Events
CPD courses
Online art therapy approaches and methods
Saturday 27 May 2023
Delivered via Zoom, information for the day and invite to join will be sent 1 week before
This course is open to qualified art therapists and art therapy trainees who would like to learn more about approaches and methods to use in online art therapy practice. This course introduces ethical considerations for helping create a safe and secure virtual environment, web-based digital art media programs to incorporate into individual and group art therapy work, and how to implement these art-based tools therapeutically.
CPD courses
Citizen art therapists: advocating for social justice and democracy
Friday 2 and Friday 9 June 2023
Delivered via Zoom, information for the day & invite to join will be sent 1 week before
In this course, participants will examine how they can position their clinical and community work in a manner that champions social justice, open dialogues, critical perspectives, and citizenship. In particular art therapy can support social justice by facilitating opportunities for visualizing injustices, representing voices, bringing people together, and imagining solutions.
CPD courses
Animation and embodied story-making in clinical settings
Friday 16 - Saturday 17 June 2023
Online via Zoom, information for the day & invite to join will be sent 1 week before
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.
Introduction and Foundation courses
Introduction to the profession of art therapy
Saturday 1 July 2023
Delivered 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
Challenging dominant narratives from an LGBTQIA+ perspective: how to better serve art therapy service users
Saturday 8 July 2023
Delivered via Zoom, information for the day and invite to join will be sent 1 week before
This course is for anyone who would like to expand their self-reflection and challenge their limits in order to open up the therapeutic space. Specifically, the course is about how to better serve our LGBTQIA+ service users, but most importantly, we will see how reaching this goal helps us better serve all of our users.
CPD courses
Intersectional self-reflexivity: embracing anti-oppressive art therapy practice
16 September 2023 (10.00-12.30) + 27 Sept/11 & 25 Oct 2023 (18.00-19.30) + 11 Nov 2023 (10.00-12.30)
Online via Zoom, information for the day and invite to join will be sent 1 week before
As art therapists, we are ethically bound to consider our conscious and unconscious selves and the power we carry within the therapeutic relationship. Intersectional thinking encourages considerations of identity and the relational nature of power. This course will cover an introduction to intersectional frameworks, inviting participants to meaningfully explore how identity and lived experiences may impact their practice.
ARTiculate courses
ARTiculate for staff in education and social care
Day 1: Friday 22 September 2023 Day 2: Friday 20 October 2023 Day 3: Friday 24 November 2023
Delivered via Zoom, information for the day and invite to join will be sent 1 week before
We understand that children and young people sometimes struggle to put their feelings into words and often turn to artmaking to express themselves. We have therefore designed ARTiculate as continued professional development (CPD) 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 and relationship building and emotional literacy.
CPD courses
Dyadic parent-child art psychotherapy - Level 2
Friday 29 - Saturday 30 September 2023
Delivered via Zoom, information for the day and invite to join will be sent 1 week before
Dyadic parent-child art psychotherapy is a way of working which focuses directly on the child’s primary attachment relationship. The aim of this course is to equip 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
EMDR meets art therapy for children, young people, and adults
Saturday 7 October 2023
Delivered via Zoom, information for the day and invite to join will be sent 1 week before
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) was developed by Francine Shapiro and is now used as a treatment for people who have a diagnosis of PTSD/C-PTSD, depression, OCD, and eating disorders to name but a few. This course aims to introduce practitioners to the potential of EMDR as a useful practice tool and signpost to training and accreditation.
CPD courses
Child development and its significance in art therapy across the life cycle
Friday 13 - Saturday 14 October 2023
Delivered via Zoom, information for the day and invite to join will be sent 1 week before
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.
Introduction and Foundation courses
One week foundation in art therapy
Monday 23 - Friday 27 October 2023
Delivered via Zoom, information for the day and invite to join will be sent 1 week before
This course is intended for people who are interested in art therapy as a career and want to consider going on to train as an art therapist. It is also useful for other professionals who want to gain a better understanding of art within a care context.
CPD courses
Mindfulness-based art therapy: approaches and applications
Friday 10 - Saturday 11 November 2023
Delivered via Zoom, information for the day and invite to join will be sent 1 week before
Mindfulness-based art therapy is an integrated approach combining mindfulness teaching and art psychotherapy practice. The approach can be applied to group or individual work. This course will help develop your understanding of the theory and practice of mindfulness and will provide examples of integration within art therapy.
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.
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.
