Trauma Informed Practice for Participatory Artists: TRAINING

Collective Encounters is delighted to deliver our popular Trauma Informed Practice for Participatory Artists training in collaboration with Unity Theatre, led by experts in the fields of participatory performance and psychotherapy.

This training is specifically for artists, facilitators and activists working in community settings and takes a social justice approach to understanding trauma and incorporating this understanding into your creative practice.

This training will:

• Unpick popular perceptions and misuse of language around trauma and PTSD;
• Provide an overview of the physiology of trauma and an insight from the perspective of a clinical psychotherapist;
• Offer practical tips for creating safe spaces and avoiding practices which may re-traumatise participants;
• Create a space to explore problem solving using real-life scenarios;
• Explore asset-based approaches to understanding trauma within social justice frameworks.

Ticket prices:

• Tier 1 – for attendees supported by their organisations the full price of a ticket is £60.00
• Tier 2 – for freelancers and individuals from non-regularly funded organisations attendees the price of a ticket is £40.00
• Tier 3 – for those on low or no income the ticket price is £18.00

There is a small number of bursary places available for those with limited funds, please email info@collective-encounters.org.uk

About our trainers:

AIDAN JOLLY is a researcher, performance maker, trainer and musician with more than 25 years’ experience of working with communities in struggle. He works on projects that seek redress for historic and current injustices, and is the Research Lead for Collective Encounters. He is also a PhD candidate at Edge Hill University, looking at radically generative communities of transition. He has worked with survivors of torture, veterans, homeless people, and has personal experience of complex PTSD.

JESS MICHAELSON is a Gestalt Psychotherapist, Supervisor and Trainer with over 20 years’ experience of working with traumatised adults from diverse communities, in particular with refugee survivors of Human Rights abuses. For the last 17 years Jess has been working as a psychotherapist and trainer for Freedom from Torture. Jess also works as a freelance supervisor and trainer offering training on many aspects of therapeutic work which includes working with asylum seekers, working with interpreters and self-care. Jess has a longstanding passion in human rights as well as in the therapist’s journey when developing their work with survivors of human rights abuses.