This course is open to qualified Art Therapists and Art Therapy trainees only. This course will support your understanding of what you need to consider in order to set up and begin facilitating Art Therapy Groups with Primary aged Children.

Convenors: Amanda Dudley

An increasing body of evidence tells us that the quality of care-giving received in the early years has a significant impact on future personality development and emotional wellbeing.

Convenors: Mary Rose Brady

This course is open to all who wish to attend and provides a recent historical context of child protection with the aim of clarifying the duties & responsibilities of Art Therapists in safeguarding children as part of today’s C&YP work force. Whether working independently or as an employee of an organisation, this course will explore duties, responsibilities and reporting lines informed by the new updated “Working Together” 2017.

Convenors: Sarah Kendrick

This course is for qualified Art Therapists and Art Therapy Trainees only Evidence is mounting that patient education can both increase the effectiveness of psychological therapy interventions by strengthening the therapeutic alliance and be a valid brief intervention in its own right. Psychoeducational approaches which are overly academic or cognitively based can be less effective in situations where learning and attention can be compromised by emotional distress or developmental issues.

Convenors: Neil Springham

Aimed at practitioners who have completed our Level 1 in Safeguarding.

Convenors:

 Sarah Kendrick

This course is open to all who wish to attend. What is the impact of trauma, neglect, toxic stress & disrupted attachment on children, adolescents, and on their surrounding adults? What is the impact on the body, brain, emotions, behaviours, learning, and relationships? This course focuses on translating the latest evidence-base, neuroscience findings, and attachment, loss, stress, and trauma theories into day-to-day case work.

Convenors: Dr Karen Treisman

FULLY BOOKED - NEW COURSE COMING SOON - This course is open to all who wish to attend. What is the impact of trauma, neglect, toxic stress & disrupted attachment on children, adolescents, and on their surrounding adults? What is the impact on the body, brain, emotions, behaviours, learning, and relationships? This course focuses on translating the latest evidence-base, neuroscience findings, and attachment, loss, stress, and trauma theories into day-to-day case work.

Convenors: Karen Treisman

This course is intended for art therapists who are supervisors and for those who may be thinking about taking on this role. All levels of experience are welcome. Supervisory tasks may include clinical or managerial roles or both and supervisees may be experienced art therapists or students in training. The course will provide theoretical input by looking at different models of supervision.

Convenors: Dr Val Huet

This course is open to Qualified Professionals from any profession only. New evidence from neuroscience and attachment theory requires us to rethink some of our basic assumptions about how we might help people. But whilst the evidence offers us much potential for understanding therapeutic effectiveness, it is often complex and specialised.

Convenors: Neil Springham 

This course is open to all qualified professionals. Formulation of reasons for and goals of therapy enables co-production of an intervention plan tailored to the individual's needs. Despite formulation becoming a mainstream component of psychological therapy, many practitioners have received little training. As service users may not find verbal approaches the most accessible this course demonstrates the potential of an art therapy approach to formulation with children and adults.

Convenors: Neil Springham & Alex McDonald

This course is intended for art therapists who are supervisors and for those who may be thinking about taking on this role. All levels of experience are welcome. Supervisory tasks may include clinical or managerial roles or both and supervisees may be experienced art therapists or students in training. The course will provide theoretical input by looking at different models of supervision.

Convenors: Dr Val Huet

This course is for qualified Art Therapists or other qualified creative therapists only. Dyadic Parent-Child Art Psychotherapy is a way of working which focuses directly on the child’s primary attachment relationship. The therapist does not become the child’s therapist or the caregiver’s therapist but the relationship’s therapist. The aim of this two day course is practical: to give art therapists what they need to feel confident and competent to work in this way. It will provide a rationale, ba

Convenors: Anthea Hendry & Katie Wilson

The course will look at Eating Disorders (mainly Anorexia) from different perspectives. It will consider physical health issues, common complex dynamics of splits in families, the possible paralysis of thinking in teams and organisations, and the role of individual therapists within this.

Convenors: Cliff Free

This course will introduce art therapists to some basic concepts on how to understand organisations and commonly found dynamics within teams.

Convenors: Val Huet

This course is open to all qualified professionals who want to explore working in community settings, social engagement and humanitarian support both within the UK and internationally. A continuum of practice will be explored, alongside issues of intent, formulation and ethics. The course tutors will draw upon their extensive and wide-ranging experience and theoretical knowledge, while project tasks between the two sessions will be integral.

Convenors: Bobby Lloyd & Miriam Usiskin

This course is open to all who wish to attend. What is the impact of trauma, neglect, toxic stress and disrupted attachment on children, adolescents, and on their surrounding adults? What is the impact on the body, brain, emotions, behaviours, learning, and relationships? This course focuses on translating the latest evidence-base, neuroscience findings, attachment, loss, stress, and trauma theories into day-to-day case work.

Convenors: Karen Treisman

This course will support your understanding of what you need to consider in order to set up and begin facilitating Art Therapy Groups with Primary aged Children.

Convenors: Amanda Dudley

This course gives an overview of the multi-faceted needs and unique challenges of unaccompanied asylum-seeking, trafficked, and refugee young people from a psychological perspective. The presenter has extensive experience of working with unaccompanied young people in the UK, refugee camps in Europe and in Africa. This day provides practitioners with a deeper understanding of both theory and practice.

Convenors:

Dr Karen Treisman