MBAT Summer Institute 2013: Mindfulness-based Art Therapy

MARGARET JONES CALLAHAN MA. RCC. BCATR. DIP. ED.  will share material from her forthcoming book, and her 30 years of experience in teaching mindfulness in the creative process.

MBAT(Mindfulness-based Art Therapy) Part 1: This course teaches how to cultivate positive social and emotional health and self-management skills through mindfulness awareness within the creative process. Through seeing and experiencing our images, thoughts, emotions, and sensations as a continuous, ever changing stream of events, new perspectives and insights are generated and empathy, resilience, confidence, and the courage to express our natural creative intelligence arise. You will learn to apply these skills to pain management, trauma issues, anxiety, addiction recovery, stress management and work place issues through discussion and experiential exercises. This course emphasizes Mindfulness of Body and developing personal presence in the counselling dynamic.

 MBAT Part 2: This course extends the creative exploration of therapeutic issues begun in Mindfulness  Based Art Therapy Level I, to the principles of Mindfulness of Effort, Speech and Mind, and the wisdom arising from mindfulness. Through mindfulness exercises, you will learn group composition, circle stories, brush practice, mask and mirror, and space awareness practices, to address specific issues such as conflict, relationship issues, grief, shock, stress, anxiety and addiction. Regular meditation practice is encouraged to cultivate the natural expressive power of mind and positive qualities of inner strength