The Magic of Mess!

The Magic of Mess!

This presentation explains how we can set borders on children’s messy play yet allow them enough freedom to be curious and adventurous. Children enjoy mixing lotions and potions ‘to see what happens’. We will demonstrate how borders can be learned and kept, and sophisticated questions can be answered, questions which will prove the foundations of later science, technology and mathematics learning.

Please have with you:

• ice cubes
• finger paints
• shaving foam
• a tray
• water wipes /other biodegradable wetwipes

NEURO-DRAMATIC-PLAY

Neuro-Dramatic-Play is an attachment based intervention that focuses on early playful relationships. Through play it emphasises a combination of basic trust, security and ritual, with stimulation, exploration and risk. Ritual and risk form the basis of children both feeling safe with the desire to explore: the Ritual-Risk Paradigm. It is an ideal approach for working with children who have been traumatised, neglected or abused, as well as children who experience meltdowns.

NDP can act as a foundation for all the arts and play therapies, and provide a framework for the development of healthy attachments, as illustrated in all Dr Sue's books published by Hinton House / Loggerheads Publishing. NDP is the common sense approach for parents and teachers and provides a basis for therapists working in a variety of frameworks.

Course Outcomes

• Understand the need for messy play
• Practice in a variety of techniques
• Recognise messy experience before and during birth
• Follow developmental patterns in feeding and bathing
• See the progression from mess to form and creativity

This course is recommenced for:

• Counsellors
• Therapists
• Teachers
• Parents
• SENCOs
• Foster Carers
• Social Workers
• Play Therapists
• Art Thearpists
• Drama Therapists
• Family Support Workers

What you will need:

Please have the following with you for the workshops:

• Ice cubes
• Finger paints
• Shaving foam
• A tray
• Tissues or eco-friendly wet-wipes

This course is worth 1.5CPD points. You will be sent a certificate of participation and the course presentation after the event.

YOUR TRAINER

Dr Sue Jennings PhD is Professor of Play, a life-time award from the European Federation of Dramatherapists. She is a pioneer of play and dramatherapy and Neuro-Dramatic-Play.

She is Senior Research Fellow of the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, Distinguished Scholar of the University of the Witwatersrand and Honorary Fellow of Roehampton University. She has previously held academic posts at the Universities of Coleraine, Leeds Beckett, Derby, York St John, Roehampton and Hertfordshire, Adjunct Professor NYU, and Visiting Professor at HELP University, Kuala Lumpur.

Sue is also a professional actor and has established a reputation for hard-hitting one person shows, which she has performed internationally as well at various festivals including Edinburgh and Vienna.

She has published over 40 books of theory and practice, many of them with practical ideas and techniques. She trains individuals and staff teams in NDP both online and in person, in UK and overseas.

Testimonials from Dr Sue's Previous Courses

"Thank you Sue! a thoroughly enjoyable and informative course"

"I thought there was a good balance between teaching, experiential activities and opportunities for questions. I really liked having the opportunity to work with a smaller group. That's something I think we are used to when attending face-to-face training and I really valued the experience."

"Thank you Sue. I found the course informative, it filled in a lot of gaps in my knowledge. I enjoyed the break out groups, it’s always good to share in smaller groups."

"A wonderful, especially intense course that brought me a lot of joy, pleasure and the mood to work and learn from an extraordinary professional, Dr. Sue Jennings 💖 I highly recommend it - a unique experience!"

"Thank you for two days of captivating and inspiring training and thank you for the Shakespeare insights - amazing and something I will share with my colleagues. I have so much to take away and share with the children and young people I work with because of your inspirational teaching. Looking forwards to the next one. Thank you, Dr Sue."

"Brilliant training, Sue ensured to encourage participants to ask questions and made feel very comfortable on an online platform!"

"I thoroughly enjoyed the training; the delivery via Zoom worked really well and the course content was excellent."

"Was an absolute gift, useful and inspiring. Will utilise the training in my work."

"I absolutely loved this workshop it gave great tips and strategies and was so relaxed and interactive all in one. Thrilled to have done it. Thank you, Sue!"

"Really enjoyed the training & would recommend it."

"Thank you for facilitating this. I am an experienced Play Therapist and I found it very useful. Thanks once again."