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Creative Proposals

June 8, 2020 By Jane Williams

Invitation to creative proposals and to imagine

Proposals as invitations

Welcome to the second piece on my journey to explore creativity. This week’s exercise is based on Peter Liversidge‘s work (p101 in Sarah Urist Green’s ‘You Are An Artist’). Peter types proposals for what he might like to do. These are invitations rather than orders and can be ignored, brought into fruition or simply considered. The thing I love about this idea is that the proposals need an audience, an interaction – someone else to think about the invitation and carry it out. We, as the interactor, become part of the creative process.

The exercise has a set of 3 of Peter Liversidge’s proposals to choose from.

Bearing in mind it is very wet outside today (and that we are in covid-19 lockdown) and that I don’t really want to dress like my parents, I chose the proposal that fired my imagination:

“I propose that the person reading this proposal should imagine that their feet are in a mountain stream”.

Mountain Stream

Normally, at this time of year, we have a family holiday to the Highlands. With Lockdown, it hasn’t been possible. I find my heart yearning for the hills and mountains, streams and lochs, and the abundance of outdoors and head space. This proposal probably resonated more because of a feeling of loss and a chance to imagine and revisit.

I’ve had my feet in mountain streams a few times in my life. Not always intentionally and, sometimes, with boots on. Although I don’t think this is what is intended for the exercise.

So, I’ve concentrated on the sitting by a stream and dipping my feet in idea. Closing my eyes certainly helped with the imagining. I slowed my breathing and took my mind back to the Highlands. The smell of damp greenness and the slipperiness of the stones and rocks. The cool breeze and the sharp coldness of the stream at first – followed by the slight numbness. Both very welcome after a long walk in hiking boots.

I imagined the bubbling and rush of the stream, over rocks and in the hollows, carrying leaves, twigs and bubbles further on its journey. I remembered the light and shadows, the every changing reflections. And tried to record my thoughts in simple words and impressions:

Mountain stream picture and words talking about the proposals to imagine feet in a mountain stream

Reflections

It was good to purposely take time to focus on the imagining (rather than as a by product of doing the washing up). It felt a bit like putting aside time for a home yoga class initially.

I don’t know if it is the Scottish national identity or the landscape but the Highlands are one of the places I feel instantly grounded and solid. It feels ancient and expansive and so much closer to the ‘earth’ that my surroundings in my day to day life. All this helps take me back fairly quickly in my mind. The stream with my feet in, fed by melted ice and snow, rushing hundreds of miles downhill until it meets the sea, certainly puts my life’s struggles in proportion. And gives a sense of release and freedom and calm.

I wonder if Peter Liversidge had envisioned this response when he wrote the proposal.

What next?

This has been an interesting and challenging exercise in imagining and mindfulness. Its amazing that one short sentence can provoke so much.

Why not come up with your own proposals for clients/supervisees or, alternatively, get them to write their own. There are some examples to download here that you might want to use.

ProposalsDownload

And more….

We have an online workshop Vitality in a Virtual World looking at creativity coming up on 3 July 3 – 5pm.

Filed Under: Creativity, Online therapy, Private Practice Tagged With: counselling CPD, counselling training, creativity, online counselling, psychotherapy, psychotherapy training, taonline, transactional analysis

Great feedback for online training

March 25, 2020 By Jane Williams

Smiley face to show great feedback

We’ve had some great feedback from our Online First Steps to Successful Private Practice training last weekend. Andy Williams was the trainer for this event. Feedback included a lovely comment from KB:

“Really enjoyed it, and found it really really useful. Andy did a great job sharing all his wisdom and keeping the energy going.” KB

We’ve been keeping the format of face to face training as much as we can including small group discussions, full group discussions, teaching from the ‘front’, stories, illustrations and videos. Discovering new ways of sharing knowledge and resources through technology.

Being at home because of social distancing and or self-isolation doesn’t mean that you have to miss out on training and CPD. Its a ideal opportunity to catch up on developing knowledge and skills.

We’ve got more online training coming up – the first being an Online Evening Seminar on Saturday 28 March on A Pluralistic Approach to Counselling and Therapy. Its just £10. Click here to book.

In addition, we have:

Online Introduction to Transactional Analysis TA101 on 27 & 28 June.

Evening Seminar with Andy Williams on Saturday 13 June on Relational Risk Assessment

Vitality in a Virtual World – working creatively online on Saturday 3 July

Check out our Online Courses page for more online courses and workshop. You can also sign up to our mailing list so that you get news of all up and coming courses and workshops. The Events Diary on the website includes links to course pages.

Filed Under: Continuing Professional Development, Training Course News Tagged With: counselling CPD, counselling training, online development, online training, professional development, transactional analysis training

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