Events
CPD courses
Dyadic parent-child art psychotherapy - Level 2
Friday 28 - Saturday 29 March 2025
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
Free CPD for members: Thinking about working in higher education?
Wednesday 2 April 2025 (5-7pm)
Online
Whether you already work as a part-time lecturer, workshop facilitator, or would like to work in higher education, this session aims to help you navigate the path towards a career as an art, drama or music therapy educator.
CPD courses
Online art therapy: introduction to approaches and methods
Friday 4 - Saturday 5 April 2025
Online via Zoom
Learn about approaches and methods to using online art therapy in your practice and how to create a safe and secure virtual environment. This 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.
CPD courses
Introduction to using fairy tales in art therapy
Friday 25 April 2025
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.
CPD courses
Free CPD for members: welcoming art therapists into the Community for AHP Research
Tuesday 29 April 2025 (5-7pm)
Online
This free CPD for our members will introduce you to the Community for Allied Health Professions Research (CAHPR), its regional hubs, webinars, events and resources. The aim is for more art therapists, who are or would like to be research active, to engage with CAHPR to support you in progressing along your research pathway.
CPD courses
Supervision training
Tuesday 13 - Thursday 15 May 2025
Online via Zoom
This three-day course provides the theoretical and practical guidance to support your supervisory role, whether it's a clinical or managerial role, or both.
CPD courses
A film in a day: moving stories in clinical settings
Saturday 17 May 2025
Online via Zoom
Film is a powerful medium to use in clinical settings, allowing clients to tell a story, from lived experience or made up. Therapists can also use film as a tool for reflection or to tell your own stories. This course will offer the opportunity for you to practice making a film in a day.
CPD courses
Creative approaches to autism and neurodiversity
Friday 6 - Saturday 7 June 2025
Online via Zoom
This course explores creative, neuro-affirming approaches to supporting the needs of neurodivergent service users, colleagues, trainees, and supervisees. We will cover what neurodiversity is, what it is not, and how we can tailor our practice to help neurodivergent people thrive.
CPD courses
EMDR meets art therapy for children, young people, and adults
Saturday 28 June 2025
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.
CPD courses
Complex trauma and dissociation: how to adapt art therapy practice
Friday 4 - Saturday 5 July 2025
Online via Zoom
Develop your understanding of the legacy of trauma and how to adapt art psychotherapy for adults with PTSD. With a particular focus on stabilisation, this course aims to support effective practice with the most complex PTSD, including dissociative disorders.
CPD courses
Life story work with looked after and adopted children and young people
Friday 18 - Saturday 19 July 2025
Online via Zoom
Therapeutic life story work is an intervention commonly offered to children and young people in care and adoptees. This course offers a helpful framework for practice to augment therapists’ existing skills and knowledge in this field.
CPD courses
Psychoeducation in art therapy practice
Friday 3 - Saturday 4 October 2025
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.
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.
If you need further assistance, please contact us at events@baat.org.
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