We are thrilled that ClayTime Stockport are able to join us at the CLC again this May. Book your place with reception as spaces are limited
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Cooking with Confidence and 'Fakeaway Thursday' cooking workshops have been a wonderful addition to the activities we do here at the centre. Tailored funding for both of these projects allowed us to purchase equipment and ingredients to create and deliver these sessions, allowing members to learn new skills, make some delicious food and more importantly, to have fun. Although this funding has now ended, we are endeavouring to keep our Cooking with Confidence sessions running due to their success and feedback from members.
Donate (creativelivingcentre.org.uk) Any donations would be welcome to the centre and to support delivery of future activities Jean from the Splinter Guitar Group is starting a new beginners group and has a 5 week course starting 20th April. Please contact Jean directly for any further information.
Anthea is our trainee psychodrama psychotherapist. She is currently working one-to-one but is looking to run a psychodrama group from May with space for up to ten members! Now you may be wondering what psychodrama is or how a psychodrama group is different from our current Drama for Fun group that runs on a Monday afternoon? Well, psychodrama is a form of action-based therapy. Whilst our current Drama for Fun group explores imaginary scenarios through acting out scripts or through improvisation for fun using techniques like movement, freeze frame, improvisation, role play and more, a psychodrama group is a therapy group that uses the same kind of techniques to explores our real-life difficulties that cause us to struggle with our mood, our general mental health, even with ourselves and others in our day-to-day lives. It helps us to understand better our behaviours and those of others’ and change the way we respond to the people and events that happen in our everyday lives. It can also be good fun AND you don’t need to have done any drama before. Contact reception if you would like to find out more and book onto the session. We welcomed back some familiar faces and some new volunteers from Lloyds banking group on Tuesday 5th March. The team were tasked with tidying up our allotment plot at Highfield allotments ready for the new planting season and the beginning of our allotment group this spring.
The team did an amazing job completing the sorting, sweeping, organising and clearing during the morning. They even alphabetised and listed all of our seeds! We hope that this work combined with our current growing vegetables course with @sowthecity and recruitment of an allotment support worker Work with us (creativelivingcentre.org.uk) will make for a plentiful season of growing to be then brought to our kitchen for Lisa and volunteer team to create some beautiful meals for our Wednesday lunch. The team spent the afternoon helping clear out and reorganise our art room which was incredibly helpful! Our arts materials get used not only for ‘Arts for all’ on a Monday but also art therapy and other sessions throughout the week including ‘Ladies support group’ on Thursdays. We want to extend a MASSIVE thank you to the team from Lloyds, they have helped to prepare spaces that our members value greatly and will contribute to their wellbeing. We hope to welcome them back again next year! |