Opportunities & Events
Creative Reflective Practice with Alison O'Connor and Jain Boon
Location: Online | Start Date: 03 Feb 2025, 6.30pm
Summary:
A Space for Co-regulation and Compassion with Alison O'Connor and Jain Boon
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Content:
A 6-week course starting Monday 3rd February to Monday 17th March, 6.30pm - 8pm, online (break on Monday 24th February).
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 Somatic Experiencing Practitioner with a small private practice. She is Co-Artistic Director of thisPlace | Trauma Informed Dance Theatre Company as well as working regularly with Re-Live Theatre, Hijinx and Music Theatre Wales. She recently trained as a Wellbeing Facilitator for the Film, TV and Theatre Industries with 6ft From The Spotlight. Jain is also a Consultant & Trainer supporting individuals and organisations to become ACE Aware and Trauma Informed. She is passionate about supporting practitioner wellbeing and understanding what it is to be well.
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.