Latest courses
Working with young people: a year-long Gestalt arts intensive 2024
An in-person, CPD intensive in west London. 10 x monthly days across 2024. Learn to incorporate the following arts modalities in therapy: drawing and painting sculpture and clay sandtray haiku, lyric writing musical improvisation, sound healing movement drama and...
The Just for Now story
Watch Jon’s interview with Karen Fried, creator of the ‘Just for Now’ series and international trainer and writer on the Violet Oaklander method.
Working with young adults, adolescents and children: a year-long Gestalt arts intensive 2023/24
This year-long (1 day every 2 months) workshop from The Gazebo School in London builds theoretical understanding and clinical practice skills in working with young people across a particularly broad age range.
Training
I deliver short training courses in:
- arts-based counselling and psychotherapy
- child psychotherapy
- adolescent psychotherapy
- creativity and play
- Lifemusic
I have delivered training to counsellors, psychotherapists (UK and internationally), school support staff, hospice staff, pastoral care workers and community school nurses.
Video: working with sand trays, from training session in Poland, September 2017
Video by Anna Ziomek
“The course material was interesting, accessible and fun. It’s given me confidence to incorporate using arts methods in my work.”
RT, special needs teacher, Devon.
“Your heartful work with teens has equipped me to work more creatively with young fire setters.”
MT, Pastoral care worker, London Fire Brigade.
Working with young adults, adolescents and children: a year-long Gestalt arts intensive 2023/24
Drawing workshop: Toronto, summer 2018
Gestalt adolescence training: Tbilisi, Georgia, Oct 2015
These pictures illustrate a therapists’ training workshop on working with adolescents using the arts at Gestalt Institute, Tbilisi, Georgia.
Violet Solomon Oaklander Foundation
I am a member and guest tutor with the Violet Soloman Oaklander Foundation. See details of my workshops in the UK and abroad on the VSOF website.
Some other training workshops I’ve led…
“Great variety: teaching, experimental/experiential – brilliant! Good pace, really helpful sessions. Plenty of chance to have a go, try new things, ask questions, share in the group. Great handbook.”
CJ.
“Loved the theory and practical combination – a lot covered in a short period. I liked the ‘humanness’ of the approach. Able to participate and interact as a group of equals.”
SB.