Description
Creative Activities Through a Trauma-Informed Lens: Small Adjustments, Meaningful Differences
What happens when we take some familiar therapeutic exercises and look at them through a slightly different lens?
In this creative, practical and reflective half-day spotlight workshop, Dr Karen Treisman will revisit a selection of commonly used therapeutic activities and strategies, including the traditional ‘calm place’ exercise, breathing techniques and other creative and therapeutic approaches.
Together, we’ll get curious about how these exercises might be experienced differently by different people, some of the assumptions we can unintentionally make, and how small shifts in language, pacing, choice, flexibility and delivery can make a meaningful difference.
Rather than throwing out familiar tools or suggesting there’s only one right way of doing things, the invitation is to explore how we might adapt, expand and approach them a little differently, with greater attention to safety, connection, individual experiences and the wider context.
Through practical examples, creative adaptations and opportunities for reflection, we’ll explore how bringing a trauma-informed lens to familiar activities can open up different possibilities for our everyday practice.
About Dr Karen Treisman
Dr Karen Treisman MBE is a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist, trainer and author of The Therapeutic Treasure Box for Working with Children and Adolescents with Developmental Trauma. She was awarded an MBE in 2020 for her services to children, and was Psychology Professional of the Year for Excellence in Attachment and Trauma. She trains internationally and is the founder and director of Safe Hands and Thinking Minds.
Who is this for?
Qualified counsellors and psychotherapists, and allied professionals who work with children and young people, such as teachers, SNAs, youth workers, social care workers and school support staff.
You will receive the Zoom link and a CPD certificate for 3 hours on completion.
