Arts for Wellbeing The Arts, Psychotherapy and Mental Health: An international event with lectures, workshops, discussions and performances
Thursday 28th February, 2019 9.30am - 8.30pm Arts Centre
Organised under the Arts for Wellbeing Research Theme By Professor Vicky Karkou and Dr Irene Dudley-Swarbrick
What contribution can the arts make to one’s mental health?
Rose Theatre 09:30-10:00
Registration with coffee and tea
10:00-10:15
Prof Kevern Verney Associate Dean for Research in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Prof Matthew Paterman Head of Media, Edge Hill University
10:15-10:45
Arts and Wellbeing and the day – Prof Vicky Karkou Faculty of Health and Social Care and Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Edge Hill University
10:45-11:00
Warm up – Dr Nisha Sajnani, New York University and Indra Majore-Dusele, Riga Stradins University
What is the relationship of the arts and psychotherapy? How can the one field support and celebrate the other, providing access to people with mental health problems from diverse sociopolitical backgrounds? This international event, which will be opened by the chief executive of UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), Professor Sarah Niblock, and the commissioning manager at the NHS Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), Andy Kerr, will explore these questions. It will also create an opportunity to bring together psychotherapists, artists and arts psychotherapists from the local, national and international community and explore synergies, collaborations and respective contributions. During the event, we will launch the new MSc in Psychotherapy and Counselling, present the new and largest arts therapies research project funded from the National Institute for Health Research and welcome lectures, workshops and performances from colleagues and students from the US, the Netherlands and Latvia.
Key Note speakers: Introduced by Prof George Talbot, Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research and Dean of Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Edge Hill University Rose Theatre 11:00-11:30 Prof Sarah Niblock Chief Executive (CEO) of UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) Sarah is the Chief Executive of UKCP, the largest regulatory body for psychotherapists in the UK. She was appointed as a CEO in 2017 after three decades of experience as a journalist, broadcaster and academic. She was most recently professor and associate dean at University of Westminster’s School of Media, Arts and Design and she has published research on media, trauma and ethics. Sarah is passionate about mental health and psychotherapy. She was born and raised in Merseyside to a single mum and has seen the importance and effects of therapy and positive social change. Current, credible ….and cool! Why the future’s bright for psychotherapy Professor Niblock will share her bold vision for a creative, collaborative and credible future for psychotherapy, and the steps she is taking as CEO of the UKCP to bring it about. She will discuss why research is at the heart of her strategy. She will also explain how interdisciplinary collaborations and creativity can enhance its impact.
11:30-12:00 Andy Kerr Commissioning Manager at NHS Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group, (NHS LCCG) Programme Delivery Manager for Mental Health Andy is not only a Commissioning Manager for NHS LCCG for Mental Health, but also a longstanding contributor to Liverpool’s community arts/fringe scene and a trustee of Liverpool Mental Health Consortium (who co-ordinate Liverpool’s arts-based mental health festival), and chair of board of trustees for Young Person’s Advisory Service (YPAS). Lepidoptery – the Art of Catching Butterflies In this presentation I will compare my experience and enjoyment of being actively involved in Liverpool’s thriving fringe arts scene with my role as a commissioner in attempting to define and quantify the benefits. But is it possible to pin down and observe a beautiful thing without killing it...? ....................................... 12:00-12:30 Coffee/tea break .......................................
Launches: Introduced by Dr Carol Kelly, Head of Department of Applied Health and Social Care, Edge Hill University Rose Theatre 12:30-13:00 Dr Catherine Carr Music Therapist at East London NHS Foundation Trust, NIHR Clinical Trials Fellow at Queen Mary University of London and Lecturer at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama Catherine, a music therapist and arts therapies researcher, focuses on arts therapies in NHS mental health services. She is theco-Director of the Centre for Mind in Society, and serves on a number of strategic committees including the Council for Allied Health Professions Research and Music Therapy Charity. The effectiveness of group art therapy, dance movement therapy and music therapy for patients in community mental health care: Introducing the ERA study The ERA study is the first large randomised controlled trial in the UK to assess the combined effectiveness of three different types of group arts therapy: art therapy, dance movement therapy and music therapy, for patients with different diagnoses in community mental health care. This presentation will introduce the study and some of the creative approaches used in its design.
13:00-13:30 Dr Irene Dudley-Swarbrick Senior Lecturer in Psychotherapy and Counselling, Applied Health and Social Care, Faculty of Health and Social Care, Edge Hill University Irene has a background in women’s studies, medical physics, sociology, and person-centred expressive art (as well as a charter Biologist!). Her journey to Edge Hill has included working in the NHS, the Third Sector, and Lancaster University. She has trained with Dinah Brown – a pupil of Natalie Rogers. With Prof Vicky Karkou she developed the new MSc in Psychotherapy and Counselling. The new MSc Psychotherapy and Counselling: Contemporary Creative Approaches Our ground breaking MSc focuses on contemporary creative approaches to counselling and psychotherapy. Combining skills, placements and experiences across the lifespan, the course has been designed in collaboration with, and is approved by, the UK Association of Humanistic Psychology Practitioners (UKAHPP), a member of the UKCP. It aims to train psychotherapists of the future, integrating person-centred process experiential therapy with person-centred expressive arts therapies and creative and expressive arts methods. The innovative characteristics of this new programme will be presented, explaining what makes it unique and different from other psychotherapy programmes ....................................... 13:30-14:30 Lunch .......................................
Parallel Sessions: Introduced by Dr Anastasia Konstantopoulou, Associate Dean of Faculty of Arts & Sciences, Edge Hill University A: Workshop 14:30-16:00 Dr Nisha Sajnani Dramatherapy
B: Workshop 14:30-15:00 Dr Simon Hackett Art Psychotherapy
Dance studio
Studio 5
C: Talk 14:30-15:00 Professor Ross Prior Rose Theatre
D: Talk 15:00-16:00 Prof Vicky Karkou Dr Scott Thurston Dr Joanna OmylinskaThurston Jen Lewis Rose Theatre
A: Dramatherapy
B: Art Psychotherapy:
supported by Zoe Moula, GTA/PhD candidate, EHU
supported by Gergana Ganeva, GTA/PhD candidate, EHU
Dr Nisha Sajnani Director of the Masters in Drama Therapy and Theatre and Health Lab at New York University
Dr Simon Hackett Principal Art Psychotherapist at Northumberland, Tyne & Wear NHS Foundation Trust and Senior Clinical Lecturer at the Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University Simon’s clinical work is based in NHS secure care and his research focuses on arts therapies in mental health and disability services and participatory arts for health and wellbeing.
Nisha is a founding member of the World Alliance of Drama Therapy and the principal editor of Drama Therapy Review. Her artistic and written scholarship reflects an interest in improvisation and performance in stimulating discovery and addressing concerns related to difference, identity, migration, and place. The Acting Cure: What sets us apart as a species is our capacity for make-believe. We can transform reality through fiction. It is a skill we begin to hone as children; play is a pathway to discovery about the world and our roles in it. In this workshop, we will focus on pretending as a pivotal process in drama therapy and central to our capacity to imagine and rehearse new possibilities for policy and practice.
Interpersonal Art Psychotherapy: This workshop will focus on drawing-based tasks that support personal reflection. Components of the workshop will be drawn from an intervention developed by Dr Simon Hackett, ‘interpersonal art psychotherapy’ which has recently been tested in a national RCT feasibility study.
C: Talk Professor Ross W. Prior Learning and Teaching in the Arts, in Higher Education at the University of Wolverhampton Ross is best known as Principal Editor of the Journal of Applied Arts and Health, which he established in 2009. He is Professor of Learning and Teaching in the Arts in Higher Education at the University of Wolverhampton, Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) and Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (PFHEA). Integrating Art for Wellbeing into Higher Education There is growing concern over the rise in mental health issues in higher education and researchers are searching for causes. However, one solution offered in this address is the use of art (all art forms) to capitalise on art’s healing properties. Using art to reclaim the essential properties of community brings hope for improved emotional wellbeing.
D: Talk Prof Vicky Karkou, Dr Scott Thurston, Dr Joanna Omylinska-Thurston, Jen Lewis This is a team of professionals from Edge Hill University, the University of Salford and the IAPT service in NHS Manchester working together on the Arts for the Blues research programme Professor Vicky Karkou Faculty of Health and Social Care and Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Edge Hill University. Vicky is the lead researcher on the Arts for the Blues project and lead person for the Arts and Wellbeing research group. A teacher, researcher and psychotherapist, her main research area is around arts psychotherapies and the use of the arts (and improvisation) for health and wellbeing which she explores through a range of qualitative, quantitative and arts-based methodologies. Dr Scott Thurston Reader in English and Creative Writing, University of Salford Scott is a poet, mover and educator working in higher education in Manchester, UK. He is currently the Director of Research for English Literature, Language and Creative Practice research group in the Arts, Media and Communication Research Centre. His research interests are in contemporary innovative British and North American poetry and poetics with a long-standing interest in the relationship between radical dance and movement practices and experimental writing.
Dr Joanna Omylinska-Thurston Counselling Psychologist, IAPT (North), Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust Joanna is a Counselling Psychologist with the Greater Manchester Mental Health Foundation NHS Trust and a co-researcher and member of the steering group for the Dancing the Blues project. Joanna is interested in autoethnographic research exploring her development as a counselling psychologist and the role of creativity and spirituality in that journey. She also has a small private practice where she sees Polish clients and supervises. She lives and practices in Manchester. Jen Lewis Research assistant for the Arts for the Blues project, Edge Hill University Jen is the Research Assistant for Arts for The Blues and also works in a college with young disabled adults, supporting them to engage with the arts. She has an interest in visual arts and crafts and how this can affect mental wellbeing. In the past she worked for a national charity programming creative and commercial events.
Arts for the Blues: Developments and new ventures The project evolved from a Research Investment Fund for the Dance for the Blues which focused on creating links between research in dance movement psychotherapy and performance on the one hand and exploring wider clinical applications in the other. The Arts for the Blues programme has received new funding support from LCCG to bring the project to the Liverpool area and study ways in which important therapeutic factors can be adapted to be of value not only for adults with depression but also for people with cancer and for children in need for psychological support. ....................................... 16:00-16:30 Coffee/tea break .......................................
Parallel Sessions: Introduced by Dr Anastasia Konstantopoulou, Associate Dean of Faculty of Arts & Sciences, Edge Hill University A: Workshop 16:30-18:00 Indra Majore-Dusele Dance Movement Psychotherapy
B: Workshop 16:30-18:00 Mary Clayton Music Therapy
Dance studio
Studio 4
A: Dance movement psychotherapy: supported by Supritha Aithal, GTA/PhD candidate, EHU
Indra Majore-Dusele Lecturer in Riga Stradins University at the Arts Therapies programme in Medicine. Indra is a pioneer of dance movement therapy in Latvia. She is also a psychologist, psychotherapist and supervisor. Indra is author of numerous publications and co-author of books in DMT, psychotherapy and health psychology. She has been guest lecturer at arts therapies study programmes in UK and Estonia. As DMT Indra has experience working with abused children and adults with chronic illness, now working in private practice. She is also mindfulness teacher and Vipassana meditation practitioner for 20 years. Mindfulness and dance movement therapy – well-matched therapeutic approaches: Creative exploration of working model of mindfulness approach in dance movement therapy will enable participants to explore mindfulness principles used as skills, state and process in dance movement therapy session. Gradual development of attention and attitude and being in mindful movement state may offer possibility to get in creative process of dealing with unpleasant states and gain learning and insights from the process. B: Music therapy: supported by John Lowndes, GTA/PhD candidate, EHU
Mary Clayton BA (Hons) Music Therapist and Co-ordinator of MusicPlace North-West Mary qualified as a music therapist at the Nordoff-
C: Collaborations 16:30-18:00 World Café Rose Theatre & Red Bar
Robbins Centre in London. She has worked for many years with both children and adults with a range of health and educational needs. Mary is currently Co-ordinator of MusicPlace North-West, a Liverpool based music therapy charity that provides music therapy services in Merseyside and Cheshire. She works as a therapist with groups of adults in several mental health settings run by Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust. She also has a special interest in neurology and works in the Stroke Centre at Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, providing music therapy for patients recovering from stroke. Mary is registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and is a member of the British Association of Music Therapists (BAMT) ‘Where words fail, music speaks’ (Hans Christian Anderson): This practical workshop will explore ways of using musical improvisation to encourage and support social interaction. How can improvising music together help and support people who may struggle to make connections with others? A selection of accessible musical instruments will be available for participants to explore and use in the workshop. C: Collaborations World café: how can we come together? Facilitated by Dr Gina Giotaki along with chairs of associations, artists and psychotherapists/ counsellors. 18:00-19:00 Red Bar
Posters and networking over drinks and canapés
Performances: Introduced by Prof Helen Newall, Research Impact Fellow, Department of Performing Arts, Faculty of Arts & Sciences, Edge Hill University Rose Theatre 19:00-19:30 The Love Letter Series A Love Letter to Humanity, A Celebration in Existing at All
10-15 min
Directed, Cultivated and Sculpted by
Rachel Kay
Support and Guidance Created and Performed
Chris Maguire
Edge Hill University Students
Music Credits
Artist: Gidge
Sounds
‘Eyes Open’ and ‘Huldra’
Rehearsal Director Cast
Megan Charnock
Tani Henderson Katie Jones Tia Burton Megan Griffin
Jordon Carter Paul Wilson Owen Gillott Gina Fowler
The Love Letter Series is a series of hand written letters to the self, cultivated through posed questions, vocalised movements and self-exploration. ‘The Love Letter Series’ is a culmination of solos that celebrate each individual’s current existence. The solos stand testament to the many questions asked of oneself and the brutal honesty that is required to celebrate your current existence. In embracing our thoughts, feelings and the vibrations that wave through us, we can cultivate a canvas (solo) that is honest and truthful to our current existence, our current storyline and our current being. It is not who we want to be or who we have been, it is an honest representation of what we are in the moment of creating it, which can then guide, support and nurture our future self to a place of integrity and clarity. Facilitating and creating alongside the Edge Hill University students was a true pleasure with many moments of discoveries, elevation and joy. In creating this work, the understanding became clear that it is an experience rather than a body of work. An experience for both the mover and the observer which, can change every time you encounter it.
Feast of the Famished
20 mins
Feast of the Famished explores complex themes around the experience of chosen family, of seeking one's own nourishment, and of the imperfect art of taking up space. Devised
Performers
Second-year drama therapy students at New York University as part of a course on therapeutic theatre. New York University year two drama therapy students
Tracy Li is passionate about the use of movement and performance as a form of healing for traumatized individuals. She completed an internship with Bellevue Hospital’s Acute Care Unit, she is now working with immigrant and refugee youth at Claremont International Highschool. Her research is focused on the experience of compassion fatigue in creative arts therapists. Spencer Olson spent his summer internship at a community mental health agency in Ohio and is presently an intern in an inpatient psychiatric unit in New York City. His current research examines the experience of gay male audiences to Angels in America. Jess Orense is here (and queer) as an international student from the Philippines. In the past year, they served as assistant stage manager for several therapeutic theatre productions.
Hollis Witherspoon comes from a background as an actor and artist, Hollis is interested in how expression promotes freedom, insight, and healing. She has developed curriculum for using improv in a visual arts practice and teaches at art institutions across the Northeast, US. She is currently honing her clinical skills in a private practice internship working with individuals and facilitating therapeutic improv groups. ....................................... 19:30-19:45 Q&A and Intermission .......................................
19:45-20:15 Walk a Mile in Our Shoes
The Audition 10-12 mins
Credits: Walk a Mile in Our Shoes is presented by Jewels drama group, established by Rebecca Ross-Williams, Everyman Playhouse and Jenny Hardy, All Saints Church, to befriend female street sex workers and through drama to support their recovery with practical, spiritual and emotional support. Jewels is a group for women with lived experience of sex work. The performers are women in recovery for drugs and alcohol, including women with lived experience of sex work and group leaders reflecting the motto ‘We are all in this together’. Description: An ensemble verbatim theatre performance re-worked from the original full length performance (Everyman Theatre July 2018), Walk A Mile in Our Shoes was created with 5 women with lived experience of street sex work in Liverpool. It presents, through live performance and film, the words spoken by the women, the triggers which involved them in sex work, the dangers, and the acts of kindness they have experienced, their thoughts about what needs to change and their dreams of freedom in the future. Following the project, 100% of the women progressed their recovery journeys; two women in early recovery continued their recovery programmes successfully, two of the three women actively involved in street sex work have completed six months of their residential rehabilitation programmes and the third woman is engaging in a community-based recovery programme with periods of abstinence.
10-15 mins
Directed/Choreographed Additional Direction Created and Performed Music
James Hewison Edge Hill University Students Stairway to Heaven Led Zepplin September Song Agnes Obel Aventine
Rehearsal Directors
Cast
Sally Marie
James Hewison Deborah Norris
Ben Lee Pascale Barrett Rebecca Chapell Chloe Fryer Tami Nawathe Abby Burns Rhiannon Muse Harry Privett Kaitlyn Cameron Nicole Kenyon Alice Fairhurst Sophie Armitidge Lauren Whyatt
Drawing on the experience and emotions attached to death and bereavement this dance theatre work evolved from a series of personal improvisations. Each solo depicts the dancers connection to death and offers moments of sentiment, grief, anger and humour. Caught between life and death the dancers ‘Audition’ for God! ....................................... 20:15-20:30 Q&A and Closure .......................................
The Arts and Psychotherapy: Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health An international event with lectures, workshops, discussions and performances 28th February 2019, 09:30-20:30 09:30-10:00 Red Bar
Registration with coffee and tea
Introductions Rose Theatre 10:00-10:15
Prof Kevern Verney and Prof Matthew Paterman
10:15-10:45
Arts and Wellbeing and the day – Prof Vicky Karkou
10:45-11:00
Warm up - Dr Nisha Sajnani, and Indra Majore-Dusele
Parallel Sessions Introduced by Dr Anastasia Konstantopoulou 14:30-16:00 Dance studio
Workshop A: Dr Nisha Sajnani Dramatherapy
14:30-16:00 Studio 5
Workshop B: Dr Simon Hackett Art Psychotherapy
14:30-15:00 Rose Theatre
Talks C: Prof Ross Prior
15:00-16:00 Rose Theatre
Talks D: Prof Vicky Karkou, Dr Scott Thurston, Dr Joanna Omylinska-Thurston and Jen Lewis
16:00-16:30
Tea and coffee break
Key Notes Rose Theatre
Introduced by Prof George Talbot
11:00-11:30
Prof Sarah Niblock
11:30-12:00
Andy Kerr
12:00-12:30
Tea and coffee break
Parallel Sessions Introduced by Dr Anastasia Konstantopoulou
Launches Rose Theatre
Introduced by Dr Carol Kelly
16:30-18:00 Dance Studio
12:30-13:00
Dr Catherine Carr
Workshop A: Indra Majore-Dusele Dance Movement Psychotherapy
13:00-13:30
Dr Irene Dudley-Swarbrick
13:30-14:30
Lunch
16:30-18:00 Studio 4
Workshop B: Mary Clayton Music Therapy
16:30-18:00 Rose Theatre & Red Bar
Collaborations C: World café
18:00-19:00 Red Bar
Posters and networking over drinks and canapes
Performances
Introduced by Prof Helen Newall
19:00-20:15 Rose Theatre
Performances