we will be running two workshops at this event in November - and there are lots of other great workshops to choose from too!
See the events page for more details of the event.
NEW UNWAGED PRICE ONLY £10
Workshop details:
- Where do I sit? What do I sing? – Rev. Susan McIvor
This workshop looks at the practical and emotional stumbling blocks for survivors in worship.
- Dropping Pebbles – Rev. Michaela Youngson
Come and help to prepare a prayer card for wider use and publication.
- Survivors’ Voices – Jane Chevous (S:Vox)
Breaking the silence of abuse through creative writing and story is a powerful tool for healing. In this workshop we will hear survivors’ voices and use some simple creative writing exercises to discover our own.
- Models for understanding trauma – Mike Fisher (TAG)
Understanding the key role of the body and brain, in both trauma and dissociation, and why safety and affect regulation are so important.
- Questions of God – Alison Webster (Church of England)
How do our concepts of God change in the wake of experiences of abuse? What positive challenges do survivors bring to traditional Christianity and how can their experiences help reshape the faith of the whole church?
- Ritual Abuse and the problem of credibility - Joan
Coleman
- Issues for survivors in remembering early abuse - Kate
Prendergast
This workshop looks at managing traumatic memories.
- Multiples’ Choices - Kathryn Livingston & Karen Bowden (First
Person Plural)
A taster of living with Dissociative Identities.
- Self-help group session for abuse survivors - Abi
Kingston (S:Vox)
This group is for people who have experienced any type of abuse: sexual, emotional, physical or spiritual, as a child or an adult. We come together to share our experiences, recognising that we are all at different places in our journey. You are welcome to come along at any time, to share or just listen and ‘be’.
- Being a survivor of clergy / minister abuse – Anne Lawrence, Margaret Kennedy
What does it mean to have been abused by a member of clergy?
