About this course

This training is designed to offer a valuable alternative to a traditional medical model for understanding mental health challenges. It emphasises the significance of addressing power imbalances and threats to fundamental human needs that affect individuals' lives. By integrating the arts, this approach facilitates deep reflection on the emotions elicited by personal stories, within the context of a trauma-informed framework. This method seeks not only to understand but to empathetically engage with the complex narratives that shape people’s experiences with mental health difficulties.

Skills You will Learn

  • Introducing the Power Threat Meaning Framework, to move beyond medicalisation.
  • Understanding people from the point of view of what has happened to them, rather than what is wrong with them.
  • Utilising the arts to help teams reflect on feelings evoked by client stories.
  • Enhance understanding of service users embodied or psychological responses to trauma.
  • Understand how power is operating in the service user’s life and the possible impact of power abuses on their core needs.
  • Gather staff perspectives of the service user’s difficulties based on the power imbalances and threats to core needs operating in their lives.
  • Understand the service users threat responses (behaviours), based on a trauma informed formulation of their difficulties.
  • Generate ways forward for the service user based on trauma informed understandings.
  • Revisit staff feelings in response to the service user, in the light of reflections via the arts media and the trauma informed formulation.

Structure of the Day

9:30 Arriving and refreshments

10:00 Welcome and movement 

10:15 Introduction to trauma informed approaches 

11:00 Power and power imbalances in mental health

11:30 Break

11:45 Team formulation

12.10 Using the trauma informed formulation framework 

12.50 Lunch 

13.30 Experiential

14.40 Ways forward 

15.00 Break

15.15 Remaining questions 

15.45 Grounding and good-bye

16.00 End
 

Argo House, Kilburn Park Road, London NW6 5FA

Dates

20 March 2024

Time

09:30 am - 04:00 pm

Duration

Full day

Setting

Face to face

Profession

  • Any Health Care Professional

ICAPT TIA

£100.00


Date

The trainer

Gill Lock

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Gill Lock is a HCPC registered Principal Arts Psychotherapist who has wide experience of delivering Art Psychotherapy sessions for the NHS, both in the Mental Health service and the Learning Disabilities service for the past seventeen years. She also undertakes this work in private practice. She has practiced meditation and yoga for the past twenty five years, and has delivered sessions and training on Mindfulness Based Art Therapy for fifteen years. 

She became a Trauma Informed Approach Champion three years ago, undertaking trainings on trauma and bodywork, and team formulation from a trauma informed perspective. Gill then delivered regular trauma informed team formulation sessions for staff teams with the acute inpatient setting in which she currently works. 

Gill is the founder and director of Mindful Arts in Letchworth, Hertfordshire; a creative space to explore self-expression and self-awareness through Art Therapy, Mindfulness Meditation and Authentic Movement. 


Carol Jaffier 

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Carol is an experienced dance movement psychotherapist who currently holds posts in CNWL NHS Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster, Brent, Harrow and Hillingdon working in inpatient acute mental health, older adults, rehabilitation and learning disabilities/autism adults and camhs. Although specialising in the psychotherapeutic use of embodied movement to promote social, physical, cognitive and psychological integration of the individual; Carol uses a trauma informed approach to deliver care effectively while considering previous life experiences. Before joining the NHS in 2018, Carol enjoyed a career in musical theatre and as a performer having studied at The Urdang Academy and Arts Educational London and 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 and was co-project lead on the Arts for Staff Wellbeing Space. 


Roz Urquhart

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Roz qualified as an Art Psychotherapist in 2006 and as Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist in 2019. Roz has worked within variety of settings in Scotland and London in services for adults and children with Learning Disabilities, Autism and Mental Health difficulties within the NHS and charity sector.

Roz’s qualifications include BA (Hons) Illustration from The Edinburgh College of Art, MSc Art Psychotherapy from Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, Diploma in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy from The Arbours Association and full accreditation as a Mentalisation Based Therapy Practitioner with the Anna Freud Centre; she has also undertaken further training in supervision. Roz is registered with BAAT, HCPC, UKCP and is on the BPC roster of MBT practitioners.

Roz works part time for CNWL as Principal Arts Psychotherapist for Learning Disabilities services. In addition, Roz also works part time as a senior psychotherapist and trainer for a national charity for people with Learning Disabilities who have experienced trauma within the clinical service and training and consultancy service.