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.