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Healing through Embodied Visual NarrativesA Training Workshop for Multi-Disciplinary Practitioners on incorporating images in therapeutic practices when working with children and adults.
With Dr Elaine Grech (Ph.D.)
Warranted Gestalt and Systemic Psychotherapist, Accredited Supervisor and Warranted Teacher
Date: Friday 11th April 2025
Time: 8.30 am to 1.45 pm (5 CPD hours)
Location: Pembroke (Limited Number)
Price: 100 € (includes tea breaks)
Early Bird: 90€ if you pay by the 11th of January 2025
We will explore and practice expressive arts therapeutic interventions incorporating:
• The therapeutic effect of colour
• Pictures (paintings, photography, magazine cuttings, used cards etc…)
• Installations/images created from nature elements or discarded objects
• Collages
• Symbols (including through objects around us)
• Giving our images a voice
• Visual Diary
• Visualisation boards
• Would you like to practice embodied visual expressive therapy interventions that can be incorporated into our work?
• Would you like to develop your attunement to the varied multi-sensory strengths and needs of different service-users?
“At times we might find it hard to connect with our feelings and reflect on our relationships using only words. Creative, multi-sensorial therapeutic interventions can allow us to gain insight into aspects of ourselves and our relationships that might not be visible when we just ‘talk about’ something. Feelings associated with trauma might be tough to express verbally, while other non-verbal means of expressing oneself can be more effective therapeutically.”
(Grech, 2020)
Aimed for: Multi-disciplinary practitioners who would like to learn how to incorporate embodied visual therapy techniques in their work. One does not need to be artistically skilled to develop this approach. What helps is curiosity to develop a multi-sensory way of expressing oneself in order to be of service to the people we work with.
Since the workshop is experiential, it also aims to support the personal and professional growth of the practitioners.
The professionals include psychotherapists, family therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, counsellors, guidance teachers, teachers, creative arts therapists, social workers, child and youth care workers, support workers, teachers, artists and many others.
Research in trauma advocates for the incorporation of sensory-based interventions that can help the regulation of emotions (Levine & Frederick, 1997; Malchiodi, 2020; van der Kolk, 2015). People are different when it comes to their dominant sense, the one they use most easily to express themselves, learn and heal. Visual learners might find themselves more comfortable initially expressing themselves through colour, marks, scribbles on paper, or visual symbols rather than through words. Kinesthetic learners might first become aware of their experience through attuning to their body movement. Auditory learners orient themselves to sounds. So, while some people's expression through the senses supports them to eventually be able to find the right words and reflect (bottom-up approach), others might need to start from talk and start to get in touch with their senses through sensory-based interventions (top-down approach).
In this workshop, we will explore embodied visual therapy interventions that attune to the specific sensory needs of the people we support. If one is working with a couple, or a family, or a team, these needs might be different even within the same system and the facilitator can develop therapeutic possibilities that are attuned to the different needs within this system,
This workshop focuses on incorporating a few meaningful visual expressive therapy interventions as part of this multi-sensory process. So, while some of us start with a visual symbol (art expression), others might start by getting in touch with a sensation in their body (interoception), others with a movement, and others with a sound or word. The art therapy interventions practised will be contextualised within this multi-sensory working model.
Booking and Payment Procedure:
1. Booking through the website: https://www.drelainegrechpsychotherapist.com/upcoming-events
and click Register Now on the event of your choice. If the website allows you to book, it means there are availabilities. If the workshop is full, there will be a notification which offers the option of a waiting list.
2. How to secure your payment:
• Payment must occur within 24 hours; otherwise, your registration will not be secured.
• Write your name and the workshop’s title when processing the payment so that payment can be identified.
• Please email confirmation of payment to [email protected] so that I can confirm your booking: Name and Surname, Workshop Title and Date, Method of Payment chosen, and email address for correspondence regarding the workshop.
3. Participants will receive a receipt of payment via the email provided within the following week and, after completing the workshop. within a week, a certificate of attendance with the actual number of CPD hours completed. The certificate will reflect the hours completed, so please make sure you are present for the whole workshop.
4. Please note that it is on a first-come, first-served basis, and your booking can only be confirmed after payment and registration.
5. The payment is non-refundable unless due to the rare eventuality of the workshop being cancelled by the facilitator. The payment for the workshop IS NOT transferable to someone else. If the person who has booked and paid cannot attend, they cannot transfer their booking to someone else.
6. Bookings need to be made individually; if an organisation wants to sponsor employees' attendance, prospective workshop participants are still requested to book and pay individually. They will be given a receipt of payment in their name, and they can choose to present it to the organisation.
7. Around a week before the workshop, you will receive an email with the location and some ideas for preparing for the training.
Payment Options:
Full Fee 100€
Early bird fee: 90€ if you pay by the 11th January 2025
Payment Options:
Payment on Revolut
or Mobile Banking: 00356 99447307
Paypal [email protected] (If using PayPal, please add 5 euros to the amount to cover the PayPal Fee).
Online Bank Transfer
SWIFT Code: VALLMTMT IBAN: MT60VALL22013000000040013125068
I wish you well, and thank you for your service to the community!
Looking forward to our shared space.
Many blessings
Dr Elaine Grech
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Pembroke, Malta, Saint Julians, Malta
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