About this course
A reflective and inspirational space to explore how to green your creative practice, including ways to bring the outside in—or to work outdoors. This event will revisit some of the learning from our previous seasonal forums and consider potential directions for new growth.
Dance Movement Pychotherapist Carol Jaffier will share her experiences of working outdoors. Our environmental creative engagement will continue the theme of reflection, learning, and growth.
We will then take time to share ideas, reflect on the past sessions, and consider how participants may wish to take things forward in their own work.
Participants are invited to bring a natural object that reflects the theme of change and new growth, which will be used as part of introductions. Whether you’re joining for the first time or returning, you are warmly welcome.
Below, you can see some of the objects shared during our Summer, Autumn, and Winter forums, where we explored ecological and practice-based themes—such as integrating new ideas and ways of working, managing the risks of being outdoors or bringing the outside in, and the experiences of loss, transition, and growth that the environment can invite reflection on and support with.
Summer Forum
Autumn Forum
Winter Forum
Open to arts psychotherapists, honoraries and trainees from CNWL NHS Foundation Trust.
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.
Carol Jaffier – CNWL Dance Movement Psychotherapist
Carol is an experienced dance movement psychotherapist who currently holds posts in Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster, Brent, Harrow and Hillingdon working in inpatient adult and camhs acute mental health, older adults, rehabilitation and learning disabilities/autism. Before joining the NHS, Carol enjoyed a career as a dancer, in musical theatre and as a performer having studied at The Urdang Academy and Arts Educational London. Carol gained her MA in dance movement psychotherapy from Roehampton University in 2018.
As well as contributing to ICAPT, Carol is a co-facilitator on the Arts Psychotherapies trainee forum, a co- facilitator on the Arts in Health & Royal Ballet Company Creative Exchange and was co-project lead on the Arts for Staff Wellbeing Space.
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.