Waitlist currently open for The Flourishing Way program
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Waitlist currently open for The Flourishing Way program ❀
Creativity. Compassion. Connection.
Training and programs for psychologists and health professionals who want to bring creativity back into their practice and their lives.
In psychology and the health professions, our training often doesn’t include creative or arts-based practices. As a result, we may feel uncertain about how to use these practices with clients therapeutically.
What’s more, as therapists, we often wind up feeling drained and disconnected from our creative selves. This is an understandable response to working within systems that demand so much from us, but were never designed to sustain us.
Flourishing Space offers professional development, courses, supervision and mentoring for psychologists and helping professionals who want to reconnect with their creativity and playfulness and find sustainable ways to flourish together.
At Flourishing Space, our training is grounded in psychological science, expressive arts, compassion-focused approaches and decolonial perspectives.
What Changes When You Reconnect
Through experiential learning and in community with like-minded colleagues, you will:
Build practical skills for weaving creative engagement into your clinical work with confidence
Learn evidence-informed ways that arts and play support wellbeing, and how to apply them with clients
Reflect on your practice through structured peer supervision
Reconnect with the curious, playful parts of yourself that the system typically doesn’t value
Find sustainable ways to flourish in your work and life
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About
I’m Emily Wilkinson, a Clinical Psychologist, poet, supervisor, mentor, facilitator and educator who believes that engaging in creativity is essential, especially for those of us who dedicate our lives to caring for others.
The training I offer brings together psychology, arts-based and expressive approaches, and anti-oppressive practices to support more sustainable ways of living and working.
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Training & Programs
From introductory courses to longer group programs and ongoing community, you’ll find learning designed for psychologists and therapists.
Reconnecting with our creativity and play, in community with others, offers a way back to ourselves. It’s also an important way to refuse the conditions that deplete us.
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FAQ
If you’re looking for different ways to work clinically, and you’re curious about a new approach to sustainable practice, then you are in the right place.
Here are the answers to some commonly asked questions.
Latest Blog Posts
Reflections, resources and exploration of creative practices for helping professionals.
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Ready to begin your flourishing journey?
What Our Clients are Saying
“I've loved the creativity and sense of community. My playfulness is there, just below the surface, and it needs time and space to be in my world. Emily provides a warm, comfortable, nurturing, and beautiful safe space.”
Dr Leanne Kelly, Clinical Psychologist
“It’s been really nice to have 1.5 hours a week set aside for creating something. The session with the hand drawing was particularly moving - it connected me to my body and gave me an appreciation for it and everything it does.”
Dr Grainne S.
“The course provided a journey of exploration that reinvigorated my commitment to creativity and experimentation as a way to tap into my inner world, my self. Thank you, Em!”
Amy Maughan, Clinical Psychologist