STUDENT POLICIES AND PROCEDURES  2025 - 2026

Welcome to our 34th year of training at The CREATE Institute.

The CREATE Institute is a training institute in intermodal expressive arts therapy whose mission is to train expressive arts therapists who are self-reflective,
self-aware, therapeutically proficient, and highly sensitive to both verbal and non-verbal communication. 
The training we provide honours the essential connection between human imagination, the arts, and life as a way of fostering growth and change. 
We believe when we create together, whether in the therapy office, the clinic or the community, something new- poiesis emerges in the world.
Through that creation, comes the invitation for transformational change. 
1.   Land Acknowledgement 
2.   Diversity Equity and Inclusion Policies       
3.    General Guidelines 4.    Student Academic Policies and Procedures
      a)    Program Registration deadline(s)
      b)    Lectures and Intensive Courses 
      c)    Personal Therapy requirements 
      d)    Student Studio Work requirements updated
      e)    Student Attendance Policy  
      f)     Student Evaluation Policy 
      g)    Student Academic or Disability Accommodation Policy 
      h)    Student Withdrawal from Program Policy 
      i)     Closure and Class Cancellation Policy  
      j)     Class Teachers Assistants role and responsibilities 
      k)    Student Program and Academic Advisors 
5.    Program Practicum Information updated
6.    Program Practicum Supervision requirements 
7.    Studio Access/ Booking/Rental Process 
8.    CRPO College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario   
9.    Maintenance Student Status 
10.  CREATE Tuition Payment Plan 
        a)    Methods of payments 
        b)    Late fees 
        c)    NSF cheque policy 
        d)    Tax receipts- T2202 
        e)    Financial hardship Policy 
        f)    Tuition Refund Policy -
11.     International Student Fees and Guidelines
12.    CREATE Institute Contacts