Art and Guided Drawing Therapy

Learn Variety of Art Exercises (for you or Your clients)

What you'll learn

• How to conduct art therapy session
• How to conduct guided drawing therapy session
• How to set up the room to conduct art therapy and guided drawing session
• Learn different art therapy exercises
• How to interpret your or your client's art works

Description

This course is delving into Art Therapy and Guided Drawing techniques that you can use with your clients or just for yourself. The course has two parts.

The first part of the course talks about the generic and commonly used Art Therapy. Where you need to provide the client with an exercise, supervise them, and help them interpret their artwork. Please remember that to engage in Art Therapy you and/or your clients don't need to be artistically skilled or trained. The art created during such a process is the representation of life, emotions, thoughts, and situations. Should not be judged or criticized.

In Part 1, I provide you with a variety of examples of exercises for generic Art Therapy, and in Part 2 I talk about Guided Drawing. Guided Drawing is done with eyes closed and by holding 1 crayon in each hand or painting with paints on your bare hands. I present you with different shapes and exercises to use during the treatment. Some for calming down, some for releasing pent-up energy, and for boundary creation. This somatic approach helps your brain hemispheres to work better together so it can address body coordination issues and heal trauma through repetitive movements. It's a very good approach, especially for acute trauma where your client doesn't need to speak about traumatic events. Lastly, we talk about storing the artwork and more practical details when it comes to both approaches.

Who this course is for:

• Counsellors
• Anyone who wants to learn more about artistic therapies
• Psychologists