Clayfield Therapy
Training
In February 2024 Jen completed her training in Clayfield Therapy with Cornelia Elbrecht, with a weeklong residential training program with art therapists from around the world.
This therapy is an extraordinary experience of digesting and processing life's experiences in a safe and supportive relationship.
Clayfield explained
The 'clay field' is a large, flat box filled with smooth clay. With closed eyes one makes contact with the material and allows the hands to find their way through touching, scratching, digging, kneading, patting, beating ... until shapes start to emerge. Scenes become created, destroyed, recreated ... telling one's story. At the end of a session, there will be no art object to take home, except an intense and transformative experience.
Clay Field Therapy® (Cornelia Elbrecht) is touch therapy. The haptic sense of touch is the most fundamental of human experiences.
As the hands touch the clay they will remember these formative, implicit experiences.
The smooth texture, the weight and resistance of the clay will evoke attachment patterns, developmental setbacks and traumatic events.
This does not occur in a cognitive way, but as learnt action patterns and felt sensations.
In a safe and supportive setting, the hands of clients will find their way out of restriction, collapse and frozen fear into growing trust and fulfilment, because the clay has the unique ability to feedback any contact we make with it.