This highly practical one-day training offers creative arts-based and self-reflective approaches for identifying and disempowering automatic negative thoughts critical of the self. The Expressive Therapy tools of visual art, symbol work, self-discovery worksheets, emotion-focused role-play and dialoguing with parts, will be introduced.
The eight steps to mastering the inner critic will be presented. Along with mindfulness and self-compassion practice, we will explore understanding of, and separation from, self-criticism. This day for therapy professionals, while focused on supporting adult clients, provides much that can also be applied with younger clients.
This training will explore how the inner critic can be likened to a script, self, or perhaps even ‘voice’, scolding us from the inside – imposing prohibitions on what we do, what we need, how we feel. There will be a focus on facing the self-critical process, then gaining freedom from it, with the help of self-compassion practice.
