Art Therapy Training Program for Professionals:
The following courses are facilited by Cornelia Elbrecht and are held in different locations within Australia:
Certificate in Initiatic Art Therapy for 2012
The training program is designed for professionals who wish to integrate art therapy skills into their work. The Initiatic Art Therapy Training Program comprises a series of eight weekends for a limited number of interested professionals and students over the period of two years. The aim of the course is to enable its participants to integrate art therapy approaches into the existing framework of their current practice, be it as counsellor, social worker, teacher, nurse, artist or psychologist.
The focus will be on the experience of ongoing group work with art therapy in an environment suitable for personal development. At the same time the approaches and techniques will be made transparent in order to make it possible to acquire profound techniques of working with visual arts in a therapeutic way.
The aim of the course is not so much to teach one particular approach like Initiatic Art Therapy, but to understand it as a visual principle, an open concept that can be translated into a wide range of different contexts. While a lot of the focus of the training program will be on Initiatic Art Therapy, other art therapy approaches will also be taken into account. The aim is to teach a variety of different tools suitable for a variety of different client groups and inner needs.
The total of 144 group hours will include experiential workshops, seminars, co-counselling and supervision.
ANZATA, The Australian and New Zealand Art Therapy Association, recognises the training as a foundation course
Apollo Bay, Victoria 2011:
- Module 1: April 13th - 15th, 2012
- Module 2: July 13th - 15th, 2012
- Module 3: September 21st - 23rd, 2012
- Module 4: November 30th - December 2nd, 2012
Maleny, QLD 2012
- Module 1: June 29th - July 1st, 2012
- Module 2: October 19th - 21st, 2012
Currently training groups are running in Apollo Bay VIC, Canberra ACT & Maleny QLD. A new training will commence in Canberra in 2013.
There is a greater range of new workshops & training courses running at Claerwen Retreat in 2012. These include courses in Life Alignment, Art therapy and Feldenkrais, Art Therapy with Children and more. For further information and to view the full 2012 wirkshop program please visit the 2012 Workshops page.
Certificate in Clay Field Therapy for 2012
The Clay Field is a flat wooden box that holds 10 -15 kg of clay. A bowl of water is supplied. This simple setting offers a symbolic "world" for the hands to explore. In their ability or inability to "handle" the material they tell the client's life story. The hands then can be encouraged to find ways to deal with situations and events, to complete actions that previously could not be coped with.
This unique art therapy approach is part of the curriculum in schools for disabled and disadvantaged children in Europe; it is widely used in women's shelters and to facilitate trauma healing.
In order to complete the certificate all three weekends have to be attended.
Apollo Bay, Victoria 2012:
- Module 1: July 6th - 8th, 2012
- Module 2: September 7th - 9th, 2012
- Module 3: December 7th - 9th, 2012
Fee: $350 per weekend without accommodation.
Advanced Art Therapy Training for 2012
For all those who have completed the Certificate in Initiatic Art Therapy or bring advanced knowledge in art therapy and mental health.
Guided Drawing
This is an advanced course in Guided Drawing, especially for all those who already work with this technique. The aim of the weekend is to expand and refine the possibilities this amazingly powerful and effective tool offers. This is also a good opportunity for supervision.
Apollo Bay, Victoria 2012:
- August 17th - 19th, 2012
Art Therapy Approaches to Trauma Healing
While long term trauma and stress affect individuals psychologically, the cause of trauma is always something that has happened to our body; it thus needs to be addressed from the therapeutic perspective as a physiological event. Art Therapy can do this in a number of very effective, non-verbal ways; if necessary even without engaging in the story of “what happened”, without stimulating the terror of memory.
Art therapy, especially sensorimotor aspects of art therapy are most suitable to undo the “freeze” response by acting out the “fight-flight” impulse. This way the dissociated parts can be recalled.
The workshop will introduce Guided Drawing exercises that can support the discharge of the trauma response held in the body – and how such a response can be safely facilitated through offering “pendulation”.
The weekend will focus on:
- What is trauma
- Different trauma client groups
- Neurological aspects
- Poor attachment and trauma
- Mirror neurons
- Understanding trauma from the physiological perspective
- Art therapy exercises to build resources
- Art Therapy drawing exercises that facilitate Pendulation and Discharge
Canberra, ACT 2012:
- July 27th - 29th, 2012
Apollo Bay, Victoria 2012:
- August 3rd - 5th, 2012
Launceston, Tasmania 2012:
- August 17th - 19th, 2012
For more information please contact Cornelia.