Continuous Professional Development
Continuous Professional Development with Elaine Patterson from the Centre of Reflection and Creativity Ltd and PattersonPrenticeDesigns
…. Read on to find out more about our CPD offers which can be tailored just for you….
In the face of perpetual crisis and suffering in the world, we are called to create refuges of beauty, imagination, and care – places where the sacred flame of love, community, and transformation can be tended and kept alive.
Why Bother?
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
There is a field. I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
The world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
Doesn’t make any sense.
Rumi
We are human beings doing human work in the world for the well-being of all. Therefore, when we work with the miracle of another human soul, we need to be able to access different ways of knowing and portals into wisdom, other than just the cognitive, technical and rational.
Beyond what we need to learn for our Certifications and Accreditations there is a world waiting for us to help us to deepen and enrich our learning and therefore our work with our clients. We need to be able to touch the poetry, the magic, the mystery, the imagination, and the creativity of our shared humanity, in order to help to invite forth what is wanting to emerge in our clients. We also need to how to sit with another with wholehearted courage, grace, ease and equanimity in the field of our not knowing with hope, kindness, gratitude and compassion.
And in order to be able to hold this vital space for others we need to be on a journey of leaning into our own inner development – and for some this is an illuminating soulful, creative and spiritual journey. I work with my dear partner Karyn Prentice to offer the temenos for this unfolding and discovery.
CPD with me and with us soulfully nourishes and resources you with gentle, creative, poetic and reflective inquiry, conversation and companionship in ways which can free you to come home to your pilgrim self as you craft your next steps in your life and work…
As we write in the ‘Point of Us’
“A safe harbour to evoke exploration and discover insight, promote reflection encourage emergence & savour life. A true community of like-minded souls coming together to marvel at the vast imagination that is possible in the world. For those who want to connect deeply, … a temenos where openness and trust moves you into a bigger creativity and a richer deeper engagement with life. A place of homecoming for those who seek a resonant and vibrant life where together we travel in a spiral cultivating and dancing from the surface to depth and back again and experience the excitement and peace and unconditional love where we can be in service to each other without condition or judgment and know that we are not alone. A vast tapestry and confluence of colours, textures, minds, hearts, and souls …. offering a sanctuary where we can re-Source ourselves to re-Vitalise ourselves and our work in the world”.
Continuous Professional Development: Examples of What We Offer…
“What will you do with your one precious life?”
Mary Oliver
We offer bespoke designs, webinars, retreats and longer programmes.
Please contact us for further information.
Examples of our immersive experiences include
- “Working with the Nature and the 5 Seasons” webinars and longer programmes
- “Seasonal Weekend Retreats”
- “Working with the Compass Rose of your Creativity” webinars and longer programmes
- “Working with Our Humanity@Work – the 7Cs for Insight, Learning and Change – A New Lens for Coaching, Executive Reflection and Supervision” webinars and longer programmes
- “Working with ‘Reflect to Create – The Dance of Reflection for Creative Leadership, Professional Practice and Supervision webinars and longer programmes
- The Write Place Suite of Reflective Writing designs by candlelight
- In person Group Supervision in Parks and Gardens
- On line Creative Reflective Group Supervision
- A 12 month virtual programme called ‘Cultivating and Choreographing the Rich Tapestry of your Whole Hearted Creativity’
- A 9 month virtual programmed called “Bridging the Unknown – From Role Work to Soul Calling in Later Life’
“Because, if not now, when?
The adventure starts here. The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach our eagerly and without fear for a newer and richer experience.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
To find out more or to book a call please email Elaine@reflect2create.com or Karyn at Karyn@fletcherprentice.com