Creative Reflection and Visioning for Arts Therapists

Creative Arts Therapy practice continually asks us to adapt, reflect and develop. As our work develops, so too can the ways we understand our strengths, values and direction.

Across two experiential sessions, Sally Swain invites Arts Therapists into a creative process of reflection and visioning, using artmaking to explore professional practice and your journey.

Let’s access the joy, depth and insight of artmaking in community. Let’s foster the nourishment and flourishment of our professional practice.

Amidst a shifting landscape that calls for adaptation and change, an authentic arts-based reflection and visioning process can stand us in good stead.

How are you going in your work?
What’s the truth of it?
What are you proud of?
Struggling with?
What would you like to enliven, refine or shed?

You are invited to gently review your recent professional journey; to look at the strengths, passions, skills and values you bring to your work and to acknowledge gaps and learning edges of potentiality.

You are encouraged to envisage your ideal practice; to generate a vision of how you might like it to be. You have an opportunity to translate your vision into intentions and action steps that align with your arts therapist core, all within a framework of learning, support and self-care.

Held over two Sunday mornings:

Sunday 1st and Sunday 8th November 10.30am - 1pm AEST

Learning Intentions

• Utilise experiential art-making to reflect on your arts therapy practice and journey

• Identify and affirm strengths, achievements, values, support and self-care

• Identify internal and external challenges

• Synthesise discoveries to generate a vision for desired future directions

• Validate shared and diverse experience in a group of connected peers

• Apply creative wisdom to clarify possible steps that incorporate your unique skills and preferences

This two-part experiential workshop is supported by Sally Swain’s Creative Relational
Encouragement of Arts Therapist Evolution (CREATE) framework. It is designed to inspire you to bring together art, heart and practical strategy; so that you can carry your professional practice forwards with verve and vitality, grace and groundedness, ethics and energy, playfulness and purpose.

Practitioners and students at any level of experience are welcome.

Your Facilitator

Sally Swain (AThR, ANZACATA-approved supervisor) has been running her Art and Soul Creativity Coaching practice since 1993. For many of those years, she has mentored and supervised arts therapists and loves this work. Sally has run Creative Wellbeing programs in contexts such as residential aged care, Carer Gateway, Life Force Foundation and Blue Knot Foundation. Embodied creativity is at the core of all she offers. Sally’s internationally bestselling books include Great Housewives of Art. Her initiatives supporting arts therapists include Art Heart Action bushfire recovery program, ANZACATA-sponsored Creative Sustenance in Troubled Times and Creative Writing as Therapeutic Resource. She has offered Draw (your art) and Pour (your tea) for Arts Therapists online professional community gatherings every month since mid-2020 and she publishes a regular Arty Hearty Therapist e-newsletter.