Training and Workshops

Mindworks provides a number of workshops and training days/ courses for individuals and organisations.

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Areas covered include:

Child Protection

Working with the Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse

Trauma and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Art Mediums as a Therapeutic Tool

Groupwork Training

Stress Management

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Working with Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse

This course is designed for any person working with child, adolescent and adult survivors of childhood sexual, physical and emotional abuse and for any person working with children or vulnerable people.

Because the area of Child Abuse is vast the training programme can be tailor made to meet specific organisational needs (one day training day to a five day course)or be provided as an individual training day focusing on a particular area.

Working with Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse-Course Areas

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The Arts as a Theapeutic Tool

The 'Arts as a Therapeutic Tool' are a number of workshops designed to provide the practitioner with skills and learning on how art mediums can be integrated into counselling practice to facilitate change.This is not a course where once completed you are an art therapist, you will need to look elsewhere for such indepth training.Each workshop involves learning how to work with art mediums; experiential 'Art exercises'; developing and working therapeutically with the image (individually and in partnerships);group feedback (optional)and discussion.

Because the work is experiential and powerful, no more than ten people will attend each workshop.

You do not need to be good at art to work with the arts.

The Arts as a Therapeutic Tool - Workshops

For each workshop the day's programme will include:

- Introducing the art medium and how it can be used within the therapy [with case examples].

- Experiential Art Exercises with students working with their own history. A choice of exercises are provided so that the individual can
manage what issues are worked with.

- Students are taught how to work and develop the image.

- In Partnerships, students work privately and confidentially with eachothers image.

- Group feedback and discussion. This part is very beneficial for student,learning, however,how much information is disclosed (if any)regarding the process is a decision for the individual.

There will be at least three art exercises per workshop creating an opportunity for the individual to work with different issues throughout the day or to work with the same issue to a closure. Handouts and art materials will be provided.