Arts therapies – Pluralistic Practice

Pluralistic Practitioners Network: Creativity and Challenge

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 No Category 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…