jam jars (almost anything…). This way you may experience the playful and divergent possibilities for self-expression, surprise and reflection, which can become primers for the therapeutic encounter.
- By identifying different definitions of play, inspired by process over talk, these ideas can be integrated in your approach to therapy, coaching and practices for self-healing.
- Participate in a three-part facilitated gathering to share ideas and shape these in ways that are relevant to you, re-imagining what it means to play, drawing on experiences to engage your originality and resonances from the collective.
Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?
- Anyone hoping to engage in reflection and collective meaning-making: therapists, coaches and socially-engaged practitioners.
How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?
- We often think of play as an age-bound recreational process or activity, yet play is at the centre of our inner joy, in collectiveness and in solitude. Play can be a primer for the therapeutic encounter with adults and children. This workshop welcomes the creative synergies of the group and offers you some techniques for generating ideas, looking to the joy of play as a source of inspiration.
Please bring with you: (small) found objects, for example: paper cutouts from magazines and newspapers, paper cups, bus tickets, business cards, jam jars (almost anything…).
ZOOM
This event 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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At Onlinevents, we and the presenters we collaborate with are committed to working in a way that aligns with the ethical codes and frameworks of our respective professional organisations. We expect all colleagues attending our events to uphold the ethical principles of their professional membership.
If you are not a member of a professional organisation, we ask that you participate in a way that is both authentic and respectful, fostering a space of mutual learning and professional engagement.
By registering for this event, you agree to be present and interact in a manner that reflects these principles.
Dr Francesca Bernardi PhD, CATA/ACAT
Francesca Bernardi is an independent scholar, artist, and speaker. Her socially-engaged work focuses on individuals navigating dis/ability, cultural, and social exclusions. This work is non-hierarchical, decolonial, and multimodal, rooted in arts-informed methodologies, critical dis/ability studies, and social pedagogy.
She is the founding chair of the Antonio Gramsci Society UK, a forum for accessible civic engagement, and a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute. She serves as an editorial board member of Disability & Society, and is a member of CATA-ACAT. Francesca has worked extensively as a teacher and artist-in-residence in schools, alternative provision, further education, museums, and theatres. Her published work includes original research, translations, and collaborations with institutions like TATE, the RSA, and the Leverhulme Trust.
She currently holds roles as a supervisor and lecturer in Childhood Studies and as a Visiting Scholar in Arts Therapies.
Website | www.frabeart.carrd.co