Art Therapies Summer Institutes

The Prescott College Expressive Art Therapy program is pleased to announce the 2007 Expressive Art Therapy Summer Institute, which will be held once again at the College's main campus in Prescott, Arizona. The Institute is open to Expressive Art Therapy students, Expressive Art Therapists, and those interested in learning more about the Expressive Art Therapies.

Class Descriptions

Studio Process to Engage for the Common Good
This class is designed to assist artists, art therapists and activists to align with the wisdom of the Creative Source through art, writing, performance, movement and sound. By listening to this Source we can discern how and where we are called to be a witness to our times. Students will have opportunities to learn techniques to discern the ‘common good,’ identify their unique talents and contributions to their community of choice, understand how to create a sustainable personal practice to support their work, and develop skills in visioning creative solutions, both independently and in groups.

Movement Matters
Students will have the opportunity to explore the psyche via movement expression and Laban Movement Analysis. Students will be offered the opportunity to acquire a lexicon for observing and describing movement style which can be applied to the clinical dynamic. The class will experience and interpret the components of transference and counter transference and societal/cultural roles. Interpersonal dynamics, developmental movement benchmarks as a foundational matrix for clinical analysis, and choreography of psyche through myth and archetypes will be explored.

Integrating the Self with the Power of Music and Sound
Music and sound speak directly to the soul and spirit, as well as having immediate effects on the mind/body and emotions. We will explore both making music and receiving music using voice and body, instruments, and recordings.

Dynamics of Therapeutic Play through Different Levels of Consciousness
Therapeutic play and the state of creative consciousness are loosely aligned with one another. This class will explore the use of image and metaphor and form and formlessness, exploring how we shift into different ego states while maintaining a ground and center. The theory and technique of therapeutic intervention will be an organic part of this process.

Play Among the Ruins: Art Therapy and Performance Art
This course will explore the encounter between therapist, client, and artwork through the lens of performance art. A combination of lecture, performance, and experiential formats will be used to provoke consideration of the potential for enhanced empathy. This can result in increased understanding when clients and their artworks are viewed and engaged through visual, musical, poetic, dramatic, and narrative means. Discussion with participants about their work settings and client populations will ground the theoretical and experiential learning in practical applications.

Existential Art Therapy
The focus of this workshop will be an artistic and experiential exploration of the ultimate concerns of existence. The primary tenets of existential art therapy will be addressed through didactic presentation and creative response.

The Role of Resistance and Uncertainty in Creative
Expression
This class will focus on learning how difficulties have a formative and even necessary place within the process of creative expression. Rather than fixing or eliminating resistances, the group will explore how they can be embraced as vital partners. The process requires the ability to let go, trust, and respond to the changing movements of the creative process. The group will practice suspending critical self-judgment and learning how, mistakes, doubts, and fears provide materials and fuel for creative transformation. Fine and performing arts will be engaged in ways that relate to Jung’s methods of active imagination. A recommended reading list will be provided.

Expressive Art Therapy Seminar
This class offers both beginning and experienced art therapists the opportunity to experience through didactic and experiential activities the use of the Expressive Art Therapies. Students will practice working with each other exploring the expressive art work which they produce. In addition, the relationship between the Expressive Arts, Healing, the body/mind connection and meditation will be examined and experienced. There will be a focus on diversity and community building through the Expressive Arts.

Relating Through Material
Students will have the opportunity to explore the notion that the process of creating visual language can be understood as an expression of a relationship between the artist and materials. The group will explore how image making can serve as a metaphor mirroring our approach to life.

Knowing Materials
In these classes students will learn therapeutic applications of a variety of materials as used with diverse populations in multiple settings.

Institute Schedule

Class Presenters

Pat B. Allen, Ph.D., ATR is an artist, art therapist, and author of Art is a Way of Knowing and Art is a Spiritual Path. She is adjunct associate professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and gives workshops throughout the country. Pat has been a primary voice in the community studio movement within art therapy and is coordinating an on-line image community.

Debra McCall, C.M.A., has been a dance/movement therapist and certified movement analyst for over 25 years. She taught in graduate programs at New York University, Pratt Institute, Institute for Movement Studies, and Art Therapy Italiana. She led a series of workshops in her Body of Myth series. She was awarded National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities grants for her choreography. She is presently Director of the Ross Institute Teacher Academy.

Anne B. Parker has been a professional music therapist for 30 years. She completed degrees in music therapy, counseling psychology, and health services administration as well as postgraduate studies in music-evoked imagery and sound healing.

Art Robbins, Ed. D., ATR, HLM, one of the pioneers of Art Therapy, is a professor of Art Therapy at Pratt Institute and the author of seven books and numerous articles. He is a licensed psychologist, certified psychoanalyst, founder of the Institute for Expressive Analysis and a sculptor. He brings 32 years of experience as a teacher and therapist to his class.

Sandra Robbins, a practicing healer, is on the faculty of Pratt Institute and has conducted workshops in psychic healing for 20 years. She has a broad background in dance, movement, and spiritual/energetic healing.

Bruce L. Moon, Ph.D., ATR-BC is the director of the graduate Art Therapy program at Mount Mary College. He has over 30 years of clinical art therapy experience and 25 years as an art therapy educator. Bruce is the author of nine art therapy texts, including Existential Art Therapy and Ethical Issues in Art Therapy. He is an active painter and singer-songwriter.

Cathy Moon is an assistant professor in the graduate art therapy program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and author of the book, Studio Art Therapy: Cultivating the Artist Identity in the Art Therapist. She has practiced art therapy for over 25 years, working with children, adolescents and adults. Her professional publications and presentations in art therapy have focused on the unique contributions of an artistic perspective in therapeutic practice.

Shaun McNiff is a professor at Lesley University. He is internationally recognized in art, healing and creativity enhancement, past President of the American Art Therapy Association and author of Art Heals: How Creativity Cures the Soul; Trust the Process: An Artist’s Guide to Letting Go; Art As Medicine: Creating a Therapy of the Imagination; Creativity with Others: the Practice of Imagination in Life, Art and the Workplace; and Art Based Research and The Arts and Psychotherapy.

Cappi Lang Comba, Ph.D., ATR-BC. REAT, is a graduate of Pratt Institute in New York, a licensed professional counselor and a certified practitioner of Rubenfeld Synergy, a system for the integration of body, mind, heart and spirit. She has been in private practice for 27 years and with Prescott College for 14 years. She is the former Associate Faculty for Expressive Art Therapy and serves as Associate Faculty for the Somatic Psychology Program at Prescott College.

Ellen Greenblum, M.Ed., B.F.A., is an artist and educator. She recognizes the life lessons that the process of art making reveal. Ellen has worked with students of various ages and in many settings to help them learn to approach new situations and challenges with the curiosity and willingness of the artist using a variety of art materials. She is a Core Faculty in the Adult Degree Program at Prescott College.

Camille Smith, LPC, ATR-BC, is a graduate of Lesley University. She has focused her professional practice on using creative expression to assist others in achieving their personal potential. She is a former Associate Faculty for Arizona State University, teaching Art Therapy courses. Camille is currently Associate Faculty for the Prescott College Expressive Art Therapy Program and Clinical Director for Art Awakenings.

Michael Tomulty is a tri yoga instructor integrating meditation, movement and mantras.

How to Get There

Prescott is northwest of Phoenix in the mountains, and is ideal for wilderness activities, hiking, climbing, and just relaxing. Summer day temperatures range from the high 70s to low 90s and in the 60s at night. The Institute is held at Prescott Collegeís Crossroads Centeróparticipants will receive a map in early July.

Registration Information

Register for the entire Institute or for part(s) of it. Class size is limited, so register today!

Class Fees

Housing and meals are on your own. Visit www.prescott.org for a listing of hotels and restaurants in the Prescott area.

Refunds

Cancellation by June 6, 2007 - all but $200
Cancellation after June 6, 2007 - no refund
Make checks payable to Prescott College.

Contact Information

Frank Cardamone
Prescott College
220 Grove Avenue
Prescott, AZ 86301

Questions? Contact Camille at 602-373-3881
csmith256@cox.net

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