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Creative Expression Workshops

For Therapists, Counsellors, Teachers, and Professionals

I offer workshops exploring creative expression as a way to support emotional well-being, reflection, and professional growth. These workshops are designed for therapists, educators, and other professionals seeking to deepen their connection with themselves and others through non-verbal, imaginative methods.

Why Creativity?

Creative expression invites us to move beyond logic and into the language of the heart. It provides opportunities for insight, emotional release, and connection. In professional settings, it can help prevent burnout, enrich self-awareness, and offer new ways to engage with clients, students, or service users.

What to Expect

Workshops are experiential, reflective, and inclusive. No artistic skill is needed, just curiosity and a willingness to explore. They may include guided imagery, journaling, use of symbols and metaphor, and gentle creative exercises that can be adapted into your own practice or setting.

Why Attend?

  • To learn in a safe, supportive, and reflective environment, with opportunities for both personal and professional growth.

  • Gain a deeper personal understanding of how creative expression can reconnect us with hidden or forgotten aspects of self.

  • Experience adaptable creative techniques that can be used with clients in therapeutic, educational, or pastoral contexts.

  • Develop confidence in facilitating expressive, non-directive exercises with clients, regardless of their perceived artistic ability.

  • Reflect on the role of creativity in supporting self-worth, resilience, and a stronger sense of identity.

  • Leave with practical resources and a clearer sense of how to integrate creative approaches into their professional practice.

No prior experience of art or creative writing is required — the focus is on expression, exploration, and meaning-making rather than artistic skill.

🌿 Who Am I? 🌿

Step into a half-day creative journey of self-discovery, designed to inspire you personally and enrich your professional practice.

Through hands-on creative expression, collage, guided writing, and symbolic drawing, you’ll explore how reconnecting with forgotten or undervalued aspects of yourself can bring renewal, insight, and empowerment. Alongside your own reflective process, you’ll gain practical tools and creative exercises that can be adapted and integrated into your own client work.

✨ What you’ll gain:

  • Personal insight and renewed connection to your own creativity.

  • A toolkit of adaptable exercises to help clients rediscover their strengths, forgotten qualities, and hidden resources.

  • Fresh ways to support clients who feel lost, disconnected, or lacking in self-worth.

  • Develop confidence in facilitating expressive, non-directive exercises with clients, regardless of their perceived artistic ability.

  • A supportive space to reflect, recharge, and grow both personally and professionally.

This workshop offers both self-nourishment and professional development, giving you creative methods you can take back into your practice to inspire and empower the people you work with.

Who is this for?
Therapists, counsellors, trainees, coaches, pastoral carers, and professionals who wish to deepen their skills in supporting clients who struggle to articulate their feelings.

Date and time: Sunday 26th April 2026, 10.00am - 2.30pm “Please note that the finishing time is approximate, as we allow space for group pace, discussion, and reflective processes.”

Location: Cleve Lodge, 23 Elm Ave, Long Eaton, Nottingham NG10 4LR

Cost: £40.00 per person (this workshop is limited to 10 delegates).

Click here to book your place, and if you would like further details on the itinerary, please contact Sam Smith at hello@therapysam.com

Workshops

Please feel free to contact me at hello@therapysam.com or call 07702 825726 regarding any workshop enquiries.