Cultivating Hope in Turbulent Times on 1st December 2023

We are living in turbulent times, and this has been a tough year in a series of tough years. Living through a pandemic, war, political turmoil, climate change, and managing your own personal challenges and difficulties while supporting others isn’t easy. We are facing midwinter, the longest and darkest time of the year when energies are low. 

But the winter solstice is also the turning point of the year, when the light starts to return, days begin to shorten, and energy returns.

I invite you to come along to this workshop where we will be using creative arts, to help you find a place of peace and hope inside yourself, a place where you can return when you need to.

In this session we will use guided visualisation and creative arts methods to help you to reflect on your journey through the year, reconnect with your deepest self, explore your strengths and hopes and help you to move into the new year with renewed energy.

Creative arts is a fascinating  medium that can promote depth of  healing that can’t always be achieved with words alone. It can be a helpful way to work with a variety of clients and issues, and simply engaging in creative arts is shown to improve wellbeing, reduce stress, anxiety and depression. 

The workshop contains a combination of experiential work, discussion, and creative arts practice. Art skills aren’t necessary. Please bring some art art materials such as pencils, pens, paint, or pastels or alternatively you can use a digital art app. If you can please also bring a candle to light at the workshop.

Tickets are free for APCCA Members, and for non-member if money is a barrier. But a small donation to the APCCA Art Fund would be very welcome. You can donate here;

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Ani de la Prida, MA, MBACP is a psychotherapist, creative arts counsellor, supervisor and author who brings a person-centred and pluralistic philosophy to her work. She is passionate about creative approaches to therapy with over twenty years’ experience working with children, young people, adults and groups in a wide variety of settings.

Ani is co-founder of the Association for Person Centred Creative Arts (APCCA ). She currently has a small private practice and her research interest is in creative arts and the use of digital media in therapy. 

Her recent publications include The Pluralistic Therapy Primer, What Works in Counselling and Psychotherapy Relationships, and Demedicalised counselling and psychotherapy with children and young people in People not Pathology.

She is currently writing Person Centred Creative Arts Therapy: contemporary theory and practice (expected 2024) for Jessica Kingsley Publishers.