Events
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.
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.
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.
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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