Course Duration: 2 weeks
Format: In-Person
Target Audience: Therapists, educators, and helping professionals who wish to adopt resource-oriented approaches in their work.
Module Overview:
This Module is a fourteen days intensive training for change agents with a prior experience/qualification in the Expressive Arts field. It enables professionals to widen their perspectives and their understanding of Expressive Arts. It introduces participants to resource- oriented praxis, an approach that focuses on identifying and cultivating personal and collective resources through art-based practices. Resource orientation encourages individuals to harness strengths, capacities, and creative potentials, even in the face of adversity or trauma.
This module will teach participants how to guide clients, students, or groups in identifying, enhancing, and utilizing their intrinsic creative resources for resilience and growth. Experts from the field work within a supervisory and coaching attitude using the newest methods such as intermodal Decentering® and solution oriented approaches.
Key Learning Objectives:
Learn how to foster an environment that encourages the discovery of inner resources through creative practices.
Understand how resource-oriented art interventions support emotional resilience and self- efficacy.
Develop skills to create interventions that focus on strengths, coping mechanisms, and creative empowerment.
Explore how the arts can support individuals in accessing, reflecting on, and building upon their strengths and resources.
Practical Outcomes:
Creation of a resource-oriented art intervention plan.
Practical tools to implement resource-oriented techniques in a variety of settings.
Enhanced ability to identify and nurture creative resources in others.
An admission interview is required.
Registration for Professional Development is open.
You can register for this year’s Professional Development via this link.
The application deadline is April 30.