Continuing Professional Development
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The Sesame Institute is delighted to announce
The Launch of the New Sesame Book:
Dramatherapy with Myth and Fairytale: The Golden Stories of Sesame
Written by Jenny Pearson, Mary Smail and Pat Watts.
on Saturday 15th June 2013
To be preceded in the afternoon by:
PATFEST
In grateful memory of Pat Watts
and to celebrate the publication of the new Sesame Book,
Dramatherapy with Myth and Fairytale: The Golden Stories of Sesame,
an afternoon myth enactment workshop using the Flowering Tree, one of her stories from the book,
will be facilitated by Jeni Treves and Alison Kelly at RCSSD ahead of the launch.
Jeni Treves is one of the coordinators on the Creative Arts supervision training course (CAST). She is an HCPC registered dramatherapist and BADTh registered supervisor. She trained in 1985. For 4 years she taught the myth component on the Drama and Movement therapy training at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. Jeni has been supervising since 1996. She has extensive experience with many client groups, specialising in work with children and adolescents who have emotional and behavioural difficulties. She also has a private supervision and therapy practice. Jeni has also trained as a body centred psychotherapist. She runs myth and voice workshops bringing Jungian theory, psychodrama and myth enactment together with colleagues. She has a person centred approach to therapy and supervision and has a particular interest in individual process in relation to therapeutic work. Jeni runs CPD workshops nation-wide, and is a consultant to pupil referral unit in Surrey.
Alison Kelly is also one of the CAST coordinators. She is an HCPC registered dramatherapist and BADth registered supervisor and is a member of the BADth supervision sub-committee. Alison trained as a drama and movement therapist in 1989 at the Central School of Speech and Drama, in London. She specialises in work with children who have emotional, behavioural and social difficulties and co runs a children’s bereavement service as part of the NHS, offering dramatherapy to children and young people with life-limiting conditions and their siblings. Alison also teaches on the Sesame dramatherapy training and has a private dramatherapy and supervision practice in South East London.
WHEN: 15th June 2013, 1.30-3.30pm
WHERE: Rooms A&B, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Eton Avenue, London NW3 3HY
ADMISSION: Free, but space is limited to 30 people. Places must be booked in advance by Wednesday 12 June.
To book, please complete the following form and return it to the Sesame Institute office (info@sesame-institute.org or the address indicated).
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The Flowering Tree
Saturday 15th June 2013, 1.30-3.30pm
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Next Research Evening
A Practice-based Research Enquiry into Therapeutic Presence
With Richard Hougham and Bryn Jones
The research project was concerned with the articulation and cultivation of therapeutic presence in the training of therapists. Specific to the investigation were ideas of spatial and physical presence and how actor training methods may influence/support attunement, attention and playfulness in the therapeutic encounter. Amidst increasing external regulation with defined standards of proficiency and education, the research aimed to examine the possible internal cultivation of therapeutic presence and ‘relational repertoire’ by utilising actor training methods. The researchers were particularly interested in potential resonances with other professions and the overall articulation and content of therapy training programmes. The methodology was practice-based and worked with four Sesame trained dramatherapists weekly over a seven week period. Some of the practice was filmed. The research also included interviews with dramatherapy trainers and artists interested in this field.
The researchers are currently editing a film, part of which will be shown during the Sesame Institute research evening. There will be time for questions and a discussion.
Richard Hougham is Principal Lecturer and Course Leader of the MA Drama and Movement Therapy (Sesame) programme at Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London. He is interested in the liberation and pedagogy of therapy trainings and Jungian psychology.
Bryn Jones is a Sesame trained Drama and Movement Therapist. His current practice spans work with children, teachers and parents in a mainstream primary school, adolescents on a Tier 4 CAMHS wing and mindfulness-based work with adults in a psychiatric setting. Bryn has recently directed two intimate/immersive performance pieces for Arcola Theatre and Punchdrunk.
The evening will be chaired by Mary Smail.
WHEN: 29th May 2013, 6.30-9.00pm
WHERE: Vaughan Room, Sesame Institute, Christchurch
ADMISSION: £10 for Sesame Member and £15 for Non Sesame Members
(Please note: places must be booked in advance through Sesame office by Wed 22nd May 2013).
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Continuing Professional Development Training
“OPEN SESAME”
The use of Drama and Movement in Therapy.
A course of workshops for graduate therapists in 2012 – 2013 with Mary Smail (Sesame Institute) and Elizabeth Heren (CCPE.)
At the Centre for Counselling & Psychotherapy Education.
2 Warwick Crescent, London, W2 6NE.
Open Sesame is an opportunity for graduate psychotherapists to experience the Sesame approach for themselves and see how it might be applied within their own practices. This would be exploring body, mind and soul by ‘fleshing out the psyche,’ enhancing embodiment through working with the Sesame Approach to Drama and Movement therapy.
Open Sesame is a space for therapists to experience and integrate the language of Soul through body, movement, the creative arts and imagination, and move towards their inclusion in therapeutic practice. The Sesame approach is very compatible with the transpersonal approach, encouraging embodiment of symbol, insight and intuitive knowing when ‘words are not enough.’
In OPEN SESAME we will work experientially, enabling experience of different techniques, and then consider how what we have explored might be applied within the therapeutic relationship. Each workshop will focus on a component of Sesame and possible themes will be: ‘The Moving Body in and out of the Chair,’ ‘The Sound of my Self,’ and ‘Soul as Guide and Wisdom Teacher. The block of eight monthly sessions would be for personal development working towards an end of course client application. Although Open Sesame can be approached as workshops for self-expression and personal development, the learning mode is in experiencing through the Self as Teacher and Guide to eventual application in practice.
Facilitators
Mary Smail is Director of the Sesame Institute Charity for Drama and Movement Therapy, a HPC registered dramatherapist and UKCP registered psychotherapist. She has worked extensively as a dramatherapy trainer and presently runs a part time course, Psyche and Soma, for psychotherapists wishing to use the creative arts in their practice. Her work in private practice has a primary focus on the embodied symbol and the language of soul.
Elizabeth Heren is a UKCP registered psychotherapist, facilitator and staff member of CCPE who has been working with the Sesame approach in her practice since graduating from Psyche and Soma in 2010. Her practice involves incorporating drama and movement into one-to-one therapy to support the process of embodiment and healing the mind/body split.
Course Details
The course starts in October 2012 and runs to June 2013, taking place on Friday afternoons between 2 – 5pm. Dates: 5th October, 9th November, 7th December 2012, and 18th January, 8th February, 8th March, 3rd May and 14th June 2013.
The cost is £350.00 with a non-refundable deposit of £100.00 to book a place.
A CPD certificate from the Sesame Institute will be given on completion of the course.
A flyer/booking form can be obtained from Elizabeth Heren
Contact number: 07732 131 062
Email: eheren@gmail.com
OR
The Sesame Institute on 020 7633 9690 Email: info@sesame-institute.org
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Psyche and Soma
A part-time two year continuing professional development course for therapists, counsellors, clergy and workers in the caring professions.
Next Cohort: London. 2014 to 2016
The Sesame Institute will be offering the next two year continuing professional development course beginning in London in September 2014. The programme will be open to registered counsellors, psychotherapists and health professionals and clergy researching how embodied imagination and movement provide a language of the Soul when words cannot do justice to the presence of the numinous or inner healer.
Three Day Intensive
The Sesame Approach and Soul
Weekend Modules (8 weekends)
Soul: Religious or What?
Moving Experience - Laban Movement Analysis
Sounding Like Myself- Creative voicework
Jung and the Story Chalice- Working with traditional story enactment
To Move or Two Chairs?- Movement with Touch
Emerging Story and Play – Spontaneity and the work of Peter Slade
The Ultimate Journey – Death and the Soul
Soul Perspective and Soul research - Qualitative research methodologies
Dates
Intervew date: to be confirmed
Intensive: 17-19 September 2014 (9-5pm)
Module Dates:
29/30 Nov 2014; 7/8 Feb 2015; 11/12 April 2015; 23/24 May 2015; 4/5 July 2015; 19/20 Sept 2015; 28/29 Nov 2015
2016 Module dates to be set.
All module days run 9-5pm
Supervision Dates:
28 Nov 2014; 16 Jan 2015; 10 April 2015; 22 May 2015; 3 July 2015; 18 Sept 2015; 27 Nov 2015;
2016 Supervision dates to be set.
All Supervision evenings run 6-8pm.
Venue
SYNCHRONICITY STUDIO
157A Hubert Grove
London SW9 9NZ
More Information
contact the Sesame Institute
info@sesame-institute.org
www.sesame-institute.org
27 Blackfriars Road, London SE1 8NY
Tel: 020 7633 9690
Are you interested in PSYCHE AND SOMA?
If you would like to be included on a list to receive information about the next Psyche and Soma course (2014) please contact the Sesame office on:
Tel: 020 7633 9690
Email: info@sesame-institute.org
To read more about the Psyche and Soma course, click here.