Healing trauma with Guided Drawing: a bilateral approach to sensorimotor body mapping
Guided Drawing is a body-focused art therapy approach that uses rhythmic, bilateral drawing to enhance embodied awareness and creative expression. This experiential course explores its application within trauma-informed art therapy practice.
Healing trauma with Guided Drawing: a bilateral approach to sensorimotor body mapping
Guided Drawing is a body-focused art therapy approach that uses rhythmic, bilateral drawing to enhance embodied awareness and creative expression. This experiential course explores its application within trauma-informed art therapy practice.
What is Guided Drawing?
Drawing on sensorimotor and trauma-informed principles, Guided Drawing invites participants to explore movement, sensation and perception through rhythmic, bilateral mark-making. Working on large sheets of paper with simple art materials, participants engage in an embodied creative process that may support self-awareness, emotional regulation and reflective therapeutic practice.
What will you learn
This continued professional development course explores the theory and practice of Guided Drawing and its application within trauma-informed art therapy.
The course covers:
- Explore the use of rhythmic drawing forms in body-focused art therapy.
- Apply trauma-informed concepts, including pendulation and titration.
- Experience Guided Drawing as a form of bilateral body mapping.
- Explore how specific drawing forms may support nervous system regulation in therapeutic practice.
- Consider applications within trauma-informed art therapy with adults affected by trauma.
How will you learn
Learning takes place through experiential drawing activities, presentations, discussion, reflection and case examples. Participants will experience Guided Drawing firsthand while considering how it may be integrated into their own art therapy practice.
Tutor
Cornelia Elbrecht
Frequently asked questions
Bookings for our online Introduction, Foundation, ARTiculate, CPD and Masterclass courses close one week before the start date, at 10.00am.
Joining instructions and materials will be available in your Memberzone, under bookings, once bookings have closed. A reminder email will be sent out to delegates one week before the course.
It is the attendees’ responsibility to check they have access to the joining instructions before the course. Contacting the office on the day or evening before the start date will not always be responded to prior to the course starting.
Employer funded bookings are available for our online Introduction, Foundation, ARTiculate, CPD and Masterclass courses.
These bookings can be made on our website by paying by card at no extra cost. The booking should be made on the delegate’s account as we will need their contact details for the course. If they don’t have an account they can create one for free here. The employer will be required to provide their credit/debit card details to complete the payment. Please also tick the employer funded option at checkout.
If your employer wants to pay by invoice, you will need to complete our Invoice Details Request – Course Booking Form, and return it to us along with a PO number. Please note, we cannot accept the form without a PO number. Please note, there is an additional £20 admin fee for bookings via invoice.
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