This experiential Continuing Professional Development day focuses on creative writing and its use within therapy and therapeutic settings.

Therapy clients often find writing to be a useful resource, whether to express the ‘unsayable’ or to understand their feelings in a more tangible form. Through practice, this workshop will explore some helpful techniques and raise confidence in using the written and spoken word.

Some counsellors and psychotherapists use creative writing as part of their own reflective practice to understand transferential relationships, create boundaries between sessions and for their own personal and professional development.

The day will focus on a range of applications, including:

• Supporting clients’ metaphors
• Images into words – poetry as resource
• Creative journaling & narrative practice
• Reflective practice
• Autobiographical fiction
• Pleasures and pitfalls of using creative writing

DATES          Monday 8 October 2018

VENUE          Gestalt Centre Wales, 10 Hocker Hill Street, Chepstow, NP16 5ER

Or Manor House, Bank Street, Chepstow NP16 5EL (TBC)

TIMINGS      Arrive from 09.30 for a 10.00am prompt start, finishing at 3.30pm

COST             Total Cost £85.00