Between Spaces

17/11/2023

Paula Alves

17/11/2023

What an amazing evening we had last night discussing about how photography can boost our well-being - and there was even time for a hands-on exercise using toy photography to recall past childhood experiences! Thank you Telegraph Hill Centre and University of Greenwich for helping us hosting this event and to Being Human Festival for making all of this happen! We’ll be back next year for sure! ❤️❤️❤️

07/11/2023

We’re back with lots of news about what we’ve been doing in the backstage: this week, we will present our work at the International Conference of Art and Health in Lisbon MAAT - Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia and next week we’ll be hosting a workshop as part of the amazing UK Festival of the Humanities Being Human Festival. Join us and share with whoever you’d like! In the meantime, the below is a work of fiction. Yet any similarity to actual persons, or actual events, is not purely coincidental.

26/09/2023

We’re thrilled to announce that we’re taking part in the Being Human Festival Being Human Festival with a group discussion about photography and mental health over a good cuppa! 🙂

It’s free, it’s in London on the 16th November and it’s going to be amazing! Please share and join us!

In our rushed lives, we are constantly, instantly and sometimes even unconsciously using our smartphone cameras to capture the environment, people, events and the world in general. But how often do we go back and stop to reflect about what those pictures actually make us feel? What was the story we....

14/09/2023

Whilst we’re cooking up our autumn activities, it’s amazing to be featured in psychology students newsletters. Happy snapshots everyone!

19/08/2023

Between Spaces Online Workshop Checklist for today:

- Presentation with as little text as possible and lots of activities 👍
- Computer fully charged (and the charger nearby just in case) 👍
- Cup of Coffee in my Rocky mug just because! 👍
- Glass of water because it’s really hot in London (???!!!) and we need to keep hydrated 👍
- Internet connection!!!! 👍
- Embarrassing items removed from my office (at least as far as the MS Teams screen captures in the background) 👍
- Lots of excitement 👍👍👍

Guess we’re all set!!

Happy World Photography Day! 📷📷📷

18/08/2023

Dear Between Spaces members, we still have a couple of vacancies for our online workshop tomorrow. Spoiler alert: we’ll be discussing how photography can help us reflect about our relationships, so chop chop! Use the code WPD23 to get 25% discount just because tomorrow is the World Photography Day!

This is an experiential session using photography exercises to enhance mental health and well-being.

09/08/2023

“Don't be afraid. Change is such a beautiful thing', said the Butterfly."

- Sabrina Newby

06/08/2023

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06/08/2023

Our workshops yesterday hosted at Telegraph Hill Centre were a huge success! I can’t thank enough to those who joined us and were willing to share aspects of themselves and their lives us with us through pictures. More to come very very soon!! 📷❤️🙏

04/08/2023

Our first workshops in partnership with Telegraph Hill Centre have sold out! Thank you so much for the support and looking forward to seeing you tomorrow! May these be the first of many! 📷❤️

31/07/2023

Just a few days left and only 3 spots available!!! If you know anyone who’d like to join us, please do ASAP! Really looking forward to starting this partnership with Telegraph Hill Centre 📷

This is a taster session using therapeutic photography exercises to enhance mental health and well-being.

17/07/2023

The tickets for our first workshop at Telegraph Hill Centre in London are selling fast!

Saturday 5th August

Morning Workshop (10am-1pm) * ONE PLACE LEFT
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/therapeutic-photography-workshop-tickets-657154034407

Afternoon Workshop (2pm-5pm)
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/therapeutic-photography-workshop-tickets-

This is a taster session using therapeutic photography exercises to enhance mental health and well-being.

13/07/2023

Hello! If you live in London, don’t miss out our free taster workshop at Telegraph Hill Centre

Between Spaces is coming to Telegraph Hill Centre on Saturday 5th August, brought to you by Dr Paula Gomes Alves (BSc Clinical Psychology, PhD Psychology & ProfDip Photography).

Saturday 5th August
Morning Workshop (10am-1pm)
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/therapeutic-photography-workshop-tickets-657154034407
Afternoon Workshop (2pm-5pm)
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/therapeutic-photography-workshop-tickets-657150243067

Email betweenspacesproject@hotmail.com for further info.

15/06/2023

“Photographs [can be] a projective method enabling the patient and therapist to more readily explore transferential feelings, pe*****te resistance, work through conflicts, and mobilize affect. The photographs are ambiguous and abstract but have a semblance of reality. They are unstructured, which by design permits interpretation. The patient can project upon the photograph his way of seeing life, his meanings, significances, patterns, relationships, and especially feelings” (Walker, 1982)

Full text available at https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/070674378202700603?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%20%200pubmed