Creative Therapies for Schools Counsellors

Two Day Training Workshop

This course was devised and is facilitated by Helen Cruthers

This workshop is tailored to the particular needs of counsellors working in schools with young people, giving opportunities to enhance their skills communicating with their clients.

The creative arts can play an important role in any therapeutic work, giving clients broader opportunities for self-expression, self-exploration, and self-development. The arts (movement, music, painting, drawing, puppets, sandtray work, metaphor) can offer new languages with which to communicate and encapsulate experience. This is especially important for those who find it hard or limiting to express themselves verbally. This is particularly relevant for young people and in the school context when therapeutic work can be time limited.

Using the arts therapeutically can enhance pupils' opportunities to:

• Express and externalize feelings and perceptions

• Articulate and communicate their experience

• Gain insight and understanding into themselves

• Contain powerful and complex feelings

• Explore their potential

Comment from previous participant:
“I really enjoyed the opportunity to work in a creative way.”

I believe that the arts can also offer counsellors and therapists the opportunity to enhance their own creativity, insight and self support. This workshop will provide a safe and stimulating space for practitioners to explore their creative energies. There will be opportunities for personal exploration, for facilitating others' self expression, and for exploring together relevant practical and ethical issues.

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.