Webinar

Beyond Talk: Implementing Art & Expressive Therapy in Your School

Beyond Talk: Implementing Art & Expressive Therapy in Your School

Join our Managing Director, Cath Lappin, to explore how Art & Expressive Therapy can support school communities to thrive.

This webinar will explain the Embedded Art & Expressive therapies model and how you can provide therapeutic support to both students and educators on site at your school.

Connected Self has delivered this support to over 44 schools in the past 12 years with exceptional results.

When:

Monday the 1st of December 2025, 4:00PM-4:45PM (GMT+10:30)

Where:

Online webinar via Zoom.

Cost:

Free!

Register:

Click here to register your details.

Polyvagal Practices

Polyvagal practices aim to enhance physiological regulation, restore a sense of safety, and promote engagement through autonomic nervous system regulation.

This enhances social and emotional learning, including recognising and regulating emotions (from a physiological lens) and developing empathy for others.

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PACE

Developed as part of attachment-focused family therapy, PACE is a trauma-informed approach aiming to create safe, trusting, emotionally connected relationships with children and adolescents who have experienced trauma or attachment difficulties. PACE stands for:

Playfulness

  • Approaching with an open, ready, calm, relaxed and engaged attitude.
  • Not taking yourself/situations too seriously.
  • Diffusing difficult/tense situations.

Acceptance

  • Unconditionally accepting the current state/mood/behaviour.
  • Accepting that there are things unseen that lie below behaviour.
  • Acceptance supports feeling secure, safe and loved

Curiosity

  • Understanding the child gently and without judgement.
  • Supporting child to bring awareness to their inner life.
  • Wondering statements.

Empathy

  • A sense of compassion and understanding for young person’s feelings and thoughts.

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Expression of experience when words are not enough

Art Therapy does not rely on verbal language. It is a therapeutic approach that provides many different mediums for communication. It is a useful mechanism when clients may not yet have the language to express their experiences.

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Contain difficult feelings and build tolerance

Art making holds or contains the difficult feelings allowing them to be felt and experienced gradually – building tolerance to discomfort.

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