View Free Presentations on Slideshare.net

If you're interested in learning, particularly about art therapy, there are some great presentations online for free at http://www.slideshare.net/.  Just go to the site and search for whatever topic you're interested in.  PowerPoint Presentations have been uploaded by users and are accessible for free to the public.  You yourself can also create an account and upload your own presentations in order to promote your work or share what you've been up to with an online community.

Here are some examples of presentations you can view on art therapy:

Social Media and Art Therapy
Art Therapy as an Alternative Treatment
Art Therapy & Trauma: Art Helps Indigenous Women Heal
International Art Therapy Research
Healing Dolls as a Therapeutic Art Therapy Intervention
Bruce Perry's Impact: Considerations for Art Therapy & Children

Head over to slidshare.net and start a search of your own!

Blog Inspiration!

There is a wealth of information out in the digital world!  Technology offers us a chance to connect with people all over the world through communication, education, shared laughter and joy, and of course through art.  There are tons of great blogs and websites that offer information and support for art therapists.  For example, here's a link to a great art therapy blog that offers step-by-step art interventions for expressive therapists. 

Check it out!


The Art Therapy Catablog:
"I am a recent grad of U of L's Expressive Therapies program, and am building a small private practice... I am a mere pup in the field- yet I have already learned so much! I keep thinking, "I really need a place to record this stuff," and thus, a blog is born. My intention is to create some kind of catalog for ideas, interventions, and those rare moments of pristine clarity."

http://sara-crafton.blogspot.com/

Where do you go for ideas and inspiration?

DDS Training Seminar in Denver, sponsored by ATACO

The Art Therapy Association of Colorado will be hosting a Diagnostic Drawing Series (DDS) Training Seminar lead by Barry M. Cohen, MA, ATR-BC & Anne Mills, MA, ATR-BC, LPC.

Saturday & Sunday

October 16 & 17

9 am - 5pm

TOSA (The Other Side Arts) Denver

1644 Platte Street, Denver, CO 80202

(303) 561-3000

 

For more information or to register online,

visit: http://www.arttherapy-co.org/Events

Student Survey: Why did you choose art therapy as a profession?

"I really feel like art therapy chose me.  I have always had an affinity for helping people, counseling others, and empathic listening.  As I moved into my college career I began to explore my own love for art and creativity and I decided that it was important for me to use my passion for art in a way that builds community and fosters social change.  Art therapy made sense to me, and through a series of detours and happenstance I keep finding my way back on this path."

"I still ask myself that. I like art and kids, but didn't want to be an art teacher. So I came to this. Which is really funny because now I'm an ...art teacher. I think the Universe has a big hand in this one. "

"Even when I was a bio/pre-med student I was majoring in art classes just so that I could get into them (my school didn't have room for non majors to take art classes past the introductory level). When I switched from biology to psychology I found art therapy. It was the perfect blend between my love of art and my love of science. And so I doubled in psychology and studio art. It just made sense for me. I'm not sure I can really explain it, other than going "YES! this is exactly what I want to do" once I found out about what art therapy was."

"I have been in an art school since I was 11 years old. I have always wanted to be an artist but I have felt a calling to represent something deeper and essentially to help others. I bounced back and forth and I was fascinated by anything that had to do with psychology. The day (when I was 13) I found that an interdisciplinary career like art therapy existed; I knew that this was what I was supposed to do. There are thousands of languages all over the world; however, there is one universal language that unifies us all and that it through a realm of images. Some of the most profound conversations that I have ever had with others were about the emotions that an image brought to us. Sometimes images leave us dumbfounded and speechless. The justification for using the image as a healing agent is prevalent throughout history, and of course it would make sense for a career in the 21^st century."

Please leave us your comments and let us know why you're interested in art therapy!

Artist Trading Card Exchange!

The Linked-in group Materials and Media in Art Therapy is once again hosting an Artist Trading Card exchange! The theme for this go-round is "Collage Unleashed."  This time, there s still a chance for you to sign up! The deadline to sign up is August 11 by 8pm EST. 

In order to sign up there are a few guidelines for you to follow:

• You must be a member Materials and Media subgroup of the Art Therapy Alliance group at Linked-in

(if you are not already a member, Linked-in is free and all you have to do is a group search to find those listed above)

• You must then email the host of the swap, Melanie.

(her email is listed in the conversation post in the Materials and Media subgroup... since this is for members only, please sign up and log in to get it. I'd hate to share private info with the whole web!)

• The email must have "Alliance ATC Swap" in the header.
• The email should include your full name and mailing address.

Once you have signed up, make 4 ATCs based on the theme Collage Unleashed. These and a self addressed return envelope need to be in the mail no later than August 30. Melanie will then take the time sort through the ATCs, and on the week of September 7 she will send you 4 ATCs from other swap participants.

This is a fun and creative way to network with your fellow art therapists and art therapy students. 

Happy creating!