
Foster personal growth and self-reflection through thought experiments in art therapy by examining experiences, beliefs, and values, and enhance communication through artwork discussion.
Learn to maximize your time by taking notes, creating mind maps, and actively participating in course discussions; set practical goals, practice techniques, and reflect with a journal to reinforce learning.
Explore a thought experiment in art therapy that examines how diverse backgrounds shape interpretation, and how an art therapist facilitates empathetic group discussion, reflection, and expressive sharing.
Explore how cartoons enable self-expression, communication, and emotional exploration in a group art therapy thought experiment, guiding participants through cartoon-strip creation to share emotions with humor and symbolism.
Create affirmation art using color, paper, canvas, and markers to express positive statements like 'I am capable,' boosting self-esteem through creative, mindful self-talk, visible daily, including individuals with dyslexia.
Explore how nature supports autism through sensory stimulation, stress reduction, improved focus, physical activity, social interaction, mood benefits, and therapies such as animal assisted therapy.
Explore the strength tree art therapy exercise, mapping roots to family, trunk to self, branches to strengths and achievements, and leaves to dreams, with discussion and decoration to boost self-esteem.
Explore emotional weather as an art therapy exercise: draw a weather scene on large paper using color to express feelings, then discuss the artwork to boost emotional awareness and communication.
Explore combining massage therapy with art therapy into a holistic treatment that starts with massage to relax the body, guided by a licensed professional through emotional and creative exploration.
Combine non-invasive bone therapy's light, three-phase moves with art therapy to address physical tension and emotional expression, creating a holistic approach to healing.
Explore healing journey mapping through a bowing therapy session with gentle movements, then create a visual journey map using symbols, paths, and barriers in self-exploration art therapy.
Explore how mental health shapes weight management, including stress, emotional eating, sleep, and gut health. Learn a comprehensive approach to weight control within art therapy.
Are you an Art Therapist? Perhaps training to be one? Perhaps you've done one - or a number - of courses in Art Therapy and wonder what it would be like to practice as a qualified Art Therapist? Perhaps you are wondering what to do in certain situations...of certain problems came up. How would you devise art therapy exercises to deal with various situations? How would you reflect - how would your client reflect? What materials would be required? What would the instructions be?
Maybe you are thinking of running a course - a week-end, a day, a retreat - in 'therapeutic art' or even 'art used in therapy'. You want some situations for discussion; some exercises that may lead to a solution.
Perhaps you're just interested in 'art therapy and how it is used' as a whole.
If any - or all - of the above apply to you then this is the course for you!
The course goes through a series of 'Art Therapy Thought Experiments' - full details of the art therapy exercises are given. The aim is to encourage discussion - maybe with others or simply reflection within yourself. Yes, share if you wish but the main thing is to reflect.
There are specific art therapy exercises:
Neurographics
Collage
for example.
But the whole idea is to get you to THINK. What WOULD you do, suggest, carry out in such-and-such a situation. How would you deal with the questions posed?
This is very much a Do-it-yourself course as, when/if it comes down to it the exercises you do or suggest to others will be ones that you have thought about carefully (as an untrained art therapist can cause harm!) . Maybe you will have just made notes - I hope not as Art Therapy is about DOING and then reflecting.
Remember the mantra:
Thoughts before the process
Thoughts during the process
Thoughts after the process
Thoughts some time later (reflection)
The course is short enough to do in a day - but it is long enough to take several weeks. It is up to you but the suggestion - of course - is to go slowly and carefully and consider, reflect, reflect, reflect.
You are encouraged to explore these Thought Experiments. They ask a lot of questions and by doing the exercises you just may come up with some answers.
New Section: Art Therapy and Dyslexia
Here we look at specific art therapy exercises for people who are dyslexic. A course manual is included.
New Section: Art Therapy and Autism
Here we look at how art therapy can be of use to people who have autism.
New Section: Art Therapy and Massage Therapy and Bowen Therapy
New Section: Art Therapy, Mental Health and Weight Loss