The trainer
Natalie Chesterman is an Art Psychotherapist working with people in NHS Community Adult Mental Health services within secondary care. She has over 10 years experience in delivering Mentalization-based therapy, and over the past seven years, she has been integrating this model with art psychotherapy. She has successfully developed Mentalization-based art psychotherapy programmes (MBAP) within CNWL and beyond and continues to run an MBAP programme in Central London. She has published co-produced research on MBAP, which brought the voices of services users to the forefront. Natalie has many years’ experience in providing art psychotherapy within a Studio approach in which art making is the focus, and has more recently been developing art psychotherapy for Autistic Adults. Natalie has a small private practice providing Clinical Supervision.
Dr Erene Kaptani is an anthropologist, participatory performance artist and Dramatherapist with expertise in participatory performance as a social research method for academic research, community building and public impact. She currently works as community Dramatherapist in the NHS and is training to become an accredited MBT practitioner. She employs narrative and movement-based methods inspired by physical, playback and forum theatre. She has been a member of Playback South Theatre Company and devised performances at Studio Upstairs wellbeing community. She devised Suspended Lives and ‘Me I just put British’ plays about the hostile UK environment with Rich Mix and Tara Arts. Forthcoming contributions see Critical Social policy and FENNIA journals, 2023. https://erenekaptani.wordpress.com/