Deepening our Understanding of Client Work through Storytelling and Improv
With Aileen McCormack
Looking for a playful way to boost your confidence and ease anxiety when working with the uncertainties of therapeutic exploration?
Clients often come to therapy with resistance, coping strategies and ways of thinking and feeling that we aim to help them explore. Understanding and supporting our clients requires developing and exploring our own creativity.
This interactive workshop will use storytelling and improv comedy games and techniques to help create deeper understanding of ourselves and our clients, and to foster creativity into the future.
Improvisation (improv) involves making up characters, scenes and dialogue in the moment. It can help improve our confidence and creativity, reduce anxiety and help reframe our understanding of client and therapeutic situations. The workshop will aim to help you become more confident in exploring client concerns and overcome anxieties or worries about exploring client work.
The workshop will offer the chance to:
· Explore your own relationship with creativity and develop a more playful self
· Learn about the benefits and practice of improv
· Practice some storytelling and improv techniques
· Reflect on your own learning and change
This session will be facilitated in an informative, relaxed and experiential way, so please be open to self-exploration and working with others. Aileen will also be bringing her own learning and experiences from working with groups and would like participants to bring their experiences also. No previous experience of improv is necessary as full instructions will be given, a willingness to try and to work with others would be helpful!
Suitable for both trainee and qualified counsellors.
Tea, coffee, and biscuits provided. Please bring your own lunch.
Early bird price until 1st March: £110
General price: £125
About the trainer:
Aileen McCormack has been practicing as a Counsellor, Supervisor, Lecturer and Trainer for the past 10 years. Aileen has trained in and performs improv regularly in Scotland for the past two years. She is also a member of BACP. She spent many years working in the charity sector with organisations such Macmillan Cancer Support and Crossreach, Scotland. She also delivers training on group facilitation and self-care and grief and loss. She is also a trained Laughter Yoga leader! Aileen is interested in developing counsellors’ ability and confidence to work with clients through play, improv and the power of humour and laughter to relax and open our minds.