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?

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!

Tweet! Tweet!

Do you tweet?  Are you interested in learning more about art therapy through links, articles, videos, images, and stories shared by others online?  Pop on over to Twitter and follow these great folks...

@artastherapy
@arttxalliance
@arttherapy
@ArtTherapyNet
@arttherapynews
@art2therapy

If you know about more interesting Art Therapy tweeters feel free to leave their @name in the comments!

Art Therapy & Technology: Linkedin

Post by: Annice Johnson, Class of 2011

The Internet is an amazing tool for art therapists, well, for anyone. There is a site in particular I would like to highlight: Linkedin.

Linkedin is a free professional social networking site, so it is like facebook with a suit on. As students about to emerge into a professional realm, I have found Linkedin to be a resource worth investing some time in.  Once you have become a member, you can join groups. In the search option under groups - I typed in the words art therapy. A list of art therapy groups pops up; these include: Art Therapy Alliance, International Art Therapy Organization (IATO), and many subgroups that explore more specific realms of art therapy, such as trauma work with art therapy, various mediums used, medical art therapy, and digital art therapy.

Once you join a group, there are discussions posted to the page, so it is like a chat room all dressed up with a tie. These discussions are useful in a variety of ways. As a networking site - it is helpful in meeting art therapists who are often more than willing to answer your questions. Once, I posted a discussion about a population I was studying for a class presentation. Several art therapist who worked directly with that population messaged me valuable information. Not only was it helpful for my research, but I now have some contacts that work with the population I am interested in. Valuable, no?! 

Currently, Gretchen Miller through the Materials and Media in Art Therapy Linkedin subgroup is hosting an ATC (artist trading cards) swap for members of the subgroup with the theme of "Art Therapy: Helping Others, Communities, and the World". This is a fun way to network with other actively creative art therapists. The rules were to create 4 ATCs.  Once all members have sent in their ATCs Gretchen will mail back 3 from other art therapists. The 4th cards are being kept for the Art Therapy Alliance.  Not only is this fun, but now I am able to contact other participants and start networking with them. I can't wait to find out what 3 art therapist I will receive ATCs from! 

While it is too late to sign up for this swap, there are already rumors about another one forming... so quick, hop like a bunny and sign up for Linkedin, and join the Materials and Media in Art Therapy subgroup.

Here are the ATCs I sent in:

To see the ATCs already submitted visit the Art Therapy Alliance Facebook page.

iMovie as an Art Therapy Tool with Children

In the fall semester of the second year of the Naropa art therapy program, students take a child and adolescent populations course.  Through readings, discussion, practice sessions with children, experiential exercises and assignments, students focus on understanding development, art assessment, approaches to treatment and the practice of art therapy with a variety of child and adolescent populations.

Each student is paired with one child, ages ranging from 4-12, for a practicum art therapy experience.  In the Fall of 2009, Donica Snyder (pictured right) created a six session art therapy treatment plan that encouraged her child client to write his own myth, manifest his own characters and setting using art materials, and use photography and iMovie to put it all together in a stop-animation short.  Check out the amazing project that was created over the course of six sessions!  A great example of technology as a tool in the art studio.

A new way to stay involved, connected and up to date...

Welcome!  This blog is a place for art therapy students at Naropa University to share news, events, art work, photos, writing and other interesting blurbs with the world.  

If you would like to contribute to a blog post, please contact Chelsea O'Neil at coneil@students.naropa.edu.