Our April Soirée takes place live between 7 – 9pm on Wednesday 17th April. This will be an insightful and thought-provoking evening with Lesley – a chance to learn more about her pioneering clinical work as well as shining a light on the emerging digital and technological options open to us in work with children and young people.

With technology often being a “marmite issue” – you either love it or you hate it – this will be a great opportunity to together discuss, share and consider how immersive tech might be a valuable pathway to more significant and successful creative connections.

Content Summary:

Lesley invites you to join her on a journey; to discover the personal and professional experiences that shape her approach to working creatively with digital, immersive tools in online therapy.

She talks about the challenges, choices and risks we face as professionals, in a post-COVID world where technology is here to stay.

Lesley celebrates the freedom and joy of using VR, AR and video games to engage with ourselves and our clients, and the difficulties of upholding professional standards. We’ll explore how our therapeutic frameworks compliment immersive technology and how both are essential to underpin the creative space that is inclusive and accessible to all.

About Lesley:

Lesley is an experienced Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist and certified Cyber-Therapist. She has used her long-held passion for imagery, music and the creative arts to underpin her professional training at the Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education.
She has run her private psychotherapy practice since 2017 and she moved from ‘in-person’ therapy to a 3D virtual playroom in 2020. Her therapeutic framework combines neuroscience, digital creative arts, and a blend of the physical and virtual worlds to deliver playful, immersive interventions.

Lesley’s lived experience has led to her special interest in raising the profile of autism and other forms of neurodivergence within marginalised communities. She also focusses on the challenges faced by care-experienced children and young people with a cultural connection to the African diaspora. For several years she worked for a national UK charity as a young people’s advocate and independent mental health advocate.

Lesley is CYP Division Director for ACTO (Association for Counselling and Therapy Online) in addition to designing and delivering her own series of immersive cyber-creativity workshops and training programmes. She is passionate about making technology accessible and inclusive; her goal is to help mental health professionals to gain skills and confidence to work creatively online.

CPD ACCESS PASS

This workshop is free to anyone who holds a current CPD Access Pass. The Access Pass is a key part of The Sunflower Network’s commitment to providing affordable and accessible high quality CPD to our peers, and can be bought by individuals who have joined our free Sunflower Hub multi-disciplinary resource. The Pass entitles the holder to 12 hours of CPD with us across one calendar year as well as free access to our Sunflower Soirées which are our two hour evening talks, discussion spaces and networking events.

CERTIFICATES & RESOURCES

The ticket price includes any handouts the trainer may wish to share with you – which will be sent out AFTER the event has taken place – and a CPD certificate. Please note: The decision to share any content either during or after the event always rests with the trainer as the owner of the intellectual property, which The Sunflower Network will respect and honour at all times.

ETHICAL CONDUCT AT SUNFLOWER EVENTS

It is a requirement that all participants adhere to ethical conduct in the context of events including:

Respect for Sunflower staff, trainers and other attendees
Adherence to policies and procedures
Maintaining confidentiality and privacy
Sensitivity to complex issues being discussed

Anyone in breach of these threshold requirements may be removed from an event and could be unable to attend further events in the future. This is to safeguard the staff and participants as well as to enable quality assurance for the safety and wellbeing of all attendees.

In booking an event these criteria are agreed to in principle and committed to in practice.

SELF-CARE NOTICE:

Therapeutic trainings can work with complex and emotive topics that may be deeply personal for some delegates, depending on their lived experience. There will be breaks included on the day and one to one support will be available if needed, but please do reflect on whether you feel able to attend.  Your safety and wellbeing is of paramount importance.

WAYS TO PAY

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VAT

Please note that from 1st January 2024 we are required to add VAT onto all our services. This will be added at the point of payment on the website or onto your invoice if you choose to pay in instalments and we cannot make any exceptions.

RECORDINGS:

Please note – The Sunflower Network does not record events for purchase or view at a later date nor permit recordings of the event to be made. All our events are ‘as live’. This is to safeguard the nurturing and contained environment we create online in order to maintain our culture of safe, private and supported interactivity and sharing.

UNCREDITED USE OR REPLICATION OF CONTENT SHARED:

On behalf of the trainers we work with, we do not allow content shared during our CPD days to be replicated or used in any way without due credit to the copyright owner. Doing so without previous consent may result in exclusion from further Sunflower events.

BOOKING TERMS & CONDITIONS

All bookings to be paid in full except where private arrangements have been made to pay in instalments and agreed by us. Tickets &/ or any instalment payments are non-refundable once payment has been made. You can re-sell or transfer your ticket to another attendee up to 24 hours before the event opens – as long as we have notice in writing with their name. On request The Sunflower Network Ltd. may be able to help advertise and/or facilitate any re-sales but this will incur an admin fee of £15.00 to cover our costs including subsequent charges we receive from the ticket providers. Please note The Sunflower Network Ltd. cannot ever guarantee a successful re-sale and responsibility for finding a new purchaser remains with the original ticket holder at all times. No transfer or refund will be considered for a ‘no show’ on the day of the event or should you choose to leave the event early.

If you are booking a ticket as part of a discount offer, only ONE discount can be applied to a ticket at any one time.

The Sunflower Network Ltd. reserves the right to make changes to the booking terms and conditions, the timetable, content and/or any events at any time due to unforeseen circumstances. In the event of cancellation by us and if we cannot offer an alternative date, we will refund the cost of the ticket price for the event in full. We will not be responsible for any further cost incurred by you in relation to your booking.