The third annual Expressive Therapies Summit will be held in New York City, November 8-11, 2012. This exciting continuing education opportunity offers creative arts therapists and educators, arts professionals, and interested healthcare colleagues the chance to come together to learn, collaborate, and network. Attendance at this event has already grown to over 600 people from [...]
The Virginia Art Therapy Association Presents Mindfulness in Art Therapy through Mandala and Labyrinth work For centuries, cultures throughout the world have found inspiration and guidance from sacred circles, or circular patterns representing ancient archetypes of wholeness. Stonehenge, Native American medicine wheels, and Tibetan Buddhist sand mandalas remain stunning and transformative healing tools. In this workshop [...]
The Virginia Art Therapy Association Presents Mindfulness in Art Therapy through Mandala and Labyrinth work For centuries, cultures throughout the world have found inspiration and guidance from sacred circles, or circular patterns representing ancient archetypes of wholeness. Stonehenge, Native American medicine wheels, and Tibetan Buddhist sand mandalas remain stunning and transformative healing tools. In this [...]
This Years Annual Conference “Materials Techniques and Technologies” was great! The day started off the day with Keynote speaker Matthew Bernier MCAT, ATR-BC, a professor at Eastern Virginia Medical School. Matthew’s presentation on the Expressive Therapies Continuum (ETC) was wonderful. I learned about the ETC in school, however, the presentation provided a lot of new [...]
The Virginia Art Therapy Association 2011 Annual Conference Materials, Techniques and Technologies Saturday, September 24th, 2011 830 am to 430pm Hosted by Eastern Virginia Medical School 651 Colley Ave., Norfolk Conference Schedule 8:30am-9 am- Registration 9am-10:30 am- Keynote Speaker: Matthew Bernier, MCAT ATR-BC Topic: The Expressive Therapies Continuum 10:30am- 10:45 am – Break, Refreshments Available [...]
VATA is having a great time at the American Art Therapy Association Annual National Conference in Washington, DC. VATA has been part of many things here at the conference: being part of the Local Arrangements committee with VATA Board members Mariko Saito and Lesly Love on the committee and hosting the table. Some VATA members presented (If I missed anyone, let me [...]
Saturday, September 24, 2011 at Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA The Virginia Art Therapy Association is holding its annual conference in Norfolk. This year’s theme will highlight practical and effective art therapy processes, materials, approaches, and techniques used by Virginia Art Therapists. This day-long conference is designed to highlight the positive impact of art therapy in [...]
Sandrama is a technique developed by Francesca Toscani, M.Ed., TEP. Francesca used her Jungian and psychodrama backgrounds and developed Sandrama, a union of sandtray therapy with psychodrama. Francesca is a Trainer in Psychodrama and in her years as a psychotherapist she has conducted training in action methods and creative arts therapies. Round Oaks Creative Center [...]
The New York State Office of Mental Health Suicide Prevention Initiative will host a web cast: Talking With Children After A Suicide Loss. The web cast will feature three different segments with offerings specifically for parents, educators and clinicians. The shows feature a panel comprised of three national experts: Dr. Jack Jordan, Dr. Vanessa McGann and [...]
At the recent Art in Response to Violence Conference at Northeastern Illinois University, there were wonderful presentations from art therapists who work in Domestic and Interpersonal violence. Tony LaBrosse and Laura Jacob presented on The Use of Response Art to Process Interpersonal Violence. Their presentation incorporated a lituerature review, illustrating image making to support self-care and [...]
