Online course · Module 2 of 5

The Art Therapy Session

What the module covers

  • How do you run an art therapy session with a client?
  • How do you prepare a session?
  • How do you communicate through art dialogue?
  • Harvesting the painting – what does it mean?
  • The Protreptic conversation as a tool

What you will take away

  • Can explain how art, storytelling and artistic processes can serve health, rebuilding and recovery
  • Knows how a new life story is created
  • Can explain the module’s exercises to clients
  • Can facilitate the exercises from their own professional ground and practice

In this module

  • A focus on art dialogue and an art-oriented attitude
  • Exploring painting, sculpture and drawing
  • Exercise 1: how to enter into dialogue with an image
  • Exercise 2: harvesting methods and techniques in high sensitivity
  • Identity and the role of the artist