Oaklander training part 1: a 5-day CPD course.
This course counts as 37 hours of CPD.
When
5 dates:
- 20 January 2022
- 24 March 2022
- 5 May 2022
- 21 July 2022
- 15 September 2022
Session times: 9.30am to 5.30pm.
Participants are asked to attend all 5 dates.
Where
Friends Meeting House
17 Woodville Road
Ealing
London
W5 2SE
- 4-minutes’ walk from Ealing Broadway station (trains from Paddington take 13 minutes)
- on-site parking
The well-ventilated garden room has direct access to a substantial secluded garden for contemplation. Attention will be paid to maintaining a socially distanced, safe learning environment in the wake of COVID-19.
About the workshop
This ‘hands on’ part-experiential, part-didactic workshop, now in its 16th year, caters for counsellors, psychotherapists, educators, pastoral carers and other professionals working with children. Incorporating the arts in therapy with children offers an ‘experience near’ vehicle for self-expression that aids relational exploration of issues, fosters resilience and enhances wellbeing.
Rooted in Gestalt therapy theory the course draws inspiration from the projective arts approach of eminent Gestalt child and adolescent psychotherapist Dr Violet Oaklander (see Windows to Our Children (also available in Hebrew) and Hidden Treasure: A Map to the Child’s Inner Self) as well as ideas from Attachment and Systemic theories. It will also interest those wishing to explore their own relationship with creativity or play.
The group will experience first hand working with:
- drawing
- painting
- clay
- sand tray
- music-making
- haiku
- movement
- drama
- puppets
Course content
Includes:
- key concepts (awareness, contact, embodiment, Buber’s dialogic relating, support)
- reasons children enter therapy
- developmental principles
- conjoint family assessment and contracting
- conducting a first session
- the therapeutic process
- crisis intervention and blended working
- anger and aggressive energy
- diversity
- grief work
- safeguarding
- additional needs
- group work
- reviews
- ending
Methods
- ‘live’ demonstrations
- didactic
- skills practice
- group work
- discussion
Cost
- £560
- ‘early bird’ rate, payable before 1 October 2021: £510
- fee includes all materials, worksheets, reading list and attendance certificate
How to book
Payment by bank transfer (contact Jon for details).
About Jon Blend
Jon Blend is an adult, child and adolescent psychotherapist working with children and families in private practice in London. He is also an author, supervisor, trainer and Lifemusician. He is a faculty member of the Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education (IATE) and Nurture, Education, Training & Therapy (NESTT) Yorkshire and a guest trainer with the Violet Solomon Oaklander Foundation. Jon brings 40 years’ experience of working with children, young people and families in the fields of community mental health, social work and performing arts. He has delivered workshops and presentations to health and education professionals in Bath, Budapest, Chepstow, Goole, Kyiv, London, Manchester, Naples, Oxford, Prestwich, Rzeszow, Sofia, Tbilisi, Toronto and Zagreb.
Oaklander Foundation international conference, 2021
In June 2021, I gave a presentation on sleep and visualisation work at the Oaklander Foundation international conference in California.
