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…
Professor Susan Hogan RATh and her colleagues at the University of Derby have been conducting arts-based research into the multiple and varying experiences of birth. Births can be invigorating as well as challenging for all involved. Each birth can impact…
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…
by Auriel Sarah Eagelton Auriel Sarah Eagleton looks at what neuroscience has to say about the benefits of art therapy When asked about his experience of art therapy, a young boy with dyslexia replied, “I feel proud”, while gesturing to…
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…
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…
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…
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…
by Colleen Steiner Westling On August 16th Louise Fitzpatrick and I, both art therapists at London Art Therapy Centre, had the pleasure of facilitating an art therapy workshop for a group of children living with food allergies. The workshop had…
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…
