Events
Conferences
Annual conference 2024: Art therapy and innovation: attending to context and relationship
Saturday 9 November 2024
Wellcome Collection, London
This year our annual conference will be held in person at the Wellcome Collection on Saturday 9 November 2024. Together we will explore art therapy and innovation, looking at some of the changes in practice that have developed over recent years.
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Using fairy tales in art therapy: once upon a time
Friday 19 April 2024
Online via Zoom
Fairy tales continue to fascinate and teach us, after centuries of being told. This course explores how these stories and their language of images can be an effective and powerful tool in art therapy.
Introduction and Foundation courses
One week foundation in art therapy
Monday 29 April - Friday 3 May 2024
Online via Zoom
This course is for people who are interested in art therapy as a career and want to consider training as an art therapist. It is also useful for other professionals who want to gain a better understanding of art within a care context.
Introduction and Foundation courses
Introduction to the profession of art therapy
Friday 10 May 2024
Online via Zoom
Are you looking for a new career that involves helping others, creativity, and personal growth? Whether you are starting to shape your professional path or want to change an established career, this introduction day will give you a chance to find out if the profession of art therapy may be for you.
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Supervision training
Tuesday 14 - Wednesday 15 May 2024
Online via Zoom
This two-day course provides the theoretical and practical guidance to support your supervisory role, whether it's a clinical or managerial role, or both.
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Learning disabilities: co-producing effective art therapy
Friday 17 - Saturday 18 May 2024
Online via Zoom
As many as 20% of qualified art therapists have reported that they work with people with learning disabilities. This course, developed using coproduction with people with learning disabilities, draws together clinical experience and research evidence to support arts therapists and trainees to develop their skills and confidence when working with this client group.
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Online art therapy approaches and methods
Saturday 25 May 2024
Online via Zoom
Learn more about approaches and methods to use online in your art therapy practice and how to create a safe and secure virtual environment. The course will introduce you to web-based digital art media programs to incorporate into individual and group art therapy work, and how you can use these art-based tools therapeutically.
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Citizen art therapists: advocating for social justice and democracy
Friday 31 May and Saturday 1 June 2024
Online via Zoom
In recent years, much of the world has been confronted with challenges to democracy. Learn how to position your clinical and community work in a manner that champions social justice, open dialogues, critical perspectives, and citizenship.
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Animation and embodied story-making in clinical settings
Friday 7 - Saturday 8 June 2024
Online via Zoom
Stop-frame animation is a powerful medium to use in clinical settings, allowing participants to tell difficult and traumatic stories. This course will give you a foundation for using animation and story-making from an experiential, theoretical, and practical perspective.
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Museums, galleries and collections within art therapy
Saturday 15 June 2024
Online via Zoom
What can museums, galleries and collections contribute to art therapy practice? This course explores the rich theoretical basis for using museums and galleries in art therapy, presents a range of different approaches and discusses the practical issues involved.
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Complex trauma and dissociation: how to adapt art therapy practice
Friday 5 - Saturday 6 July 2024
Online via Zoom
Develop your understanding of the legacy of trauma and how to adapt art psychotherapy. With a particular focus on stabilisation, this course aims to support effective practice with the most complex PTSD, including dissociative disorders.
Introduction and Foundation courses
Introduction to the profession of art therapy
Saturday 13 July 2024
Online via Zoom
Are you looking for a new career that involves helping others, creativity, and personal growth? Whether you are starting to shape your professional path or want to change an established career, this introduction day will give you a chance to find out if the profession of art therapy may be for you.
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Perinatal art therapy
Friday 13 - Saturday 14 September 2024
Online via Zoom
This course introduces art therapy practice within the perinatal period (roughly from pregnancy to two years old). It's a time of enormous change, when the emotional and mental health of parents impacts infant wellbeing, and support can be crucial.
Frequently asked questions
Bookings for our online 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 now available to pay by card and are no longer at a higher cost.
When making a booking, your 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, we will now be charging an additional £20 admin fee (this applies per person, per booking).
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.
If you need further assistance, please contact us at events@baat.org.