Candle making and Art Therapy : Complementary
What you'll learn
- Various art therapy exercises developing self-awareness
- How candle-making can be therapeutic
- How candle-making provides a prompt for inner exploration
- To be at peace with yourself via your inner reflection
Requirements
- none but a printer might help
Description
Candle-making and Art Therapy is a course combined of the expertise and experience of two Instructors:
Chris Sivewright
Mengqui (Mica) Shui.
In different countries, (China, UK) they have followed similar paths:
Chris taught Business; Mica studied Business.
Both now have their own businesses...but only one of them makes candles
Chris teaches Art Therapy
Mica is artistic
This course is made up of various Art Therapy exercises - especially Storytelling - based round the activity of candle making.
Very important: accompanying this course is a detailed manual. The manual contains all the art therapy exercises AND the stories, further developed.
Therefore the course manual should be printed out/read in conjunction with the course itself. the lectures are kept fairly short as you are directed to the manual and requested to:
a. try out the art therapy exercises
b. report back via the Q/A with your thoughts and emotions before, during and after the process.
Remember: the course manual not only covers the lectures but also is an extension of them. For example, the stories begun in the lectures are added on to in the manual. Likewise the art therapy exercises, materials needed are covered more in the manual than in the lectures.
There are plenty of examples in this course - all from WHOOM 5 - the flourishing candle making business started and run by Mic
Who this course is for:
- All interested in Art Therapy
- Those seeing candles as a product rather than a process
- Anyone interested in developing story telling skills
Instructors
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 10,246 Reviews
- 251,536 Students
- 143 Courses
Studied at:
· University of Oxford (Philosophy and Economics)
· Oxford Brookes (Teacher training)
· University of Glamorgan (Business and Economics)
Qualifications
· Professional qualifications at Masters level
· Business and Economics degree
· Examiner for four major examining boards, at ‘O’ and ‘A’ level.
· Three teaching diplomas plus CELTA
· Qualified fitness trainer
Key academic positions held:
· Principal Oxford School of Learning
· Director of Studies: St Joseph’s Hall, Oxford
· Head of Economics: Cherwell Tutors
· Head of Business and Economics: Pipers Corner School, Buckingham
· Founder: Almost Random Theatre
I have experience in four main areas:
a. Teaching (40+ years of face-to-face experience)
b. Running businesses and conferences
c. Acting in films and theatre
d. Volunteering for a number of charities
Teaching/Instructor experience
Face-to-face: MBA students on a 1-1 basis; at University; Grammar, Comprehensive and F.E. College. This has included being Principal, Director of Studies; Head of Business and Head of Economics at various times in the past 40 years!
I have taught: Economics, Business, Sociology, Politics, English Literature and Psychology.
I have also run seminars for Teachers of |Psychology, Sociology, Businessman Economics.
I have run Therapeutic Art groups at Care Homes.
The success of my Business and Economics students has been featured in several newspapers plus I have appeared on BBC.
Running businesses and conferences.
I started Oxford School of Learning in the 1980s. From the college came Marketing Education Services, OSL Training and Saturday tutors.
In 201 I started Almost Random Theatre and have taken actors to Poland and the Czech Republic as well as running Drama days at schools.
Writing: my plays are sold to schools; I have 100+ books on Amazon; I used to write a regular column for The Guardian and BBC Bitesize.
Acting in films and theatre
My plays are sold to schools. I have performed at Oxford and Brighton Fringes as well as appearing in 100+ films, national TV advertising campaigns and role-played a hospital patient for Buckingham University’s medical degree students.
Volunteering
I have worked/am still working for Care Homes, Multiple Sclerosis Society, Dystonia Society, Stroke Association, Stroke Club, Talkback, Oxford Recovery College, Tandem, Age UK and Sport in Mind. I’ve given my tutorial fees to the Multiple Sclerosis Society and the Dystonia Society. I currently have a GoFundMe page to help lonely elderly people.
- 4.4 Instructor Rating
- 5,435 Reviews
- 143,666 Students
- 85 Courses
Almost Random Theatre is a theatre company started in 2012. After putting on plays at Oxford and Brighton fringes, taking actors to Poland and Czech Republic, selling plays to schools, putting on many short plays in Oxford, visiting 60+ schools and running 'drama days' it was decided to...slow down.
The theatre's main contribution now is helping with numerous Art Therapy courses.