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As Founder of Apple Aniseed Arts, I believe in the transformative power of striving to know ones self in a practical and inspirational way - through the transitions that meet us in Life. 

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Based on an Anthroposophical understanding of the human being - as "Wisdom", I accompany you, your loved one, and families, through arts-based interactive workshops and sessions. 

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The Transpersonal Therapeutic Arts approach inherently includes processes that respect Nature's Rhythms and the wider Cosmic Rhythms; between which we have the potential to discover the capacity for self-regulation.

 

Through gentle arts, movement, singing, and connection with our inner and outer Nature, courageous questions can lead to flexibility, creative health, and peace.

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Practicing sensing and breathing with life’s variety of challenges, is the lifelong learning that I advocate for.

 

Bespoke sessions, workshops, and programmes are designed with consideration of structured order, alongside openness and flexibility.​​​

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To date, I have worked with adults in crisis counselling, school teams, staff wellbeing, groups in Nature-based therapy, school children, multi-cultural organisations, community groups, and people with additional needs.

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How I can help 

Here are some examples of what can be explored in gentle ways :

Preparing for baby's arrival, Post-birth connection to the child, Rising Sensitivities, Time Challenges, Space Challenges, Hoarding, Digestion of Sensory Impressions, Communication, ADD / ADHD, Addictions, Anger management, Anxiety, Autism spectrum, Abuse experiences, Bereavement, Bullying. Cancer, Child related issues, Chronic pain, Chronic fatigue syndrome / ME, Cultural issues, Depression, Eating disorders, Eco and Climate Anxiety, Emotional Distress, Grief, Health related questions, Identity questions, Infertility, Life skills, Loneliness, LGBTQ+ counselling, Loss, Menopause, Men's issues, Mood disorders, Neurodiversity, Obsessions and Obsessive compulsive disorders, Personal development, Phobias, Pregnancy-related issues. Post-traumatic stress, Pregnancy related issues, Redundancy, Relationships, Self esteem, Self-harm, Sensory impairment, Sex-related issues, Sexual identity, Sexuality, Spirituality, Stress, Suicidal feelings, Substance Dependency, Trauma, Questions on Gender, Work related issues.

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The Approach

 

• Person-Centred and a combination of free non-directed art-making, as well as directed arts processes. 

• Anthroposophy underlies the support measures, where the wisdom of the human soul is respected and gently guided towards a balancing of any polarisation that may be inviting changes of thinking, (which impacts behaviours and interactions in relationships). 

• However, there is also an understanding that there is a soul destiny that may require some polarisation on route to learning to move dynamically between both poles as part of a natural evolutionary journey. 

• Changes during the therapeutic process may ebb and flow and peak and dip, before settling towards a new balance. 

• The first few sessions are for Agreements setting, observational assessments, and the House-Tree-Person assessment which can provide general indications of the present organisation of the Threefold and Fourfold bodies

• The middle sessions of the series bring therapeutic interventions to encourage and invite change.

• The last few sessions of the series bring closure to open arts processes, a gallery view of the work to honour the changes met, as well as a final House-Tree-Person assessment. 

• Changes experienced through the arts processes may transform the past and be preparation for a future change, as yet unseen and unknown. 

• Meaning of artwork is context specific and applied by the client.

• Meaning is elusive and changeable over time as new thinking arises through the therapy process. 

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Please feel free to email me for a Services Guide if you are an Organisation in need of bespoke programmes for your teams or service users.