Expressive Arts as Healing Engagement

CPD

Faculty

Cathy Malchiodi, PhD, ATR-BC, LPCC, LPAT, REAT Related seminars and products

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Cathy A. Malchiodi, PhD, ATR-BC, LPCC, LPAT, REAT, is an expressive arts therapist and art therapist who has spent over 30 years working with individuals with traumatic stress and studying how the arts support reparation, integration and recovery from trauma. She is the founder and executive director of the Trauma-Informed Practices and Expressive Arts Therapy Institute that trains mental health and health care practitioners in medical, educational, and community settings and assists in disaster relief and humanitarian efforts throughout the world. Cathy has given more than 500 invited presentations in the US, Canada, Europe, Middle East, Asia and Australia and has published numerous articles, chapters, and more than 20 books, including Trauma and Expressive Arts Therapy: Brain, Body and Imagination in the Healing Process, Understanding Children’s Drawings, Handbook of Art Therapy, Creative Arts and Play Therapy for Attachment Problems, and Creative Interventions with Traumatized Children. She has received numerous awards for distinguished service, clinical contributions and lifetime achievements, including honors from the Kennedy Center and Very Special Arts in Washington, DC. A passionate advocate for the role of the arts in health, she is a contributing writer for Psychology Today Online with more than 5 million readers and a visual artist and occasional ukulele and Hulusi musician.  

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Cathy Malchiodi is the co-founder and president of Art Therapy Without Borders. She has an employment relationship with the Trauma-Informed Practices and Expressive Arts Therapy Institute, Prescott College, and Lesley University. Cathy Malchiodi is a syndicated writer for Psychology Today. She receives royalties as a published author. Cathy Malchiodi receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Cathy Malchiodi is a member of the American Art Therapy Association, the American Counseling Association, the Association for Humanistic Counseling, the Association for Creativity in Counseling, and the International Traumatic Stress Society.

Objectives

1. Demonstrate arts-based approaches to enhance and deepen empathy, compassion, and interpersonal connection in our clients and ourselves. 
2. Use a bottom-up model for applying the expressive arts to facilitate the body’s natural resources for transformation and healing. 
3. Incorporate improvisation, dramatic enactment, gesture, bilateral movement, art making, and play as foundational practices to facilitate social engagement. 
4. Provide action-oriented methods that “get past talk” to help clients co-regulate with others. 
5. Explore meaningful sensory-based communications to facilitate client engagement and improve treatment outcomes. 
6. Demonstrate play, improvisation, musicality, and movement in a clinical setting in order to foster the development of personal, resilience-based narratives within clients.

Outline

• Participants will learn a variety of approaches; for example, dyadic drawing to enhance connection, compassion and empathy and mindful drawing of emotions to translate into gesture 

• Participants will learn how to apply the Expressive Therapies Continuum, a bottom-up arts-based model for clinical work 

• Participants will learn through experiential work how all of these media can be combined as an integrative approach to promoting health and well-being in clients 

• Participants will experience non-verbal methods such as drawing, gesture, movement and dramatic enactment as ways to co-regulate therapist and client, as well as group engagement in psychotherapy settings 

• Participants will engage in actual arts expression to understand the theoretical constructs of social engagement, polyvagal theory and non-verbal communication to effect change 

• Participants will experience non-verbal methods such as drawing, gesture, movement and dramatic enactment as ways to co-regulate therapist and client, as well as group engagement in psychotherapy settings 

Target Audience

• Psychologists
• Physicians
• Addiction Counselors
• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Nurses
• Other Behavioral Health Professionals