EMERALD FOUNDATION
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Training in Painting Therapy
First Year
Module I
A preparationin light, colour and darkness
09.04 – 04.05.2018
This year consists of 2 fulltime modules each one lasting 4 weeks.This year is a preparation for the coming 8 therapeutic
modules for the following 4years.The foundation of this course is the book ‘Colour’ by Liane Collot d’ Herbois.
Week 1Introduction to how the creative activities of warmth/darkness and light bringsmovement, atmosphere,
09.04 – 13.04colour, form and substanceinto being. We shall practice this as we experience these phenomena
in ourdirect surroundings.
How are our senses connected with this process?The 12 – fold human being.
-Introductions by a teacher in painting therapy
-Observation and drawing, light and darkness work with charcoal and veil painting.
Practical lessons by a teacher in painting therapy
-Medicalwork with a doctor
Week 2We shall explorehow the forces of light and darkness create movement, space and atmosphere: the medium
16.04 – 20.04forthe world ofcolour.
How these phenomena influence the elements in the world around us andhow the forces of light and darkness
create and influence continuously the working of the 4 sheathes inthe human being.
-Introductions by a teacher in painting therapy
-Observation and drawing, light and darkness work with charcoal and veil painting.
Practical lessons by a teacher in painting therapy
-Medical work with a doctor
Week 3We shall explore how colour is an expression of visible movement, which is the creation of light and darkness
23.04 – 27.04andhow the seven organs in the human being are an expression of this creating of movement by lightand
darkness.The 7 – fold human being.
-Introductions by a teacher in painting therapy
-Light and darkness work with charcoal and veil painting.
Practical lessons by a teacher in painting therapy
-Medical work with a doctor
Week 4The impulses of light and darkness create both the forces of destruction and the forces of creative life giving.
30.04 – 04.05Out of this polarity rhythm arises.We shall observe these polarities in the world around us and bring them into relation with The 3 – fold human being.
-Introductions by a teacher in painting therapy
-Observation and drawing.
Practical lessons by a teacher in painting therapy
-Light and darkness work with charcoal and veil painting.
Practical lessons by a teacher in painting therapy
-Medicalwork with a doctor
N.B. All course weeks can also be followed separately.
Best wishes, Paul and Josine Hutchison
January 2018
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