ONLINE LIVE COURSE

Insights into a Holistic Approach:
Art and Community-Based Supervision

This course provides 9 hours of continuing education, exploring arts-based supervision practices (scroll down for more details). It is designed for both new and experienced supervisors looking to incorporate a holistic and creative approaches into their supervisory practice.
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Insights into a Holistic Approach:
Art and Community-Based Supervision Course

First Part

with Lindsay Clarke, MA, RCAT, CCC, ATR and Carmen Oprea, MA, MFA, RCAT, ATR-BC

A creative arts therapy supervision course that encourages a strength-based supportive feedback space to include creative problem solving, enhancing professional confidence and self trust, fostering personalized approaches, and empowering therapist’s voice, intention, and instinct in their practice.
Part of a larger course series that will continue to explore art-based supervision in greater depth, this first part serves as an introductory course, covering the basics: defining supervision as a clinical support and professional growth space, identifying professional designations across the field, understanding ethics and responsibility/liability, and beginning to integrate arts-based practices into supervision.

We will be exploring the dynamics of the supervisory relationship, theories of change, group space versus individual supervision, and incorporating the arts and creative process into the experience of reflection, clinical exploration, and professional development.

This introductory course will be held online in November 2024, with 3 live class sessions of 3 hours each an an option for a home-study package. Students will be provided with readings, group discussions, and arts-based experientials to further explore theoretical approaches to supervision process.

Further optional courses will be offered to continue greater in-depth exploration into creative arts therapy supervision.


Course goals:

At the end of the curse, the participants will be able to:

1. Define and personalize one’s approach in facilitating a safe, supportive, and nourishing supervision space.
2. Imagine resourcing their supervisory feedback space as a supportive environment where supervisees can explore and reflect on their professional growth, ethics, and responsibilities through art-based methods.
3. Bring symbol and metaphor into supervision to help therapists visualize their therapeutic experiences, approaches, and processes.
4. Have a clearer idea of their own theories of change incorporated into their own therapeutic and supervisory approach.
5. Integrate creative art process as a tool in supervision for reflection, opening up multiple meanings, and enhancing instinctive knowing.
6. Develop a sense of confidence, play, and experimentation within one’s role as supervisor.
7. Feel resourced in providing a co-regulation space within supervision, in order to addres the well-being of the therapist where they are in their professional trajectory.
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The course will start in:

This is a live course, sessions will be recorded and offered on the platform for the registrants only. In case that you are missing one session, you can watch it on your account.

For those unable to attend the live sessions on these set dates, a home-study package will be available.

This workshop series will count as supervision training hours.
The home-study package is approved for continuing education hours for US counsellors (NBCC) and registered art therapists with American Art Therapy Credential Board (ATR-BC). A certificate of completion of 9 hours of CE supervision hours will be available on the home-study platform to the participants needing it, after completing the requirements.
For any inquiry, please reach to us at: contact@artstherapies.org

Session Breakdown

Defining the frame

Session 1, November 7
12:00-3:00PM EST

  • Define supervision frame and various types of supervision;
  • Registering as supervisor with different national and local bodies;
  • Support; ethics, responsibility, liability; 
  • Introduction in art-based exploration;
  • Individual versus group and peer supervision; 
  • Approaches and models in art therapy supervision.

Creative process in supervision

Session 2, November 14
12:00-3:00PM EST

  • Theories of change; supervisory alliance;
  • Diving deeper into preferences and benefits of art exploration: nourishing the capacity to hold unknown and trust in supervisee`s strengths;
  • Express, explore through materials as tool to deepen reflection and trust in knowing;
  • Response art;
  • Walking the talk, incorporating felt sense of process into supervision.
Harvesting and celebrate

Session 3, November 21
12:00-3:00PM EST

  • Giving distance and externalizing;
  • The therapist’s holding space;
  • Whole person/many hats/roles/artist;
  • Our philosophy re: community, regenerative, trust in creative process, curiosity;
  • Group work: shared creativity, art hives, network, community;
  • Art-based and nature-based exploration of deep/universal metaphors and symbols.

About the Workshop Facilitators

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Lindsay Clarke, MA, RCAT, ATR, CCC
Art Therapist and Supervisor

Lindsay believes in the importance of nurturing community and creativity. For the past 10 years she has provided art therapy at a women’s shelter, schools, and art hives. She has enjoyed developing and facilitating community art exhibitions to support the voices of those who have survived violence, the impacts of suicide, and living through homelessness and mental illness.

She now offers art therapy to people of all ages at her Montreal studio, atelier lanterne. Her practice is with a focus on art making and creative process as a catalyst towards change, health, and empowerment. Her work is guided by principles of trauma-informed, attachment-based, and strength-based art therapy practices.

Lindsay provides supervision to individual art therapists and also within a community context, in order to facilitate ongoing growth, curiosity, and support.
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Carmen Oprea, MA, MFA, RCAT, ATR-BC, ATPQ
Art Therapist and Supervisor

Carmen is a registered art therapist with post-graduate training in sandplay therapy and cognitive-behavioural therapy. Holding master's degrees in art therapy and fine arts, she is currently a doctoral candidate in psychology.

Her professional career includes art therapy services for individuals and groups of all ages with various life challenges, at her clinic, Accès Art Thérapie (Access Art Therapy). She is the co-founder of the platform Creative Arts Therapies Events and the organizer of the World Art Therapy Conferences.

Carmen is part of a dedicated team at Concordia University and she is co-investigator in a research project related to art therapy effects for depression, anxiety and social isolation at the same university.
She provides supervision to creative art therapists in person and online in different settings.
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