Events
CPD courses
Nature-based art therapy: principles and practice
Friday 2 - Saturday 3 February 2024
Online via Zoom
This course offers an introduction to environmental 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.
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 promotes best practice in working safely, ethically and effectively with children who are looked after, on special guardianship orders, in kinship care or adoption. You will gain knowledge of current good practice in this field and become familiar with the specific contributions art therapists can make when working with 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
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
Using fairy tales in art therapy: once upon a time
Friday 29 March 2024
Online via Zoom
Fairy tales continue to fascinate and teach us, after centuries of being told. This course explores how these stories and their language of images can be an effective and powerful tool in art therapy.
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.
CPD courses
Learning disabilities: co-producing effective art therapy
Friday 17 - Saturday 18 May 2024
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
Using art collections, galleries, and museum within art therapy
Saturday 29 June 2024
Online via Zoom
What can art collections, galleries and museum contribute to art therapy practice? This course explores the rich theoretical basis for using galleries and museums in art therapy, presents a range of different approaches and discusses the practical issues involved.
CPD courses
Complex trauma and dissociation: how to adapt art therapy practice
Friday 5 - Saturday 6 July 2024
Online via Zoom
Develop your understanding of the legacy of trauma and how to adapt art psychotherapy. With a particular focus on stabilisation, this course aims to support effective practice with the most complex PTSD, including dissociative disorders.
CPD courses
The bodymind model of art therapy
Friday 6 December 2024
Online via Zoom
The bodymind model delineates core processes and mechanisms of art therapy. In this course you will learn how to use this model in practice and research.
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.
