Insider Art

Training & Continuing Professional Development

On this page you will find short details and downloadable application forms for our two  extended   courses:

  • Art in Mental Health: A Foundation Course in Art Therapy
  • Arts & Health Course for Participatory Visual Arts

You will also find details of :

  • Workshops,
  • Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for artists, art psychotherapists, and health workers
  • Mentoring and Supervision.

Below are details of forthcoming courses, events and trainings.  Previous events are listed on the  Past Events page of the Archive section. Many of these are repeatable and and have been held in other locations: London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Bristol, Cardiff etc. Contact us if you would like a training run in your area.

 

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Art in Mental Health:
A Foundation Course in Art Therapy   

Term 1:   Tuesday evenings (7.00-9.30pm)  Begins 12th October 2010 for eight weeks. There is NO half term.
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Term 2: Tuesday evenings (7.00-9.30pm) Begins 4th January 2011 for eight weeks. There is NO half term.
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There are also four Saturday workshops  (10.00am -4.00pm) as part of this course:  16th October, 20th November, 8th January & 12th February.

CONTACT: info@insiderart.org.uk

The course introduces participants to key factors in working with visual art in a wide variety of mental health contexts. It is not an Art Therapy training, but is a grounding in Art Therapy principles. Whilst some students go on to qualifying art therapy trainings each year there is no expectation that the majority of students will wish to pursue a full training.

The part time course, runs on Tuesday evenings over two, eight week, terms with four Saturday workshops. (64 taught hours plus optional reading and optional self directed written work).  Participants come from a wide range of backgrounds - artists, teachers, health workers etc and have very diverse skills , experience, qualifications and interests. An enquiring and open mind is the main entrance requirement.

For more information about the course click on the title above. 

For PDF version click here.

Applications accepted from June 1st 2010. Application form available from info@insiderart.org.uk

Click for Application form  or  for PDF version of  Application form

For student feedback click here  

See Archive section for feedback on this course and previous years course

 

    
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Arts & Health Course for Participatory Visual Arts 
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NEXT APPLICATIONS FOR THIS COURSE ACCEPTED IN SEPTEMBER 2010
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Insider Art have successfully run this practical, work based, arts and health course for the last three years. We are pleased, this year, to have entered into a partnership with the University of the West of England (UWE) who recognise the course, awarding successful students 20 credits at graduate or postgraduate level, and make UWE’s wider student resources available. The course is taught on 8 Fridays in Exeter with one day at the UWE campus in Bristol. The course fits into the Continuing Professional Development provision of the Health & Life Sciences faculty and it is supervised by Norma Daykin: Professor of Arts & Health.

For full details about this course click here

For an application form click here

For student feedback on this course for 2007 -2008 click here

 

 

 

Sand Tray Therapy:

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Tutors:
Brenda Rawlinson & Lynn McClelland.
This popular three day course is running again on: 30th Oct, 13th & 27th November 2010
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For student feedback see Archive/ course feedback.
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Sand Tray Therapy encourages the non-verbal expression and construction of
images which have both special personal and collective or cultural
meanings. This introductory course will look at the following important
themes:
  • history and development of sand play therapy;
  • creative expression;
  • imaginative and symbolic thinking;
  • dramatic structure;
  • play and story-making;
  • recent developments.
Participants will experience a range of learning methods including experiential exercises, presentation of clinical material, video and discussion.
 
Materials, handouts and lunches included.
 
Brenda Rawlinson is Head Therapist at the Creative Therapies Service, Exeter. Brenda introduced a Sand Tray Therapy Service into the Creative Therapies Team in 1987. The therapy has now been extended to other service areas and practitioner, supported by a supervision and training group.
Brenda’s work covers the whole spectrum of Mental Health and Learning Difficulties. She is particularly interested in Archetypal and Jungian models of working.
 
Lynn McClelland is a Clinical Psychologist and Lecturer interested in creative approaches to mental health. She has 10 years experience working with women, young people and families and is interested in the use of sand play to reflect on personal experience and professional work within NHS settings.
Employer funded:£320. Self funded:£260. Cons:£195
(Discount rate £235 - terms apply)
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THE REST OF THIS PAGE IS DUE TO BE UPDATED. FOR CURRENT COURSE INFORMATION SEE LINKS FROM THE HOME PAGE.
    

 

Art and Conflict: Exeter, Devon. 

This popular one day will run again. Contact us for details.

Tutor Marian Liebmann: 10.00am - 4.00pm. 

Conflict is an emotive subject. This day course is about finding new ways to look at it. There will be a variety of practical art exercises to gain insights into different aspects of conflict, conflict resolution and mediation.
All art materials provided. No artistic skill needed, just the willingness to have a go. Please wear old clothes. Arts Therapists are welcome!
  
Materials, handouts and lunch included.   
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Marian Liebmann has worked in art therapy with offenders, with women’s groups and community groups, and currently at the Inner City Mental Health Service in Bristol. She teaches and lectures on art therapy at several universities in the UK and Ireland. For eight years she worked as director and projects adviser for Mediation UK, the UK’s umbrella organization for mediation.  For the last eight years, Marian has worked as a freelance trainer, and her work has included training several Youth Offending Teams in the UK, plus carrying out Restorative Justice training in Uganda, Russia, South Africa, Serbia and three West African countries. She also runs Art & Conflict workshops in many countries. Marian is the editor of Arts Approaches to Conflict. She has written/edited eight books, including Art Therapy for Groups (second edition February 2004); Arts Approaches to Conflict; Art Therapy with Offenders; Art Therapy, Race and Culture; and Mediation in Context.
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For application form click here.available soon
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employer funded: £ 120;  self-funded: £ 95; concessions: £ 70 
(discount rate: £ 85 see notes)
                 
IF BOOKED WITH ART & ANGER MANAGEMENT COURSE BY SAME PERSON AT SAME TIME BOTH COURSES:
employer funded: £ 220  self-funded: £ 170  concessions: £ 120 ; 
(discount rate: £ 150 see notes)
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Art & Anger Management:  Exeter, Devon.
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This popular one day course will run again. Contact us for details.
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Tutor Marian Liebmann: 10.00am - 4.00pm.
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This course will take participants through some of the art therapy processes that can help with work on anger and anger management. It is modelled on the courses developed by the facilitator in her work at the Inner City Mental Health Service, Bristol, but has application to anyone wanting to look at their own anger. There will be a set of handouts to take away.
  
Materials, handouts and lunch included. 
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Marian Liebmann has worked in art therapy with offenders, with women’s groups and community groups, and currently at the Inner City Mental Health Service in Bristol, where she has developed work on anger. She teaches and lectures on art therapy at several universities in the UK and Ireland. For eight years she worked as director and projects adviser for Mediation UK, the UK’s umbrella organization for mediation.  For the last eight years, Marian has worked as a freelance trainer, and her work has included training several Youth Offending Teams in the UK, plus carrying out Restorative Justice training in Uganda, Russia, South Africa, Serbia and three West African countries. She also runs Art & Conflict workshops in many countries. Marian has written/edited nine books, including Art Therapy for Groups (second edition February 2004); Arts Approaches to Conflict; Art Therapy with Offenders; Art Therapy, Race and Culture; and Mediation in Context. She is completing work on Art Therapy and Anger, to be published in 2008.
For application form click here. available soon
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employer funded: £ 120;  self-funded: £ 95; concessions: £ 70 
(discount rate: £ 85 see notes)
                 
IF BOOKED WITH ART & CONFLICT COURSE BY SAME PERSON AT SAME TIME BOTH COURSES:
employer funded: £ 220  self-funded: £ 170  concessions: £ 120 ; 
(discount rate: £ 150 see notes)

 

Arts Approaches to Conflict  Edited by Marian Liebmann
Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-85302-293-4 ISBN-13: 9781853022937, 250pp, 1998, £25.00. Publisher:Jessica Kingsley
Some reviews for  Arts Approaches to Conflict from
 

Introduction to Art Therapy and Participatory Visual Arts:

Karen Huckvale & Malcolm Learmonth.
this course will run again  10.00am - 4.00pm. Exeter, Devon. 
                                 

A one day experiential course introducing key principles to an Art Therapy approach. It explores why image making is a powerful emotional process, the importance of identity and the role of self esteem in image making, emotionally literate ways into art making and exploration of how images often have multiple meanings. Particularly relevant to those with an interest in Participatory Visual Arts.

All materials and lunch provided.
Employer funded: £ 120;  self-funded: £ 95; concessions: £ 70 
(Discount rate: £ 85 see notes on application form)
 

Mentoring and Supervision for Artists, Counsellors & others

Insider Art offer mentoring, support and training to help meet a wide range of needs. We work across the Arts & Health field: from nurses, doctors and occupational therapists, to artists, designers and craftspeople as well as social workers, teachers, voluntary sector workers and anyone else who is interested. Current examples included:

  • Regular supervision and project planning for artist printmakers group providing outreach services to mental health service users.
  • Supervision of artists/ musicians working in hospital schools projects.
  • Mentoring for Arts & Health practitioners setting up their own courses.
  • Supervision of Play Therapy students
  • Supervision of school counsellors and art therapists

 Whether you are an individual artist, health worker or Art Psychotherapist, or part of a group, interested in very specific training or looking to generally extend your practice we are able to help you devise the programme you need.  

 

Workshops and Staff development 

Insider Art provide a variety of professional development and staff training workshops. These are individually tailored to suit the specific groups or individuals needs. Such workshops can be initially based on an existing workshop format or are often designed from scratch to meet a particular need.

Examples include:

  • supporting health and social care professionals manage service change.
  • health care professionals seeking effective ways of engaging young children with art making;
  • assisting community arts programmes to develop sensitive arts making workshops for people with particular mental health needs;
  • enabling artists to  explore and process personal material
  • talks or lectures and discussion groups about particular aspects of arts, health and therapy work;

Many artists working in hospitals, schools, prisons, care homes, workplaces, or community settings sometimes find themselves in unexpectedly complex situations or relationships. This is often exciting and stimulating, sometimes puzzling or confusing and occasionally distressing.

Artists in public and environmental arts projects, arts & health, outreach, community work, schools and other residencies, need:

  • Emotional literacy and empathic, practical skills to cope with strong feelings and intense responses.
  • Safe and ethical working practices, and understanding of different perceptions of risk.
  • Understanding and skills to cope with the range of relationships which develop between people working creatively in groups.

Insider Art provide a variety of staff development and training opportunities. From half day workshops to long term staff support, team building to supervision. We provide specific training in how to create  quality and ethical art making experiences; understanding the psychological implications of art making; how to safely engage children and vulnerable adults in art making; ways to develop personal creativity and much more.

Contact us to discuss your team, group or individual needs whether for a one off introductory session or more substantial input.

 

CPD for Art Psychotherapists

Insider Art work with Art Psychotherapists to extend their practice. We offer:

  • Creative, theme-based image making workshops, often focusing on rich seams for image making and psychological thinking, for instance ‘Mazes and Labyrinths’.
  • Theoretical and practice based workshops, for instance the popular ‘Articulating Art Psychotherapy’ , ‘Working with the Arts and Health’ and 'Alternative Approaches to Engagement.'.

Insider Art have worked extensively for BAAT, The British Association of Art Therapists, both nationally and for regional groups, as trainers. Malcolm Learmonth is co-author of the Association’s guidelines for CPD. This document will be available from the documents section in the archive of this site.

‘Articulating Art Psychotherapy’ is also available as a publication, to HPC registered art psychotherapists. 

 

Workshops Short Courses 

These short courses are intended to provide practical, theoretical, and contextual experiences of some of the ways that specific areas of the arts in health are approached in the arts therapies. They are run when requested.

Each course is planned to be accessible to those relatively new to the field, They are also intended to offer Continuing Professional Development to Artists, Arts & Health workers, Counsellors, Teachers and Arts Therapists.
 
Workshops run from 10.00am – 4.00pm in Exeter.
You are invited to arrive from 9.50am for tea, coffee and biscuits.
 

An example of short courses is listed below.

  

 Art and Narrative:

Tutors:
Karen Huckvale & Malcolm Learmonth.
A one day course: 10.00am - 4.00pm.  Next course TBC. Exeter.