Events
CPD courses
Supervision training
Tuesday 3 - Wednesday 4 December 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
The bodymind model of art therapy
Friday 6 December 2024
Online via Zoom
The bodymind model delineates core processes and mechanisms of art therapy. In this course you will learn how to use this model in practice and research.
CPD courses
Peer review training
Friday 24 January 2025
Online via Zoom
For us to develop art therapy literature that is truly representative of contemporary practice, we need the widest possible involvement of art therapists as peer reviewers. This training prepares you to review submissions to the International Journal of Art Therapy.
CPD courses
Art therapy with young people who self-harm and/or express suicidal ideation
Saturday 25 January 2025
Online via Zoom
The world is constantly changing and can be a confusing and seemingly terrifying environment for many young people. Sadly, the numbers of young people who self-harm and express suicidal ideation is increasing. This course introduces practitioners to many of the issues surrounding self-harm and explores how art therapy can be an effective intervention.
CPD courses
Dyadic parent-child art psychotherapy training - Level 1
Friday 31 January - Saturday 1 February 2025
Online via Zoom
This is a practical course to help you develop your dyadic art therapy work, whether you are experienced in working dyadically or have never practiced in this way.
CPD courses
Nature-based art therapy: principles and practice
Friday 7 - Saturday 8 February 2025
Online via Zoom
This course offers an introduction to nature-based art therapy. If you are curious about what it means to be working in natural environments, this course will introduce you to the principles and how to practise it safely.
CPD courses
EMDR meets art therapy for children, young people, and adults
Saturday 22 February 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
Working with looked after and adopted children: complex trauma and art therapy
Friday 7 - Saturday 8 March 2025
Online via Zoom
This course outlines the legal and regulatory framework governing working with children who are looked after, on Special Guardianship orders, in kinship care, or adoption. It promotes best practice in working safely, ethically and effectively with this group of children, many of whom have experienced complex trauma.
CPD courses
Art therapy with groups of children
Friday 21 March 2025
Online via Zoom
This course will support your understanding of what to consider in order to set up and facilitate art psychotherapy groups with primary age children within schools and child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS).
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
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.
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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