Presented by Prof Heinz Deuser | Facilitated by Cornelia Elbrecht

Accompanying children at the Clay Field differs significantly from working with adults. Children engage with their eyes open and motor impulses, sensory perception and meaning making happens simultaneously in the moment. Adults come with a biography to the session and find themselves in a past-present-future continuum. Adult clients benefit from closing their eyes in order to get out of their head, come into contact with developmentally formative experiences, and are being encouraged to rely on their intuition in order to find embodied answers to their conflicts and concerns. Children, however, will remain in the present throughout; they will engage in the here-and-now in a therapeutically healing narrative scripted by their age and developmental needs. They will embody and manifest their creative solutions in the field, through physical effort, play and storytelling.