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Creativity in the Therapy Room

Working creatively in Gestalt counselling and psychotherapy

The responses below have been collated from 11 of the 12 participants, the 12th feedback sheet was not collected. Not every question was answered and this is noticeable where the number of responses total less than 11.

Each of the 11 participants selected five words to describe their experience and the selected words and frequency of choice is shown below.

For my own part I have to be pleased with the participants rating of the workshop as very good.  The administration of this by Gina is highly praised as excellent.  And that all would recommend the workshop is very heartening.

A number of participants have reported the workshop as rushed and too short.  That is true, and I feel I did not handle the timing of the workshop as well as I wanted, and usually do.  I have no excuse with regard to 'more time' because the parameters were set and so it was for me to work within these, i.e., four hours.

For me, I see two main aspects that I need to address in looking at creativity. Till now I have conducted this type of workshop as an introduction to the experience of the materials, with attention to self reflection and impact of, often, new creative media.  The aspect I had not appreciated as much though, was the theory and implications of client work with creative media.  Of course, these two aspects are intertwined, yet for a half day workshop there is not sufficient time to cover both adequately - or at least, honestly, to my satisfaction.

The outcome, therefore, will be to offer different workshops that will have a main focus on either providing experience of the creative media, or on the theory and practicalities in using creative media.