Trauma-Informed Practices Institute E-News/ January 2012
Register Now for "Enhancing Resilience through Trauma-Informed
Practices", March 20 & 21st, 2012, San Francisco, CA.Earlybird
deadline is January 31st, 2012!
"Enhancing Resilience through Trauma-Informed Practices: Positive
Psychology and Mindfulness-Based Arts Approaches" :
http://shop.focusingarts.com/Malchiodi-Rappaport-Training-March-20-21_c2.htm
Cathy Malchiodi, PhD, LPAT, LPCC, and
Laury Rappaport, PhD, ATR-BC, REAT
March 20 & 21, 2012, 9 am – 4:30 pm, Radisson Bay Front Hotel,
Brisbane [SF Airport], CA
This two-day course on trauma-informed practice emphasizes
resilience-enhancement through principles of positive psychology,
including arts-based and mindfulness approaches essential to trauma
recovery. Participants will learn how to apply four key factors in
trauma-informed work. Exercises and interventions from mindfulness
meditation, Focusing-Oriented Art Therapy (FOAT), Trauma-Informed Art
Therapy® and expressive arts that help traumatized clients of all ages
will be presented. The course will include a dynamic combination of
lecture, discussions, hands-on experiential practices, short films and
case examples.
CEU’s: This course meets the qualifications for 13 hours of continuing
education credit for MFTs, LPCCs, LEPs, and/or LCSWs as required by
the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. The Focusing and
Expressive Arts Institute is an approved Provider; NO. PCE 4701.
These two days of coursework are part of the Trauma-Informed Art
Therapy® Level One certificate; other courses may be completed online
or through other live events.
AccommodationsTo register for a hotel room, please go to the Radisson
website : http://www.radisson.com/reservation/itineraryEntrance.do?hotelCode=CABRISBA&promotionalCode
and use promotional code: focus
We have a special rate of $129 a night and free transportation from
airport and to BART [rapid transit]; free parking for those driving to
the event.
Distance Learning Center in Development
We're planning for our first online courses in March 2012. You will be
able to take courses necessary for completion of continuing education
and trauma-informed practices [including certificate programs] that
include art therapies, somatic approaches, resilience and positive
psychology principles, and more. : #
Art Therapy, Mindfulness & Trauma-Informed PracticeMaking art can help
us become mindful in the moment, just like when one learns to be
present in moment through the practice of mindfulness meditation. In
art therapy, we often speak of that moment in art making when "flow"
occurs-- an experience of losing oneself in the experience, but at the
same time being present and engaged in the process. Being in the flow
state can help you become more relaxed and begin to observe yourself
in new ways. Art expression itself is a way of creating something new
from what you already have, but may not have fully recognized within
yourself.
For some people, engaging in an art form [whether it is visual art,
music-making, dance or movement] helps to quiet the mind and body. In
a sense, it is form of relaxation, but it also more than that. Just as
in mindfulness meditation, creative expression can help you slow down
and experience the present moment-- and in being more present, you can
begin to respond to challenges rather than simply react to them.
One of my favorite authors on the topic of mindfulness is Jon
Kabat-Zinn who has used very simple approaches to helping people
practice mindfulness meditation, including every day activities like
mindful walking and eating. The other is Thich Nhat Hanh, author of
Peace is Every Step, who says “Sometimes your joy is the source of
your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”
In the same vein, sometimes your art is the source of your smile, but
sometimes your smile is the source of your art-- and the source of
your own well-being.
Looking forward to meeting you at a future course offering during this
year of the Water Dragon!
Cathy Malchiodi, PhD, LPAT, LPCC
Founder, Trauma-Informed Practices Institute
http://www.trauma-informedpractice.org : http://www.trauma-informedpractice.org
