Graham Music: Reclaiming Play & Creativity to Enhance Resilience
Fri 06 Mar
|Clapham Omnibus Theatre, SW4
The first in The Sunflower Network's series of soirees: Perspectives from Child Development, Trauma Theory, Psychotherapy & Neurobiology: The talk will take a playful approach, using video clips and developmental theory. Looking at whether children's lives are increasingly over-filled and pressured.
Time & Location
06 Mar 2020, 18:30 – 21:00
Clapham Omnibus Theatre, SW4, 1 Clapham Common North Side, Clapham Town, London SW4 0QW, UK
About The Event
Training from the The Sunflower Network
Graham Music: Reclaiming Play & Creativity to Enhance Resilience: Perspectives from Child Development, Trauma Theory, Psychotherapy & Neurobiology
The Lost Art of Play: This talk will look at whether children's lives are increasingly over-filled and pressured. Adult expectations, fears and aspirations as well as the lure of technology such as gaming, has meant that old fashioned unstructured play opportunities are disappearing and with them the opportunity for children to develop a range of capacities, personal and interpersonal skills and creativity which would stand them in good stead for future life-challenges.
The talk will take a playful approach, using video clips and developmental theory alongside an understanding of the therapeutic process to show how the capacity to play is the bedrock of so many important life-skills and in itself builds other capacities. Themes touched on will include the neurobiology of play, its link with empathy, what stress…