The trainer
Diane Eagles – CNWL Art Psychotherapist
Diane Eagles is an artist and Art Psychotherapist with 30 years’ experience. She has worked for Central North West London NHS Trust for most of this time, managing the Older Adult Arts Psychotherapies service as well as working in adult psychotherapy outpatients and male Psychiatric Intensive Care. She has contributed to the International Centre for Arts Psychotherapy Training, ICAPT, since its inception. She is a visiting lecturer and tutor for Roehampton University and The Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education, IATE. She was co producer of the Adaptation of Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for Arts Psychotherapy A-DIT.
Diane is currently studying for an MA in Contemporary Art and Archaeology at the University of The Highlands and Islands.
Cady Stone – Mixed Media and Fine Art Graduate, Support Assistant, NHS Service User Representative and Museum Volunteer
Cady Stone is a 50-year-old black gay man. He lives with his carer mum in K&C. He has a long-term mental illness called Schizophrenia. In 2017 he graduated from a BA (hons) degree in Mixed Media and Fine Art at the University of Westminster (Harrow). Since then, he has taken up three jobs. One as a Friday Evening Support Assistant at the charity Stuart Low Trust, in Islington. The second as an NHS Service User Representative, attending board meetings and events, campaigning for better mental health. The third as a weekend volunteer at the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art Museum. In his spare time, he likes reading books on Art and Culture, listening to music, painting on canvas and regular exercising at his local gym. At a times when he feels loneliness and isolation, he has family and friends to support him to live a fruitful and meaningful life.
Kate Brace – CNWL Art Psychotherapist
Kate is an artist and Art Psychotherapist working in NHS adult mental health settings in CNWL. Kate has a particular interest in how contact with the natural world can connect us to a wider sense of belonging and can awaken a playful fascination with what is around us. Having had the privilege of growing up with lots of green spaces, Kate had early experiences of the natural world as a container which she has brought to her thinking about how Art Psychotherapy in natural environments can benefit clients in Psychiatric Rehabilitation.
Jenni de Knoop – CNWL Dance Movmeent Psychotherapist
Jenni is a UKCP registered dance movement psychotherapist (DMP), clinical supervisor, educator and doctoral student. With 20 years’ experience, she currently works in the NHS in adult psychiatric rehabilitation, is the practice lead for an arts-based team intervention (CaRE Project) and the CNWL ICAPT training and development lead. Jenni is passionate about enabling people to inhabit their unique bodies with creativity, respect and compassion and working from a dialogical and embodied perspective. Her research interest is team development and fostering resilience through embodied resourcing and reflexivity.