Kutenai Art Therapy Institute
191 Baker Street 2nd Floor V1L 4H1 Nelson, BC, Canada

UPCOMING EVENT ONLINE - Online Art Therapy Fundamentals This 6-week workshop outlines the knowledge needed for therapists to start or move their practices online. The course was designed by art therapist Kate Leppard in response to the art therapy community’s need to have the tools and skills to support clients whilst working online. Each week participants receive a pre-recorded lecture and a two hour live Zoom session for discussion, questions and practice. Mondays, June 7th... - July 19, 3-5pm | No session on June 28th $290 Early Registration until May 15th ($320 regular) | 12 spots total | Registration deadline: May 24th Click below to register or for more information, including weekly schedule and instructor bio. https://buytickets.at/kati/510524/r/fb

UPCOMING EVENT: Exploring Menstrual Cycle Phases: Discover your internal wisdom through creative expression This online art therapy group is open to anyone who is interested in using creative expression to explore the internal wisdom of the menstrual cycle. We will explore weekly themes and use mindfulness based practices within the creative process to discover inner wisdom, as a way to support and guide us in living by our menstrual cycle. Mondays, 10am 1pm PDT | April 12 ... June 21 (No session on May 24) Info and to register: https://www.kutenaiarttherapy.com/calendar

UPCOMING EVENT ONLINE: Art of Art Therapy Supervision | LEVEL 2 Wednesdays, May 19 - June 16 | 3pm-6pm PST $450 CAD | Limited spaces available... This workshop is for professional art therapists, social workers, therapists, and psychologists who wish to learn more about working with ethical challenges and cultural complexities in art therapy supervision. Art and writing directives will be introduced to work with complex client cases; transference issues in supervision; and compassion fatigue and burnout. There will be a review of best practices for online art therapy and supervision. The emphasis of this course will be on cultural safety and resilience in supervision. The 15 hours of seminar include theory and experiential arts-based supervision. Facilitated by Monica Carpendale and Nicole Le Bihan. Click below to register or for more information. https://buytickets.at/kati/515439/r/fb

Are you a creative who experiences a sense of fulfillment when supporting others? Ever wondered what it would be like to become an art therapist? Our Online Information Sessions are a zero-commitment way to learn more about becoming an art therapist. The next one will be held on Monday, March 22 from 2:00-3:00pm PST. These live webinars are a chance for anyone interested in the learning about Kutenai Art Therapy Institute, including our Diploma Program - campus and distance. ...Meet faculty and staff, learn more about studying at KATI, and ask any questions you might have. The webinars can be attended by phone or internet-connected device. If using a device, you will need speakers or headphones but not a microphone or webcam. To register for the upcoming session, visit https://us02web.zoom.us//5016159/WN_C6UH7INzRHii7_q9LDHD0g Or to see a list of upcoming online information sessions at any time, visit: https://www.kutenaiarttherapy.com/program/#info-sessions

Exciting news! Monica Carpendale, the founder and Academic Dean of KATI, has just announced the release of her new book, A Geography of Dream Work and Art Therapy, which explores the use of art as a way to make meaning from our dreams and facilitate healing. Written in response to her students' ongoing requests for a such a text, Carpendale has synthesized and mapped out a wide range of theoretical approaches to applying to art therapy to dream work. While intended as a text ...for students of art therapy, Carpendale strives for accessibility by writing from her experience in the first-person and sharing personal memories and anecdotes. According to Monica, art therapy can be an ideal tool to help clients illuminate meaning in their dreams. The visual and creative nature of art can help the conscious and unconscious to come together, allowing clients to meet the contents of their dreams in a more tangible form without losing the dreams' powerful ambiguity. Monica's interest in art therapy and dream work goes beyond academia or clinical practice. She recalls that, during her own art therapy education in 1985 with art therapy pioneer, Dr. Martin Fischer, the classes in dream work were the most significant and personally impactful part of her training. She went on to bring her passion for art therapy and dream work to the school that she founded in 1995, the Kutenai Art Therapy Institute. A Geography of Dream Work and Art Therapy is published by Trafford Publishing and is available now on the Trafford website and on Amazon. https://www.trafford.com//475825-a-geography-of-dream-work https://www.amazon.ca/Geography-Dream-Work-Ar//ref=sr_1_1

FREE UPCOMING EVENT: Therapeutic Digital Game Webinar - The use of communication games in the pandemic and post-pandemic world Thursday, April 15 | 3pm-4pm PST This free webinar introduces the Auxilium Horizons Therapeutic Tools Suite: a set of communication board games developed by Monica Carpendale and redesigned by Jay Carter of Auxilium Horizons into an easily accessible and interactive digital format.... Register: https://us02web.zoom.us//9516173/WN_RyO4_OJeRdS-p2e38dL_xA Counselling and play therapy have adapted to new digital formats in response to the pandemic, while environmental crises, social justice issues, economic challenges and poverty have highlighted unique issues and needs for children and adolescents.

The Kutenai Art Therapy Institute Association (KATIA) in Nelson, BC, is excited to announce the launch of our online Inner Compass Art Therapy Clinic! Inner Compass is an online service that matches Canadian individuals, businesses, teams, and groups with a qualified art therapist from the comfort and privacy of their own homes. While there are a growing number of options for online "talk" therapy, the non-verbal nature of art therapy can help us discover things we cannot ini...tially express with words while providing an experiential outlet for us to explore our challenges and strengths. KATIA created Inner Compass to help increase the accessibility of high-quality art therapy services at a time when the mental health needs of Canadians are greater than ever and access is limited by social distancing. Please take a moment to check out the site and assist us in making the benefits of art therapy accessible to hearts, homes, and businesses! Thank you!

ART OF ART THERAPY SUPERVISION WORKSHOP | LEVEL 1 This workshop is for professional art therapists, social workers, therapists, and psychologists who wish to enhance their skills and theoretical understanding in practicing art therapy supervision. Participants will be introduced to relational, arts-based approaches to supervision; planning/goal setting for facilitating individual, group, and peer supervision; and best practices for online art therapy and supervision. Particip...ants will engage in using metaphor, phenomenology, art and writing directives and values work to support the development of their professional identity/approach to supervision. There will be an emphasis on the transformative elements of a strengths-based approach to supervision. The 15 hours of seminar include theory and experiential arts-based supervision Wednesdays, March 31 - April 28 | 3pm-6pm PST Cost: $450 | Registration deadline: March 29 To register: https://buytickets.at/kati/482418/r/facebook --- MASTER SUPERVISOR BIOS Monica Carpendale, BFA, DVATI, BCATR, RCAT, HLM Monica is the founder and academic dean of the Kutenai Art Therapy Institute. She is an art therapist, educator, supervisor, author, and filmmaker with over 35 years’ experience. She has written two books: Essence and Praxis in the Art Therapy Studio (2009) and A Traveler’s Guide to Art Therapy Supervision (2011). Monica Carpendale holds a hermeneutic phenomenological approach to relational art therapy supervision and looking at the art. She holds a focus on intersectionality and cultural considerations in art therapy supervision. She will introduce exercises exploring parallel processes, and transference dynamics in supervision. Monica utilizes a variety of art and poetry directives for arts-based supervision. Her underlying focus is strength-based, and she brings an environmental awareness to art therapy education. Millie Cumming, MA, DKATI, RCAT, BCACC Millie graduated from the Kutenai Art Therapy Institute in 2001 and completed a MA in Counseling in 2008. She has additional training in Integrated Body Psychotherapy and systemic family therapy. She is a registered Canadian art therapist and a registered BC clinical counselor. Areas of special interest and work experience include ending violence against women, trauma resolution, palliative care, grief and loss, mental health and addictions, child and youth mental health and family systems. Millie brings a trauma-informed, strengths-based approach to her work both as a therapist and educator. She is particularly interested in the integration of somatic experiencing, body awareness and mindfulness with art therapy practice. She currently has a part time supervision private practice.

ONLINE ART THERAPY FUNDAMENTALS - WORKSHOP Online Art Therapy Fundamentals is a 6-week workshop that outlines the knowledge needed for therapists to start or move their practices online. The workshop is designed in response to the art therapy community’s need to have the tools and skills to support clients whilst working online. Each week you will receive a pre-recorded lecture and then a 2 hour live Zoom for discussion, questions, and practice. Sessions will be recorded and ...sent out for those who cannot attend live. Tuesdays, March 23 - April 27 | 3pm-5pm PST $290 before Feb 27 / $320 until March 13 To register: https://buytickets.at/kati/481672/r/facebook

Our Online Information Sessions are back! The next one will be held on Thursday, February 18 from 3:00-4:00pm PST. These live webinars are a chance for anyone interested in the learning about Kutenai Art Therapy Institute, including our Diploma Program - campus and distance. Meet faculty and staff, learn more about studying at KATI, and ask any questions you might have. The webinars can be attended by phone or internet-connected device. If using a device, you will need speake...rs or headphones but not a microphone or webcam. To register or just to see a list of upcoming online information sessions, visit: https://www.kutenaiarttherapy.com/program/#info-sessions EDIT: Oops! We included the wrong link. It's fixed now!

Good morning! Our Online Open Studio - held every Saturday from 2:30-4:30pm PST - has now been extended into April. It's open to all and registration is by donation. Want to learn more? Check it out on our calendar at www.kutenaiarttherapy.com/calendar

Workshop in Arts-based Practice for Community Development & Social Change --- Mondays, 8:30am - 11:30am PST | March 1 - May 3 $490 before Feb 15 ($530 afterward) | Spots are limited | Pre-registration required... --- DESCRIPTION There is a growing trend toward community-based health care are expanding the scope of art therapy practice, requiring art therapists to better understand community needs, and to cultivate their unique skill sets for working in community settings (Ottemiller and Awais, 2016). Strengthening community is a global priority today. This course is intended to reinforce mutual respect by emphasizing the power of creativity and expression. Our intervention should shift the thinking process by being in the present. Issues of identity and belonging to a community (or several communities) will be touched upon, mainly through the language of art. Materials are the world, so that creating with materials is an encounter with the world. Contact with materials makes it possible to connect with, and influence, reality. We must stand above stereotypes, cultural prejudices and the imposition of various categories. We will listen with our eyes; continue to observe ourselves in relation to the diversity of the other. We will not stop learning; accept with open arms, and open mind and an open heart. We feel a deep sorrow about what is happening today in the world. Hatred, racism, intolerance, xenophobia fear of anything that is different of ourselves. So we wish to show how art as an intercultural language can bridge over misunderstandings and make a change - because art instills hope. Please note there is required reading for this course. The instructor will upload course materials for students. --- BIO Judith Siano, MA is a registered art therapist and supervisor and was in the years 2002-2017 chair of the Israeli Association of Creative and Expressive Therapies Ethics Committee. 1987-2016 Judith Siano taught at the university of Haifa and still works in her art therapy studio with, clients and therapists. She is the initiator and head of the DROP IN WIN WIN project, Art Therapy with adolescents at risk A multi-cultural project. Judith lectures on trauma, adolescence, and ethics in therapy. She is an adjunct faculty of KATI and gave courses at 2004, 2009, 2012, 2014 and 2016, planning one for spring 2021. Judith Siano has published articles in professional journals in Israel and abroad. In 2016 her book Holy Junk Lost, Found and Rejected Objects in Art Therapy was published in Hebrew and in English. She has co-produced three art therapy documentary films. In Judith’s dream, it is possible to change a gloomy reality by means of art, which instills hope. Judith lives in Haifa, Israel, with her family.

An important workshop series being offered by CATA-ACAT exploring anti-racist, anti-oppressive and decolonizing practices in creative therapies. Aptly timed just as the APA officially issues an apology for its part in upholding structural racism in the field of psychiatry (https://www.psychiatry.org//apa-apology-for-its-support-of)

A GEOGRAPHY OF ART THERAPY AND DREAMWORK --- A virtual workshop facilitated by Monica Carpendale Wednesdays, 3-6 pm PST | Feb 3 March 10... Fee: $500 | Pre-registration required | Spots are limited To register: https://buytickets.at/kati/476443

SOUL SEEDS: Women's Nature-based Art Therapy These closed art therapy groups are open to all women interested in exploring identity through storytelling and art making. We will be engaging creatively with nature, storytelling, and mythology as a way of relating to our Earth and exploring our own personal mythologies. ---... GROUP 1 Mondays, 4-7pm PST | Feb 1 - April 5 For more information, visit: https://www.kutenaiarttherapy.com/calendar --- GROUP 2 Fridays, 9am-12pm PST | Feb 5 - April 9 For more information, visit: https://www.kutenaiarttherapy.com/calendar

We've got an exciting project coming up and we need... umbrellas! Used or new, please feel free to drop off at KATI entrance in bin during office hours.We've got an exciting project coming up and we need... umbrellas! Used or new, please feel free to drop off at KATI entrance in bin during office hours.

[Correction] 2020 KATI AGM Announcement - https://mailchi.mp//kati-news-2019-agm-announcement-4990418