Integrating Creative Arts into your Therapy Practice
Working with art can be an incredibly powerful and transformational approach
Being creative is good for us. Engaging with creative arts has been shown to help reduce stress, anxiety and depression. It can help to process feelings and can promote psychological integration and a deeper authentic connection to ourselves. Traumatic experiences are often stored non-verbally as fragmented sensory, emotional, and visual elements, and using creative arts in therapy can help to process and integrate these experiences, even on a non-verbal level.
Working with art can be an incredibly powerful and transformational approach and understanding how to integrate creative methods safely is key to good practice in counselling and psychotherapy.
In this workshop we will explore a person-centred approach to the therapeutic use of creative arts. We will explore what skills are needed, what types of materials to introduce, and how to integrate creative arts into your practice with any modality. I will share case study material to illustrate person-centred art therapy approach in practice, highlight the relevance of non-directivity and share some ideas and exercises you can safely use at any stage and level of experience.
This is an experiential workshop led by Ani de la Prida, with a simple creative exercise for participants to engage in.
Art skills are not necessary, but if possible, please bring a selection of simple art materials, paper, pens, pencils, or alternatively you can use a digital art app.
This workshop will be recorded and you can use the ticket function to pre-purchase the recording before the event. This will be useful for colleagues who are not able to attend the event live and also for those who attend the event live and want to watch it again.
This workshop will be hosted on the Zoom meeting platform where we will use our camera and microphones to interact with each other as a group.
To support practitioners in this time of extraordinary circumstances we are offering access to this group for a self-select fee.
The self-select fee is a radical inclusion policy to open learning for all colleagues. The guide price for this event is £20.00, however, we appreciate that income varies greatly in different locations and circumstances. Please contribute what you can to help us maintain inclusive professional training.
All the colleagues at ONLINEVENTS and the presenters we collaborate with are committed to working in a manner consistent with the BACP Ethical Framework, which can be accessed on the link below. When registering for this event you are agreeing to be present and interact in a manner that is consistent with this Framework.