How does the art of your ancestors inform your therapeutic practice?
This experiential workshop explores the unique healing that can take place when we reconnect with the artmaking of our ancestors and make space to engage in our intergenerational histories.
Taking a foundational approach to the influence of intergenerational resonance on art and mental health, Āiotanga encourages arts therapists to get curious about where they come from, and the historical traumas they are carrying forward, in the name of providing embodied care to others.
Presenters B Hope and Heleina Waimoana Dalton will share their collective research, where pairing trauma-informed arts therapy with Māori art forms such as whatu (weaving) and Kaupapa Māori (traditional practices) fostered the reclamation of B's Māoritanga—and brought healing to her whānau.
Attendees will also be invited to delve into the roots of their own respective family trees via a shared art experiential. There will also be a 30-minute Q&A session. Experience or knowledge of Māori culture is not required.
Learning Objectives
Learning objectives include: - the importance of exploring where one comes from to deliver informed therapeutic care - the role Indigenous connectivity to the land and the self can play in arts therapy - the need for our therapeutic field to value cultural self-discovery, ancestral healing and relational reciprocity in the therapy space.
Presenter bio
B Hope (Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Rongowhakaata, she/they) is an art therapist of Scottish, French and Māori descent. Born and raised in various lands across Turtle Island, B recently graduated with a diploma in Art Therapy from Kutenai Art Therapy Institute, and now provides therapy services through her private practice, Āio Art Therapy. B also works in partnership with the Mohawk Nation of Tyendinega Territory, running art therapy groups with an emphasis on cultural identity.
Heleina Waimoana Dalton | He kākano ahau i ruia mai i Rangiātea. He uri o Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Pākehā. MA AT (clin. hons.); PgDip Kaitiakitanga: Bicultural Professional Supervision; Maunga Kura Toi – Rauangi/BA Māori Visual Arts; Cert. Nonviolent Parent Education/Poutiria te Aroha; ACC Sensitive Claims Provider, Registered Clinical Arts Therapist (AThR) – ANZACATA; Māori Practitioner - Waka Oranga. Heleina is a mother and Nani of five children and grandchildren. She previously worked at Whitecliffe in the school of Creative Arts Therapy as Pou Atawhai – Cultural Sensitivities Coordinator and lecturer. She is now in private practice – Waihanga Ora Limited, companioning individuals, whānau/families and organisations, utilising creative arts therapy, Indigenous knowledge systems and spiritual practice in the therapeutic and supervisory space. Mauri Toi, Mauri Ora!
When: Monday 17 February 2025
NZDT: 1 pm–3 pm
AEDT: 11 am- 1pm
AEST: 10 am – 12 pm
ACDT: 10.30 am-12.30 pm
AWST/HKT/SGT: 8 am–10 am
EST: 7 pm–9 pm Sunday 16 February
Duration/CPD: 2 hrs
(1 hour - presentation on research, 30mins - Q&A, 30mins - art experiential)
Where: ZOOM
Cost: $35 AUD (+ GST for Australian members)
Open to: All ANZACATA Members
Max: 55 attendees
Recorded session: No (Privacy Reasons)
