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Creative Reflective Practice with Alison O’Connor and Jain Boon

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A 6-week course: Mon, 19 Feb 2024 18:30 – Mon, 25 Mar 2024 20:00

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Being a freelance arts practitioner can be a lonely place.

How ya Doing? Creative Reflective Practice is a space to connect with other creative practitioners.

Jain will offer a set of creative somatic exercises to tend to and support your nervous system and bring you to a place of resource so that you can prevent overwhelm. Alison will share a series of exercises, inviting you to reflect on your work and your wellbeing through a compassionate lens.

We intend to create a space where we can support each other and with this in mind we are asking participants to commit to the whole 6 weeks.

This programme is aimed at creative practitioners who are working in mental health settings or supporting participants who are more likely to experience mental health issues, including the criminal justice system, refugees and asylum seekers, survivors of domestic and sexual violence and people who have experienced Adverse Childhood Experiences.

If you are unsure if you fit this criteria, please contact Programme Manager Tracy Breathnach for a chat programmes@wahwn.cymru.

Jain Boon – Jain is a theatre maker and trainee Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (Intermediate Level Participant). She is in the process of setting up thisPLACE, a trauma informed dance theatre company with dance artist/Movement Psychotherapist Matilda Tonkin Wells. Jain works with Re-Live Theatre, Sparc Valleys Kids and Music Theatre Wales amongst others. She is passionate about the idea that ‘people heal people’. @la_boong2065

Alison O’Connor – Alison has 25 years experience of groupwork, therapy and theatre in prisons, secure mental health settings, in Romanian orphanages and with military veterans. She is the Co-Founder of Re-Live, an award-winning Arts and Health charity, creating therapeutic life story work with older adults and people affected by trauma and adversity. She is an integrative therapist and clinical supervisor, with a particular interest in compassion-based approaches. She works with humour and gentleness, encouraging practitioners to look after and nurture themselves within the work they do.

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