Join PACFA’s College of Creative and Experiential Therapies (CCET) for an introductory presentation on Dramatherapy by Dr. Amanda Musicka-Williams: Explore key international definitions and approaches to dramatherapy practice Learn about the range of drama-based therapeutic methods from embodied play to … Read More
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Congratulations PACFA for successfully achieving full membership of AHPA (Allied Health Professions Australia).
Congratulations PACFA for successfully achieving full membership of AHPA (Allied Health Professions Australia). This is excellent news for all members of PACFA and anyone considering becoming a member including Creative Arts Therapists. PACFA was formerly an affiliate member of AHPA, … Read More
SUPERVISION STUDIO – Online Creative Practice with Dr Carla van Laar
SUPERVISION STUDIO with Dr Carla van Laar is an online, small group supervision session where we focus on using creative and collaborative processes as ways to connect, explore, problem solve and gain insight into our work. BOOK YOUR PLACE NOW … Read More
SUPERVISION STUDIO – Online Creative Practice with Dr Carla van Laar
SUPERVISION STUDIO with Dr Carla van Laar is an online, small group supervision session where we focus on using creative and collaborative processes as ways to connect, explore, problem solve and gain insight into our work. BOOK YOUR PLACE NOW … Read More
Getting Creative with Trauma: Part 2
• Art based responses to grief, loss and trauma• Intergenerational relationships• Multi-dimensional perspectives• Creating a new relationship with the past and healing the future. This workshop follows on from Getting Creative with Trauma: Part 1.In part 2 we engage in … Read More
Daring Mel Knight brings DR SKETCHY’S ANTI-ART SCHOOL to the Welcome Dinner 2022 Creative Mental Health Forum and Self Care Retreat
Dr Sketchy’s Anti-Art School Tired of lifeless life drawing classes? Fancy a scribble but not sure where to start? Suffering creative inertia and looking to stoke your lost muse? … Dr Sketchy’s is the world’s premier alternative life … Read More
BOOK LAUNCH: Kim Billington’s “A Counsellor’s Companion: Creative Adventures for Child Counsellors, Parents and Teachers” with illustrations by Tamar Dolev.
I am delighted to be opening speaker at the launch of “A Counsellor’s Companion: Creative Adventures for Child Counsellors, Parents and Teachers”. The book is a wonderfully accessible treasure chest that combines narrative and arts based approaches to working with … Read More
Creative Self Care: Co-creating – the Art of Living Part 3 “Creative Integration – The Big Picture”
With Dr Carla van Laar AThR Feature image credit Carla van Laar In this article, I invite you to reflect on your journey of self care, and create a “big picture” of you in your life, surrounded by the things … Read More
Creative Self Care: Co-creating – the Art of Living Part 2 “Knowing yourself and what enhances your life”
With Dr Carla van Laar AThR Image credits Carla van Laar In this article, I introduce some of the ways that “life enhancement” has been understood and written about in art therapy literature, and what I discovered about “life enhancement” … Read More
Creative Self Care: Co-creating – the Art of Living Part 1, “Reviewing your Journey of Creative Self Care”
With Dr Carla van Laar AThR Feature image credit Carla van Laar In this article I share some stories from my Doctoral research that illustrate how we reflected on our creative journeys together, and the ways that these were life … Read More
Creative Self Care: Relating and Connecting Part 3 “Mindful making in relationship”
With Dr Carla van Laar AThR Feature image credit Carla van Laar In this article I share an extract form my Doctoral research that illustrates how art helps us to connect with our own values and strengths, and that this … Read More
Creative Self Care: Relating and Connecting Part 2 “Creating a Response”
With Dr Carla van Laar AThR Feature image credit Carla van Laar In this article I share some of my findings about how art can facilitate feelings of deep connection, I then invite you to find an artwork that reaches … Read More
Creative Self Care: Relating and Connecting Part 1 “Connecting through art”
With Dr Carla van Laar AThR Feature image credit Carla van Laar In this article I introduce the themes of relationship, connection and co-creation as I investigated them in my Doctoral research. I invite you to engage in a “Self-Collage” … Read More
Creative Self Care: Choosing, changing and continuing Part 3 “Continuing – what am I bringing forward?”
With Dr Carla van Laar AThR Feature image credit Carla van Laar In this article I share some insights from my Doctoral research about bringing things forward as an act of self-continuity. I invite you to engage in a creative … Read More
Walking Towards the Light
Jessika Behnecke26/3/2020Walking Towards the Light27cm x 38cmAcrylic, soft pastels + pen An intuitive art piece focusing on hope in our current crisis…’Walking towards light, opportunity + faith. Sending light out into the world and leaving the darkness behind’.
‘Women of the World’ exhibition NYC
Bringing together artworks by 400 women painters from around the world, the mission of this exhibition is close to my heart! I was thrilled to be invited to participate by my Linkedin colleague, Carly Aguilera, Director of the ‘South Art … Read More
ART THERAPY FIRST AID FUNDRAISING PD WORKSHOPS
Firstly, my heart felt condolences for the losses suffered by so many people, animals, plants and places. Like many others, my first reaction, on hearing that a place I love has been burned, was shock and disbelief. This was soon … Read More
“Earth. Art. Ocean” Whole Health Eco, Art and Surf Therapy PD Beach Retreat 20th – 22nd March 2020
The first Therapy for Therapists Professional Development and Self Care retreat of the new decade is right here at home in Victoria’s Sandy Point! This eco and whole health focused training weekend is a soulful combination of essential knowledge, health … Read More
Therapy for Therapists – Retreats
Self-care is utterly essential for any therapist. Not looking after ourselves is a trap that is easy to fall into, be seduced into or be pressurised into. Actually looking after ourselves is something that we can forget to attend to, … Read More