APCCA Conference 2024 - Trauma and creative arts in therapy – a person-centred perspective

Trauma is a human experience, which can be defined as an event or series of events that disrupts our experience of self or of the world. Our conference theme explores the potential of creative arts when working with trauma. We will draw on a person-centred perspective to explore contemporary practice and provide an exciting range of talks and experiential workshops.

Keynotes

Yana Gololob

Encountering war - relationships that empower

Description

In this presentation I will share my experience of encountering war, of living and working with clients during the war in Ukraine and how the person-centred creative arts approach helps to contain, get in contact with and process traumatic experiences.

This is the tenth year of war in Ukraine. Each person in Ukraine is affected, having been themselves or knowing someone who has been displaced, tortured, captured, or deceased. How can we as therapists contain our personal experiences of trauma whilst encountering the same trauma in our clients.

I will share my personal experience of how person-centred art therapy has helped me. I will share a case study of working online with a client at the front line, to show how art helped to process and deepen her experience using a person-centred approach to art therapy. We will have space for questions and discussion.

Ani de la Prida

Healing the Fragments of Trauma

Description

Trauma can be hard to define. From a person-centred perspective trauma can be defined as an experience that disrupts our sense of self or our sense of the world. Traumatic experiences are often stored as fragments of memories, sensory experience, visual images, smells, touch, and intense feelings. The therapeutic use of creative arts can

can be particularly relevant to working with psychological fragmentation, and working with collage can both express this fragmentation and also foster the process psychological healing.

In this workshop we will explore why and how creative mediums and the person-centred approach can help to foster healing from trauma. I will present practice examples to illustrate and will invite participants to engage with a creative arts exercise.

Call for presentations 

We are looking for contributions that align with our aims and conference theme above, in one of the following formats:

Experiential Workshop (1 hour)

Experiential Workshop (30 mins)

Discussion (30 mins)

Paper (20 mins plus 10 mins Q&A)

Talk (20 mins plus 10 mins Q&A)

Potential topics for contributions are as follows (but not limited to): personal and lived experience, supervision, self-care, research, client work, case study (if your submission contains client material, please provide confirmation of client written consent with your proposal).

If you have an idea or something to say which falls outside of our suggestions above, please email hello@apcca.org.uk to have a brief chat with one of the conference organisers. We really welcome creative conference contribution proposals and are open to new ideas.

Anyone can submit a proposal. We will prioritise APCCA members' submissions and voices.

You don't need to write the whole thing now. Please complete the proposal submission form available HERE and send to hello@apcca.org.uk by 20th September 2024 - with the subject line ‘Conference contribution proposal’

If finance is a barrier to attending, please email. We have a number of free tickets available to those in need.