A Creative Approach to Your Self-Review and Planning Process: two-part series with Sally Swain

This workshop series is returning by popular request!

Let's access the joy, depth and insight of our very own artmaking to inform the reflective and regenerative practices required as a professional ANZACATA member. How are you going in your arts therapy practice? What's the truth of it? What are you proud of? Struggling with? You are invited to gently review your year; to identify and affirm the strengths, passions, skills and values you bring to your work and to acknowledge the gaps and learning edges. You are encouraged to envisage your ideal practice, then to translate your vision into intentions, goals and action steps – all within a framework of learning, support and self-care.

This two-part experiential workshop is designed to inspire you to bring art, heart and practical strategy to your annual self-review and development plan, so that you can carry your professional practice forwards with verve and vitality, grace and groundedness, ethics and energy, purpose and playfulness. Practitioners at any level of membership or experience are welcome. Numbers are limited, to foster safety and connection.

Participants can expect to:

• Utilise experiential art-making to reflect on your arts therapist journey
• Uncover, affirm and explore the shapes, elements and qualities of your current professional practice
• 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 professional development steps that incorporate your unique skills and preferences.

PRESENTER:

Sally Swain (AThR, ANZACATA-approved supervisor) has been running her Art and Soul Creativity Coaching practice for thirty years. 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 series, Draw and Pour for Arts Therapists monthly online gatherings and Arty Hearty Therapist e-newsletter. artandsoul.cc.

When: Friday 30 August (Workshop 1) and Saturday 31 August (Workshop 2), 2024
Time:
AEST: 10.30 am–1 pm
NZST: 12.30 pm–3.00 pm
ACST: 10.00 am–12.30 pm
AWST/HKT/SGT: 8.30 am–11.00 am
Duration/CPD: 2 x 2.5-hour webinars (CPD 5 hrs)
Where: Zoom
Cost: $130 (+ GST for Australian members)
Open to: Practising Members only
Max: 8 participants
Recorded session: No (privacy reasons)