Events
CPD courses
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.
CPD courses
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.
CPD courses
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.
CPD courses
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.
CPD courses
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.
CPD courses
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.
CPD courses
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.
CPD courses
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.
CPD courses
Mentalisation-based art therapy: introduction day
Friday 27 September 2024
Online via Zoom
Mentalisation-based art therapy can be useful for adults who suffer from intense emotional distress and children experiencing social, emotional and mental health difficulties. This course introduces practitioners to the underlying principles and possible applications of mentalisation-based approaches to art therapy with adults and children.
CPD courses
Psychoeducation in art therapy practice
Saturday 5 October 2024
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
Child development and its significance in art therapy across the life cycle
Friday 11 - Saturday 12 October 2024
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.
CPD courses
Working with loss and grief: till death do us art
Friday 22 - Saturday 23 November 2024
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.
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.