The first 6-month Supervision Training and Professional Development course for Arts Therapists including Art Psychotherapists, Integrative Arts Therapists, Drama, Music, Movement & Dance Therapists.
Arts therapists may be required to supervise trainees and the newly qualified based on their own experiences without having attended a specific or extended […]
The aim of this workshop is to develop understanding of the nature of psychosis and of specific potentials in the art therapy setting for engaging and working with psychotic states of mind. There will be a talk, a clinical seminar in which participants can discuss […]
Course description:
This one year course is being offered to final year and qualified arts therapists (art, drama, music, dance/movement or integrated) who wish to specialise and practice as Environmental Arts Therapists or who simply wish to enhance and extend their existing practice by working outdoors. You may also […]
Art therapists have been working outdoors in nature, working therapeutically and with environmental issues for several years (Siddons Heginworth, 2008; Rust 2011; Jones, 2012). This workshop takes us deeper into our personal relationship with and within nature.
Based on the work of Mary Jayne Rust we will spend the […]
The Private Practice Mentoring Programme is designed for arts therapists who are planning to develop private practice alongside their current work schedules. The course is suitable for those considering a move into private practice as it develops and sharpens the skills and clinical focus required when working privately. This […]
The 2-day training offers an overview of Sandplay Therapy to date, an introduction to the use of the sand tray as container and the recommended range of figurines/ symbols. The weekend is built around participant use of the Sandtray to actively experience the theoretical concepts underpinning this […]
A creative and explorative workshop integrating therapeutic art making with guided mindfulness practices.
The session includes: art making as a mindful activity, guided mindfulness practices, mindfulness of the body, compassion-focused practices and group reflection.
During the session there will be opportunity for self-expression, exploring care for oneself and others, investigating […]
Mary Lynne Ellis’ book Time in Practice; Analytical Perspectives on the Times of our Lives (Karnac 2008) is an original exploration of the importance in the analytical relationship of an attentiveness to lived, conscious and unconscious experiences of time. In this workshop participants will use artwork to explore […]
The Three Symbol Series workshops follow on from the Introduction to Jungian Sandplay Therapy weekends. This initial series of three has been created with the intention to explore and expand our understanding of the deeper symbolic nature of this modality, which has been described as ‘before […]
Art therapists have been working outdoors in nature, working therapeutically and with environmental issues for several years (Siddons Heginworth, 2008; Rust 2011; Jones, 2012).
This workshop will introduce the ideas and practice of working therapeutically in nature. It will consist of experiential exercises and reflective time to deepen knowledge […]