Event run by
Spiral Creative Arts Therapies
24 Oct 2025
Mind The Gap Symposium
9744
Join Spiral Creative Arts Therapies for a Symposium exploring non-statutory mental health services for children & adolescents, with a panel, group discussions and a practical workshop. Lunch is provided.
This Symposium is for anyone who works with or supports children and adolescents – therapists, psychologists, counsellors, educators, social workers, third sector workers/volunteers and policy makers.
Symposium Panel
Minding The Gap: Collective Action and Partnership in Practice
The panel will discuss dramatherapy, art therapy and music therapy services that have been set up in theatres, youth theatres, youth clubs and schools. They will consider the current landscape of non-statutory mental health services for children and adolescents in Scotland and how also how they sit in relation to CAMHS.
Chair: Annie Baikie, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist for Barnardos Adoption and Fostering Services. Tutor/ seminar leader/supervisor for Human Development Scotland. Private Supervisor for creative arts therapists/school counsellors. Previously worked for 25 years in CAMHS in Grampian and London.
Panellists include:
Genevieve Smyth, Dramatherapist, freelanced during Northern Ireland's war, created Scotland's Dundee Rep Service and Place2Be mental health service hub in education, treated adolescent and older NHS patients and worked internationally.
Lynne Conway is a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist and Dramatherapist, and has worked with children and young people, their families and carers for over 40 years. Lynne has a special interest in supporting creative therapies across Scotland.
Sarah Bradley is a Dramatherapist, formerly at Dundee Rep. Sarah has set up therapy services with youth theatres and youth clubs. She now runs a school-based service in Glasgow, supporting young people through creativity, emotional expression, and embodied storytelling.
Mags Coyle, retired primary school headteacher. Worked for 30 years in Glasgow schools as class teacher, EAL and headteacher. Throughout her career Mags developed nurturing strategies to meet the needs of all pupils. Latterly she established supportive agencies working withn her school including Spiral.
Laura Corrigan is a music therapist who has worked with children and young people within schools and a range of settings for the past ten years. Her work has focused on supporting clients with a range of additional support needs.
What will happen on the day?
9.45am –10am: Registration
10am –10.15am: Welcome
10.15am – 11.15am: Panel & questions
11.15am – 11.30am: Tea break
11.30am – 12.15pm: Discussion Groups
12.15pm – 12.45pm: Feedback
12.45pm – 1pm: Summary
1pm - 2pm: Lunch catering by yogakitchen.co.uk
2pm - 4.30pm: Practical Workshop - Facilitated by Liz Young (Art Therapist) & Sarah Bradley (Dramatherapist)
4.30pm – 5 pm: Reflections on the day
This Symposium is for anyone who works with or supports children and adolescents – therapists, psychologists, counsellors, educators, social workers, third sector workers/volunteers and policy makers.
Symposium Panel
Minding The Gap: Collective Action and Partnership in Practice
The panel will discuss dramatherapy, art therapy and music therapy services that have been set up in theatres, youth theatres, youth clubs and schools. They will consider the current landscape of non-statutory mental health services for children and adolescents in Scotland and how also how they sit in relation to CAMHS.
Chair: Annie Baikie, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist for Barnardos Adoption and Fostering Services. Tutor/ seminar leader/supervisor for Human Development Scotland. Private Supervisor for creative arts therapists/school counsellors. Previously worked for 25 years in CAMHS in Grampian and London.
Panellists include:
Genevieve Smyth, Dramatherapist, freelanced during Northern Ireland's war, created Scotland's Dundee Rep Service and Place2Be mental health service hub in education, treated adolescent and older NHS patients and worked internationally.
Lynne Conway is a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist and Dramatherapist, and has worked with children and young people, their families and carers for over 40 years. Lynne has a special interest in supporting creative therapies across Scotland.
Sarah Bradley is a Dramatherapist, formerly at Dundee Rep. Sarah has set up therapy services with youth theatres and youth clubs. She now runs a school-based service in Glasgow, supporting young people through creativity, emotional expression, and embodied storytelling.
Mags Coyle, retired primary school headteacher. Worked for 30 years in Glasgow schools as class teacher, EAL and headteacher. Throughout her career Mags developed nurturing strategies to meet the needs of all pupils. Latterly she established supportive agencies working withn her school including Spiral.
Laura Corrigan is a music therapist who has worked with children and young people within schools and a range of settings for the past ten years. Her work has focused on supporting clients with a range of additional support needs.
What will happen on the day?
9.45am –10am: Registration
10am –10.15am: Welcome
10.15am – 11.15am: Panel & questions
11.15am – 11.30am: Tea break
11.30am – 12.15pm: Discussion Groups
12.15pm – 12.45pm: Feedback
12.45pm – 1pm: Summary
1pm - 2pm: Lunch catering by yogakitchen.co.uk
2pm - 4.30pm: Practical Workshop - Facilitated by Liz Young (Art Therapist) & Sarah Bradley (Dramatherapist)
4.30pm – 5 pm: Reflections on the day
Event Location
1st Floor, 51 Cadogan Street, Glasgow G2 7HFSupporting
Summary
Total Raised
£560.00