Events
Masterclasses
Masterclass in maintaining your creative practice as an art therapist
Saturday 27 September 2025
Online via Zoom
Maintaining fitness to practice for an art therapist includes ‘engagement in their own arts-based process’. This masterclass is for all art therapists who want to explore and/or re-ignite their creativity. We will address potential blocks and barriers that hinder creative potential and look at ways to maintain a regular creative practice that fits around the challenges of daily life.
CPD courses
Psychoeducation in art therapy practice
Friday 3 - Saturday 4 October 2025
Online via Zoom
On this course we will explore how to effectively integrate psychoeducation into your clinical work. We will consider formal psychoeducational approaches, informal responsive interventions and the role of imagery to enhance therapeutic practice and support learning, collaboration and change.
CPD courses
Perinatal art therapy
Friday 10 - Saturday 11 October 2025
Online via Zoom
This course introduces art therapy practice within the perinatal period (roughly from pregnancy to two years old). It's a time of enormous change, when the emotional and mental health of parents impacts infant wellbeing, and support can be crucial.
CPD courses
Child development and its significance in art therapy across the life cycle
Friday 17 - Saturday 18 October 2025
Online via Zoom
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 27 October - Friday 31 October 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 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
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.
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.
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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