EXPRESSIVE ARTS CERTIFICATE PROGRAM
It's all online for 2020
Are you ready to begin your training?
Live Online, August 8 to Dec. 5.
Live Online October 10-24
begin today.
Introducing Our EAFI Graduate Mentors!
Individual and Group Mentoring is an integral part of our certificate training program, and we are thrilled to have these three amazing individuals as part of our team. Theresa, Brandy and Susan are all graduates of our program. They each bring rich and varied skills, education, and experience to this field, and practice their expressive arts work into the world in their own unique
ways. They provide individualized guidance for their students, assisting them in assimilating their coursework and readings, and in defining and realizing their personal goals.
Brandy Schafer MA, LMHC, REAT
My goal as a mentor is to support and encourage my students as they develop a personal expressive arts practice and prepare to share their knowledge and experience with others in an ethical and compassionate way.
https://www.expressionistscounseling.com/
Susan Paul Johnson PhD
As a mentor, I am honored to partner with students as they discover the multitude of ways Expressive Arts enriches their personal and professional journeys.
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Read their full bios here
Cultivating Creative Community
ONLINE OPEN STUDIOS 3 times each week
Tuesday Open Studio 1-4 pm EDT
With Kathleen Horne
Tuesday sessions open with a Loving Witness Meditation
Wednesday Open Studio 10 am to 1 pm EDT
Thursday Pop-up Open Studio 5 pm to 8 pm EDT
With Victoria Domenichello-Anderson
Opens with Art Check-in, and an inspirational reading or poem
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
There is no fee for Open Studios. Love Offerings are gratefully accepted.
EXPRESSIVE ARTS DISCOVERY
90-minute live online workshop
Monday July 27, 7-8:30 pm
$27
DISCOVER A MINDFULNESS PRACTICE with SoulCollage®
with Diane Lampitt
M.Ed., SoulCollage® Facilitator
Tuesday August 11
6-9pm EDT
Online via Zoom
$40 ($35 + $5 fee for SoulCollage® kit)
Registration deadline is Aug. 4 to allow time for a kit to be mailed to you.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TRAINING WORKSHOPS
Entering the Dance Safely
with Markus Scott-Alexander, PhD, REAT
Wednesday Aug. 19, 6-8 pm ET
Live Online via Zoom
$50**
Expressive arts work is usually quite gentle. We do not push or manipulate the process. We trust the process. Taking someone through an embodied, creative experience requires both inspiration and skill. In this master class, which is both theoretical and experiential, we will explore the phenomenon of “safely, entering the dance”. We start the process
with body awareness, which focuses on vertical presence. Then, we will progress to movement which takes us into the space, the horizontal plane. And thirdly, we move on to dance where we let go and explore. In this training, we learn how to move into the experience of letting go in a way that feels both safe and playful.
Expressive Arts Worldwide
Unpacking Your Cultural Baggage
with Gloria Simoneaux, REAT
Thursday September 3
6-8 pm ET
Online via Zoom
$50**
This workshop will familiarize you with the Harambee Arts Expressive Arts methodology that focuses on a culturally sensitive, collaborative, and relational approach to working with different societies around the world. Using exercises that have been tested and proven successful at counseling sites and other contexts in Africa, Asia and Latin America, the workshop
addresses learning how you can successfully enter and engage a different culture with respect, curiosity and wonder.
Resilience Building
The Power of Self-Compassion in Building Resilience
with Manju Jain & Aslam Khader
Tuesday September 29
6-8 pm
Live Online via Zoom
$50**
In their work with under-served populations that have experienced extreme hardship and trauma, Manju and Aslam have found self-compassion to be an important step in building resilience. They introduce the theory of self-compassion through expressive arts, humanistic and positive psychology.
In the last year, Manju and Aslam have facilitated over 100 workshops in India, Nepal and the US with over 2000 children and adults. Since the start of the pandemic they have moved their work online, and conduct weekly workshops for a set of 12 global groups. They are the Co-Chairs of the Social Action Committee of IEATA.
Re-Firing On All Cylinders!
The Evolution of a Canadian, Rural Expressive Arts Practice
with H. Fay Wilkinson, REACE
Saturday October 3, 2020
Noon – 2 pm ET
(please note: this is a new date; this workshop was rescheduled)
$50**
Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention. Often it seems to take a major catalyst to force a re-think, a re-arrange, and a re-charge. That catalyst can give us a real opportunity to jolt us out of the safety of the known and catapult us into new territory. Join me as I share how my Canadian, rural expressive arts practice has evolved in these ‘new’ days. I’ll cover what I’ve
learned, the mistakes I’ve made and how I’ve found fresh, effective ways of doing my personal and professional work using technology. You will have a chance to say yes to a hands-on art-making experience which will highlight best practices.
Living with Uncertainty
Expressive Arts Therapy:
Trauma, Resiliency and Attunement
with Mitchell Kossak, PhD, LMHC, REAT
Wednesday October 7, 6-8 pm ET
Live Online via ZOOM
$50**
In these uncertain and distressed times, the skills that we can bring as expressive arts practitioners become even more important in helping to guide ourselves and others through difficult emotions. This ‘Woke-Shop’ will be a time to reflect on the inner and outer landscapes with a focus on how expressive arts can address individual and collective trauma through a lens of inter and intra- personal neurobiology. Through guided
exercises that use breath, sound, rhythmic drumming, movement and image making we will explore how a re-alignment with personal and transpersonal rhythms can help to facilitate a sense of psychospiritual unity and begin a process of healing.
Rising Up to the Dream of Your Soul
Grounding through the Expressive Arts in times of upheaval and uncertainty
with Nicki Koethner, MA, MFT
Tuesday October 27, 6-8 pm ET
Live Online via Zoom
$50**
Connecting with elemental energies through movement, painting, writing, poetry, storytelling and ritual, we will connect with earth body wisdom to remember our essential natures, grief the heartbreak of separation, isolation and disconnection and reclaim the dream of our souls that connect us with all of our relations.
The soul dream serves as a resource to be with the imprints of the human cultural shadow of war, violence, abuse, “isms,” injustices, and separation from ourselves and each other and the earth as well as the current impact of the pandemic. We will provide a safe container to grieve the impact of those societal structures and global crisis on our psyche and utilize the intermodality of the expressive arts as well as earth as a resource
to process, digest, express and reconnect.
We will rise up through the embodiment of our soul dream in various modalities and access the field of love and compassion, supporting our resiliency and reconnection with our bodies and the larger earth body through guided meditation, sound healing, breathing exercises and ritual.
This is an experiential workshop in which participants will take away tools to provide cultural shadow grief-work based in trauma-informed care, eco-psychology, energy work and self-care tools to do this work from a resourced place. Applications of the work are discussed and explored.
Wendy Phillips, PhD, LMFT, REACE, REAT Saturday November 14,
noon to 2 pm ET,
Wendy will share her Expressive Arts work in Mexico, through El Colectivo Macondo, as well as her work in Cuba. Wendy is a psychotherapist, expressive arts therapist, faculty member, and research psychologist.
Wendy focuses on the naturally occurring Expressive elements in traditional indigenous art and ritual practices and how learning about these practices may inform Multimodal Expressive Arts Therapy work with our clients and in our communities.
Registration will open in next week's newsletter.
Melting and Growing
in Person-Centered Expressive Arts
with Fiona Chang, REAT, RSW, PhD Candidate CUHK
Wednesday December 2
7-9 pm ET
Live Online via Zoom
$50**
This workshop combines the theoretical foundation of person-centered expressive arts and experiential learning about the creative connection process for growth. It is a practice-based training of applying multi-modal expressive arts to connect with our body-mind-spirit, to listen, understand, let go and heal. This creative practice is person-centered, engagement-oriented and
process-focused. We shall co-create a sacred place for genuineness, compassion and positive regards.
It is a joy to welcome Fiona, who lives and works in Hong Kong, as a guest presenter.
Our Online Professional Development Training Workshops are designed to bring Expressive Arts students, therapists, and practitioners training opportunities with leaders in the field. Through a live online format, we bring you Expressive Arts professionals, from around the world, to enhance your learning and expertise. Each
presentation will be a combination of didactic and experiential learning. We are a Florida CEU provider for LMHC, LCSW, LMFT. You will receive a Certificate of Completion to submit to your own CE Board.
**Each workshop is $50.
If you are an EAFI graduate or student, use coupon code gradeafi and receive a 20% discount.
If you are an EAFI student registered in EAFI 220, use coupon code eafi220. For EAFI 220 students, workshops are 6-9 pm
LOVING WTINESS ART MEDITATION
(no charge)
You can return to it as often as you like.
ONLINE SELF-STUDY COURSES AND WORKSHOPS
Always available to support your on your expressive arts journey
RESOURCES
All 3 sessions are available for replay.
July 20 - A virtual event with Ibram X. Kendi
We at Expressive Arts Florida Institute are committed to becoming better allies to Black, Indigenous and People of Color. We stand in solidarity with victims of systemic brutality and racial injustice. We are committed to examining and dismantling our unconscious
and/or unchecked white privilege. We uphold a commitment to educate ourselves, a willingness to have difficult conversations and take informed actions, as we continue to build a healing organization that actively promotes diversity, equity, justice and compassion.
With compassion, courage, and creativity,
Kathleen,Tamara, Victoria
Kathleen Horne, MA, LMHC, REACE, REAT
Tamara Teeter Knapp, MA, K-12 Art, REACE
Victoria Domenichello-Anderson, MA, REACE
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