Playing at the edge

Playing at the Edge is a two day workshop led by Steve Chapman and Simon Cavicchia that uses a variety of creative experiments to help us get to know and better understand our inhibiting self image, our inner critic and the effect this has on realising our full creative potential.

Participants will be invited to participate in a variety of Gestalt Psychology techniques, creative practices, masks, improvisational experiments, mindfulness practices and a variety of other methods to help them become more aware of their attachments to fixed self images and other ways in which they inhibit their spontaneity.

Watch Steve’s 2017 TEDx talk on learning to creatively dance with the Inner Critic below.

SELF-CARE
This work can be extremely rewarding, liberating and challenging.  It requires a degree of resilience and capacity for self support in the face of inner criticism which can be painful to see and experience.  We expect participants to be able to support themselves in the face of these challenges and would like to invite you to consider your levels of support before signing up for the programme.  If you would like to speak to Steve our Simon before signing up then please contact us.

VENUE ACCESIBILITY
Whilst the venue is located on the ground floor there are three big steps up to the door which unfortunately means that the room is not wheelchair accessible. If you have specific access requirements and would like to attend a future workshop then please get in contact and we can work something out for a future session.

BURSARY/LOW INCOME OPTIONS
It is important to us that these workshops are both value for money but also accessible to all so we hope this is a price that does that. However if you would like to attend but do not have the financial means to afford this price then we have three discounted bursary tickets available. Please e-mail sc@canscorpionssmoke.com if you would like to explore this option.

ABOUT THE FACILITATORS

Simon Cavicchia: Simon is a coach, executive coach, organisational consultant, supervisor and a Gestalt psychotherapist. He has consulted at all levels in organisations working with individuals and groups. He was Programme Director of the MSc in Coaching Psychology at the Metanoia Institute until 2017 and is now on the faculty of the Ashridge Masters in Executive Coaching. He is particularly interested in integrating relational and psychodynamic perspectives on organisational life and consulting, and is committed to continually researching how these perspectives can be used to inform effective practice in organisational settings. He supervises consultants and coaches, and has a psychotherapy practice in London. 

  Steve Chapman is an artist, writer, speaker coach and consultant interested in creativity and the human condition. He specialises in crashing together ideas from socio-complexity, gestalt psychology and various therapeutic creative practices to help individuals and organisations navigate their way through change in a way that is more responsive, lively and innovative. He holds an MSc with distinction in organisational change and is visiting faculty on the Ashridge Business School and Metanoia Organisational Development and Coaching MSc programmes. Steve has trained extensively in gestalt psychology, mask work, improvisation and completed a foundation programme in Art Therapy.
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