Workshops
Art Therapy Workshops: Art as Process Program
For the following workshops:
All materials are included
Numbers are limited
Tea and coffee provided
No art experience necessary, yet artists can also benefit.
Professional Development
Using Art Therapy to Explore Shame
Understand how Shame presents in the nervous system, its function and how to support repair.
As practitioners working with our clients, we will at some point encounter shame in our clients and ourselves. Shame can be disguised in many ways and it can be difficult to identify and repair.
This PD is for those wanting to know how shame presents in the nervous system from a Somatic Experiencing and Polyvagal framework. We will be exploring the difference between toxic traumatic shame and healthy shame, identify the many ways it can present and use art therapy to explore the experience of shame and how to facilitate repair.
Taking concepts from Kathy Kain,’ Nurturing Resilience’, Neuro Affective Touch, attachment and developmental trauma ‘Healing the relational matrix’, as well as touching on Jungian concepts of the shadow and mythology.
This PD will suit anyone working with CPTSD, addition recovery, survivors of violence and sexual abuse, developmental trauma and neglect.
When: Friday December 1st 2024
Where: Online
Time: 12pm -4pm
Fee: $302.50+ GST
Professional Development
Understanding Complex Trauma; Applying Art therapy, Somatic Nervous System Principles and Support for you as the practitioner with Tania Virgona
This Professional development is designed for clinicians and Arts Therapists who would like to better understand how Complex Trauma presents in the nervous system, where to focus Art Therapy interventions, and how to best look after yourself as the practitioner. The 4 hours will involve Art making, discussion and reflective practice and theory.
The link between Art therapy and the body is a common and natural association. We will be viewing Complex Trauma through the lenses of the Polyvagal theory and Somatic Experiencing principles to understand the underlying nervous system mechanics and states. We will be referring to Kathy Kain’s work as an expert body worker in the field of SE, complex trauma and attachment; from her latest book, Restoring Resilience. www.somaticpractice.net/about/
Connections will be drawn between Art and its therapeutic function, the body’s experience, expressed via the nervous system and how repair and recovery may appear for this population group.
Two sessions will be available, in person and online. Term 2, dates are yet to be confirmed.
Presenter: Tania Virgona is an Art Therapist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, and Supervisor with a range of experience working with trauma. She has worked with refugees, veterans, in drug and alcohol, mental health and with survivors of family violence where she initiated the Children’s Therapeutic Program. Tania currently runs her own private practice and studio working with trauma and creativity. She primarily works with developmental and complex trauma using Art Therapy and advanced Touch skills for trauma regulation and renegotiation and The Creative Continuum studio offers individuals and groups art and therapy for the continuum of health and wellbeing.
When: TBC
Where: Online
Time: 12pm -4pm
Fee: $302.50 +GST
The Nourishment of Clay: the Felt Sense of Contact and Connection
This workshop will guide you through an exploration of clay and the felt sense (Peter Levin). This process aims to develop the felt sense of touch through the hands and to connect to deeper layers of you and your body. You will be led through a non-verbal mindful process, that will enable you to connect with the earthen, forgiving and yielding clay. You will be supported to find what touch, text, pressure, movement or holding feels nourishing and right for you at any given moment to slowly allow a 3D object to emerge. Reflection of the process will follow to integrate your experience.
To find out more about Tania your facilitator
www.integratedtraumatherapy.com.au
Investment : $150 + GST
When: 2025 dates TBC
Time: 2-4pm
Where: The Creative Continuum , upstairs 2/2 Colin Ave Warrandyte www.creativec.com.au/worshops
Teas and coffee provided. All materials supplied. Please where comfortable clothing
Altered Books
Creating an alter book can be a transformative and empowering experience!
This workshop will provide you with the opportunity and materials to creatively alter a book. Experience how your creativity gives you access to the agency within to recreate your narrative. Using paints, images, fabrics, collage, craft, text and more, you will be invited to alter a pre existing book to create your own personal object exploring themes unique to you. The book you choose to alter will lend you ideas and guide you in a direction that is different to a blank canvas.
Altering a pre existing book can offer possibilities and ideas that will ignite your imagination. Share in this creative process in the company of others and allow the group environment to support your themes and open you to possibilities.
To find out more about Tania your facilitator
www.integratedtraumatherapy.com.au
When: 2025 dates TBC
Time: 1-4pm, 3 hours
Investment: $190 + GST per person
Where: The Creative Continuum
All materials provided. No prior experience required. Beverages and afternoon tea available.
Image to Symbol – Expressive Play with Collage
This workshop guides you though the creative process to make an intimate book or set of cards unique and personal to you. It aims to expand your awareness while settling you into a mindful state of being. Based on Jungian psychology and Sena Frost’s Soul Collage, this visual journey will nurture your personal growth, strengthen your intuition and recognise your innate wisdom.
In whatever stage of life you may find your self, collating images into a personal artwork in the company of others is a joyful and rewarding way to nourish and expand your self-understanding for greater acceptance.
To find out more about Tania your facilitator
www.integratedtraumatherapy.com.au
Workshop time: 3 hours
Investment: $190 +GST
When: Saturday Nov 29th 2024
Time: 1 – 4pm
Where: The Creative Continuum, upstairs, 2/2 Colin Ave Warrandyte 3113
www.creativec.com.au/worshops
No prior art experience needed. All sessions will guide you step by step through a creative process to connect with your inner experience.
Teas and coffee provided. All materials supplied.Please where comfortable clothing
Drawing for Regulation
Drawing For Regulation
Find your way out of stress and feeling overwhelmed by surrendering yourself to the process of Guided Drawing. The use of bilateral movement will support you to find your rhythm and connect to your authentic impulses to move stress and tension from your body and mind, to experience greater presence, stability and space. With drawing materials you will be guided to explore the experience of expansion and contraction, fast and slow, soft and hard gestures in your mark making and within your body. This is a wonderful method to discover and build your internal resources to experience greater capacity, resilience and understand where your choices, preferences and desire lies.
To find out more about Tania your facilitator
www.integratedtraumatherapy.com.au
Workshop time: 2 hours
Investment: $150 + GST
When: 2025 dates TBC
Time: 2-4pm
Where: The Creative Continuum, upstairs 2/2 Colin Ave, Warrandyte
www.creativec.com.au/worshops
Teas and coffee provided. All materials supplied. Please where comfortable clothing
Pandora’s Box
Free from the constraints of everyday life, this creative journey is all about you. The workshop focuses on tactile experiences and uses words, images, objects and fabrics to transform a 3D box that reflects your authentic self. During this creative process, we learn to slowly de-stress, trust our intuition and develop self-acceptance. We also gain hope, the final wonderful gift in Pandora’s Box.
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey towards it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us – S. Smiles
Workshop time: 4 hours
Investment: $220 +GST
When: 2025 dates TBC
Time: 10 -4pm
Where: The Creative Continuum, upstairs 2/2 Colin Ave, Warrandyte
www.creativec.com.au/worshops
Register by emailing info@creativec.com.au with Pandora’s Box in the subject heading
Teas and coffee provided. All materials supplied. Please where comfortable clothing.
Paint with Passion
This is an energetic guided workshop to inspire your creativity, have fun, and allow your heart to sing. The playful drawing and expressive painting exercises focus on stress and conflict reduction. The workshop assists in overcoming your self-critic by developing the experience of flow. We connect and work together by moving through blocks and finding openings that are available at every layer.
Workshop time: 5 hours