Pure Potential Scotland

Empowering Change, Transforming Wellbeing✨
Movement Medicine w/ Carolyn
JULY EVENTS - Sunday 13th: Immersive Dance 2:30-5pm ⬇️🔗
https://www.purepotentialscotland.co.uk/what-is-movement-medicine Our work is individually tailored and responsive to the individuals’ wellbeing needs, supporting the transformation of negative and outdated emotional, mental and behavioural patterns. Through this speciali

sed support, individuals gain the means to integrate the body, heart and mind, restoring them to their internal resources and enabling them to be all of who they truly are, reconnecting to others and the world around them. Pure Potential Scotland are the Wellbeing Specialists for Scottish Youth Theatre and Sanctuary Queer Arts. PPS provide workshops on mental health, wellbeing and resilience as well as 1-2-1 Therapy. All of PPS’s work is trauma informed and all contracted Therapists are registered members of BACP or UKCP and part of the PVG scheme. Carolyn Wood is the Director and Lead Therapist of Pure Potential Scotland which creatively facilitates positive change within individuals, communities and services. A fully qualified Counselling Therapist with additional Trauma training, a Trainer, Consultant, Supervisor and Coach with heart & integrity. She is an ASIST Trainer (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training) and safeTALK trainer. With a focus in using crisis as a guide, suicidality, self harm, sexual identity, LGBTQIA+, and childhood separation through growing up in state care or private boarding school. Carolyn has worked on the frontline of mental health and addiction services for 20 years, working with people who have experienced multiple traumas and people in crisis. She co-developed a holistic crisis intervention service for Royston Stress Centre in 2004 in North East Glasgow for people at risk of suicide and/or self-harm. Carolyn continues to be actively involved in exploring and bridging the gaps in current service provision. Carolyn is a Specialist Consultant for GAMHs' Compassionate Distress Response Service. She is the Clinical Supervisor for CDRS and for GAMH’s Young People Services. Carolyn is a Movement Medicine Apprentice Teacher & Facilitator as well as having training in Physical Theatre Practice. She is passionate about movement, creative expression and storytelling. She supports people to reconnect to their bodies and supporting the aligning of body, heart, mind and ultimately the reconnection to themselves.

* Therapeutic Integrative Counselling
Uniquely integrates various forms of therapy such as Gestalt, Person-centred, CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) and Solution Focused Therapy. If you feel stuck, this helps you to learn how to manage particular issues better and deal with the underlying cause to support long term change.

* Movement Medicine
Movement Medicine is a creative, self expressive, embodied meditation practice which connects your body, heart, mind and spirit. Movement Medicine helps us to reconnect and start to listen to our body and heart again, we do this through engaging the body in movement, to bring our awareness back inside our bodies and trust the movement that comes. Through this process of embodiment we can engage all of our power through the integrated intelligence of the body, heart, and mind. Movement Medicine is a process of learning to trust yourself and your body again, to trust that there is a dancer, a mover, a creator inside you that knows what to do, to express how you feel, make sense of your experiences, to express the true essence of who you are. Movement Medicine supports you to embody all of who you are and encourages you to be all you can be. This is a journey of active acceptance of those ‘hidden’ parts of ourselves, to acknowledge and embrace the gifts that are inside, and bring these gifts into the world, and at the same time this practice teaches us to not take ourselves so seriously.

* Empowerment Coaching
Empowerment Coaching is a strength building, energising and intuitive form of coaching that enables you to fully step into who you truly are. With Empowerment Coaching you will:

* Build your connection with your true self.

* Be able to identify and acknowledge your choices.

* Line up with your desires and dreams.

* Realise your personal power.

* Feel empowered to step into the life you want..

* ASIST
Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) is for everyone 16 or older—regardless of prior experience—who wants to be able to provide suicide first aid. Shown by major studies to significantly reduce suicidality, the ASIST model teaches effective intervention skills while helping to build suicide prevention networks in the community.

*safeTALK
safeTALK is a half-day alertness training that prepares anyone over the age of 15, regardless of prior experience or training, to become a suicide-alert helper. Most people with thoughts of suicide don’t truly want to die, but are struggling with the pain in their lives. Through their words and actions, they invite help to stay alive. safeTALK-trained helpers can recognize these invitations and take action by connecting them with life-saving intervention resources, such as caregivers trained in ASIST.

* Bespoke Training/Workshops
I can create and facilitate a tailored workshop to meet your service or networks' needs, please contact me directly to discuss your requirements.

* Research & Consultancy - With my expertise and knowledge in suicide prevention and intervention I understand the importance of joined up working between all support structures whether they are formal or informal. I can facilitate the development of new ventures or harness the potential of existing structures and support their growth to success. Creative Therapy with Carolyn Wood ~ Client testimony:
"I found Carolyn's creative approach to therapy very effective. I have worked with many therapists and facilitators over the years and found Carolyn's creative, active way of working gentle yet profound. I often refer back to the session we had and have found myself continue making connections to personal blocks I encountered in the process. I am still unravelling solutions from the experience I had working with Carolyn. I think the fact Carolyn involves her client pro actively in the process makes it much more memorable and useful to refer back to in the future."