Art Therapy for Therapists, Counsellors and Mental Health Workers; An Experiential Workshop
19, 26 August and 2, 9 September 2024, 7:00pm - 9:00pm AEST
Art therapy can be a valuable tool for therapists and counsellors for helping their clients individually or in groups.
Learning outcomes:
• Understand and how to work with creative materials in an embodied and sensory way with emphasis on presence and the process of art making.
• How to work in a relationally with creative media.
• Experience how art provides a way for individuals to express themselves in a nonverbal way, communicating feeling and experiences.
• Understand and experience how art can heighten awareness, meaning making and consolidate the work of the therapy.
What to expect:
In this series of workshops Helen will give a brief introduction to art therapy and how she works. As Helen’s way of working is experiential and interactive, over the 4 week’s course Helen will guide participants to ‘do’ art and invite participants to share their experiences in small groups as well as the larger group. There will be plenty of opportunity to ask questions and how to enhance their own therapy practice with art.
Participants will be given a list of materials they will need to participate in this workshop.
Included in this workshop will be articles and resources to inspire and help consolidate your learning.
Presenter:
Helen McWilliam MGTherapy; BScoSci., AssocD AdEd. is a Gestalt psychotherapist practising in Brisbane.
After working as an artist and teaching adults art for many years, she completed her studies in Social Science, majoring in counselling and human relationships. Feeing there was a piece missing from her studies she then went on to study Gestalt Therapy. Helen’s love of art and having art materials in her workplace has inspired her therapy practice with children and adults in groups and individual counselling. Helen’s professional development includes Hakomi, Couples therapy, Working with Children, Indigenous studies and online counselling.
This course counts towards 8 hours of category A CPD.
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