creativity and emotional management
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How can creativity and art therapy help to enhance management of ones own emotional state and others.A practical lecture for professionals in care and educationImke Wood 2009www.creativexpression.org.uksee also Health and medicalTRANSCRIPT
CREATIVITY AND EMOTIONAL MANAGEMENT
A training day for professionals working with clients with challenging behaviour
Imke Wood
• Arts Psychotherapist• MSc Ed. Science, remedial padagogy• BA Drama with 8 years on stage• Institute of Leadership & Management• British Association Art Therapy Supervisor• Neuro Linguistic Processing Teacher
Funder and manager of Creative ExpressionPrivate Practice Training & Consultancy
• Individual and group arts psychotherapy
• Supervision for therapists and care
professionals • Tailored creative projects • Workshops • Assessments & evaluation • Professional development training • Training & coaching & supervision
for professionals
AGENDAWelcome and introduction
9.45 What is creativity? Advancing personal creative methods! – individual work
11.00 Coffee & Tea
11.15 What is creative psychotherapy? IThe forming of personality – the essence of
therapeutic relationships Presentation
11.45 Activities- Listening, therapeutic relationship, silence, awkwardness and flow
12.30 LUNCH
13.15 What is creative psychotherapy? IISympathy vs. Empathy - guiding the whirlpool of
emotion.
14.00 How can carers use methods and strategies with their clients?
How to use and assess creative work and expression – case studies.Risk assessment, health and safety, options and limitations
15.00 Feedback
15.15 Finish
What is creative psychotherapy? Childhood development - The
forming of personality
THE PRE CREATIVE PHASE 0-8 Month
Infancy - birth until the child begins to speak stimulation highly importantlack of stimulation and affection can result inretardation and a host of otherdevelopmental and social disorders.
THE MAKING A MARK - THE SCRIBBLE STAGE, 9month-2 years
THE PRE-SCHEMATIC PHASE, 4-7 YEARS
R,
2 yearsSymbolic realism The child is perfectly happy with a simple symbol of an object.
TadpoleSchema:used foranimals aswell aspeople.
A,
4 years
Beginnings of insight, or true creativity and the discovery of new means to meet goals and “true creativity” .
A, 6 Years E, 5 years
SCHEMATIC STAGE, 7-9 years Thinking versus what is actually seen e.g. "x-ray drawing“, importance of people as size.
Freud; The development of the self; Ego Id Superego
CONCLUSIONS:Elementary needs for healthy
development of personality
Interaction/ relationship/ affection
Physical Care
Security
Consistency
Blocked development
Un-mastered stepping stonesRe-visited until resolved andDiversions implemented
That creates:•Tensions•Blockages•Obstacles
Followed by: • Deformation of emotion • Underdeveloped behaviour• Inconsistent personal development
The therapeutic creative relationshipCreative process allows revisiting of the developmental obstacles
Unconsciously the mind searches for opportunities to fill and mend the gap
The creative materials/methods help relive traumatic/fearsome aspects and to manipulate them/ adjust them to be integrated as ‘pat aspects’ not controlling powers.
The therapeutic relationship and material is not ‘reality’. They are not perceived as psychological risk.
Revisiting and reliving aspects of the four elementary needs for ‘normal’ development can provoke healing, readjustment and building of a functional personality.
Reliving is done by transference of emotion/interaction and identities onto the therapeutic carer.
Relationship acts as CANVAS through a psychodynamic process
All work can be done non-verbally and using symbolic expression.