Walking the creative path

Whether you write, paint, sing, take photographs, are someone who dreams of creating a beautiful garden or planning a new adventure, the creative path is one that presents particular challenges as well as joys.

Working on a creative project often confronts us with our inner critic. How do you maintain enthusiasm and persevere creatively when part of you casts doubt on your abilities? External criticism and rejection can also stop us in our tracks. How do you support yourself emotionally and practically in a culture in which creativity is not always valued unless accompanied by fame and fortune, rewards which, if achieved, then bring their own complications?

This group offers a regular forum for exploring creativity and finding support in being creative. Group work provides an opportunity for sharing experience with others, overcoming isolation and getting useful, constructive feedback.

The group runs fortnightly at Spectrum on Monday evenings in term time from 7pm to 9:30pm. Places are available to join the group at the start of the winter term. The dates for the winter term are Mondays 12th & 26th January, 9th & 23rd February and 9th & 23rd March 2015. I ask that you commit to a minimum of two terms.

The fee for the group is £225 per term.

Please call me on 07877 453477 for more information and to join the group. There will be a maximum of ten participants in the group.

I am a BACP accredited and registered humanistic psychotherapist. I trained in Counselling Psychology with Expressive Arts Therapy at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. Since 2007 I have continued my training, supervision and personal work at Spectrum where I am a practitioner. I have been on the creative path for more than thirty years. Before becoming a psychotherapist I worked in film in Los Angeles. In addition to working with clients I now write detective fiction.