Events
CPD courses
Embracing cultural and ethnic diversity in art therapy
Friday 8 December 2023
Online via Zoom
This course aims to allow a safe space to explore why #BlackLivesMatter is not just a hashtag, consider insights and examples of cultural indifference as viewed from the perspective of a Black British art therapist, and give practitioners the confidence to move from necessary self-reflection to asking some of those difficult questions of clients.
Tell me moreCPD courses
Dyadic parent-child art psychotherapy - Level 2
Friday 29 - Saturday 30 September 2023
Online via Zoom
Dyadic parent-child art psychotherapy is a way of working which focuses directly on the child’s primary attachment relationship. This course equips art therapists who are already developing a dyadic art therapy practice with what they need to feel confident and competent to work in this way.
Conferences
Free CPD for members: creative self-care for trauma-focused art therapists
Wednesday 11 October 2023
Online via Zoom
As practitioners we are often deep in the dark and tangled world of trauma. How does this impact our self-care and what can we do to survive the journey? This is a brief event for creative reflection on your personal self-care practice.
CPD courses
Child development and its significance in art therapy across the life cycle
Friday 13 - Saturday 14 October 2023
Online via Zoom
This course will explore child development from a trauma informed, biopsychological and attachment perspective. It will examine the crucial and unique role that art therapy can play in both pinpointing and reworking poorly negotiated developmental steps.
Introduction and Foundation courses
One week foundation in art therapy
Monday 23 - Friday 27 October 2023
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.
Conferences
Free CPD: updated HCPC standards of proficiency
25 October 2023 (5-6pm)
31 January 2024 (5-7pm)
Online
These two free events will help art therapists embed the updated HCPC standards of proficiency into your practice. The updated standards came into effect on 1st September 2023.
Conferences
Annual conference 2023: Art therapy and the climate crisis
Saturday 4 November 2023
Online via Zoom
CPD courses
Mindfulness-based art therapy: approaches and applications
Friday 10 - Saturday 11 November 2023
Online via Zoom
This course will help develop your understanding of the theory and practice of mindfulness and will provide examples of integration within art therapy.
Introduction and Foundation courses
Introduction to the profession of art therapy
Saturday 11 November 2023
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 is for you.
CPD courses
Setting up in private, sessional or independent practice
Saturday 18 November 2023
Online via Zoom
This course is for art therapists who are thinking of becoming private, sessional, or independent practitioners. Whether you are experienced or newly qualified, this course will offer you all the practical tips you need for setting up your practice and preparing for self-employed work.
ARTiculate courses
ARTiculate for staff in education and social care
Day 1: Friday 22 September 2023
Day 2: Friday 20 October 2023
Day 3: Friday 24 November 2023
Online via Zoom
We've designed this course to better equip education and social care professionals to use art safely and effectively as a communication tool when supporting young people with a range of issues such as trust, relationship building and emotional literacy.
CPD courses
Working with loss and grief: till death do us art
Friday 1 - Saturday 2 December 2023
Online via Zoom
This new creative course explores death, loss and grief, its implications for therapy work, and the importance of self-care. On this course, you will have the opportunity to safely explore this important aspect of living, reflecting both on client work and on your own feelings and experiences.
CPD courses
Supervision training
Tuesday 5 - Wednesday 6 December 2023
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.
Frequently asked questions
Bookings for the course close one week before the start date, at 10.00am.
Joining instructions and the delegate pack 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.
