Past Events

Below is a list of past events that the BC School of Art Therapy hosted or co-hosted.

Workshop:
Jungian Focus to Collage

In this educational and experiential workshop, you will explore the actions inherent in magazine photo collage and their therapeutic potential.

Workshop:
Studio - Special Topics: The Creative Link

Participants are guided through the experiential process of art therapy intervention with a focus on neurobiology and body experiences, such as Mind-Body Intervention and Body Mapping.

Workshop:
Assessments and Evaluations

This course is designed to introduce students to art therapy assessments, projective techniques and assessing attachment and trauma.

Professional Lecture Series:

Different Approaches to Healing Trauma

5 Oct., Sandra Wieland, Ph.D - The Effects of Trauma on Brain Development

19 Oct., Lucille Proulx, M.A., ATR, CRAT - Changing the Cycle of Evil - Childhood Trauma in Thailand

2 Nov., Corrinne Allyson, Ph.D, RPC - Finding Meaning in Trauma

16 Nov., Margaret Jones Callahan, M.A. - Mindfulness and Trauma recovery

30 Nov., Ara Parker, M.A., BCATR - Expressive Art Therapy and Trauma

Fund raiser:
Halloween Paint-In and Auction

Workshop:
Self-Discovery Through Eco Art Therapy

This workshop presents a unique experience in art making. We explore the natural metaphors of light, shadow and make use of natural plant materials.

Workshop:
Advanced Counselling Skills for Art Therapists

This course is designed to develop counseling skills and to refine the ability to listen and communicate with clients in a therapeutic setting. Basic communications skills, such as attending, active listening, observing, communicating and empathetic listening will be reviewed.

Workshop:
Creating Hope: Intercultural Practice in First Nations Communities

This course explores hope, intercultural practice and is a skill-based, developmental look at deepening ourselves and honoring the families we are of service to. It will encourage the learner to engage an active stance rather than a passive stance through experiential learning and group dialogue with safe risks. Key Themes: Hope, reflective practice, First Nations, art therapy, community art studios, community healing, capacity building, and cultural-relational competency.

Workshop:
Ritual Mandala

Mandala is a Sanskrit word which means circle and usually refers to a mystic or sacred circle. In Art Therapy, Mandalas are used regularly to centre, illuminate and integrate psychic contents. Within the protective circle we have a safe place in which to face all of who we are, thus healing and transforming ourselves.

Workshop:
Self Growth Through Theatre

An evening workshop focusing on comedy and theatrical skills for use in self-reflection.

Workshop:
Art Therapy with Infants

This workshop will explore theories of relationship and attachment as well as disorders of infancy and childhood. The role of the art as partner in infant therapy will be examined. The importance of the tactile experience will be demonstrated through art making, role-playing, and video presentation.

Participants will explore how to become familiar with an infant mental health approach to therapy with infants and preschool children. The workshop will review the basic premise underlying attachment theory. Students will learn about the effects of poor attachment on the child as well as the parent and become aware of the need for the dyad’s connection with the therapist and of the deeper effect of transference and countertransference when working at this primitive level.

Workshop:
Adventures in Mixed Media

This five-day art camp introduces activities that combine art media and methods such as painting, drawing, sculpture and collage. 15 - 19 August.

Workshop:
Introduction to the Art Therapy Profession

This workshop will explore the art therapy profession and the applications of art therapy in the community. Furthermore, the workshop introduces components of the training program and it includes an art therapy studio session as well as the opportunity to ask questions regarding the structure, theory, practicum and registration requirements of the program. 30 July 2011.

Workshop:
Mom and Tot Paint-In

Come create and explore art media with your toddler and learn some practical household materials that can be used for art making with the little ones. 16 July 2011.

Workshop:
An Introduction to Wet Felting

We will start on the first day with the basics of flat felting and continue on the second day by exploring three-dimensional alternatives. 9 & 10 July 2011.

Trent Street Studios
   presents
A Spring Art Show and Open House

22 June and 24 June, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
2328 Trent Street (Basement of Victoria Mental Health Centre)

Fund Raiser:
Valentine Paint-In and Auction Sale

BCSAT’s First Valentine Paint-in and Auction Sale. February 12 and 13, 2011

Workshop:
DE-ESCALATING POTENTIALLY VIOLENT SITUATIONS

Victoria - November 15-16, 2010

Presentation:
Art Therapy with patients in palliative care.

Workshop:
A DAY OF SURPRISES: USING PHOTOGRAPHED PICTURES IN ART THERAPY

Guest Art Therapist and Educator Judith Siano M.A. joins us from Haifa University, Israel

BCSAT - 15 August 2010

Conference

We are still reeling from and 'grounding' the wonderful energy we all created at the conference. Thanks to all of you for attending and presenting and making it a success on so many layers. Your evaluations are wonderful to read and a testament to the importance of having a conference that energizes us by feeding us on all levels - mind, body and spirit. Your willingness to share with First Nations Coast Salish Healers/Teachers has made this cross-cultural experience of the arts in healing a success.

Thanks to CATA for moving this conference around the country giving each area an opportunity to represent itself and increase our knowledge base and research. Thanks to BCSAT for hopping on board with its local womanpower and providing the much needed committees to support the organization of the conference. And finally, thanks to all our Coast Salish guest presenters and medical intuitive healer who opened up their ancient and organic healing practices and pedagogy. We are grateful for the sharing.

Thank you again to the Cowichan Tribes for allowing us on their territory and providing such a beautiful, peaceful environment for us to meet.

Roxane Strasbourg, Conference Chair for CATA

Lucille Proulx, Conference Chair for BCSAT