Events
CPD courses
Embracing cultural and ethnic diversity in art therapy
Friday 8 December 2023
Online via Zoom
This course aims to allow a safe space to explore why #BlackLivesMatter is not just a hashtag, consider insights and examples of cultural indifference as viewed from the perspective of a Black British art therapist, and give practitioners the confidence to move from necessary self-reflection to asking some of those difficult questions of clients.
CPD courses
Dyadic parent-child art psychotherapy training - Level 1
Friday 19 - Saturday 20 January 2024
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.
ARTiculate courses
ARTiculate for staff in education and social care
Day 1: Friday 19 January 2024
Day 2: Friday 23 February 2024
Day 3: Friday 22 March 2024
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
Peer review training
Friday 26 January 2024
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
Nature-based art therapy: principles and practice
Friday 2 - Saturday 3 February 2024
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 practice it safely.
Introduction and Foundation courses
Introduction to the profession of art therapy
Saturday 10 February 2024
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
Art therapy with groups of children
Friday 23 February 2024
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
Working with looked after and adopted children: complex trauma and art therapy
Friday 1 - Saturday 2 March 2024
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
Haptic perception in art therapy: using clay for implicit repair of developmental deficits
Tuesday 5 - Wednesday 6 March 2024
Online via Zoom
Haptic perception (touching objects with our hands) is the most fundamental of human experiences. This course will teach you about haptic perception in art therapy where using the hands and touch therapy with clay can offer diagnostic insights and implicit repair of developmental deficits.
CPD courses
EMDR meets art therapy for children, young people, and adults
Saturday 9 March 2024
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
The power of language - the words we use and the way we story people
Saturday 16 March 2024
Online via Zoom
This powerful and important workshop explores and reflects on the words we use in conversations, in therapy, in notes or recordings, and in places like meetings and client consultations.
CPD courses
Creative approaches to autism and neurodiversity
Friday 12 - Saturday 13 April 2024
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.
Frequently asked questions
Bookings for the course close one week before the start date, at 10.00am.
Joining instructions and the delegate pack 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.
