CREATIVE WRITING IN THE THERAPEUTIC ENCOUNTER
17 & 18 JULY 2023
ONLINE WORKSHOP OVER 2 DAYS
Suitable for Counsellors, psychotherapists, coaches and health workers are welcome to attend this workshop.
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Dates : Mon 17 & Tue 18 July 2023
ALTERNATIVE DATES : Wednesday 15 & Friday 17 November 2023
Times : 9.30am – 4.00pm both days (BST)
Location : Online
TRAINER : Claire Williamson (MA, SFHEA) Scroll down to see more about the trainer
Cost : £135 if booked by 17 May 2023 Please note this price will show at the final check out
£155 if booked by 17 June 2023
£175 full price
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Feedback from previous attendees:-
"If this course was a meal, it would be chicken biryani. A little spicy, so you needed breaks for water. But juicy and delicious and moreish. You'd want to keep coming to it, and possibly store the recipe in your handwritten book of recipes."
Written by J.F.Zaidi, Writing Circle Facilitator
"I really appreciated the way Claire made us feel comfortable and under no obligation to share work. Paradoxically this made it easier to share. Not only did I learn lots and come away with new ideas, it was a very positive experience of online group work."
Written by Tina W Counsellor/Psychotherapist
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Mamma’s Boy
Wanting to say something to his mother;
wanting to say no, or, more exactly,
not now, not here, not in this room
with all these familiar people watching,
Wanting to say something to his mother
about love and control and the gift
of manhood – which isn’t really hers to give
but his to claim, or steal, or simply demand
by holding up a firm, implacable hand.
Wanting all this but managing no more
than another rueful, apologetic smile;
the dip of the head and the yielding silence
which killers know as a rage deferred.
By William Ayot.
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This experiential 2-day course focuses on creative writing and its use within therapy, therapeutic settings and self-supervision.
Therapists often work with client’s writing, or encourage clients to create within, or between, sessions. Some therapists have trained to be ‘poetry therapists’ and divide sessions between writing and discussion of the text, accelerating the process, or evincing new strands to the therapeutic work.
There is a risk to introducing writing, as it is revealing and sometimes walks the line between vulnerability and healing; there can be concerns about ‘quality’, which therapists can allay with a good understanding of creative writing as both a magnifying and softening tool, to say the ‘unsayable’, or to understand experience in a more tangible form.
Some counsellors and psychotherapists use creative writing as part of their own reflective practice to understand transferential relationships, create boundaries between sessions, and for personal and professional development.
Through experiential practice, this workshop will explore some helpful techniques and raise confidence in using the written (and spoken) word.
The workshop will focus on a range of applications, including:
· Supporting client metaphors
· Concrete and abstract images into words – poetry as resource
· Narratives and counter-narratives
· Reflective practice – employing form for clients and self-supervision
· Autobiographical fiction
· Applications and limitations
An empathic, relational approach will be experienced first hand as the process of the training is trauma-informed.
CLAIRE WILLIAMSON
Claire brings an integrative approach to using creative writing in the therapeutic encounter. She’s the former Director of Studies for Metanoia Institute’s MSc in Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes (CWTP), with over 20 years experience in the field of CWTP, including work in bereavement, mental health, addiction recovery, self-injury, cancer care, plus many educational and artistic settings.
Claire has facilitated training for counsellors at City of Bristol College’s FD in Counselling and UWE’s Diploma in Counselling. She also works with medical students at University of Bristol and Queen Mary University in London, exploring how creativity can support people within healthcare settings.
She’s a Senior Fellow of the higher education academy, with a Masters degree in Literary Studies (exploring the life sustaining effects of writing) and studying at Cardiff University for a PhD in Creative Writing (Writing the 21st century grief novel), with a Counselling Skills qualification (UWE).
Claire is the author of four poetry/narrative books, Visiting the Minotaur (Seren, 2018) Split Ends (Eyewear, 2016), The Soulwater Pool (2008) and Ride On (PoTA, 2005).
APPROVED FOR CPD : This course has been approved by NCIP- National Council Of Integrative Psychotherapists. This course will give you 15 hours of CPD
CPD FORM: A Certificate of Attendance form for Continuous Professional Development for 15 hours will be sent by email once you have filled in the feedback form (NB the only obligatory fields are your name and email address. However, we love you to give us feedback, so please fill in the whole form).
MAXIMUM NUMBERS: This workshop will have a maximum of 30 participants
FOR MORE INFO: If you have further questions please email: [email protected] or call Juliet Grayson on 01291 638805
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