Current and Upcoming Events

Slow Stitch Course

Kathy draw's on her thirteeen years of experience as an Arts Psychotherapist alongside her creative textile practices to provide an introduction to slow stitching. This is not group therapy but rather a mindful, creative introduction to practices that can be both enjoyable and supportive of emotional wellbeing.

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Previous Workshops

Workshop for Adults Living with a Long Term Medical Condition

 

Do you have diabetes, heart disease, IBS, a disability, arthritis, MS or Bells palsy?

 

Living with a long-term medical condition can pose many challenges – beyond just the physical ones.
It can impact upon:

• confidence
• sense of identity
• body image
• energy/lethargy
• mood
• relationships 
• employment

 

Sometimes it can feel like a lot to handle on your own and hard to find others who understand.

 

Why not come along to our workshop to meet others with similar experiences and explore new ways of living with your condition.

 

The facilitators, Bernadette Castle and Kathy Ross, are experienced professionals with an interest in the psychological impact of living with medical conditions and difference.

Bernadette is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist, and has worked in health and mental health settings for 25 years. She currently has a private practise in Farnham, Surrey.

 

Art Therapy Workshops for Women

A series of 6 workshops run in May 2015

Facilitated by Kathy Ross and Helena Lewis.

 

These provided a creative and supportive space for women to use the arts:

• For personal growth
• For self expression
• To uncover new insights into behaviour, feelings and experiences
• To build coping strategies (new ones and strenghten existing ones)

 

The group provided space to work both individually and for some sharing and will cover
a range of themes inlcuding:

• Changes and challenges
• My many parts and roles
• Support - discovering what I have and what I need
• On being a women - likes and don't likes

 

For futher information about similar workshops feel free to contact contact me.

 

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Introductory Arts Psychotherapy Workshop for Health and Wellbeing Professionals

 

On the 12th February Kathy Ross and Helena Lewis, both Integrative Arts Pyschotherapists, ran a workshop for Health and Wellbeing Professionals in the Ealing area. The aim was to introduce professionals, from varied backgrounds, to the arts as a way of self-exploration. It was an experiential workshop which was well recieved by participants, from a variety of backgrounds including aromatherapists and counsellors.

 

The workshop was held at The Grange in Ealing, in the Reading Room which provided a comfortable and contained venue within easy access of public transport.

 

Participants discovered the benefits of working with the arts which include:

• Raising awareness and providing clarity as images created can give form to what were previously partly formed ideas
• Connection to oneself and ones goals
• The opportunity to try out something new or discover unexpected insights through the process of image making and reflection.

 

From my view, as a facilitator, this group worked well because of the common interest all participants had: in engaging with new materials; a willingness to exploring themselves using the arts (and sometimes new materials) and a respectfulness of others personal process.

 

A big thank you to my co-facilitator and all participants for making this workshop such a success.

 

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