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Start date:
July 2024
Places:
Places are awarded on a "first paid first serve" basis due to demand
Cost / delivery:
£630 / 5 days (22 – 26 July 2024)
Art Psychotherapy Summer School this year provides participants with the opportunity to experience an intensive 5-session experiential class. This class involves experiential learning about Art Psychotherapy and will be of interest to anyone wishing to find out more about training in this discipline, as well as individuals wanting to explore their creativity in a unique environment.
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Links will be made between theory and clinical practice. Insights derived from the workshop aim to heighten participants’ understanding and sensitivity to non-verbal communication. This week provides experiential learning about art therapy, making it of interest to anyone wishing to learn more about training as an art therapist or artists wanting to explore art making in a unique environment.
Course structure
The Art Psychotherapy summer school provides participants with an opportunity to engage in a deep and intensive exploration of the art therapeutic process over five consecutive days of experiential work.
Participants will be invited to engage in a range of art making processes to explore their own personal symbols and unconscious imagery in a safe and creatively facilitating environment.
Notions of shared or collective experience will be explored along with how Jungian theory may inform art making and the art therapeutic relationship.
Intended Audience
This course may be of interest to anyone wishing to find out more about training in this discipline as well as individuals wanting to explore their creativity in a unique environment.
It may also be useful for mental health professionals, teachers and social workers etc. interested in learning more about these unique and creative forms of therapy.
A degree of active participation will be expected from all participants who should therefore be prepared for a degree of personal disclosure, sharing and exploration
On-campus timetable TBC
10am - 4pm
Monday
Art Psychotherapy
Tuesday
Art Psychotherapy
Wednesday
Art Psychotherapy
Thursday
Art Psychotherapy
Friday
Art Psychotherapy
Afternoon Plenary Session
Online timetable TBC
10am - 4pm
Monday
Art Psychotherapy
Tuesday
Art Psychotherapy
Wednesday
Art Psychotherapy
Thursday
Art Psychotherapy
Friday
Art Psychotherapy
Afternoon Plenary Session
Suggested reading
Edwards, D. (2014) Art Therapy: Creative Therapies in Practice. 2nd Edition. Sage: London
Jung, C.G. (1963) Memories, Dreams, Reflections. London: Fontana.
Jung, C.G. and von Franz, M.-L. et al. (eds) (1964) Man and His Symbols. London: Aldus.
Schaverien, J. (1999) The Revealing Image: Analytical Art Psychotherapy in Theory and Practice. Jessica Kingsley Publishers. London.
Materials required
For the online course, you will need A2, A3, A4 drawing sheets, modelling clay, oil pastels, colouring pencils, graphite pencils, erasers, felt-tip pens, chalk pastels, charcoal sticks, watercolours, acrylic paints, and paintbrushes to hand.
Tutors
Amy Ison
On-campus Tutor
Amy Ison is an art therapist and supervisor registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT).
Amy completed her training (Goldsmiths) in 2008 and has undertaken additional training in systemic practice with families and couples and experiential training in community and psychotherapy.
She has worked in adult mental health services for many years and in 2012 joined A Space, a charity which provides therapy services to children and families and consultation to school staff; she is a lead therapist and supervises MA students on clinical placement.
Amy is a graduate of the Royal Drawing School and has an ongoing interest in applied psychoanalytic theory and integrated art and art therapy practice. She is a visiting lecturer for the MA in Art Psychotherapy at the University of Roehampton.
Grigoris Tzouras
Online Tutor
Grigoris Tzouras: MA Art Psychotherapy, BA (Hons) Fine Art HCPC registered, BAAT Full Member.
Grigoris is a Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) registered Art Psychotherapist and a full member of the British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT) with experience of working in the National Health Service (NHS) with adults and young people, offering mental health care for patients with personal problems and severe mental health illnesses.
He has also worked at Young Persons’ Services delivering a multi-component risk reduction programmes for young people who are vulnerable to risk taking behaviour including drug and alcohol use, early and unprotected sex and offending. Currently, he is employed by two NHS Trusts where he delivers group and individual art psychotherapy sessions and assessments at adult in-patient acute psychiatric units.
Grigorios teaches Art Psychotherapy at both Foundation and Masters Level at the University of Roehampton in London, continuing to develop his identity as an artist, by maintaining his studio practice, commissioning art projects and taking part in art exhibitions and competitions
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22 – 26 July 2024
