Collect and Collate: On the Creative and Contemplative Potential of Collage

The process of ‘understanding through making’ offers a powerful catalyst to elicit personal and interpersonal connection through creative practice, pausing, collecting and collating. Utilise this practice as a way of engaging new clients, or colleagues, welcoming creative ideas (yours and others’), visualising priorities and facilitating interaction through our creative potential (that hidden source, we all have).

The 2-hour session is designed to offer a joyful, practical and soul-nourishing space to welcome the power and potential of creative exercises, facilitated by art practitioner, community artist and scholar Dr Francesca Bernardi PhD.

Making together and responding to materials in ways that release tensions, bringing forth intuition and dialogue, collage-making can offer routes to sharing and enabling intentions that are not reliant on talk, questions or external demands.

Essential materials: Newspapers, magazines, unwanted books or any printed materials, cloth, card, bus tickets, anything you can stick together and repurpose.

Plus A4 (letter sized) card, cardboard or heavy paper.

Glues stick (or tape) or PVA glue + brush or a little spatula, or any other glue (suitable for paper and card).

Optional: scissors, paper cups, small vessels/containers.

Your joy and any other materials you may like to use on the day.

This event will not be recorded to support the group process.

*I would highly recommend this event it was a great space to explore creativity. I was surprised how much Igained from this in 2 hours, especially as on line.*

Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event

• Broaden your skills-set to welcome creative modalities in your day-to-day, therapeutic communication and process.
• Make time for an intentional, playful and joyful process in your therapeutic offering and space; establishing connection and thoughtful affinities with clients, and colleagues, and your own creative intuition through an openness towards creative possibilities.
• Expand your professional offering and create with clients to elicit rapport and set intentions, establishing a nurturing space for exchanges that are not solely based on words (helpful for clients of different ages as well as those whose first language, or language of choice, is not English).

Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?

• Therapists, coaches and socially-engaged practitioners working with individuals, couples, groups and colleagues in the helping professions. Especially if you have a desire to reengage your own creative potential and have clients who would relish the opportunity to express ideas in visual, textual and tactile ways.

How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?

• Rekindle your creativity and engage your multiple communication tools, welcoming creative modalities in your day-to-day, therapeutic work and process, making time for a powerful and joyful process in your therapeutic offering and space.

ZOOM 

This event will be hosted on the Zoom meeting platform where we will use our cameras and microphones to interact with each other as a group.

SELF-SELECT FEE

The self-select fee is a radical inclusion policy to open learning for all colleagues. The guide price for this event is £20.00, however, we appreciate that income varies greatly in different locations and circumstances. Please contribute what you can to help us maintain inclusive professional training.

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At Onlinevents, we and the presenters we collaborate with are committed to working in a way that aligns with the ethical codes and frameworks of our respective professional organisations. We expect all colleagues attending our events to uphold the ethical principles of their professional membership.

If you are not a member of a professional organisation, we ask that you participate in a way that is both authentic and respectful, fostering a space of mutual learning and professional engagement.

By registering for this event, you agree to be present and interact in a manner that reflects these principles.

Dr Francesca Bernardi PhD, CATA/ACAT

Francesca is an independent researcher, writer, and scholar dedicated to socially-engaged practice within the arts and education. Her work is driven by multimodality and non-hierarchical participatory methods, exploring real-world issues faced by individuals navigating dis/ability, and cultural and social exclusions. A prominent advocate for social justice and creative healing, Francesca is the founding chair of the Antonio Gramsci Society UK (est. 2016), Associate Member of CATA (the Canadian Art Therapy Association) and The Marxist Education Project (MEP). Francesca is an editorial board member of Disability & Society, with extensive publications and collaborations with organizations like Routledge, Bloomsbury, Taylor and Francis, TATE, Wellcome Trust, and ESRC.

Website | www.frabeart.carrd.co