Trauma is a human experience, which can be defined as an event or series of events that disrupts our experience of self or of the world. Our conference theme explores the potential of creative arts when working with trauma. We will draw on a person-centred perspective to explore contemporary practice and provide an exciting range of talks and experiential workshops.

Keynotes

Yana Gololob

Encountering war - relationships that empower

Description

In this presentation I will share my experience of encountering war, of living and working with clients during the war in Ukraine and how the person-centred creative arts approach helps to contain, get in contact with and process traumatic experiences.

This is the tenth year of war in Ukraine. Each person in Ukraine is affected, having been themselves or knowing someone who has been displaced, tortured, captured, or deceased. How can we as therapists contain our personal experiences of trauma whilst encountering the same trauma in our clients.

I will share my personal experience of how person-centred art therapy has helped me. I will share a case study of working online with a client at the front line, to show how art helped to process and deepen her experience using a person-centred approach to art therapy. We will have space for questions and discussion.    

Yana Gololob, a psychotherapist who works with a person-centred approach to art in therapy. She teaches at the Ukrainian Umbrella Association of Psychotherapists, and Ukrainian Psychotherapy University. She is a current Board member of the World Association for Person-Centred and Experiential Psychotherapy and Counselling. Yana is an author and is an author and editor of the 3rd edition of the Person-Centred Handbook of Psychotherapy and Counselling.

Person-centred approach around the globe  in The Handbook of Person-Centred Psychotherapy and Counselling (2024)

Ani de la Prida

Healing the Fragments of Trauma

Description

Trauma can be hard to define. From a person-centred perspective trauma can be defined as an experience that disrupts our sense of self or our sense of the world. Traumatic experiences are often stored as fragments of memories, sensory experience, visual images, smells, touch, and intense feelings. The therapeutic use of creative arts can

can be particularly relevant to working with psychological fragmentation, and working with collage can both express this fragmentation and also foster the process psychological healing.

In this workshop we will explore why and how creative mediums and the person-centred approach can help to foster healing from trauma. I will present practice examples to illustrate and will invite participants to engage with a creative arts exercise.

Ani de la Prida is a psychotherapist, and creative arts counsellor who brings a pluralistic person-centred philosophy to her work. She is passionate about creative arts approaches in therapy and has over twenty years’ experience working with children, young people, adults and groups.

Ani is the founder of the Association for Person Centred Creative Arts (APCCA) where she is also an editor of the APCCA Journal. She has worked at various London universities and is now course director at APCCA Training. Her research interests include creative arts therapy, digital media in therapy and pluralistic practice. Recent publications include;

Person-Centred Creative Arts Therapies in The Tribes of the Person-Centred Nation (2024)

Person-entred creative arts therapies in The Handbook of Person-Centred Psychotherapy and Counselling (2024)

The Pluralistic Therapy Primer (PCCS Books 2021)

If finance is a barrier to attending, please email. We have reduced fee tickets and a number of free tickets available to those in need. 

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME 

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