Using art in therapy

02087 983 035 02087 983 035 / 07961 016 334 07961 016 334
5th November 2016, 9.30am - 5.30pm
Counsellors and trainees
Full fee £69.00, senior fee £69.00, concessions £42.00
City Lit, 1-10 Keeley Street, Covent Garden, London, Central London, WC2B 4BA

Some experiences are beyond words. Learn how to incorporate expressive arts into your work with clients. Help them to express and explore difficult emotions and experiences using: drama, music, movement, poetry, art and masks.

This course is a practical and experiential course for, counsellors, therapists and people in the helping professions who are interested in introducing expressive arts into their work. 'Talking therapies' are not always the best medium or they can sometimes feel too challenging and it can then be very useful to help clients to explore or access emotions and feelings through working with art.

Using our own experiences, we will reflect upon this process, and be introduced to some basic knowledge of various creative therapies which can support you and your clients through the process of self-discovery, creativity and self-expression.

By the end of this course you should be able to:

  • Describe the basic principles of expressive arts.
  • Identify two ways in which the arts can help to increases self-awareness and self-esteem.
  • Describe two different methods to access your inner thoughts and feelings through writing.

For more information and To enrol go to City Lit website: http://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/using-art-in-therapy.

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Hosted by Charmaine Pollard

Charmaine Pollard is an accredited counsellor, poetry therapist, college tutor and CPD facilitator based in London. She regularly facilitates workshops/groups along a variety of personal and professional development themes using expressive arts. She is passionate about how creativity allows us to express more than what we can say with words.

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Hosted by Charmaine Pollard