Certificate in the Use of Creative Arts for Learning and Development

This course was devised and facilitated by Helen Cruthers and Ishtar Swaffield.

This training can be delivered as a 9 Day Certificate Programme and offers a offers a thorough introduction to the use of creative arts to facilitate learning and development in a variety of different settings. The course is designed for anyone involved with the development and support of others who wants to enhance their professional skills.

The creative arts, which can include movement, music, painting, drawing, puppets, sand tray work and metaphor can play an important role in any therapeutic work, giving both adults and children broader opportunities for self expression, self exploration and self development. For those who find it hard or limiting to express themselves verbally the arts can offer a new language with which to communicate and encapsulate their experience.

This course will provide a safe and stimulating environment for both personal and professional development, with opportunities to deepen participants' self awareness which is vital in working effectively with others. Learning will be both experiential and theoretical, and focus on developing the skills to integrate the creative arts into participants' current working practices. The course seeks to empower both workers and their client groups, enabling them to free their own creative energy. By the end of the course it is hoped that participants will have developed their own style of working therapeutically with the arts that is consistent with their own belief systems, the needs of their clients and their work context.

Comments from previous participants:
“adventurous, emancipating, experiential, educational, splendiferous, refreshing, shifting, empowering... an offering of riches”

What's the next step?
Please feel free to contact me for any further discussion of how I may be able to help – 07753 474768 or
helen.cruthers@gmail.com.