Art Therapies Summer Institutes

The Prescott College Expressive Art Therapy program is pleased to announce the Prescott College Expressive Art Therapy Summer Institute 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 Social Issues and Support Social Action
As artists, art therapists, and activists, we can align with the inexhaustible wisdom of the Creative Source through art, writing, performance, movement, and sound to discern how and where we are called to be witness to our times. Fear and helplessness in the face of what seems insurmountable dissolve in the crucible of the creative process leaving a distilled, crystal vision of where and how we can each make a difference. Students will identify their unique talents and contributions to their community of choice, understand how to create a sustainable personal practice to support their work, develop skills in creative solutions, and create an art-based action plan.

The Power of the Shield
Explore defenses with emphasis on adaptation and non-adaptation, patient and therapist interactions, our cultural belief systems, and the impact of our protective barriers that influence our potential to grow and change. A series of verbal, art, and meditative exercises will highlight these issues.

Expressive Art Therapy Seminar
This class is for beginning to experienced art therapists, and explores Expressive Art Therapy through didactic and experiential activities including art, movement, writing and role-play, in addition to meditation and the body/mind connection. Students will practice working with each other exploring their artwork. Theoretical approaches to Expressive Art Therapy and how the Expressive Arts can aid in healing the self, the community, and the world will be addressed.

Group Dynamics and Therapy: Adding Art To Enrich Engagement
Students will experience being in a therapy group using art. Ms. Chapin will lead, then members of the group will both lead and observe groups. Each group will be analyzed in terms of principles of group dynamics, group roles, techniques of leadership, what can be learned from seeing the process of the group as a whole, how the group process affects individuals in the group, how art functions in group to further therapeutic goals, and discussion of readings, and recording of groups.

Liberating Expression: Shape-Shifting Amongst the Arts
With movement acting as the basis of expression in different media, we will create a safe environment to explore how the creative process carries us to new realms of experience and understanding. Opportunities to let go of inhibition and cultivate responsiveness to the creative force happen as we practice “shape-shifting” between different forms of expression (painting, body movement, vocal improvisation, poetic dialogue, ritual, and performance). How to suspend critical self-judgment and transform conflicts, mistakes, doubts, and fears into material for artistic expression, and how to trust the process in keeping with Jung's concept of the purposeful psyche will be discussed.

Ethical Issues in Expressive Art Therapy
This course will engage students in an exploration of ethical issues and dilemmas that art therapists face. Ethical problems will be addressed through three modes of ethical decision-making: deontological, antinomian, and teleological. Ethical problems will be wrestled with in light of the AATA Ethical Principles for Art Therapists and with reference to artistic ways of knowing.

Movement Matters
Students will explore the psyche via movement expression and Laban Movement Analysis. Students will acquire a lexicon for observing and describing movement style and apply that vocabulary to the clinical dynamic. The class will experience and interpret the components of transference and counter transference and society/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.

Relating Through Materials
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. We will explore how image making can serve as a metaphor mirroring our approach to life.

Institute Schedule

Class Presenters

Pat B. Allen, Ph.D., ATR is an artist, art therapist, and author of Art Is A Way of Knowing (Shambhala, l995) and Art Is A Spiritual Path (Shambhala, 2005). She teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and facilitates workshops. Pat has been a primary voice in the community studio movement within art therapy and is currently coordinating an on-line image community.

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.

Cappi Lang Comba, Ph.D., ATR-BC, REAT is a graduate of Pratt Institute in New York. She is a licensed counselor in Arizona 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 26 years, and is associate faculty in Counseling Psychology and director of the Expressive Art Therapy Program at Prescott College.

Mildred Lachman-Chapin, M.Ed., ATR, HLM, studied Art Therapy at the Washington School of Psychiatry with Elinor Ulman, Hanna Kwiatkowska, and Edith Kramer. She has practiced privately, clinically, and taught in graduate training programs throughout the country, including the Art Institute of Chicago. She is an exhibiting artist and author of Reverberations: Mothers and Daughters.

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 the 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, Creating with Others: The Practice of Imagination in Life, Art and the Workplace, Art Based Research, and The Arts and Psychotherapy.

Dr. 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.

Debra McCall A.D.T.R., C.M.A., is a dance/movement therapist and certified movement analyst. For over 25 years, Debra has taught in the graduate programs of New York University, Pratt Institute, the Institute for Movement Studies, and Art Therapy Italiana. She has conducted workshops on archetypes in her Body of Myth series, collaborating with James Hillman and Robert Bly. She created ìPsyche's Four Tasks,î and is presently Dean of Cultural History at the Ross School.

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 Core Faculty in the Adult Degree Program at Prescott College.

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 Two scholarships are available. Contact Cappi for an application

Refunds

Cancellation by June 7, 2006óall but $200
Cancellation after June 7, 2006óno refund
Make checks payable to Prescott College.

Highlights From The Last Seminar

The 2005 institute ran from July 8 through 24, and included workshops with Pat Allen, Art Robbins, Sandra Robbins, Mildred Lachman-Chapin, Shaun McNiff, and Debra McCall. In addition, Cappi Lang Comba, Director of the Expressive Arts Therapies Program, and Ellen Greenblum, Prescott College faculty member, convened daily workshops on meditation, materials, and the expressive arts.

Contact Information

Frank Cardamone
Prescott College
220 Grove Avenue
Prescott, AZ 86301

Questions? Contact Cappi at 928-445-0169
cappi@northlink.com

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