| Heléne Steyl CCreative Expression Facilitator, Artist, and Training Consultant helene@dannerup.com |
| CREATIVITY WORKSHOPS Beads for Learning and Healing
Workshop 1 : BEADS and TEACHING - Techniques and Tips for Professional Workshops Who: Teachers, Corporate Trainers and Facilitators wanting to add creativity to their workshops. Duration: 3 hours including practical. Cost: R300 + R125 for Kit (Fact sheet, Teaching Tree, Keyring, a variety of special glass beads, wire etc.) What we do: We will make a Teaching Tree while discussing the elements of a professional workshop, teaching techniques, obstacles to learning, fulfilling adult learning needs, simplifying and enhance the learning process and using beads before, during and after a lesson. We will look at different bead characteristics such as materials, colours, shapes, sized, durability and possibilities, depending on the type of theory or skill that needs to be learnt. The fact sheet will contain tips for demonstrations of practical skills. Workshop 2 : Beads and HEALING- Exploring the possibilities. Who: Anyone who would like to experience how beads can be used in healing – physically, mentally, emotionally and in the understanding of self and others. Duration: 3 hours including practical. Cost: R300 + R125 for kit (Fact sheet, Keyring/Lanyard, Wire tree, Family Healing Tree, various Glass beads, wire etc. You will get everything you need, just bring pliers.) What we do: During this creative and informative workshop we will discuss basic healing concepts and the role beads can play on a physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual level. We do 2 exercises to experience the use of beads in a healing process: 1.Lanyard or Keyring – Making a difference. 2. Family Healing Tree - An example of the use of beads in a healing process for immediate family. It will help you to understand the past and present family dynamics, accept and place every-one where they need to be in a healthy family system. We will identify and briefly discuss options for other holistic healing processes. |
| A BIT ABOUT THE CURRENT BEADING WORKSHOPS Why beads? – I love any form of art. I do a lot of painting with oil, acrylic and explore multi-media. If you work in bigger groups the logistics of painting becomes a problem. I found beads to be a practical solution with many opportunities to express your thoughts or feelings.. Beads come in a wide variety of shapes sizes, materials, colours and patterns. They are easy to carry, string, keep their shape, last well, there is a wide variety beads, techniques and options suitable for any budget…. I can add many more reasons…. I enjoy teaching new techniques and using them in skills training and interpersonal workshops. I use beads in the corporate environment to explain concepts or the steps in a process where the participants make a key ring or other object to remind them of what they have learned. It is an excellent aid to enhance transfer of training. I also use beads to do team-building and it helps participants to give each other feed- back on personal issues by focusing on the bead rather than the person. I use beads in creative personal development sessions to help participants understand how they see other people and which inter/intrapersonal process has occurred during the course. They twist wire and use the beads to represent events without having to explain it verbally. It is amazing how people can gain understanding of a process if they can see it three-dimensionally in a wire sculpture or object. A social worker friend told me how her daughter was part of an outreach programme teaching people in rural areas by using beads with specific shapes and colours. Everyone learnt the material off by heart – just by looking at the beads. I find that when people focus on the beading, their critical left brain is occupied and it releases the emotional right brain to handle the bottled up emotions. This fact is also stressed by Dr Brenda Dreyer who founded the Scrap-Ther-A-P process in South Africa. In my creative facilitation work with the clients of JMD Psychological Consulting Dr Janne Dannerup and associates I provide an experiental creative process to enhance the professional therapy they offer, especially to clients who have no/few prior artistic skills. I believe we always have a CHOICE. We need to look within and get CENTERED. Then we need to REALISE that we are not alone and that we are all CONNECTED. Once that realization has sunk in WE NEED TO COMMUNICATE. I believe CREATIVITY is a pre-requisite to all of these activities. |
