Events archive
Working with young people: a year-long Gestalt arts intensive 2024
Where: Ealing, London
When: 10 CPD days between 24 January and 21 November 2024
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(The image shows the group that successfully completed the 2023 course).
Working with young adults, adolescents and children: a year-long Gestalt arts intensive
Where: Ealing, London
When: 7 CPD days between 19 January 2023 and 18 January 2024
Serious fun: the Oaklander approach to working with children and young people
Oaklander basic training 1: Haredi play therapists
Adolescence: creative reorganisation of the self
Hospice counsellor training
In September 2023, I completed 3 days of projective-arts training Oaklander style with this wonderful group of hospice counsellors at St Peter & St James Hospice in Sussex, who are working with grieving children and young people.
If you’d like to find out how I could offer similar training at your organisation, do please get in touch.
Working with children and adolescents: bi-monthly closed supervision group: Violet Oaklander method
Working with grieving children and adolescents
Where: St Peter and St James Hospice, Haywards Heath
When: 18 to 20 september 2023
Violet Oaklander Foundation biennial weekend conference
In early June 2023 the Violet Oaklander Foundation held another biennial weekend conference.
This hybrid international event involved approximately 120 delegates, with supplementary workshops also taking place in many places, including at my home in London.
The weekend was a great success, offering excellent opportunities for mutual learning and networking!
Oaklander method: across the age spectrum: puppets, poems and percussing
Working with adolescents: Oaklander/ McConville approach
Pathways for Haredi school counsellors
Violet Oaklander arts training: haiku and cinquain
Violet Oaklander arts training: clay
Working with sandtray workshop: for school counsellors and mentors
Where: Football Beyond Borders, Brixton, London SW9
When: October half-term 2022 (date TBC)
Violet Oaklander method: working with children part 1
Where: Ealing, London
When: 5 CPD days between 20 January and 15 September 2022
Working with children and adolescents: supervision group
Where: Acton, London
When: 6 supversion days between 23 January and 18 September 2022
Child therapy: the Oaklander method
Where: The Gestalt Centre, London
When: 5 CPD days between 5 and 9 April 2022
Workshop: 'We’re going on a bearhunt!’
Working with adolescents: Oaklander/ McConville approach
Violet Oaklander method: arts-based conversations with children
Where: Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education, London.
When: 29 January 2022
Engaging children in conversations, Oaklander style: therapeutic mentors training
Experiential retreat: Haredi counsellors
Reflective practice and religion: Haredi group
Adolescence training – child therapists
Creative writing for therapeutic ends
Where: Bulgaria
When: 10 Jun 2021
On sleep and visualisation work
Where: Oaklander Foundation international conference, California
When: 4 to 6 Jun 2021
Restoring the ‘Hum’ in Human!*
Watch Jon’s video bringing together participants from around the world in a Lifemusic session, part of the ‘Just For Now’ online seminar series hosted by Karen Fried.
Adolescence training
Where: NESTT, Pocklington, nr York
When: 13 to 15 May 2021
Sleep and Coronasomnia – some ideas for surviving the night
Where: Super Parents Conference, Kyiv, Ukraine
When: 27 March 2021
