You are invited to come along to our AGM on Friday 17 October at 4.00pm (AEDT). Please check the correct time zone for your location below.

We have a wonderful guest speaker for you followed by a short meeting where we will hear about the activities of ANZACATA in the past year and approve the financial reports.

• Agenda for the AGM is here. 
• Minutes of the 2024 AGM (for confirmation) are here.  
• Annual Report with financial details is here.

All those who register for the meeting will be emailed details of how to join the online meeting. You must register to attend. Please ensure you signup to ensure you receive the event link in your registration confirmation email.

GUEST SPEAKER:

Professor Ralph Buck
Professor Buck is Head of the Dance Studies Program at Auckland University. He is a Life Member of the Australian Dance Council, and a founding member of the World Alliance for Arts Education (WAAE). More recently Ralph has been involved as Expert, Sino-Foreign Dance Education Development Research Centre, Beijing Normal University, Co-Appointment UNESCO Chair on Dance and Social Inclusion and Visiting Guest Professor, Northwest Normal University, China.
Photo courtesy Creative Arts and Industries, University of Auckland Marketing Department

Date: Friday 17 October 2025
Time: 3:50pm for a 4.00pm start AEDT
(1pm HK/WA and 6pm NZT)
Duration/CPD: 1 hours
Location: Online
Cost: Free
Open to: All members
Note: this event will not be recorded due to privacy reasons.

If you are unable to attend you can submit your apology.

How can I tell what I think till I see what I say? (often attributed to E. M. Forster). Whether it's a time of fracture or of flow in your work world, let's access the joy, depth and insight of authentic creative writing.

Let's tap into writing's riches to strengthen and evolve professional identity and practice. The act of writing need not be hum or drum. It can be playful, grounding, life-giving. It can facilitate embodied, integrated understanding and problem-solving.

In this two-part experiential workshop, Sally will gently guide you through a series of writing practices that can serve any of the following functions:

• supporting your professional creative self-care and sustenance
• assisting you internally in your work with clients e.g. writing to prepare, affirm intentions, attune to the other, manage self-doubt, critically reflect, clarify areas for further investigation
• providing tools to adapt and offer directly to clients e.g. for self-regulation, creative expression, self-knowledge or empowerment.

The writing practices include creative list-making, free writing with a guiding phrase, sensory object wisdom and postcard poetry portrait. Practitioners at any level of membership or experience are welcome. Numbers are limited, to foster safety, connection and community-building.

Participants can expect to:

• Enliven your relationship with writing as an embodied vehicle of exploration, expression and creative self-reflection
• Augment your practitioner creative self-care and self-regulation toolkit
• Utilise creative reflective writing to strengthen your arts therapist identity and professional practice
• Gather experiential writing tools to use directly with clients, in conjunction with arts therapy processes
• Validate shared and diverse experience in a group of connected peers.

PRESENTER:

Sally Swain (AThR, ANZACATA-approved supervisor) has been running her Art and Soul Creativity Coaching practice for more than thirty years. This includes Write for Wellbeing workshops in contexts such as Carer Gateway 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 series, Draw (your art) and Pour (your tea) for Arts Therapists monthly online gatherings and Arty Hearty Therapist e-newsletter artandsoul.cc.

When: Friday 31 October (Part 1) and Saturday 1 November (Part 2)
Time: 11 am to 1.30pm AEDT (8 am HKT/SGT/AWST, 10 am AEST/QLD, 1 pm NZDT)
Duration/CPD: 2 x 2.5 hrs
Where: Zoom
Cost: $150 (+GST for Aust. Members)
Open to: All members except subscription only
Min/Max: 6-8 participants
Recorded session: No (privacy reasons)

This training will contain theory, experiential learning, and opportunities for supervision practice, and can be used as either an arts-therapy based PD opportunity, or towards registration as an approved supervisor with ANZACATA.

It is best suited to experienced professional members, as it assumes a working clinical knowledge and experience in arts therapy.

The training will cover:

1. Definitions of supervision
2. A variety of models and approaches to supervision
3. Arts-based integration
4. Clinical practice
5. Ethics and Contracts

The course will be 40 hours over 5 sessions (including 15 hours of experiential practice) in keeping with ANZACATA policy requirements of Approved Supervisors. Participants will be expected to engage in supervision practice with other participants between the online sessions in order to complete the required number of hours to register as an ANZACATA supervisor. Please note only Professional Members can be on the ANZACATA Approved Supervisor listing.

PRESENTER DETAILS

Maggie trained at London University in Art Psychotherapy, graduating in 1990. She is a registered art therapist and has worked in several clinical and NGO settings. Her art therapy interests are currently cross-cultural art therapy group work, creative debriefing and supervision for mental health teams, practitioners, and art therapists.

Maggie has taught on the Masters of Mental Health Art Therapy at the University of Queensland (UQ) for 17 years. Currently in her private practice, the Art Therapy Studio, she conducts group and individual supervision for art therapists using Zoom as a carrier. She conducts a variety of art therapy workshops and training. She is a registered as a supervisor with ANZACATA. She facilitates supervision training for UQ placement supervisors. She has worked as a remote clinical supervisor for the Master's in Art Therapy, a post-graduate mental health program based in the School of Clinical Medicine at UQ for over 18 years. For four years, she worked as Placement Co-Ordinator for the UQ art therapy course.

Start Date: Saturday 1 November 2025
This event is run over 5 days. Sat 1 & Sun 2 Nov, Sat 22 & Sun 23 Nov, Sun 7 Dec 2025
Time: 1–6 pm AEDT (12–5 pm AEST/QLD)
3–8 pm NZDT
10 am–3 pm AWST/HKT/SGT
Duration/CPD: 40 hours (25 hours F2F + 15 hours experiential)
Where: Zoom
Cost: $470 (+GST for Aust. members)
Open to: (Experienced) Professional Members
Min/Max: 8/16 participants
Recorded session: No (Privacy Reasons)

Cancellation Policy:
When you register and pay to attend one of our events, you are holding a space on our calendar that is no longer available to other members. In order to be respectful of your fellow members and the presenter, please email us as soon as you know you will not be able to attend the event. We keep our events as affordable as possible and need to pay presenters the fee they request. While we understand sometimes urgent matters come up, if registrants cancel at the last minute, we struggle to pay presenters. A full refund will be given if the cancellation occurs more than 24 hours before the event. If the cancellation occurs less than 24 hours before the event, 50% of your registration fee will be refunded only to defray our costs.

This 5-hour refresher training is for professional members who have been supervising for several years. It is for arts therapists who completed supervision training some time ago and want to ensure that their practice is up to date and/or to allow them to meet the requirements to become approved supervisors with ANZACATA, if the training they have done does not add up to the required 40 hours.

This event is open to Approved Supervisors ONLY. The ANZACATA supervision policy requires approved supervisors to 'refresh' their training every 5 years.

Current and relevant readings for all areas of the training will be provided.

The training will revisit:

• Definitions of supervision
• Models and approaches to supervision
• Arts Based Integration
• Exploration of responsibilities and challenges.

PRESENTER DETAILS

Maggie trained at London University in Art Psychotherapy, graduating in 1990. She is a registered art therapist and has worked in several clinical and NGO settings. Her art therapy interests are currently cross-cultural art therapy group work, creative debriefing and supervision for mental health teams, practitioners, and art therapists.

Maggie has taught on the Masters of Mental Health Art Therapy at the University of Queensland (UQ) for 17 years. Currently in her private practice, the Art Therapy Studio, she conducts group and individual supervision for art therapists using Zoom as a carrier. She conducts a variety of art therapy workshops and training. She is a registered as a supervisor with ANZACATA. She facilitates supervision training for UQ placement supervisors. She has worked as a remote clinical supervisor for the Master's in Art Therapy, a post-graduate mental health program based in the School of Clinical Medicine at UQ for over 18 years. For four years, she worked as Placement Co-Ordinator for the UQ art therapy course.

Date: Friday 7 November 2025
Time: 11 am - 4 pm AEDT
(10am–3 pm AEST/QLD, 1–6 pm NZDT, 8 am–1 pm AWST/HKT/SGT)
Duration/CPD: 5 hours
Where: Zoom
Cost: $150 (+GST for Aust. members)
Open to: Experienced Professional Members (ANZACATA-Approved Supervisors ONLY)
Min/Max: 8/16 participants
Recorded session: No (Privacy Reasons)

Cancellation Policy:
When you register and pay to attend one of our events, you are holding a space on our calendar that is no longer available to other members. In order to be respectful of your fellow members and the presenter, please email us as soon as you know you will not be able to attend the event. We keep our events as affordable as possible and need to pay presenters the fee they request. While we understand sometimes urgent matters come up, if registrants cancel at the last minute, we struggle to pay presenters. A full refund will be given if the cancellation occurs more than 24 hours before the event. If the cancellation occurs less than 24 hours before the event, 50% of your registration fee will be refunded only to defray our costs.