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
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.
Introduction and Foundation courses
One week foundation in art therapy
Monday 28 April - Friday 2 May 2025
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 therapy. Throughout the week you will see snapshots of what art therapy looks like in various contexts.
Introduction and Foundation courses
Introduction to the profession of art therapy
Saturday 10 May 2025
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.
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
Animation and embodied story-making in clinical settings
Friday 16 - Saturday 17 May 2025
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
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
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.
Introduction and Foundation courses
Introduction to the profession of art therapy
Friday 11 July 2025
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.
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.
ARTiculate courses
ARTiculate for staff in education and social care
Day 1: Friday 26 September 2025
Day 2: Friday 24 October 2025
Day 3: Friday 21 November 2025
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.
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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