Events
CPD courses
Citizen art therapists: advocating for social justice and democracy
Friday 2 and Friday 9 June 2023
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.
Tell me moreCPD courses
Animation and embodied story-making in clinical settings
Friday 16 - Saturday 17 June 2023
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.
Introduction and Foundation courses
Introduction to the profession of art therapy
Saturday 1 July 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 may be for you.
Conferences
Free CPD for members: sustaining an art therapy career - a guide for longer working lives
Wednesday 5 July 2023
Online via Zoom
While training prepares us in beginning and developing our work, this course will look at how to sustain a career as an art therapist, how to find new directions, or bring a long career to a close.
CPD courses
Challenging dominant narratives from an LGBTQIA+ perspective: how to better serve art therapy service users
Saturday 8 July 2023
Online via Zoom
This course will help you better serve your LGBTQIA+ service users, but most importantly, we will see how reaching this goal helps us better serve all of our users. It's for anyone who would like to expand their self-reflection and challenge their limits in order to open up the therapeutic space.
CPD courses
Perinatal art therapy
Friday 8 - Saturday 9 September 2023
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.
CPD courses
Psychoeducation in art therapy practice
Saturday 16 September 2023
Online via Zoom
On this course we will explore how to effectively integrate psychoeducation into your clinical work. We will consider formal psychoeducational approaches, informal responsive interventions and the role of imagery to enhance therapeutic practice and support learning, collaboration and change.
CPD courses
Intersectional self-reflexivity: embracing anti-oppressive art therapy practice
16 September 2023 (10.00-12.30)
27 Sept/11 & 25 Oct 2023
(18.00-19.30)
11 Nov 2023 (10.00-12.30)
Online via Zoom
As art therapists, we are ethically bound to consider our conscious and unconscious selves and the power we carry within the therapeutic relationship. Intersectional thinking encourages considerations of identity and the relational nature of power. This course is an introduction to intersectional frameworks, and invites you to meaningfully explore how identity and lived experiences may impact your practice.
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
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.
CPD courses
EMDR meets art therapy for children, young people, and adults
Saturday 7 October 2023
Online via Zoom
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) can be used as a treatment for people who have a diagnosis of PTSD/C-PTSD, depression, OCD, and eating disorders, to name a few. This course introduces practitioners to the potential of EMDR as a useful tool and signposts to training and accreditation.
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.
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.
