18/19 June 2012
Walking the Tight Rope in the Forensic Environment with Marion Green
(CPD Certificate Available)
Monday: 9:30-5pm; Tuesday 9:30-5pm
Cost: £150.00 (Art Materials Included)
"Art Therapy is about risk taking, self exploration and self expression; prison is about regulation, imposed controls and the minimising of risks" Colin Riches (Art Therapy with Offenders - M Liebmann)
Institutionalisation, Infantilisation, Fragmentation and Shame - How do we enable people in a secure setting to find the freedom space within and courage to allow personal authenticity to emerge? This will be a practical, art based workshop, exploring some of the paradoxes of working with art and therapy in a secure environment. 
Marion Green qualified as an anthroposophical Art Therapist in 2000. Since 2003 she has worked in the NHS adult male and female acute and intensive care psychiatric wards and in male and female local prisons. Her career also spans working in a private clinic, working in a sex workers drop in centre, teaching and supervision.

25/26 June 2012
Therapeutic Skills: Applications in the Workplace with John Playfoot and George Perry
(CPD Certificate Available)
Monday: 9:30-5pm; Tuesday 9:30-5pm
Cost: £150.00 (Art Materials Included)
Using dialogue, artistic exercises and case studies we will work together as a learning group to develop some of the key skills necessary to be an effective facilitator. Ideas and theories will also be presented and we will use feedback and self-reflection as essential tools for our learning. We will cover the following:
 How to approach a group and offer your skills; Connecting the artistic process to group facilitation; Awareness and intervention in group dynamics; Designing artistic processes for group learning; Understanding how groups grow and develop in stages; Tuning our communication skills of deeper listening and questioning; Using a range of therapeutic approaches and media for truly creative group work.
This two-day introductory workshop is for art therapists who want to be able to act confidently as facilitators and use their artistic and therapeutic skills to enable groups to work together better and more creatively.