Workshops
2020
A Body of Work and Play - Art Therapy and Dramatherapy Workshop with Suzanne Perry and Joanna Jaaniste
Through engagement with the art-making process, we will work experientially with participants, informing our work with theory throughout. This workshop is suitable for any Expressive Arts Therapists who wish to build their professional development and stimulate their own creative arts practice.
Cancelled
2017
A Body of Work and Play - Art Therapy and Dramatherapy Workshop with Suzanne Perry and Joanna Jaaniste
Saturday 21 & Sunday 22 of October
Through engagement with the art-making process, Suzanne Perry (art therapist) and Joanna Jaaniste (dramatherapist) will work experientially with participants, informing our work with theory throughout. This workshop is suitable for any Expressive Arts Therapists who wish to build their professional development and stimulate their own creative arts therapy practice.
2016
A Body of Work and Play - Art Therapy and Dramatherapy Workshop with Suzanne Perry and Joanna Jaaniste
Fri 6th May from 7pm to 9pm
Sat 7th May from 9am to 5pm
Sun 8th May from 9am to 3pm
Through engagement with the art-making process, Suzanne Perry (art therapist) and Joanna Jaaniste (dramatherapist) will work experientially with participants, informing our work with theory throughout. This workshop is suitable for any Expressive Arts Therapists who wish to build their professional development and stimulate their own creative arts therapy practice.
2015
Sue Jennings Masterclasses
Masterclass 1, Neuro-Dramatic - Play (NDP)
(Sat 24th Oct 2015 from 9am - 5pm)
NDP is the sensory playfulness of early childhood, before and after birth. It is a critical time for the establishment of trust, empathy, fine tuning and attachment.
NDP includes sensory, rhythmic and dramatic play, the early embodied experience that is the foundation that allows life and creativity to flourish.
This workshop, which is largely experiential, encourages individuals and the group to re-experience their personal NDP development, in order to find new insights into their early sensory world. From this will emerge their own sense of mind and therapeutic intuition, which will help to clarify both personal and professional foggy issues.
The workshop will end with a Power Point presentation of examples and underlying theory of NDP as a basis for arts therapies.
Masterclass 2, Shakespeare’s Emotional Intelligence and the Seething Brain
(Sun 25th Oct 2015 from 9am - 4:30pm)
Recent discoveries in neuroscience have shown that emotional intelligence is as important as the familiar IQ. Many children and teenagers, and indeed adults, have an emotional intelligence that is less mature than other aspects of their brain development. We now know that brains and their contents are not fixed at birth but continue to grow and develop according to the ‘good enough’ attachment. Therefore it seems pertinent to consider examples of emotional intelligence in literature, namely Shakespeare and in particular, A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Kelly Hunter’s ‘Shakespeare’s Heartbeat’ (2014) approach for working with children on the autistic spectrum will be included, showing how an experience of Shakespeare’s imagery and characters can bring about profound change.
A Power Point presentation at the end of the workshop will give illustrations of Shakespeare’s Emotional Intelligence (ShEM).
2014
Shining the light on Trauma: A Dramatherapy Workshop applying Jungian Dream work to the healing of traumatic experience (2 days)
Saturday 19, July 2014 from 9 am – 5 pm
Sunday 20, July 2014 from 9am – 4pm
This workshop aims to give participants the tools to:
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Engage in their dream-memories to access the here-and-now
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Through somatic dramatherapy, to find an entrée to their body wisdom
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Practise embodied imagination
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Explore the alchemical realm of the ‘theatre of the body’
Participants will gain tools for the purpose of:
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Assisting clients with gentle healing work for flashbacks
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Promoting self-awareness without re-traumatisation
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Working with Jungian transformative processes
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Encouraging others in the development of a rich relationship with the world and lived environment
2013
Shifting Perspectives and ritual transformation in Dramatherapy
2012
The Firemaker Workshop
2011