Art and Wellbeing: Conference and Art Exhibition: Art Therapy and Physical Conditions

  6th June 2008 . Exeter. 
Art and Conflict:   Marian Liebmann:

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.

 20th May 2008. Sheffield

Northern Programme for Art Psychotherapy
Articulating Art Psychotherapy Workshop.

 Friday 16th May 2008. Stoodleigh Court, Tiverton.

The Seventh Exeter Arts & Therapies Conference,
Nature & Nurture: the image, the word, and the world.

The seventh of these annual events took place at a new venue. These conferences have successfully explored the overlaps between the worlds of the Arts, Psychotherapy and society. This year’s theme of Nature and Nurture  investigated the links between, and effective application of, these complementary understandings of development, growth, and resilience to creativity and health. The theme will be approached with the help of speakers and artists who work with text, visual art, the arts in health and psychotherapy.

Speakers: 
Internationally renowned artist Peter Randall-Page. Maggie Crosby, co-ordinator of Subtext: an East London literature project. John Wright, clinical psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist Martin, the 'Dartmoor Hawker', a falconer. Carol Harvey, artist photographer 

The day was Chaired by Malcolm Learmonth, Arts & Health Lead for the British Association of Art Therapists.

Three days: 26th April, 17th May, 7th June 

Introduction to Sand Tray Therapy

This course always over subscribed: contact us if you want to go on the waiting list for the next course in February - March 09.

Brenda Rawlinson & Lynn McClelland . Exeter.

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 experience a range of learning methods including experiential exercises, presentation of clinical material, video and discussion.
  

7th March '08

Introduction to Art Therapy and Participatory Visual Arts
Malcolm Learmonth & Karen Huckvale.   Exeter.                                

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.
  

A two day course  1st & 15th February 2008

Learning Emotional Logic: working with loss
Tutor:  Trisha Horgan. .  Exeter.
This course is designed to highlight the uses of emotional literacy in therapeutic practise. It focuses on the difficult emotions generated by life changes – giving these emotions meaning and purpose - and attaching them to the original, but often hidden, losses that accompany all change.

Windmill House Arts project

Woodspring Community Mental Health Team relocated in January 2007 to newly built premises at Kenn Road, Clevedon,  North Somerset. The Windmill House Arts project  was designed to enable service users and staff to create artwork which would make the waiting areas and corridors more welcoming, comfortable and interesting for all who visit and work there.

See Healing Environments page for details. 

Saturday 22 - Thursday 27 September 2007.

Possible Forests Exhibition:

Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World, Haldon Forest Exeter. Haldon Forest Park is an evolving landscape. What plans would you make for its future? Throughout the summer of 2007, Wrights & Sites  embarked on a series of reconnaissance drifts through the forest with specialists in diverse fields (geography, architecture and planning, psychology, choreography), discussing ways of experiencing, re-imagining and planning the forest landscape. This exhibition documented these dialogues through maps, texts and video, and gave the opportunity to contribute your own 'possible forest' to the collection.