The Group as Poetic Play-Ground Format:Cassette showing how children can go

showing how children can go from being joyfully buoyant to totally deflated when being bullied and teased

this resource is for practitioners working in early years settings to help children aged 0-2 to develop secure and positive attachments with their parent or carer

Some need quiet and soothing activities to calm them down

Many people suffer from feelings of stress and anxiety in their everyday lives

The Group as Poetic Play-Ground Format:Cassette showing how children can goThis lecture explores some aspects of creativity, metaphor and language which are common to the worlds of group analysis and poetry drama. Both depend upon poiesis the calling into existence of that which was not there before and responsive enactment. One of the aims of psychotherapy is to re call and integrate previously repressed experience. This is particularly important in forensic psychotherapy. In the lecture the concept of omniference is