PRIVATE PRACTITIONERS MENTORING PROGRAMME
Wednesday Evenings (monthly)
This is a structured small professional group for qualified art therapists based around key themes experienced when starting up in private practice. The course focuses on the protocols and issues of registration, referrals, assessment, accountability, financial, legal, PR, networking & supervision.
Facilitators: Hephzibah Kaplan RATh and Gary Nash RATh
Fees: £380 for eight 2-hour workshops |
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ART FOR THE HEART WORKSHOPS
Ongoing slow-open art therapy group
Monday evenings 7 – 9pm from Jan 16th 2012.
These creative workshops are run as a slow-open group and are open to the general public. They have been running since 1999 and are aimed at people interested in an art therapy approach to the creative process. They are often attended by art therapy trainees who would like more experience of group work.
Facilitators: Hephzibah Kaplan RATh
Fees: 1-3 sessions: £35 per session, 4-6 sessions: £30 per session, 7-10 sessions: £ 25 per session. |
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EXPLORE YOUR WELLBEING THROUGH YOGA AND ART THERAPY
Saturday 3rd March 2012 10.00am-4.00pm
This practical workshop will embrace an awareness of the connection between yoga, art therapy and wellbeing. If you are an art therapy practitioner primarily you will be gently led to experience the benefits of yoga to be self-aware and to feel inner balance. If you are a yoga practitioner primarily, you will be gently led to experience the benefits of art therapy to connect creatively with your inner feelings and thoughts.
The workshop is for Yoga practitioners, Art Therapists and Artists.
Facilitators: Maria Galvez Patino RATh and Rhian Davies RATh
Fee: £90 full employed; £75 underemployed; £55 Students |
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ENVIRONMENTAL ARTS THERAPY WORKSHOP
Saturday 26th March 2012 10.00am-4.00pm.
This practical workshop will provide an experiential encounter with environmental arts therapy, a practical ecopsychology that uses locations, themes, cycles and materials of Nature as its therapeutic media.
Ian will lead the day beginning with the inspiration that nature evokes in us in the studio setting - workshop and narrative will develop as we are then taken to nearby parkland to connect with the awakening spring season.
The workshop is informed by Ian’s practice in Devon and over twenty years of experience and will refer to the innovative book ‘Environmental Arts Therapy and the Tree of Life’
Facilitators: Ian Siddons Heginworth RDTh
Fees: £90 full employed; £75 underemployed; £55 students. |
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AN INTRODUCTION TO JUNGIAN SANDPLAY
Saturday 28th & Sunday 29th April 2012 : 10.00-4.00pm
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 approach.
Facilitators: Molly Wolfe RATh
Fee: £160 full employed; £120 underemployed/students |
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CHILDREN IN ART THERAPY & THE WRAP-AROUND TEAM
Saturday 12th May 2012 10am-4.00pm
This informative day will explore the complexities of working with the statutory services, and what to do if a child is at risk. We shall look at current legislation, the dynamics of working with different agencies as well as having some respite with creative reflection and art-making.
The workshop is for all therapists who work with children including SENCOs and teachers.
Facilitators: Hephzibah Kaplan RATh, B.Ed(Hons) and Barbara Taylor RATh, CQSW
Fee: £90 full employed; £75 underemployed; £55 students
BOOK LAUNCH
Feminist Art Therapy (Revisited)
Sat May 26th 2012 : 4.30pm - 7.30pm
This is an Open Event at the centre for the launch of the re-issue of the art therapy book by Dr Susan Hogan (ed). |
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SIGN, SYMBOL & SYMBOL FORMATION IN ART THERAPY
Saturday 30th June 2012: 10am – 4pm
During this arts & theory based workshop we will consider the visual and imaginative processes that generate signs, symbols, metaphor and motif for ourselves as art therapists and for the clients we work with. We will look at the theoretical context with reference to Peirce’s ideas of signs and their significance; Freud’s ‘Interpretation of Dreams’ and Jung’s ‘Man and his Symbols’ as we examine how visual and symbolic narratives have been considered in the art therapy literature.
Facilitators: James D. West RATh and Gary Nash RATh
Fee: £90 full employed; £75 underemployed; £55 students |
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PRIVATE & INDEPENDENT PRACTICE IN ART THERAPY
Saturday 8th September 2012: 10am – 4pm
This training day is designed for art therapists who are planning to move into private practice, developing sessional contracts or working independently. As well as looking at the Private Practice registration process we will also look at positioning one’s practice in order to access funding or negotiate contracts with Health or Education services.
The day will help you reflect on the resources you may have to draw on to develop your profile as an independent art therapist practitioner.
Facilitators: Hephzibah Kaplan RATh, B.Ed(Hons) and Gary Nash RATh
Fee: £90 full employed; £75 underemployed; £55 students |
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AN INTRODUCTION TO JUNGIAN SANDPLAY
Saturday 15th & Sunday 16th September 2012: 10.00-4.00pm
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 approach.
Facilitators: Molly Wolfe RATh
Fee: £160 full employed; £120 underemployed/students |
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WORKING WITH ADDICTIONS IN ART THERAPY
Saturday 6th October 2012: 10.00am-4.00pm
We will use the day to draw together the theoretical strands and reflect on clinical practice through case examples from the field. We will develop an understanding of the psychological models which have been developed in working with addictions and how art therapy has integrated these to form a compelling arts-based approach.
Facilitators: James D. West RATh and Gary Nash RATh
Fee: £90 full employed; £75 underemployed; £55 students |
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WORKING WITH GRIEF, LOSS AND ATTACHMENT
Saturday 3rd November 2012: 10am – 4pm
The experience of death and personal loss is a fundamental human experience, how we face death in our own lives informs our outlook both personally and professionally. This workshop will sensitively examine how theory and personal experience provide a framework for supporting others in our clinical practice.
Facilitators: James D. West RATh and Gary Nash RATh
Fee: £90 full employed; £75 underemployed; £55 students |
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Information & Booking
trainings@arttherapycentre.com
www.arttherapycentre.com |
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