The Creative Arts in Psychotherapy: Using Movement, Games and Art to Create Change

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Increasingly, mental health practitioners are using various creative arts in conjunction with therapy. This workshop examines how visual arts, movement, drama and theater improvisation techniques can be incorporated into the therapeutic practice as positive healing tools in processing emotions, experience, and behaviors. This course will also introduce narradrama, a method in drama and narrative therapy that integrates action methods and the creative arts. The course will examine the benefits of using these new action-oriented and creative tools in therapy both theoretically and practically. A portion of the day will be spent with hands-on experience to allow students to grasp the power of these tools and to experience the effects of applying these methods.