2024 Art Therapy Workshops
Designed to help the artist dive deeper into personalized reflections, these workshops are great for individuals, as well as for mental health clinicians to gather ideas to use with their clients! As a licensed professional counselor supervisor AND a board certified, registered art therapist in Texas, this workshop will allow mental health professionals in Texas to earn 3 hours of CEs for each workshop. We will discuss in the use of art therapy in your clinical or personal practice, all while participating in a supportive group setting. While practitioners may earn CEs for these workshops, these experiences are open to any adult willing to dive deeper into their emotional processing through the use of various art interventions.
All in-person workshops will be held at the Farr Best Theater in Mansfield, Texas, and most materials will be provided. Participants may be asked to bring personal effects to add to their artwork.
Virtual sessions will be held on zoom, and supplies will be mailed out prior to the event.
Cost: $130 for in person CEs plus any processing fees.
or $150 for virtual sessions (all supplies will be shipped to you!)
Links to sign up are below.
Bullet Journals
January 13, 2023- Virtual Session 3pm-6pm CST
January 13, 2024- Farr Best Theater, Mansfield, TX; 9am-noon
Are you a creative type that has amazing ideas, but they tend to fizzle out before you are able to accomplish them? This bullet journal will be your tool to work on those ideas through to completion! In this workshop, we will first identify three core areas of your life that you would like to improve, and will craft manageable steps to track progress in these goals. We will then create YOUR OWN PERSONALIZED JOURNAL and your group leader will help you come up with a tracking system that is visual, creative and will keep you motivated to reach the goals! CE Certificates will be awarded for all participants. This workshop meets the 2024 updated standards for continuing education for LPCs, however, artists, and general public are welcome!
Personal Affirmations–
July 15, 2023
9am-noon- Farr Best Theater in Mansfield, Texas
3pm-6pm Virtual Session.
Having a word of the day to use for personal reflection is a great way to come back to focus on the positivity each day. This workshop will talk about the importance of positive psychology, and participants will understand the three main tenants of the theory. Participants will also take a look at positive values and come up with an interactive sculpture that they can rearrange each day to make a new focus work for their positivity practice. Non-counselors and counselors alike will all benefit from the experience, and will learn how to integrate more mindfulness into their routine to increase positivity.
Show your True Colors! August 26, 2023!
9am-noon: In person Farr Best Theater, Mansfield TX;
3pm-6pm: Virtual Session;
Multiple traditional and modern fabric dying techniques will be explored in this textile based art therapy workshop. Participants will learn two techniques that they can use to further their dying expressions outside of the art therapy workshop. Participants will learn to recognize the meditative qualities of dying patterns, wrapping and sewing. This tool can be used in a therapy session with clients that are interested in exploring color, historical family stories that are passed down through traditional dying patterns as a cultural exploration. This art therapy workshop is appropriate for counselors wanting to explore their own identity, wanting to use some creativity in therapy sessions, and equally as appropriate for non-clinicians wanting to use creativity in their lives more, and want to explore some interesting ways of putting color together.
Mask Making!
September 23, 2023
9am-noon: In person Farr Best Theater, Mansfield TX; -or-
3pm-6pm: Virtual Session;
Participants in this workshop will create a mask that represents themselves from a metaphorical standpoint. Masks are often used in cultural celebrations and in festivities, and participants will have the opportunity to create a mask that represents themselves. Participants will understand how this can be a tool to use for self reflection, and as a way to express multiple simultaneous stories of life.
The Resilient Woman– October 14, 2023
9am- Noon
Farr Best Theater, Mansfield, Texas
-or-
Virtually 3pm-6pm
With Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, Breast Cancer Awareness Month both in October, this is the month to celebrate the resiliency of women. In this art therapy workshop, we will be creating soft sculptures using bras as the foundation to celebrate the accomplishments that women have made, despite some tough situations along the way. This workshop will benefit the artist, artist at heart, and the therapy clinician that is interested in bringing art into their therapy sessions with clients. Participants will understand how art can be a tool to tell our stories, and there will be the opportunity to share the art with group members.
Gratitude Trees
June 24, 2023-
9am-noon: Farr Best Theater, Mansfield, TX
-or-
3pm-6pm Virtual Session
Traditionally, November is a time for giving thanks, and in this art therapy workshop, participants will be guided through a process that will help us define the things that we are most grateful for in life. Subsequently, participants will then create a representation of their gratitude with the metaphor of the tree, and will have all supplies available to create their own gratitude tree. Giving thanks is a wonderful way to be grounded in life, and in this workshop, participants will be able to identify what makes up their values in life, and how they can recognize those values in their life.
Special thanks to the Mansfield Commission for the arts for their partnership in making these workshops accessible to our community!