Arts therapies – Pluralistic Practice

Creativity Gathering 27th March 2021: Storytelling

Jennifer Ramsay: Storyteller, art therapist, Gestalt therapist. www.storyarte.com This was my first visit to the Creativity Gathering and I received a warm welcome. I was particularly interested in the topic of storytelling as I am a professional storyteller and facilitate Story Medicine workshops. What would your answer be to this…

Emotioncubes: A New Psychotherapy Tool

March 26, 2021 Arts therapies Practice Preferences 5 Comments

Brendan Murphy; counsellor, supervisor, and trainer living in the West of Ireland About eight years ago I had an idea for a new tool that I thought might help when working with emotions in therapy. I’ve developed it since into (what I think) is a good working prototype and have…

The Creativity Gathering

March 24, 2021 Arts therapies Information and Updates Networking Online Practice Strengths and Resources Therapeutic approaches No Comments

Janie Keddie – 3rd Year MSc student, studying pluralistic counselling at Abertay University Janie mooted the idea of Creativity Gathering in 2020 as a way of bringing together people who are passionate about creative approaches to therapy. When we entered lockdown a little over a year ago, I never anticipated…

Pluralistic Practitioners Network: Creativity and Challenge

February 5, 2021 Arts therapies Groups Information and Updates Practice 4 Comments

Marianne Reilly Following on from Roddie McKenzie’s blog post 18/1/2021, this is an open invitation to all who might be interested in something old, or new, to do in 2021. Would you like to join our Creative Gatherings, hosted on Zoom, on the last Saturday of each month at 10:00am…

Pluralistic Practitioners Network: Creativity and Storytelling Gathering

January 18, 2021 Arts therapies Groups Information and Updates Practice 5 Comments

Roddie McKenzie PhD, PG Dip. Counselling Our October 2020 gathering was the second Zoom meeting of this group and the first to have an agreed theme: creative writing. At that meeting we decided to adopt the term ‘gathering’ rather than ‘meeting’: partly to indicate that we aim to have an…

Pluralistic Therapy Cards: Playing with Potential

November 26, 2020 Arts therapies Cultural resources Personal 6 Comments

Shirley Brennan, MSc Pluralistic Counselling When I embarked on my pluralistic counselling training journey, I was not familiar with the word ‘pluralism’ and only a vague idea what it might mean in practice. The course was offering a unique and open approach to counselling with a progressive philosophy. I was…

Pluralistic Practice Network: Creativity and Storytelling Gathering

October 7, 2020 Arts therapies Information and Updates Networking No Comments

Mo Szulejewska, qualified pluralistic counsellor currently working as mental health mentor with university students, member of the counselling team at Tayside Centre for Counselling. The first gathering of this new special interest group took place via Zoom on Saturday, 26th September 2020 and it was indeed a gathering where creativity…

Bread and Jam and Sparkling Wine? Can I be Person-Centred and Pluralistic?

May 12, 2020 Arts therapies Person-centred Personal Philosophy Practice Therapeutic approaches 9 Comments

Ani de la Prida, creative arts counsellor, psychotherapist, founder of the Association for Person Centred Creative Arts, and lecturer at the University of East London I have been a passionate person-centred therapist and trainer for many years. A couple of years ago I attended the pluralistic conference in London, and…

Shaking the Pluralistic Kaleidoscope on a Central Asian Campus

February 17, 2020 Arts therapies Cultural diversity Philosophy Research Young people 2 Comments

Robin Higgins MA, University Counsellor and Well-Being Consultant, University of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Campus Well-Being blog: https://tenthstreetdinner.wordpress.com/ Pluralism is a process and not a product. It is a mentality, a way of looking at a diverse and changing world. A pluralistic environment is a kaleidoscope that history shakes…

Watching Clouds: Collaborative Work with Children and Young People

February 13, 2020 Arts therapies Children Practice Young people 7 Comments

Ani De La Prida, BACP Registered Counsellor I love my work with children and young people. I read a book called Dibs when I started training and I knew instantly that this was the work I wanted to do. My training was person-centred and the course I did was flexible…

Pluralistic Art Psychotherapy: Valuing Diverse Lenses

December 6, 2019 Arts therapies Practice Shared decision making Training No Comments

Dr Caryl Sibbett, Kairos Consultancy. Art Psychotherapist (HCPC Reg.); Counsellor (BACP Reg, Snr Accred.); Associate Lecturer, Ulster University, (ret’d Senior Lecturer). I have a childhood memory of walking with my family beside a river in the Glens of Antrim. Stopping at a vantage point where visitors could view a waterfall…