This online Mindfulness Art Therapy workshop is a partnership between EACH Family Relationship Support for Carers Service and Empowered Art Therapy, and will enable you to gain a greater understanding of yourself, your challenges, resilience and things you wish to grow through creative, expressive processes.

The tree and its many parts symbolise you and your many parts.  Your history and roots, the face you share to the world, your inner self and where you are ‘growing to’. As we draw to the close of 2020 we will look at what your tree wishes to compost and what you wish to flourish in 2021.

The ‘Tree of Me’ online workshop will provide you with experiential creative process connecting you to your:

• Emotional expression & body senses
• Your wisdom with in
• Making & developing new, healthy coping skills.

During this live online interactive course, you will construct your own creative tree:

• Kerryn will guide you through this process of creating your own tree through an art therapy framework and by using art materials. (see attached course outline & required materials)

 

Join us via Zoom:

Date: Thursday, 26th November 2020

Time: 10.00am – 11.15am

Zoom Meeting Registrations close on Wednesday 25th November at 6pm

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

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Tree Of Me – Course Outline

The ‘Tree Of Me’ Art Therapy online course, presented by Art Therapist & Founder of Empowered Art Therapy and Kindred Art Space, Kerryn Knight enables you to gain a greater understanding of yourself, your challenges, resilience and things you wish to grow towards through creative, expressive processes.

The tree and its many parts symbolise you and your many parts.  Your history and roots, the face you share to the world, your inner self and where you are ‘growing to’. As we draw to the close of 2020 we will look at what your tree wishes to compost and what you wish to flourish in 2021.

How does Art Therapy work?

Art Therapy focusses on the process of creating rather than an art outcome.  Therefore, it is not about creating a ‘masterpiece’, nor it is creating something that is aesthetically pleasing.  Rather it is about the process of expressing emotion and by doing so becoming more aware of our body felt sense and the wisdom it holds.  The art created has a two-fold effect.  On one hand, it acts as a release of emotion.  On the other hand, the art acts as a visual representation of that emotion of which the art-maker can dialogue with and gain further self-awareness.

More about your presenter:

Kerryn Knight is an Art Therapist & Founder of Empowered Art Therapy and Kindred Art Space.  She uses the creative expressive process as a vehicle for self-care and self-awareness.  With these tools, she empowers you to navigate towards meaning-making and develop new and healthy coping skills.

What you will need for this online course:

The list of materials below can be sourced at home or at your local art supply store.

• Your choice of size and colour paper/canvas to draw/paint on
• Your choice of acrylic paint, coloured markers, pencils or posca pens.

For more information, see  EACH and please contact EACH FRSC via email at frsc@each.com.au.

Mindfulness Walk-In-Wonder Art Therapy

An online workshop for carers.

This free online Mindfulness Art Therapy workshop is a partnership between EACH Family Relationship Support for Carers Service and Empowered Art Therapy, that invites you to take time out from your caring role, focus on your essential self-care and learn practical mindfulness through creative, expressive processes.

Join us via Zoom:

Dates: 20^th August 2020

Time: 10am – 11am

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This online course will provide you with:

• Mindfulness techniques for daily relaxation and self-care.
• Downloadable instructions HERE
• A creative expressive process to explore your learning edges, strengths, challenges, and resilience.
• A sharing circle with fellow carers.

Materials list

The list of materials below can be sourced from your garden or nearby park or beach:

• Taking a ‘walk-in-wonder’ find 4 x natural items that represent:
  • Your safe place/happy place (that does not necessarily need to be a physical location) where you feel centred
  • Your learning edge or hurdle that you can work on to bring you closer to your goal
  • What in the moment calls you to be present/grounded
  •  The bigger picture of you /where you see yourself and your role within the family/greater community
• Quiet spot, interruption-free for 1 hour to walk in wonder and another 1 hour to join the online course
• An open mind

How does Art Therapy work?

Art Therapy focusses on the process of creating rather than an art outcome. Therefore, it is not about creating a ‘masterpiece’, nor it is creating something that is aesthetically pleasing. Rather it is just about the process of expressing emotion and doing so by becoming more aware of our body felt sense and the wisdom it holds. The art created has a two-fold effect. On one hand, it acts as a release of emotion. On the other hand, the art acts as a visual representation of that emotion of which the art-maker can dialogue with and gain further self-awareness.

 

More about your presenter: Kerryn Knight is an Art Therapist & Founder of Empowered Art Therapy and Kindred Art Space. She uses the creative expressive process as a vehicle for self-care and self-awareness. With these tools, she empowers you to navigate towards meaning-making and develop new and healthy coping skills.

 

For more information, please contact our FRSC Team on 1300 303 346 or via frsc@each.com.au.

 

 

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND – Early Life Foundations and Kindred Art Space are pleased to invite you to a professional development day with a difference.

Increasingly research and teachers in the field are finding stress and anxiety is impacting children’s ability to learn effectively. Join us for a practical, informative and hands on workshop to discover ways to enhance children’s wellbeing through a series of creative processes.

Run by Art Therapist and Counsellor Kerryn Knight and Early Life staff, this workshop involves the following series of creative experiences, which can be adapted for use with children of all ages.

Research: Participants will be taken through case studies and research around the benefits of creative therapeutic processes to foster and support the good mental health and wellbeing of children.

Mindfulness Processes: Participants will experience a series of simple mindfulness relaxation process suitable to use with all age groups.

Tree of Me Process: Participants are then guided through the ‘Tree of Me’ process. They are invited through a series of fun, creative yet therapeutic processes to experientially build self-awareness through tree symbolism while painting an individual wall-hanging as a take-away item.

Sandplay Symbols: Participants will learn about the benefits of Sandplay symbol therapy. This process is a satisfying and therapeutic ‘check-in’ and can inspire creative dialogue.

Labyrinth Walk: The Labyrinth is used in Steiner education and many cultures as a celebratory ceremony and symbolic journey. Participants learn techniques to create a simple indoor or outdoor labyrinth.

Suitable for all educators who work with children – Early Childhood and Primary.  BOOK ONLINE HERE

The Power of Art

As an Art Therapist in Private Practice for more than a decade, I have seen many clients from many walks of life experiencing many things.  Through the power of art,  as a result, I have witnessed them make profound meaning, as it has done so in my own life.

Rather than focusing on transforming a stick-figure into a masterpiece, Art Therapy focuses on the art making process and not the outcome.  Therefore no art experience is necessary.  Art, in its many forms and mediums is used to tap into deeper parts of your psyche to bring forth your ‘voice’ and truth.  Then by looking at the art making, whether it is in the form of a simple gesture, a piece of music, a drawing or painting, we can study what that voice and deep truth has to say.  Many of my clients tell me that what I have been able to work on with them in a single session they have not been able to reach through many years of traditional ‘talking therapy’. 

I believe this is because when we use language and our analytical mind, we have the unconscious ability to mask what we really feel.  Or otherwise, simply can not find the words for as the original hurt may pre-date language.  On the other hand, when we express ourselves through art making processes in a therapeutic facilitated session, we get in touch with parts of who we really are.

More and more research points to the fact that we store memory, including trauma, at a cellular level in the body.  Our society focuses on the analytical which causes us to become ‘stuck in our heads’ and detached from our body senses.  It is in our body senses where we stand to gain so much personal insight through our ‘gut instinct’ and intuition.  In the book by  Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel explains the Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma.

By making art and doing body work, rather than using the analytical mind through language, we can bring ease back to the body and mind at a very deep level.

 

You can view more of the article about Empowered Art Therapy at Kindred Art Space in the May 2019 edition of Peninsula Essence Magazine

 

 

 

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