WORKSHOPS
The Workshops - Drama, Movement, Music and Writing require a commitment to regular attendance every day for five days. The number of members per workshop will be limited to facilitate effective working. The workshops take place after lunch.
Experience or skill in any workshop or studio medium is not necessary. If you do have skills in a particular medium it can be rewarding to explore another with which you are not familiar; or you may wish to work in your own medium in a new way. There is value in opting to follow a familiar medium into the unknown or in deciding to pursue a lesser known or unknown medium. These are personal choices.
Each workshop offers a unique and self-contained experience and provides an opportunity to follow personal images and ideas in the context of group work.
The workshops are not formal therapy groups although they may contain therapeutic elements. They are not offered as models of therapeutic practice.
| Dance Movement |
Nina Papadopoulos |
| Drama |
Aleka Loutis |
| Music |
Averil Williams |
| Writing |
Sonia Fraser |
STUDIOS
In contrast to the workshops, clay and painting studios are available for the use of course participants throughout the week. These studios aim to provide a resource where individuals can, through spontaneous image making explore fantasies, dreams, emotions and ideas that emerge in the context of the week. Here the emphasis is on a direct personal engagement with the image as distinct from group processes.
No previous experience of art making is necessary. Support is offered on the use of materials, the approach to image making and the process of reflection on emerging images.
The studios are open 24 hours a day and course participants are welcome at any time. One or more studio leaders will be available throughout the afternoon and at other times by arrangement. Some participants choose to use the studios during the afternoon workshop period as an alternative to joining a more structured workshop.
There will be an introduction to studios and materials at the beginning of the week.
Studio Leaders:
Richard Lanham, Coral Mann and Lene Rasmussen
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The Course is intended for those involved in the following: psychotherapy and counseling, the arts therapies, psychiatry and psychology, the arts, education, the health services, social and community work, and other related professions
Participants come from many different cultural and professional backgrounds. The diversity of experience, age, professional status – from students to consultants – gives rise to a stimulating, lively and egalitarian environment, a meeting place without badges, and a potent forum for the exchange of ideas.
Purpose and Content
The original purpose of the course was to provide those working in the helping professions with a week of professional and personal restoration, a time to restock mentally, spiritually and physically. This remains an important aspect of the course today. Formal lectures and seminars, discussions, exchange of ideas, experiential group work and engagement in creative activities, both individually and in groups, encourage new learning and provide clinical support.
This professional course has a high staff ratio to support the learning experience.
In addition, the course offers opportunities for music making, singing, dance, poetry, meditation, walks, and space to enjoy the company of others, as well as the stimulation and learning provided through formal lectures and participatory arts workshops. All these activities are elective: participants take responsibility for their use of the time and the programmed events.
The Champernowne Trust Summer Course encourages personal and professional development by linking creative and psychological aspects of change. It is based on the premise that problem solving and innovation, whether in the arts, sciences or therapy, demand the cultivation of insight, enterprise and imagination. The programme of lectures, practical arts workshops and studios reflects and explores this belief. Discussions tend to focus upon the relationship between personal development, psychological understanding and good practice.
The Course has a broadly Jungian/archetypal ethos, but without dogmatism or evangelism.
Many people find that these elements make the course unique and different from other training or professional development experiences.
A Certificate of Attendance is provided for this course and it is also valid CPD (Continuing Professional Development) for anyone working in the mental health field. Employers have often provided financial support for staff attending this course.
Summer Course Committee
Michael Vizard – Director
Richard Lanham, Coral Mann, Nina Papadopoulos. Pam Stirling
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