Dancing in the Storm: How to Help Clients Turn Adversity into Opportunity

In this March workshop, practitioners will explore the concept of navigating life's storms and how to help clients turn adversity into opportunities for growth. Using art, poetry, and reflective exercises, participants will learn practical techniques to support clients in embracing unexpected challenges and finding resilience amid uncertainty. Through creative reflections, expressive art activities, and guided discussions, practitioners will gain tools to help clients reframe adversity, discover hidden strengths, and transform challenges into powerful moments of growth. This session will empower practitioners to guide clients in seeing the beauty within the storm, fostering resilience and transformation.

In this monthly series of workshops, participants will learn creative approaches to help clients navigate anxiety and uncertainty. Leveraging art, poetry, and seasonal themes, practitioners will gain fresh perspectives to support clients in embracing uncertainty and finding calm amidst the unknown. Each session draws inspiration from the changing seasons to provide tools for deeper understanding and growth in client practice. The perfect space for reflective practice, case exploration and peer support.

Session outline:

1. Opening Reflection: Defining the supervision case and question through individual, guided reflection.
2. Art Exploration: Participants explore a selected piece of art in pairs or small groups, discussing what emerges with their supervision question in mind. Emphasis on noticing other participants' perspectives.
3. Poetic Resonance: Reading the accompanying poem, followed by brief inquiries into words, phrases, and salient points that resonate.
4. Second Reflection: Re-reading the poem, focusing on the individual supervision question.
5. Creative Pairings: Breakout rooms for paired discussions on new, creative perspectives for the participant's question.
6. Group Debrief: Collective reflection on insights gained.

Materials Provided:

Art and poetry pieces will reflect the month and season, selected from Gillian's 'Choir of Brave Voices' publications. Participants will receive these materials in PDF form, along with reflective practice prompts and background information to support both personal and client reflection.

Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event

• Apply creative and reflective approaches to help clients manage anxiety related to uncertainty.

• Use artistic and poetic prompts to explore clients' responses to unpredictable situations.

• Develop new strategies to foster resilience and adaptability in clients facing the unknown.

Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?

• Therapists, counsellors, coaches, supervisors, and other professionals interested in enhancing their reflective practice through creative approaches.

How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?

• Integrating creative reflection techniques into client work helps professionals address anxiety related to uncertainty, providing fresh approaches to help clients find stability in unpredictable times. This workshop will empower participants to use creativity as a tool to enhance their clients' resilience and adaptability, fostering more dynamic and effective professional relationships.

This workshop will be recorded and you can use the ticket function to pre-purchase the recording before the event. This will be useful for colleagues who are not able to attend the event live and also for those who attend the event live and want to watch it again.

This workshop will be hosted on the Zoom meeting platform where we will use our cameras and microphones to interact with each other as a group.

To support practitioners in this time of extraordinary circumstances we are offering access to this group for a self-select fee.

The self-select fee is a radical inclusion policy to open learning for all colleagues. The guide price for this event is £20.00, however, we appreciate that income varies greatly in different locations and circumstances. Please contribute what you can to help us maintain inclusive professional training.

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All the colleagues at ONLINEVENTS and the presenters we collaborate with are committed to working in a manner consistent with the BACP Ethical Framework, which can be accessed on the link below. When registering for this event you are agreeing to be present and interact in a manner that is consistent with this Framework.

https://www.bacp.co.uk/events-and-resources/ethics-and-standards/ethical-framework-for-the-counselling-professions/

Gillian offers a safe space that’s held lightly. There’s room to explore with playful curiosity or serious conversation; whatever’s called for.

Gillian is a master coach, supervisor, mentor, artist, owner of Inside-Out Coaching and author of 7 Choir of Brave Voices books and creative reflection resources. Accredited by the ICF, EMCC, EASC and CSA, her client work stems from creative, narrative and somatic coaching and supervision methodologies with a specialisation in working creatively and supporting clients’ reflective practice. British born, she now lives and works in Switzerland with her family and Schnauzer.

Gillian works with creativity and metaphor to build safe and abundant space for working and thinking from new perspectives.

Website | www.inside-out-coaching.com | www.bravevoicebooks.com/

Facebook | Inside-Out Coaching

Twitter | @InsideOutZurich

Instagram | insideoutcoaching_zh

LinkedIn | Gillian (Holt) Walter MCC

Shirley Smith is passionate about the potential of working with creative methodologies in supervision. She has been actively involved in enabling the ongoing development of leaders as a vehicle in support of wider culture and systemic change.

Shirley works mainly in multi-cultural environments around the globe from her current base in Vienna, Austria. She mainly provides supervision to individuals and small groups who are keen to access supervision as part of their own ongoing professional development and self-care. They also want to develop their own practice in working more ‘creatively’. She has been experimenting more recently with ways of making creative supervision accessible online and also with and without video. A kind of learning laboratory.

Connect with Shirley on Linkedin at https://www.linkedin.com/in/shirleysmith/

Event Venue

Online