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CREATIVE WRITING IN THE THERAPEUTIC ENCOUNTER
Dates: Weds 15th and Thursday 16th March 2023
Times: 9.30am – 4.00pm (GMT) both days
Alternative dates : Monday 17th & Tuesday 18th July 2023 , Wednesday 15th & Friday 17th November 2023
Cost : £135 if booked by 17th January 2023 (We have extended this discount)
£155 if booked by 15th February 2023
£175 Full price
Location: Online
Trainer : Claire Williamson (MA, SFHEA) See further down for more on the trainer
"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
Who is this workshop designed for : Counsellors, psychotherapists, coaches and health workers are welcome to attend this workshop.
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.
"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
FREE POEM - BE CAREFUL - TRIGGER WARNING
Care By Claire Williamson
for Terri
You carry your daughter's coffin yourself
in the two hands that held her,
resting with feathers of black hair
a pulsing fledgling on your skin.
Not even an arm's span of white wood,
you place her on the table,
with the backdrop, her name 'Chloe' and a teddy picked out
in cream chrysanthemums, pink gerbera buttons.
This is it. The end of tubes and operations.
The end of the children's hospital's well-trained nurses;
other parents, some as young as you, still glide
between intensive care and home, like ghosts.
It never ends though, does it?
The memory of her small body in, and on, your body
united warm on warm.
No end to the care that needs more
than two hands to hold it;
that surges on sleepless nights,
when you are with your other children,
those of strangers,
at the supermarket checkout,
passing the infirmary doors.
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).
"You ran the workshop beautifully and I've been writing most days since -thank you for a great experience !"
Written by a Psychotherapist
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
HANDOUTS: After the workshop you will be asked to fill in a feedback form. Completing this feedback form will give you a link to further handouts. Please write this link and password down, as you will need these to access the webpage where this comprehensive set of handouts are stored. These handouts are available for you to download a copy onto your own desktop. You must complete the download within two weeks of the end of the workshop. We ask you not to share any of the slides, exercises or handouts with other professionals who have not attended the workshop. But you are welcome to share the occasional handout or page with clients.
FOR MORE INFO: If you have further questions please email: [email protected] or call Juliet Grayson on 01291 638805
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