What offers us hope, or helps us to make meaning?
What values guide us, particularly in times of challenge?
What are our anchors and roots in the shadowy depths and wild turbulence, and what paths do we take to access transcendence?
Michelle Morgan AThR joins us at the Creative Mental Health Forum and Self Care Retreat to explore how spirituality and mental health intersect and influence one another.
She invites participants to:
“Explore the relationship between our spirituality, mental health, and our mental health practice.
In this experiential workshop, we will engage our lived experience through creative play to explore: What is most important to us? What nurtures and sustains us? To what, or whom, do we belong? What offers us hope, or helps us to make meaning? What values guide us, particularly in times of challenge? What are our anchors and roots in the shadowy depths and wild turbulence, and what paths do we take to access transcendence? And how do all of these elements engage and support our mental health, and our work with others?”
About Michelle…
Michelle Morgan is a registered arts therapist, multi-modal creative, and spiritual care practitioner, who has been walking the path of healing and creativity for over 20 years.
She has exhibited visual, textile, and sculptural art, toured as a musician, published poetry and writing, and recorded and released original music. She recently published the ‘Creative Soul Mandala Oracle’, a tool for creatives and therapists.
Michelle has worked creatively with older people, children, and adults as a creative facilitator and community singing leader. Her practice is informed by her lived experience of depression and premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD). She brings a trauma-informed approach to individual and group work, and deeply values spaciousness and gentleness, allowing each person’s unique process to unfold in its own time.
www.cocooncreativeartstherapies.com.au
We pay our deep respects to the First Peoples of Boon Wurrung Country where we will meet.
Friday 14th – Monday 17th May 2021
Inverloch RACV Resort, Bass Coast, Victoria
This training event is proudly endorsed by PACFA for 11 hours of continuing professional development.
$600 registration fee covers core program, Friday night Welcome Dinner, morning and afternoon teas, and is payable in 3 instalments.Registration does not include accomodation or meals other than the Welcome Dinner.
The core program includes Welcome Dinner, morning mindful activities, 6 x keynote presentations, 6 x 1.5 hour experiential workshops and a number of optional wellness activities for self-care including dance, art making, swimming and walking. Surfing, Stand Up Paddle Boarding and Snorkelling are available as optional add ons at affordable prices.
This forum supports the goals of the ACTivate Arts Therapy campaign – to have Arts Therapists recognised as mental health professionals.For this purpose, the forum is designed to be educational in an experiential sense – by providing opportunities to participate first hand in creative and holistic workshops and activities, as well as hear from dynamic keynote presenters and a panel of lived experience experts.
Experience for yourself how:
Creative practices support mental health
Contemporary Arts Therapists are working to promote and recover mental wellbeing
Arts Therapies are inclusive, holistic, trauma-informed and socially relevant.
The 2021 Creative Mental Health Forum and Self-care Retreat is an opportunity to look after yourself and learn while enjoying good company and restorative time in the living world.
It is hosted only two hours drive from Melbourne in the beautiful surrounds of the Bass Coast Bunurong Marine Park and township of coastal Inverloch.
This Professional Development event is suitable for Therapists interested in understanding more about creative approaches in mental health care.
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CREATIVE MENTAL HEALTH FORUM AND SELF CARE RETREAT
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