Malcolm Learmonth is Senior Art Therapist with the Creative Therapies Service, Devon Partnership NHS Trust. He is actively involved in training programmes with the Clinical Psychology training, University of Exeter, Devon Social Services, The Peninsula Medical School, Plymouth University, the Champernowne Trust, and various voluntary organisations. He is Chair of the Trustees for the Self Heal Association, a BAAT Council Member, Regional Co-ordinator and representative to the National Network for Arts in Health for the British Association of Art Therapists, a member of the Mental Health Foundations Arts, Creativity and Mental Health Initiative and contributes to the development of the arts in health nationally. He is BAAT registered as a supervisor and Private Practitioner.

Karen Huckvale is an artist and photographer with a background in Art Education. She has many years experience as an Art Psychotherapist working in NHS adolescent, assertive outreach and acute services. She works widely as a trainer and is a British Association of Art Therapists approved supervisor. She co-represents B.A.A.T. with the National Network for Arts in Health and is a director of the South West Arts & Health Forum Ltd. This Forum has been recently initiated by Arts Council England South West. (ACE SW) She is co-ordinator for the Art In Mental Health course, for the Exeter Arts & Therapies conferences and the Self Heal Association.

Imaginal Responses to Art Images
David Maclagan
This afternoon workshop takes a unique approach to responding to a work of art. Rather than attempting to guess the artists intentions, or to react to their reputation, participants are invited to make creative responses to the work. These responses, drawn, written or made, draw on imagination, play and fantasy rather than thinking and conceptualising. The second part of the workshop focusses on how working with an �imaginal� response to the image is relevant to art making and art therapy.

Writing & Creativity
Richard Skinner

Jung, Symbolism and Art.
Vanessa Newcombe & Malcolm Learmonth.

Carl Jung (1875- 1961) was, along with Freud, an originator of what was to become psychotherapy. As well as his huge theoretical output, he painted and sculpted extensively. Many of his ideas about imagery, archetype, meaning, symbolism, individual and shared stories remain very relevant to considering creative processes and mental health. This workshop will provide a basic introduction to the man and his ideas, and explore why they matter.

Art & Social Context.
Diana Collins & Karen Huckvale.
The role of the artist in social context can be said to exist in a continuum: from artist as facilitator to artist as activist. This workshop explores key issues for artists working in (or contemplating working in) various social contexts. This will include practical considerations when making work that is site specific or site sensitive, work that engages the public or is social

Art & Young People
Penelope Hall & Karen Huckvale
This workshop looks at key issues when working with young people in a variety of settings, including;
* Effective ways to engage young people in art making.
* Working with groups, including family groups.
* How to encourage and develop expression for those who have no words or find it difficult to communicate feelings and thoughts.
There will be examples of young people�s art work and opportunity for discussion.

Art & Palliative Care
Carole Pembrooke

Art, Power & Learning Disabilities
Barrie Damarell & Robin Tipple
�This day will invite participants to consider some of the conscious and less conscious issues in relation to the learning disabled and their encounters with visual art. Our intention is to work on the material presented by participants for exploration. Our method will be an amalgam of art-based participatory workshop underpinned by presentations on such subjects as: the history of learning disability in England, - power, order and the disabling society - and the imagery of the learning disabled artist in art therapy�. cuss the different approaches presented.

Art & Conflict
Marian Liebmann

Conflict is an emotive subject. This course is about finding new ways to look at it. There will be a variety of practical art exercises - individual, pair and group - to gain insights into different aspects of conflict.
All art materials provided. No artistic skill needed, just the willingness to have a go. Art therapists are welcome! Please wear old clothes.

Using Art to Influence and Encourage Communication and Change in the Family.
Anne Marie Blake.

Using case material from current practice, Anne Marie will be exploring attachments and relationships within the Family. She will also be running an experiential workshop, looking at ways in which the therapist can use art within the therapeutic process, to facilitate interaction within the family and foster creative problem-solving.

An Introduction to Sand Play Therapy
Brenda Rawlinson
Sand Play Therapy is a non verbal way of encouraging the expression and construction of images which have special meaning to the individual.
The course involves looking at the way Sand Play utilises experience of creative play, imagination, symbolic thinking, metaphor and discrimination. There will be a variety of exercises to gain insight into the dramatic structures which can unfold as well as ways in which the various �Dramatic Personae� emerge and can be engaged in a therapeutic dialogue.

FEES & SMALL PRINT
�80:00 for one workshop. �145 for two different workshops if booked at the same time.
Concessions: �65:00 for one workshop. �115 for two different workshops book at the same time. A few places are available at the concession rate for each workshop.

Fee includes all materials, handouts where appropriate, tea, coffee, fruit or herb teas, biscuits & vegetarian lunch.

Previous, or current students on the �Art in Mental Health� A Foundation Course in Art Therapy are eligible for a reduction of �10 on the �80 day course fee.

Maximum 10 participants per workshop, unless otherwise stated

We charge a �10:00 fee for each invoice issued.

We reserve the right to levy an additional �30:00 administration and interest charge to organisations who have not paid fees within 60 days of the invoice date.

Cancellations:
If, having formally accepted a place, you withdraw from a workshop we will charge a �5 administration fee and will try to fill your place and return the balance of your fee to you but cannot guarantee to do so. If we are unable to fill your place we will refund half your fee. The earlier a cancellation is made the more likely we are to be able to fill It

Teaching methods will differ between presenters.