There is much written about jokes and their relationship to the unconscious; humour as a defence, avoidance, collusion and more. What happens if you find yourself amused by a client and can’t help smiling? Do you ever dare make a…
A creative and explorative weekend integrating therapeutic art-making, guided mindfulness practice, clinical case studies and theory. Although this is designed as a 2-day weekend workshop, you may prefer to attend just Saturday’s Introduction day or Sunday’s Theory day. Please do…
This workshop will take participants through some of the art therapy processes that can help with work on anger and anger management. It is modelled on the courses developed by Marian Liebmann in her work in the Inner City Mental…
The Image and Methods of Interpretation in Art Therapy: An expressive arts approach During this art & theory based workshop we will examine the centrality of visual and non-verbal processes in art therapy. We will look at the underpinning theories…
Sometimes we know of an impending death, sometimes it is a sudden or shock occurrence, sometimes it was foretold or even threatened. Every client will have their own processes, beliefs, fears and denials around death. As therapists our own relationship…
The 2-day training offers an overview of Sandplay Therapy to date, an introduction to the use of the sand tray as container and the recommended range of figurines/ symbols. The weekend is built around participant use of the Sandtray to…
Are you going through a time of change or are at a crossroads in your life? Would you like to stand back and explore what’s going on from a different perspective? Would you like some quality time to connect in…
A creative and explorative workshop integrating therapeutic art making with guided mindfulness practices. The session includes: art making as a mindful activity, guided mindfulness practices, mindfulness of the body, compassion-focused practices and group reflection. During the session there will be…
The aim of this workshop is to develop understanding of the nature of psychosis and of specific potentials in the art therapy setting for engaging and working with psychotic states of mind. There will be a talk, a clinical seminar…
Gary has been leading a number of art-based research projects at the London Art Therapy Centre. The use of naturally occurring, art-based evaluation and review processes have incorporated the ‘retrospective review’ and ‘audio image recording’ formats has emerged from this…