Do-Be-do

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On returning to the U.K  I had retrained as a photographer however during this time I also contacted the renowned Canadian Jungian Analyst Marion Woodman who's books I had read and highly respected. This connection lead me to undertake a brand new intensive training on the Marion Woodman Foundation Leadership training program which eventually evolved into the European BodySoul Rhythms Leadership Training Program. Over a decade of training in Jungian analysis, dreamwork and arts  took place which I attended in the UK, Switzerland and Canada. As an artist this left me with a question, what to do with this training which was primarily for Jungian therapists. 

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Eventually I joined forces with Sue Congram of the Space Between, business coach, who had also completed the same training. Together we designed a business development coaching program called do-be-do. The aims were to offer creative coaching for business primarily for women. Our primary creative tools were mark-making, art, mask, movement and narrative.

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do-Be-do offered fully funded business development courses for over 90 women in South devon. During this time we gained accreditation from the Institute of Leadership and Management UK. do-Be-do became the first members of this organisation to offer leadership and management courses using creativity in the UK. We also worked with large businesses such as Glaxo Smith Kline and Sima.

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The processes I brought in were based around Betty Edwards book "Drawing on the Artist Within." Betty suggested looking for 'direct perception, a different kind of seeing'... as a key to creativity'. She found such a language already in use  

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             the language of drawing, in a way not totally dissimilar to the way we record our thoughts and idea in words.

              Drawings, like  words, have meaning- often beyond the power of words to express, but nonetheless invaluable

             in making the chaos of our sensory impressions comprehensible. 

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Betty found that

 

              the language of visual, perceptual thought... when integrated with the language of verbal, analytic thought, can

              provide the ingredients essential not only for true creativity- that is new or novel ideas, insights, inventions, or discoveries                  that have social value- but also for useful creative solutions to the problems of everyday life. 

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This process of creating  which Betty called 'analog' drawings, enabled participants to create self reflexive drawings leading to internal and shared dialogues. This enabled participants to engage with their lives in a creative, productive  and empowering way. We went on to use this as a basis for mask and movement work. This enabled everyone to embody new ways of understanding their personal and  inter-personal dynamics alongside an appreciation for the role of the larger archetypal, powerful and mysterious  energies. 

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Following this program I also took leadership roles on the European Body Soul group for several years. in liaison with the international Marion Woodman Foundation.

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Link here Marion Woodman Foundation

Link here Body Soul Europe

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