become a facilitator

The training is held solely online on Zoom - so you can literally take it from anywhere in the world. You will receive recordings of all sessions - including the Zoom sessions held between weekends.

No. Many people I work with have little or no prior experience of painting. You can train as a Visual Medicine ™ with no prior art-making training. Desire to make meaning are more important than learnt skill or past training. i do ask that you have experience of working with me before you take the training.

It’s important that you have hands-on experience of the Visual Medicine practice. I regularly offer a 5-week online course - Painting with the Universe or Painting with Ancestors both of which are a grounded introduction to Visual Medicine. I also offer private teaching sessions over Zoom if you want to learn the technique and experience working with me therapeutically. If you have any questions or requests please contact me.

The training is for people who long to make creativity the heart of their work or who want to expand what they already do. You can take the training as part of your personal creative journey or you can train to use it in your “already” work.

Here are just a few possibilities of how you might use Visual Medicine in the work you already do.

Of course, the training also covers how can create Visual Medicine workshops.

Art Therapists: Visual Medicine can leap frog over the blocks to self-expression through the simplicity of the technique. It can give clients an experience of emotional flow, creative potency as well trigger a cascade of insightful free associations. It allows clients to enter the realm of their Unconscious, unfettered by negative judgements because everyone can immediately create freely and authentically using Visual Medicine. It is an ideal way of helping children and adults gain confidence in the otherwise daunting medium of Paint.

Visual Artists: Visual Medicine is a dynamic encounter with the energy of Creation itself. It will allow you to help people get over the biggest barrier to creating with paint which is the level of skill required to make paintings that people actually like. Visual Medicine lifts the veil of self-criticism and judgement that so many wounded or untutored creators feel when they look at a blank sheet of paper.

Psychotherapists: Visual Medicine has an innate capacity to uncover the Unconscious, both intrapsychically and relationally. It allows you to track the present and conceive of prescient transformational change with your client. When things get stuck it can provide a meta-level through which to understand the unspoken Unconscious relationship. It can be used with your client in sessions, or as an inner supervisory tool using your own painting practice. It offers a luminous window into the emergent relational field of transformational possibility. Or used as a simple healing activity to share when a nonverbal technique may be needed.

Business Coaches and Life Coaches: Clients often come with issues and desires that are not quite conscious. Visual Medicine can help articulate through the language of the right brain what is unknown, emergent and desired in their work or business as well as uncovering hidden blocks to achieving this. Visual Medicine is at the cutting edge of creative thinking and its application within the field of business and life coaching.

Health and Healing Practitioners: Visual Medicine offers a profound additional form of creative healing. Using Visual Medicine images can help clients articulate unconscious information, body thoughts and feelings including fears, blocks and hidden resources. It can give an anchor in the subtle realm of healing as a practice of enquiry and visual meditation. Using your own Visual Medicine images or having a simple painting set-up for clients to create their own images can provide an insightful addition to your healing practice.

Teachers: Visual Medicine is powerful ally in helping children (and adults) feel more empowered in their own creativity. The visual immediacy and simplicity of the technique are a dynamic way to allow children to be naturally creative. We know the knock-on effect of free flowing accessible creativity on children’s learning is synergistic and exponential. A mind that can be creative can create anything. You could even host a Professional Development Day using Visual Medicine as a workshop for teachers so they too can experience free flowing natural creativity.

Yoga and Tai Chi Instructors: Yoga, Tai Chi and Visual Medicine go together perfectly. Visual Medicine is not only a deeply spiritual painting and writing practice but also an energy system that opens the bodymind to deep healing and expansion. Meditate with Visual Medicine images to intuitively feel how they impact your natural energy system. Breathe + Connect + Create

Dance and Movement Therapists: Dance your painting. Find meaning in how your body and soul communicate through emergent images. These are oracular images - you can literally dance your way into meaning and transformation through the holistic intelligence of the creative bodymind.

Spiritual Practitioners: Visual Medicine is a spiritual creative practice. It came into being with the words “Spirit longs to be made material”. The soul naturally finds direct expression through the radical simplicity of this spiritually transformative creative practice.

The Visual Medicine Facilitator Training is held ONLINE over 3 x three-day weekend workshops and 1 x two day workshop. The workshop weekends are always on Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

The times allow for international participation. For example - 2.00pm - 7.00pm UK (GMT) London each day.

In addition there will be 8 x 90 minute Zoom sessions. All sessions are recorded in case you are unable to attend every session - although attendance is important. The Zoom sessions are sprinkled on different days allowing for maximum attendance.

Included are 2 x 50 minute personal consultations with Suzette.

All sessions are recorded if you need to miss.

Yes. Having a personal Visual Medicine practice is essential to becoming a Visual Medicine facilitator. Your practice builds through learning from your own experience and personal process. Whilst you are training you will need to make time for one hands-on painting session a week and use Visual Medicine paintings with Focusing Words in your journaling practice.

As part of your course work you have a choice of either running a small Visual Medicine group or several sessions of individual client work. The group could even be for friends or family.

Yes. Your own level of experience will influence how ready you feel to work with clients using Visual Medicine. In the training you will look at how to incorporate the process within the frame of your own working practice. I also offer Supervision.

You will need to provide your own art materials from the supplies list. The materials are quite simple - you will build up your own favourite materials over time.

The groups is established in a supportive culture of self + other enquiry.

There is also a closed Facebook group to share questions and your own process. You will also have access to an online Students Studio which holds Visual Medicine teaching materials including a supplies list, meditations, helpful articles, writing prompts and inspirational quotes and poems.

There are also two personal consultations with Suzette included in the training.

Yes. You will hold a professional certificate and be able to use the title Certified Visual Medicine Facilitator. There will be other offerings to develop your working practice as a facilitator.

Please contact me via email for an application form or an initial chat about the training. After receiving your application we will arrange an interview.

Once I haveaccepted your application you will give a deposit of £300 to hold your place payment options.

This year the training is being held all online. The times make it particularly accessible to the UK, Europe + USA.

TRAINING WEEKENDS

19TH, 20TH, 21ST APRIL

24TH, 25TH, 26TH MAY

28TH, 29TH, 30TH JUNE

12TH, 13TH JULY

All days 2.30pm - 7.30 pm UK London (British Summer Time) - please check your local time zones

8 x 90 minute Zoom group practice sessions (sprinkled throughout the weekend dates) are part of the training.

These practice sessions are for working with your images + Visual Meditation + questions about the practice and your individual process.

Zoom sessions will be held at various times so you can attend when you can - all sessions are recorded.

90 minute Zoom sessions will usually occur on Friday afternoons @ 2.30pm + Thursday afternoons @3.30pm

2 x 50 minute individual sessions with Suzette are scheduled by arrangement

The fee is £2,750. The discounted EARLY BIRD FEE is £2,450 - if paid in full at the time the course commences. There is an instalment plan available over the duration of the course, or over a longer time frame by arrangement. I offer several discounted places on the training - please let me know.

You will need to pay a deposit of £300 on being accepted for the training + installments or full fee to access the Early Bird rate.

I am so looking forward to working with you!

Yes. In time there will be other advanced workshops to support you in your professional development. These will be offered as optional additional training courses. On completing the training I also offer a Reflection and Practice group which meets twice a term. This provides a rich and engaging space to track your own inner journey and reflect on your work with clients. I also offer Supervision and Creative Consultancy.