Description:
OPD Points: 10
This is an online, self-paced training over 6 months. The 28 hours of tutorials are pre-recorded and participants can study in their own time.
Guided Drawing is a drawing and movement therapy. It introduces body-mapping with bilateral drawing on large sheets of paper as a self-guided, rhythmic process. It is underpinned by an archetypal structure that applies universal, formal elements, like a line or a circle or a square to structure the experience for clients. Using crayons, chalks, finger paints the process is less concerned with image making, but to foster the awareness of body memories. While these memories are always biographical, the therapy itself is not symptom oriented. Not the specific problem or crisis becomes the focal point, but the option to new answers and solutions as they are embedded in the body’s felt sense. Such sensorimotor achievements become implicit achievements that can transform even early infant developmental setbacks; they assist in finding an active response to traumatic experiences. They allow clients to rewrite their biography towards a more authentic, alive sense of self.
Key Learning Objectives / Outcomes:
1.      be able to define at least three ways how trauma is primarily a body-based experience
2. Â Â Â Â Â be able to define sensorimotor art-psychotherapy and why it is a trauma-informed, bottom-up, brain-wise approach
3. Â Â Â Â Â be able to define the core concepts of theory and methodology underpinning Guided Drawing4. Â Â Â Â Â be able to identify how Guided Drawing relies on an archetypal structure based on Jungian Depth Psychology
5. Â Â Â Â Â be able to identify universal, formal graphic elements such as circle, spiral, vertical, rectangle, figure eight and how these elements can offer body-based, non-verbal intervention tools
6. Â Â Â Â Â be able to identify how rhythmic, sensorimotor action patterns tap into the procedural memory system in the brainstem
7.      be able to define the core concepts of Polyvagal Theory and Somatic Experiencing
8. Â Â Â Â Â be able to identify at least three ways that sensorimotor art therapy can transform traumatic experiences across the lifespan and apply this knowledge to counselling and psychotherapeutic goals.
Assessment:
Presenter / Provider:
Presenter Qualifications:
SATh, AThR, SEP, ANZACATA, IEATA, IACAET
Contact:
- Cornelia Elbrecht, Institute for Sensorimotor Art Therapy
- 0418388539
- Cornelia@sensorimotorarttherapy.com
