Are you a social worker, teacher, therapist, artist, youth worker or other professional wanting to expand your professional skill set?
Trauma and Expressive Arts
NEW DATES
October 21 - December 9 Mondays, 5:30-8:30pm Registration deadline: October 15
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This eight-week course is designed to support psychotherapists, social workers, front-line staff and other professionals who work with clients who have experienced trauma.
Through the lens of DEl thought and practice, this course uses the basic principles intermodal expressive arts to guide participants in developing an approach that will help clients shape their relationship to their traumatic experience. Through experiential learning, trauma informed and art making, participants will discover how different artistic practices can help clients engage with their difficult stories. How can a studio practice be a resource? Professionals will also use the arts to explore their own reactions and find ways to hold their own resilience.
Participants will learn to:
• Identify a client's reaction to a stressful event or memory through sensory-based activities.
• Reinforce a sense of safety by reconnection and self-soothing through art making.
• Use art making to unpack counter-transference to clients' difficult stories.
• Understand the basic principles of expressive arts therapy and the way that play can ease a client's experience of trauma.
• Achieve an understanding of how expressive arts can build strength and resilience for clients who have had traumatic experience.
Facilitator: Lee Shields, Registered Psychotherapist, M.A. TIRP Dip.
Lee is a graduate of TMU, The CREATE Institute, and the European Graduate School in Switzerland. She runs a private practice focused on psychotherapy for adults and couples, and serves as a clinical supervisor. For 19 years, she led the EXA program at Lumenus Community Services.
Since 2001, Lee has been a core faculty member at the CREATE Institute, teaching in its three-year program as well as short courses, including "Introduction to Expressive Arts" and "The Art of Trauma." She is a member of the Ontario Association of Consultants, Counsellors, Psychometrists and Psychotherapists (OACCPP) and the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO).
With a keen interest in the impact of trauma on frontline workers, Lee also has a rich background in dance and visual arts. Over the past 20 years, she has studied painting and encaustic art at the Toronto School of Art and the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO). Her artistic practice involves creating layered paintings with materials like paper, wood, rusty metal, photocopied images, natural objects, pigments, and wax.
Lee is interested in the relationship between intent and accident. She witnesses what unfolds. The history of the process becomes inseparable from what she may have intended to paint. Some images are literally connected to her personal life story; others cannot be read so literally. Lee is curious and motivated by the process of not knowing what will happen next.
Through the lens of DEl thought and practice, this course uses the basic principles intermodal expressive arts to guide participants in developing an approach that will help clients shape their relationship to their traumatic experience. Through experiential learning, trauma informed and art making, participants will discover how different artistic practices can help clients engage with their difficult stories. How can a studio practice be a resource? Professionals will also use the arts to explore their own reactions and find ways to hold their own resilience.
Participants will learn to:
• Identify a client's reaction to a stressful event or memory through sensory-based activities.
• Reinforce a sense of safety by reconnection and self-soothing through art making.
• Use art making to unpack counter-transference to clients' difficult stories.
• Understand the basic principles of expressive arts therapy and the way that play can ease a client's experience of trauma.
• Achieve an understanding of how expressive arts can build strength and resilience for clients who have had traumatic experience.
Facilitator: Lee Shields, Registered Psychotherapist, M.A. TIRP Dip.
Lee is a graduate of TMU, The CREATE Institute, and the European Graduate School in Switzerland. She runs a private practice focused on psychotherapy for adults and couples, and serves as a clinical supervisor. For 19 years, she led the EXA program at Lumenus Community Services.
Since 2001, Lee has been a core faculty member at the CREATE Institute, teaching in its three-year program as well as short courses, including "Introduction to Expressive Arts" and "The Art of Trauma." She is a member of the Ontario Association of Consultants, Counsellors, Psychometrists and Psychotherapists (OACCPP) and the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO).
With a keen interest in the impact of trauma on frontline workers, Lee also has a rich background in dance and visual arts. Over the past 20 years, she has studied painting and encaustic art at the Toronto School of Art and the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO). Her artistic practice involves creating layered paintings with materials like paper, wood, rusty metal, photocopied images, natural objects, pigments, and wax.
Lee is interested in the relationship between intent and accident. She witnesses what unfolds. The history of the process becomes inseparable from what she may have intended to paint. Some images are literally connected to her personal life story; others cannot be read so literally. Lee is curious and motivated by the process of not knowing what will happen next.
This program does not require approval under the Ontario Career Colleges Act, 2005