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Expressive Art Therapy : Bottom Up Healing
Talk therapy undoubtedly has its place. For me, both personally and professionally, it had its limitations. Empathy and being understood is a powerful component that allows for change to happen. But the combination of an empathetic and warm therapeutic relationship that includes multi-modal expressive arts brings a whole new level of healing that goes deeper. […]
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ETA’s Certificate in Expressive Therapies with Children and Adolescents
Somatic & Emotion Focused, Creative Arts-based Counselling for Emotional Integration Singapore – In Person – Starts December 2022 Five 3-day In-Person Training Workshops: 15 days over 7 months. Trainer: Dr Mark Pearson This highly experiential in-person course offers training in creative arts-based, emotionally expressive methods and inner-life skills that promote emotional integration, self-awareness and resilience […]
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Healing Through Creative Expression
Engagement in creative expressive therapies connects us to our own potential for healing. It is sad that so many people view themselves as “bad at art” but the fundamental healing power of self expression through music, movement, sound, touch, colour and shape is an innate part being human. We ignore it or shut it down […]
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Workshop: The Gentle Art of Compassionate Communication
Are you fed up with feeling that people just don’t “get” you? Tired of repeating yourself over and over and feeling like nobody really hears what you are trying to say? Are you longing to authentically show up, stand up and be counted? But struggle with a fear of offending others? Have you experienced […]
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The Gentle Art of Parenting Teens
12 Hour Practical Workshop (3 hours per week for four mornings a week) : May 2021 I don’t claim that I have the magic wand – but if you are looking to brush up your skills and find some fresh strategies to use with your teenager, this could be the course for you. Parenting is […]
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The Gentle Art of Parenting
12 Hour Practical Workshop (3 hours per week for four mornings a week) : May 2021 Parenting is a skill we develop along the way and not something we are taught before the kids arrive. Becoming a parent might be the biggest personal development project you’ve ever undertaken – and one that you had no […]
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New Intake for 2022 Sandplay and Symbol Work Certificate (Now Fully Booked)
If you wish to be kept informed of next dates or have any questions about the course please submit the form below. Scroll down further for information about the course and its content. Certificate in Expressive Sandplay and Symbol Work with children, adolescents and adults 12-Day Training Coursein-person in Singapore Facilitator: Paula Huggins Limited Number of […]
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Expressive Therapies: addressing some common misconceptions
Expressive therapy provides a range of interactive, creative arts-based, projective techniques and interventions. It draws both on the principles of psychotherapy as well as the creative experience of the client to gain insight and to achieve growth, healing and integration. There are a few common misconceptions about the work I do with clients that I’d […]
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What do you think?
Our thoughts shape the way we perceive ourselves and the world around us. The biggest changes in my personal journey of growth came about when I began to recognize that the majority of the thoughts I was thinking weren’t actually true (big thank-you to Byron Katie’s The Work https://thework.com/). What?! Thoughts aren’t true?! That’s right. […]
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Now Is The Time
There are many strengths, values, characteristics and habits we develop throughout our lives but among the most important for me right now are creativity, gratitude, simplicity, purpose, and resiliency. Now is the time to strengthen and draw on them all, in whatever capacity we can, in service of the greater good. For me this means […]
The Gentle Art of Expressive Therapy
"Often the hands will solve a mystery the intellect has struggled with in vain" – Carl Jung