Summer Courses

9/10June 2012
From Art to Therapy with Diane Flowers
Saturday: 9:30-5pm; Sunday 9:30-3:30pm
Cost: £130.00 (Art Materials Included)
Come and experience how colours and different ways of applying them can affect the human soul. From colour combinations that create calmness and security to colours that enliven, uplift and give courage to express.
This course is designed to meet the needs of creativity as well as giving a glimpse of a therapeutic artistic process and is open to anyone.
Led by Diane Flowers - tutor, artist and eurythmy therapist.

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.

30/01 July 2012
Capturing Flower Colour Essences with Linda Frosch
Saturday: 9:30-5pm; Sunday 9:30-3:30pm
Cost: £130.00 (Art Materials Included)
This is an opportunity to discover the excitement of experimenting with simple techniques to extract and preserve colour from plans so that we can paint with their essences. We will also practice painting with a variety of commercially prepared plant colour paints to try to grasp the unique qualities and possible therapeutic uses of these colours.
Led by Linda Frosch has been practicing art therapy in England for 12 years. She works with young people with learning and behavioral differences at Ruskin Mill College in Gloucestershire.

2/3/4 July 2012
Midsummer Magic with Marije Rowling
Monday: 9:30-5pm; Tuesday 9:30-5pm; Wednesday 9:30-5pm
Cost: £200.00 (Art Materials Included)
When nature is at its most playful during Midsummer, the magic of the elements can inspire us in our creative processes. In our group we will explore Nature's Midsummer colours, gestures and movements. We will go outside and try to let the elements speak to us. Our art processes will include building up thinner and thicker layers of oil paint on large paper with preparatory wet-in-wet watercolours. If you play an instrument and have some midsummer music, please share it with us!
Led by Marije Rowling who studied drawing, painting and history of art at the Academy of Art and Design in Eindhoven, at Emerson College and Tobias School of Art. She has led the Upper School Art department at the Canterbury Steiner School, illustrated children’s books and taught at Emerson College and Tobias.