About this event
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.
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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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
Francesca Bernardi, PhD (FRSA, MA, QTS, CATA), 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).
