23 Nov 2025 | Working with Charcoal: The Alchemy of Water and Fire | 1-Day Workshop | In-Person

Charcoal is made from sticks or lumps of wood from the willow tree, which are put into kettles, placed in a fire and slowly “cooked” until they are useable for medicine, teeth whitening, lighting fires or drawing etc. Willow trees naturally grow along watercourses. Water and fire (the sun) are their sources of life as they are ours.

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Facilitator:

Marion Green

Marion 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.