Expressive Therapies Summit 2015

Starr Foundation Hall - Room UL102

Artmaking as Meditation for Self-compassion and Neural Healing
Judi Tota, MS, ATR-BC, LCAT

This 3-hour workshop will provide an overview of the important roles that mindfulness and self-compassion play in the process of healing. It will include a discussion of the benefits of artmaking to healing neural networks in the brain, and how artmaking can enhance the learning and integration of mindfulness and self-compassion skills. Participants will examine three components to self-compassionate healing, and will be taught how to apply these concepts in client care. The experiential portion of this workshop will focus on learning mindfulness and self-compassion through the various practices of artmaking.

Meditation & Experiential Therapy: Cultivating Mindfulness with Active Insight
Adrienne Glasser, LCSW, RDMT

This 3-hour workshop will examine ways to help the creative arts therapist maintain a healthy balance of self-care, and better manage transference and countertransference in their therapeutic practice. Through meditation, drama games, and dance/movement activities, participants will discover ways to practice self-compassion and mindfulness while working through these subtle yet difficult issues. An overview of the Multiple Self-Aspects Framework, and how it relates to the Buddhist concept of “non-self,” will be provided. Participants will also be introduced to Active Insight, a method that combines concepts from Internal Family Systems, meditation techniques, and the creative arts, to deepen insights about clinician-client dynamics, and to help clinicians with affect regulation—which, in turn, can help clients cultivate healthy regulation themselves. Through this workshop, participants will learn to identify three barriers to maintaining proper balance with clients, and learn three ways to transcend these roadblocks to maintain balance both professionally and personally.

Eligible for 6.0 Credits: ATCB, NBCC; ASWB, APA, MFT, Nursing