Wednesday 16th of March

10am - 4.30pm

£90 (£75 + vat)

The workshop will be largely experiential with potential for you to explore your own life story using a fairy tale, and in doing so, discover approaches that could support you work with clients. We will use stories, images, curiosity, creativity and compassion to discover the healing that can be found in “laying your life down alongside the tale” as Estes calls it. All you need to bring is yourself and any particular creative resource that you enjoy – a journal, any particular art or craft materials that are important to you etc. Basic paper, image resources, scissors and glue, and drawing materials will be provided. No particular level of training or experience is needed for this workshop, though a Foundation level appreciation of TA could be useful.

Presenter: Barbara Clarkson TSTA (P)

Barbara is a TA therapist, trainer and supervisor, with a keen interest in story (fairy tales, memoir, creative writing, archetypes and myths) as the foundation of how we live, and a powerful tool for self discovery and healing. She is interested in the spiritual dimension of therapy and has published an article on the subject in the 2021 Transactional Analysis Journal. In the past 10 years she has also presented on themes of Spirituality in Psychotherapy, Using fairy tales in Therapy, Working with Archetypes and the power of our relationship with nature at conferences across the world. She lives in Leeds and offers supervision and training online, and at the Ellesmere Centre.