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.