Redcliffe QLD
9am - 4:30pm
Morning & afternoon tea provided
BYO Lunch
Trainer: Mark Pearson
Level Two: for 10 - 14 Year Old Children
This three day experiential training will equip you to use the practical eight week Expressive Therapies groupwork program for students from 10 to 14 years old. This is a creative arts, multiple intelligence approach to supporting children through groupwork, based on the theories and activities of Expressive Therapies. There is a particular focus on developing emotional literacy, knowing self, enhancing communication and group bonding. Innerspace supports children with emotional or behavioural challenges; affected by grief and loss; at risk of depression; with relational difficulties; with low self-esteem.
Help young people expand their self-understanding; improve interpersonal effectiveness; develop the skills of self-reflection, emotional support and empathic communication. This program presents new ways to foster resilience and mental wellbeing in students.
A range of proven personal development and therapeutic skills-building techniques are woven through the program, such as: therapeutic writing, emotional literacy tools, emotional and somatic mapping, responding to music, bioenergetics, relaxation skills, imagination and self-esteem activities, visualisation and self-discovery worksheets.s.
