Welcome to the Tree Of Me ( C ) - Empowered Art Therapy Online Program


The Tree Of Me ( C ) Empowered Art Therapy online program, presented by Art Therapist & Founder of Empowered Art Therapy and Kindred Art Space, Kerryn Knight PACFA Clinical Registrant enables you to gain a greater understanding of yourself, your challenges, resilience, and things you wish to grow towards through creative, expressive processes. 

 

The tree and its many parts symbolise you and your many parts.  Your history and roots, the face you share to the world, your inner self and where you are ‘growing to’.   Furthermore, looking to the year ahead, this course provides you with an opportunity to look at what your tree wishes to compost and what you wish to flourish from now onwards.

 

How does Art Therapy work?

Art Therapy focusses on the process of creating rather than an art outcome.  Therefore, it is not about creating a ‘masterpiece’, nor it is creating something that is aesthetically pleasing.  Rather it is about the process of expressing emotion and by doing so becoming more aware of our body felt sense and the wisdom it holds.  The art created has a two-fold effect.  On one hand it acts as a release of emotion.  On the other hand, the art acts as a visual representation of that emotion of which the art-maker can dialogue with and gain further self-awareness from.

Who should attend this course?

This online Art Therapy course is suitable for anyone who wants to experience Art Therapy and its benefits for mental health and wellbeing. 

For Counsellors, Therapists, and Allied Health Professionals, this online course provides creative and experiential processes coupled with practical tools to use with clients. For practitioners who are not qualified Art Therapists, if this creative expressive course has inspired you to learn more about our Industry I strongly encourage you to explore Masters level training to become a registered practitioner in this field.

Accredited by the Australian Counselling Association, this Art Therapy course provides you with OPD points

More about your facilitator:


Kerryn Knight is a registered supervisor and member of the ACA College of Supervisors, a registered Clinical Counsellor with the Australian Counselling Association (ACA), Clinical registrant with the Psychotherapist and Counsellors Federation of Australia (PACFA), Lecturer and Sandtray Therapy Trainer.

Kerryn’s formal qualifications include Masters of Arts in Therapeutic Practice; Diploma of Transpersonal Art Therapy, Grad. Dip. Arts in Therapeutic Practice; Adv. Diploma of Business (Accounting), Certificate of Supervision and Certificate IV Workplace Training and Assessment.

Before commencing her Counselling & Art Therapy private practice in 2008, Kerryn became an accidental counsellor in her retail jewellery business some 20 years prior where her passion for the therapeutic relationship began. She has also held management positions in the marketing industry and project management and staff training in the not-for-profit sector. In 2016 Kerryn founded Kindred Art Space. This nurturing, welcoming creative warehouse conversion is a gallery and workshop space encircled by beautifully furnished consulting rooms, complete with a unique meditation garden and atrium rooftop garden.   Kerryn’s busy schedule of seeing clients and attending to the Practice Management of her Centre has led her to create a series of self-care processes essential for her to run her successful practice.

Kerryn’s unique background enables her to provide you with an introduction to art therapy techniques for your professional development; techniques to use for your self-care and techniques to use with your clients of all ages.

For more details about Kerryn Knight, her SELF CARE for PROFESSIONALS Art Therapy Workshop services and Kindred Art Space visit: https://www.empoweredart.com.au/workshops/

What you will need for this online course:

The list of materials below can be sourced at home or at your local art supply store.

 

  • Your choice of size and colour paper/canvas to draw/paint on

  • Your choice of acrylic paint, watercolour paint, coloured markers, pencils or posca pens. 

  • Journal or paper to record your insights