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Equine-Assisted Expressive Arts Therapy with Elizabeth Warson PhD, and Cathy Malchiodi, PhD; live in-person event on March 28 and 29, 2025 in Tucson, Arizona, USA. Includes a live 3-hour webinar via Zoom March 21st 12-3pm to introduce materials.
$649
Join us for two days of in-person learning (and a 3 hour live webinar) through expressive arts therapy, somatic practices, Polyvagal-focused theory, and sensory-based approaches to health, wellness, and capacity-building. This experiential training takes place in in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a land of enchantment and transformation. And lunch is included!
We will be focusing on how expressive practices can support, enhance, and reset the nervous system, supported by evidence-informed foundations found in arts-based research, brain and body studies, and as always, lived experiences and cultural values. Expect to learn many practices including bilateral movement and image making, rebooting the nervous system through grounding, orienting, resourcing, and restoring via the arts, and generating healing narratives through multi-sensory expression and communication.
Location: The historic La Fonda Hotel on the Square in downtown Santa Fe. The in-person learning experience takes place on May 15 and 16, on Thursday and Friday, with one hour for a catered lunch midday. Accommodations are on your own.
For more information, our contact email is [email protected]. Or visit the event page at https://expressive-arts-therapy.thinkific.com/courses/santa-fe-may-2025. Or simply register below!
May 15 and 16, 2025 at La Fonda Hotel
$449.00
Expressive Arts Therapy in Santa Fe
With Cathy Malchiodi, PhD
Special Note: This course qualifies master’s and doctoral level participants for a certificate of completion in Expressive Arts Therapy: The Foundations from the Trauma-Informed Practices and Expressive Arts Therapy Institute. 15 Continuing education hours can also be applied toward the Expressive Arts Therapist EXAT or Expressive Arts-Coach Educator EXA-CE designations or additional Institute specialty certificates.
To find out more, please visit the CCI at this page: https://www.cape.org/courses/expressive-arts-therapy-malchiodi-2025. For our expressive arts community, please use this code and receive 20% off your registration! MALCHIODI2025
Course Description. Expressive arts therapy and sensory processing are part of the current forefront of emerging methods that incorporate both neuroscience (brain-wise) research and somatosensory (body-wise and sensory-oriented) findings within the contemporary treatment of stress and traumatic stress. Expressive arts therapy integrates the arts—movement, music/sound, drawing, storytelling, improvisation, dramatic enactment, play, and creative writing – within the practice of psychotherapy and counseling. Material presented in this course draws not only from the healing components of the arts themselves, but also from Polyvagal theory, autonomic nervous system, bilateral work and sensory integration, mindfulness practices, and narrative therapy approaches.
In each session, participants will explore and experience why expressive and sensory-based practices go beyond what language and traditional talk therapy capture to access implicit, sensory-based experiences. These approaches not only “reset the nervous system”, reduce stress, distress, and traumatic stress reactions, but also enhance and increase our capacities for joy, enlivenment, playfulness, curiosity, and resilience. It is this reparative nature found in expressive arts and the senses that help individuals “re-sensitize” both body and mind to positive sensations rather than simply learning to expand tolerance for distressful reactions. It also helps individuals to begin to live in the present, rather than remaining stuck in the distressful sensations of past events.
Participants will experience one or more expressive and sensory-based practices each day, approaches that can be immediately applied to clinical practice with a variety of individuals, groups, and families. A four-part expressive therapies framework, the Circle of Capacity Model, and a bottom-up/top-down framework that explain how to develop, initiate, and apply interventions to address distress and traumatic stress. The emphasis is on establishing internal safety, supporting self-regulatory and co-regulatory skills, and communicating the implicit and interoceptive experiences of trauma in the body through expression and the senses.
