The Arts Therapies and Embodiment
Sensorimotor Art Therapy has the ability to find language when we can’t access the spoken word. It engages the felt sense through trauma-informed sensory and movement exercises.
In stressful situations we hold ourselves together or break down. Bracing and collapse can make us feel numb and freeze us out of our body.
Over time our biography becomes our biology.
Our body remembers and keeps the score.
However, we can reconnect with our life-force through engaging the senses and simple movement patterns.
As therapists, parents and caregivers we often put our own needs last and those of clients and loved ones first. In the process. we need to be mindful, when our own well has dried up.
How can we find the juice of life to rehydrate the pathways of our own nervous system?
How can we weave the threads of co-regulation into our own tapestry?
The Well hexagram in the Chinese IGing, a book of oracles 3000 years of age, states that any society, any town independent of its politics and rulers needs a well, a source of water to thrive. It also states that this well needs to be maintained, in order to keep the source pure and accessible.
By engaging our senses, by nurturing our creative life force and paying attention to our bodies we can refill our well.
…
Cornelia Elbrecht
Cornelia Elbrecht BA. MA. (Art Ed), AThR, SEP, has more than 40 years of experience as an art therapist. Cornelia is the founder and director of the Institute for Sensorimotor Art Therapy, School for Initiatic Art Therapy, and she is also the founder and director of ‘Claerwen Retreat’ in Apollo Bay, VIC.
Cornelia is a Somatic Experiencing trauma therapist (SEP). She has studied at the School for Initiatic Art Therapy in Germany, also Jungian and Gestalt therapy, Bioenergetics and bodywork. Cornelia is a renowned international trainer specialised in the Sensorimotor Art Therapy modalities: Guided Drawing and Clay Field Therapy. She has published extensively.
Cornelia is a registered professional member and accredited supervisor of ANZACATA, the Australian, New Zealand and Asian Art Therapy Association and IEATA International Expressive Arts Therapies Association.
…
Publications:
- 2021 Elbrecht, Cornelia; Healing Traumatized Children with Clay Field Therapy; sensorimotor embodiment of developmental milestones. North Atlantic Books, Berkley, California
- 2020 Elbrecht, Cornelia; Healing Artist’ Block. Online training: www.isat.thinkific.com
- 2019 Elbrecht, Cornelia; Prof Heinz Deuser; Work at the Clay Field. Three Masterclasses 2009, 2010, 2019. Online training: www.isat.thinkific.com
- 2019 Elbrecht, Cornelia; Healing Trauma with Guided Drawing. Online training: www.isat.thinkific.com
- 2018 Elbrecht, Cornelia; Healing Trauma with Guided Drawing; A Sensorimotor Approach to Bilateral Body Mapping. North Atlantic Books, Berkley, California.
- 2015 Elbrecht, Cornelia, Antcliff, Liz; Being in Touch: Healing Developmental and Attachment Trauma at the Clay Field. Children Australia, 40pp 209 – 220 doi; 10.1017/cha.2015.30. Volume 40 – Issue 03. Interpreting neuroscience, creating evidence – a collection of Australian based Trauma informed Research and Practice – Sept 15. http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_s1035077215000309
- 2015 Elbrecht, Cornelia. The Clay Field and Developmental Trauma. In: Malchiodi, Cathy Ed., Creative Interventions with Traumatized Children. Guilford Press, Pennsylvania.
- 2014 Elbrecht, Cornelia, Antcliff Liz; Being Touched through touch: Trauma treatment through haptic perception at the Clay Field: A sensorimotor art therapy. INSCAPE, International Journal of Art Therapy, 2014 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1745482.2014.880932Routledge.
- 2013 ANZJAT, the Australian New Zealand Journal of Arts Therapy Vol 8, No. 1, 2013, p.67 review of: Trauma Healing at the Clay Field by Maggie Wilson.
- 2012 Elbrecht, Cornelia. Trauma Healing at the Clay Field, a sensorimotor approach to art therapy; Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London/Philadelphia.
- 2011 Elbrecht, Cornelia; Deuser, Heinz: Work at the Clay Field. Set of 7 DVDs.
- 2006 Elbrecht, Cornelia. The Transformation Journey. The Process of Guided Drawing – An Initiatic Art Therapy. Rütte: Johanna Nordländer Verlag.
…
Chris Storm
In addition to her work as the senior faculty member of the Institute for Sensorimotor Art Therapy, Chris is also the Director and Principal Practitioner of Storm Insight, a private Sensorimotor Art Therapy practice located in Geelong, Victoria. She specialises in Somatic and Sensorimotor Art Therapy techniques to support children, women, men and families.
Chris completed her training as a trauma therapist with the Somatic Experiencing Institute SETI, and is engaged in ongoing studies in Neuroaffective Touch, and Polyvagal Theory. She is a registered provider of therapeutic services for the NDIS. Areas of speciality include sexual assault, behaviour change, family violence, grief and loss.
QUALIFICATIONS: MA.Ed (Experiential Learning & Development), BA (Sociology), Grad Dip Experiential Learning & Development; Grad Dip Counselling; Grad Cert Social Science (Male Family Violence); Dip. VET. Art Therapy Post Graduate studies: Cert. Initiatic Art Therapy, Cert. Work at the Clay Field, Dip. Sensorimotor Art Therapy, Cert Sandplay Therapy, Cert Child Centred Play Therapy; EMDR Therapy.
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS: Professional member of ANZACATA (AThR) and clinical supervisor; Clinical member ACA (Australian Counselling Association)and supervisor; Former Board member of NTV (No To Violence); IEATA; SEP (Somatic Experiencing Practitioner)
Phone: 0418432362
…
THE 2022 CREATIVE MENTAL HEALTH FORUM
AND SELF CARE RETREAT
WELCOMES CORNELIA ELBRECHT AND CHRIS STORM.
We look forward to sharing this special space with you in 2022.
For more information please click here.