Fiona Chang Shares Her Discoveries Using the Couple Group Model
Part Of Our Professional Development
Expressive Arts Training Series
An Arts-based couple group model was empirically formulated in Hong Kong for couples with breast cancer challenges. Solo-duet-group activity design through expressive arts and person-centered facilitation were found to be therapeutic in facilitating personal growth, couple
relationship and group development.
Fiona CHANG, REAT, RSW, PhD, CUHK
M. Soc. Sc. (Family Therapy & Health Care), HKU; Postgraduate Certificate (Person-centered Expressive Arts for Healing and Social Change), Saybrook University, USA; Professional Diploma (Creative Photography), CUHK; Certificate (Satir Therapy & Clinical Supervision), HKU
Fiona is a Registered Expressive Arts Therapist with IEATA, Certified Supervisor of the Australian Counseling Association (ACA), and a Registered Social Worker. She is faculty of the Person- centered Expressive Arts Program founded by Dr. Natalie Rogers. She founded the Expressive Arts Therapy Training Program of the Centre on Behavioral Health of the University of Hong Kong and the Expressive Arts Therapy
Association of Hong Kong (EATA HK).
Fiona has more than 25 years of expressive arts practice in a variety of settings. She initiated expressive arts projects with Orphans with HIV in Cambodia, a Wellness CD project for cancer patients, and hosted the IEATA Conference in Hong Kong in 2015. She is currently the Vice-chairperson of “Art in Hospital”, the advisor of the “Art Therapy Without Borders” and the South Western College in Santa Fe. She is a
former Executive Co-chair and board member of IEATA. Fiona pioneered the Patient Resource Centre in public hospitals. She received the H.K. International Cancer Congress Young Investigators’ Award, Outstanding Staff Award of Hospital Authority, Distinguished Social Work Alumni of HKU and IEATA Shining Star Award.
Fiona wrote several chapters on expressive arts therapy for internationally and locally published books, including “The Creative Connection for Groups: Person-centered Expressive Arts for Healing & Social Change”, “Art Therapy in Asia: To the bone or Wrapped in Silk”, “Art Therapy and Health Care”, “Mindfulness and the arts therapies”, “Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care in Hong Kong: The first
decade” and “Group Case book” Her Chinese book “Expression ‧ Arts ‧ Therapy” was published in 2015.
Fiona Chang embodies person-centered expressive arts. Her workshops are the best! I love her facilitation style--she is warm, open, inclusive, and clear. I leave feeling calm, creative, and inspired. -Theresa Foster
Through practice-based learning, participants will:
- Grasp the concepts and practical skills of arts-based couple group model.
- Understand the innovative application of expressive arts to facilitate individual, couple and group development.
- Taste the process of using arts for mutual understanding and relationship enhancement.
Have ready any art materials available at home such as oil/soft pastels/paints, some drawing papers, art and craft materials.
Solo-to-Duet: Arts-Based Couple Group Model
With Fiona Chang
Wednesday August 25th
6-8:30pm EDT
with Kathleen
Online via Zoom
1st and 3rd Tuesdays of each month:
August 17th
September 7th and 21st
1pm-4pm EDT
Join our creative circle of support; begin with a guided meditation focused on self-compassion and move into 2+ hours of open creative time. During the last half hour we witness and share. Join from wherever you are in the world. No charge. Donations gratefully accepted at PayPal.Me/eafistudio if that works for you.
with Tamara
In the Studio Beginning August 11th, and continuing August 18th and 25th
10am-1pm EDT
On the last Wednesday of each month, we will invite Zoom participation as well, so that you can join in from wherever you are. (beginning August 25)
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Listen to what stirs inside of you. Listen to your longing. Learn about Expressive Arts by engaging in it! Make Art. Tune in. Be aware of the images that are waiting to emerge.
Explore creating those images with simple art materials. Let the images speak – in words, in movement, perhaps. Be amazed. Find your way. Share the gifts that your images bring. Connect with tribe. Witness yourself and each other. Just witness. There is nothing that needs to be said or
done. Discover your next step.
Expressive Arts Discovery
August 30th 7-8:30 PM EDT
with Kathleen Horne, Tamara Teeter Knapp, and Victoria Domenichello-Anderson
Discovering a Mindfulness Practice with SoulCollage® is a introduction to the contemplative and insightful process of self-discovery. It gently opens you to a new way of exploring your inner wisdom. It is a practice that leads to a greater ability to be present to yourself in the here and now. It is this mindfulness energy that connects you to the unique aspects of yourself while you deepen
connections with others – all while engaging your creativity! Using simple tools – scissors, glue, magazine images, and mat board – you create cards that are uniquely yours. This process honors your own time, pace, inner-language and spirituality.
Discovering a Mindfulness Practice with SoulCollage®
with Diane Lampitt M.Ed.
Explore the concept of your Ecological Self, through an integrated expressive arts process. What is your relationship to the natural world? How has your ecological awareness been shaped and developed over time? Through this gentle and powerful process, listen deeply for any messages that are emerging. We are not separate from the natural world. By
developing an awareness of our ecological self, we begin to heal and spirit and live the connection with increased consciousness and intention.
This session will include:
An introduction to the theme
A nature-based practice
A guided meditation
Art-making time
Writing prompts and writing time
(Optional) small group witnessing and sharing
(Optional) Large group sharing
Extracting a nugget of wisdom to take, as a practice, into your life
Ecological Self
Art as a Healing Practice Workshop
with Kathleen Horne
The Body Sings; Explorations in Embodied Voicework is a Professional Development course that draws on techniques from a range of practices to explore the transformative power of expressing oneself with an embodied voice. Through the combined use of breath, vocalizing, movement, and improvisation we will engage in a mindful exploration of the body’s numerous songs.
The Body Sings: Explorations in Embodied Voicework
with Topaz Weis
Expressive Arts Adventures from rural Ontario, Canada is a whistle stop tour of offerings that have guided people to make the invisible, visible through Expressive Arts in a rural context and beyond. Hear about innovative programs that have been designed for those living with cancer and/or mental health challenges as well as individuals navigating stress and anxiety. An
experiential component will round out our time together.
Expressive Arts Adventures from Rural Ontario, Canada
with H. Fay Wilkinson
What are you currently experiencing as a polarity, or point of tension in your life? Perhaps it is something that you go back and forth on, and resolution elusive. Join me in this step-by-step expressive arts process, and create a mandorla (Venn diagram, Vesica Piscis) as a powerful container to explore polarity in a new way. The mandorla is a geometric form that is
made up of two overlapping circles. Through art-making and writing, a new path is invited to emerge.
Exploring a Polarity with Mandorla
Art as a Healing Practice Workshop
with Kathleen Horne
The word empathy was originally derived from the German word ‘einfuhlung’, and earlier from the Greek ‘empatheia’, both referring to the physical and emotional connection when viewing a painting or sculpture. As we view a piece of art or when we witness a dance, listen to a musical expression or spoken word piece, our mind translates this into a sensory embodied response, and we are
‘moved’. When we engage in the arts, we enter into a deep and intimate relational encounter with the materials, sounds, colors, shapes or the space we are moving within, as well as the interactions between individuals in a dyadic or group situation. Engagement in this way can lead to flow states that help to form an embodied resonance response that is directly linked to the sense of embodied empathy. This flow state has been called ‘limbic resonance’ or the capacity for sharing deep
emotional states including what is called ‘empathic harmony’.
In this workshop we will work with breath, sound, rhythms, movement and imagery to explore embodied empathy, with self, with others, in communities and in a larger metaphysical realm.
Embodied Empathy and Expressive Arts
with Mitchell Kossak
‘Mandala’ is a Sanskrit word meaning ‘sacred circle’ or simply ‘circle’. Discover the gentle power of creating a personal mandala to invoke centering and integration. Creating within a circle invokes a sense of wholeness and invites us to connect with our essence. You can revisit this meditation again and again, through the recording, whenever you are seeking a centering experience.
Centering with Mandala
Art as a Healing Practice Workshop
with Kathleen Horne
Certificate Training Program Update
In 2022, we will be offering some of our core courses in person, in our Sarasota, Florida studio, and some online.
Browse the schedule and email us with your questions.
For more information about REACE (Registered Expressive Arts Consultant Educator) and REAT (Registered Expressive Arts Therapist) visit www.ieata.org to learn more.
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EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY
Telehealth and in-person
Tamara Teeter Knapp, MA, REACE, NCC, MHC Intern
Expressive arts therapy is a multimodal, holistic approach to counseling. It acknowledges the complexity of human experience by facilitating the client in exploring all aspects of the self, by inquiring through the imagination and the body about subjective experience, and expanding the play space to allow for new possibilities and shifts in consciousness that lead to desired changes in one’s life. More
OUR MISSION
Through workshops, programs, certificate training, and therapy Expressive Arts Florida Institute empowers individuals, groups and communities by cultivating the creative wisdom inherent in all.
We look forward to seeing you!
Kathleen,Tamara, Victoria
Kathleen Horne, MA, LMHC, REACE, REAT
Tamara Teeter Knapp, MA, MHC Intern, NCC, K-12 Art, REACE
Victoria Domenichello-Anderson, MA, REACE
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