Events
Introduction and Foundation courses
Introduction to the profession of art therapy
Saturday 15 November 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
Setting up in private, sessional or independent practice
Friday 21 - Saturday 22 November 2025
Online via Zoom
This course is for qualified art therapists who are thinking of becoming private, sessional or independent practitioners. Whether you are experienced or newly qualified, this course will offer you all the practical tips you need for setting up your practice and preparing for self-employed work.
CPD courses
Learning disabilities: co-producing effective art therapy
Thursday 27 - Friday 28 November 2025
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
Supervision training
Tuesday 2 - Thursday 4 December 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
Research skills: introduction to systematic reviews
Saturday 6 December 2025
Online via Zoom
This course introduces practitioners to the potential for systematic reviews to map the current landscape of published evidence for arts therapies.
CPD courses
Peer review training
Friday 23 January 2026
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.
ARTiculate courses
ARTiculate for staff in education and social care
Day 1: Friday 30 Jan 2026
Day 2: Friday 27 Feb 2026
Day 3: Friday 27 March 2026
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 training - Level 1
Friday 30 - Saturday 31 January 2026
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
Art therapy with young people who self-harm and/or express suicidal ideation
Saturday 7 February 2026
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
Introduction to art therapy with people who experience psychosis
Friday 13 February 2026
Online via Zoom
The introduction course will briefly look at modern understandings of psychosis, from brain disease to stress disorders. We will then focus on introducing service user-informed approaches to working with people who experience psychosis including acceptance, compassion-focused, stabilisation, and Open Dialogue models.
Masterclasses
Masterclass in art therapy with ‘hard to reach’ children & young people
Saturday 28 February 2026
Online via Zoom
This masterclass aims to allow a creative space to safely discuss and explore what is meant by the term ‘hard to reach’ when working with children and young people (CYP). We will explore factors that might contribute to this classification and consider examples of ways to encourage engagement in art therapy.
CPD courses
Working with looked after and adopted children: complex trauma and art therapy
Friday 6 - Saturday 7 March 2026
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.
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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