wolf + water arts company

Victim empathy work is notoriously difficult to undertake. Often, at worst, offenders go through the motions of the victim empathy process. Sometimes at best, as the offender begins to empathise so automatic defensive responses to feeling bad, ashamed & the sense of being “persecuted” often kick straight back in. This course works with staff on how using a variety of creative techniques to explore effective victim empathy work that treads the tricky course of keeping offenders realistically involved & engaged in what is a difficult if not alien emotional process for them.

Course covers issues such as:

1. Introducing & understanding the concept of empathy
2. Dealing with avoidance, denial & minimilisation
3. Theatre & drama as an empathetic process
4. Using pictures & props
5. The process of apology & reparation