3969 - Mindfulness and Art Therapy
Course Description
If you’re seeking to integrate mindfulness and art therapy into your personal life or professional practice, this course is for you. You’ll learn why and how mindfulness-based interventions and art therapy came together to create new protocols and tools in psychotherapy. This course will teach you methods and skills to increase awareness of the self through creative exploration. You’ll emerge with a greater awareness of how mindfulness and art therapy can improve cognitive, emotional and behavioral processes. No prior artistic experience is needed.
Notes:
This course is equivalent to 3519 - Mindfulness and Art Therapy 1: Watch the Mind and 3520 - Mindfulness and Art Therapy 2: Transform the Mind.
This course is for educational purposes and is not intended as a substitute for consultation and treatment from a qualified and registered healthcare professional or service provider.
Learning Outcomes
- Discover the foundations of art psychotherapy and the creative art therapies.
- Learn about the origins of mindfulness, compassion, and other meditations and their secularization in Western societies.
- Explore the integration of secular mindfulness and compassion in clinical settings.
- Discover the current literature on the benefits of mindfulness, loving-kindness and compassion meditation with art therapy for mental health and well-being.
- Explore how mindfulness, compassion, and art therapy can improve cognitive, emotional, and behavioral processes.