11 May 2025 | An Inner Journey with Clay: Harmony, Dissonance, Transitions & Surfaces | Day Workshop | In-Person

In these experiential workshops, we have learned how to communicate with clay whilst exploring the fundamental archetypes of form: the Curve and the Line. In modelling, concavity and convexity correspond to the curve; planes, points and edges correspond to the line.

The workshops are designed for therapists who want to explore the possibilities and depths of working with clay in the clinical setting. This workshop will focus on the three-way communication within the form i.e. between the curve and the line, (roundness and straightness) and the maker.

We will consider the relationship between harmony and dissonance, transitions, and surfaces.

Through observation of our own forms, we will learn how to enable our clients to perceive their work as a metaphor for their habitual responses to life’s challenges.

Working with clay offers an opportunity to experiment with decisions, to explore possibilities for resolution, and to make changes.

You are cordially invited to join us even if you are new to this series of workshops. If you haven’t been able to attend previous workshops but would like to, please let us know and we will try to offer them again at another time. 

Please bring a notebook in order to record your process. It is advisable to wear an overall or old clothes.

Working with clay is grounding, messy, mirroring, fun, forgiving, and freeing, and it helps us to see the world differently!

Facilitator:

Marion Green is a former social worker specialised in child protection, school based social work and adoption. As an art psychotherapist, she has worked with men and women in the penal system, psychiatric care, primary aged children and their parents, traumatised adolescents, the chronically sick and dying, with homeless women and women working in the sex industry.

She is a clinical supervisor, workshop facilitator and visiting lecturer, specialising in the themes of Burnout, maintaining resilience and working with traumatised people. Marion has been a regular seminar leader at the annual International Anthroposophical Art Therapy conference at the Goetheanum, Switzerland. She has taught in Honduras, Spain, Georgia, South Africa, Taiwan and the Philippines and presented papers for Confer Psychotherapy events UK.

Marion has published articles on Burnout and is a chapter co-author in the book Art Therapy with Neurological Conditions. (Ed. S. Weston and M. Liebmann published Jessica Kingsley 2015).

In her spare time she walks, works in her garden and carves alabaster.