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Art Therapy and Professional Development
Short Courses 2010

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NOTE: Should you be accepted as a classified student, upon formal application, the Short Courses you have completed will be honored as elective credits.

S C H E D U L E

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C O U R S E   D E T A I L S

Studio is one of the core components of art therapy training and is experientially based. Participants actively explore their own art therapy process and integrate their experience into currently used conceptual frameworks for clinical practice. In addition to current students this course is open to professionals working in related areas as well as persons contemplating enrolling in art therapy training. For those not currently enrolled in art therapy training a brief interview to establish readiness will be required before registration in this Intensive Studio is finalized.

INSTRUCTOR: Robin Feldman, MA, ATR, BCATR
Robin is a practicing art therapist and experienced instructor. She has an MA in Art Therapy from George Washington University, Washington D.C. and carries Registration status with both the American and British Columbia Art Therapy Associations.

DATES: June 7 & 8, 14 & 15, 21 & 22 , 2010
TIMES: Mon 10.30 – 5.30 Tues 9.30 – 4.30
LOCATION: Screen Room, 1625 Bank St.
FEE: $675
CREDIT: 1.5 units

Art therapists have historically engaged their clients in creating paper-based pictures of the people or scenes relevant to the formation of their traumatic responses. The Eye Movement & Desensitization (EMDR) protocol provides a powerful new tool for trauma resolution using mental images. Might these two approaches be integrated in order to reap the benefits of each? Come and find out! I'll keep lecture to a minimum; this is going to be a (literally!) hands-on experiment in a new synthesis of the two approaches.

INSTRUCTOR: Bruce Tobin, Ph.D, RCC, ATR.
Bruce is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at UVic, where he has taught Expressive Therapies for 25 years and a member of the Graduate Faculty in the Counseling Psychology program. He has been a psychotherapist in private practice for 30 years, and a Registered Art Therapist since 1976. Bruce has Level I and II EMDR training and is Author of Expressive Therapies Now, a textbook, & : Art Therapy Meets EMDR: Processing the Paper Based Image with Eye Movement. The Canadian Art Therapy Association Journal, Vol. 19, No. 2: Fall 2006.

DATES: July 12 & 13
TIMES: Monday & Tuesday, 9:00 – 4:30
FEE: $375
CREDIT: 0.5 units

Each of us is born, lives and dies in place. It is the taken for granted sounds, smells, movements and sights of places we call ‘home’ that embody and make concrete the abstract concepts of time, space and identity. The importance of place shows itself most readily when we are faced with displacement. This course will explore the themes that emerge as people go about the daily task of building and living in their places. The outcome of displacement will also be explored. The course will provide opportunities for discussion and expression of the experience of place and the deepening of awareness of the importance of caring for our places.

INSTRUCTORS: Louise Million, PhD
    & Kathleen Collis, PhD, BCATR
Dr Louise Million is from Saskatchewan and a Registered Psychologist. She provides training and services to Indigenous communities concerned with healing and trauma recovery. “Being in Place” is grounded in her dissertation, “It was Home”, a phenomenological study of place and displacement. Kath Kathleen Collis is the founder of the BC School of Art Therapy and a pioneer of art therapy in BC and Canada. She worked for 23 years as a psychologist and art therapist in the BC Ministry of Health. Her doctoral research explored the categorization of the visual elements of the art of those with schizophrenia.

DATES: July 23 – 27
TIMES: July 23, 2:00 – 5:00   July 24 – 27, 9:00 – 4:00
FEE: $800.00   Early bird: $750 before June 30
CREDIT: 1 unit