Meet the team

Philip Wroe

Philip is the Senior Arts Development Officer within Sefton Council's Leisure Services Department and also has responsibility for the general management of the Creative Alternatives programme. Operating within the Arts Development Office, he is involved in exhibitions and events programming, public art initiatives, arts-in-education projects, community workshop programmes and the promotion of Arts Development operations throughout Sefton. Philip is a practising artist with a national and international exhibition profile whose work is represented in many public and private collections.

Telephone 0151 525 0417.

Elizabeth Lovell

Elizabeth is the project’s Referral Officer.  She is also a qualified counsellor and member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Although Elizabeth is not in a counselling role in her work with Creative Alternatives she brings all of these expertise to her work with the project and fosters a person centred approach to relieving mental distress. She has an interest in Art Therapy and the therapeutic benefits of social prescribing. In the past Elizabeth has worked with Sefton Council for Voluntary Service supporting young people with mental health problems and/or disabilities to access voluntary work. Elizabeth has written and delivered training programmes on mental health awareness which break down the stigma of mental health problems and encourage people to consider mental health from a positive angle.

	Telephone 07792 000 369.
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Jessica Bockler

Jessica is the project’s Arts Officer. She is an experienced community theatre practitioner, performer and project manager with expertise in Consciousness Studies and Transpersonal Psychology, the psychology of human potential. Her creative works are nurtured by ancient and modern sources of self-exploration, from martial arts and meditation practices, to expressive movement, to the work of Polish theatre director Jerzy Grotowski. Jessica is currently pursuing a PhD with Liverpool John Moores University, exploring ‘Applied Theatre as a Transformative Practice.’

	Telephone 07967 049 076.
	Website http://www.jessicabockler.co.uk/.
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All of our workshops are delivered by artists who we commission on a freelance basis. All of the artists have experience of working in community and health settings and each brings to the project a particular expertise, e.g. drawing, dance, sculpture, or photography.