Cathy Malchiodi – Expressive Arts as Healing Engagement – PESI

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Expressive Arts as Healing Engagement
Speaker: Cathy Malchiodi, PhD, ATR-BC, LPCC, LPAT, REAT
Duration: 5 Hours 15 Minutes
Format: Audio and Video

Description

Expressive arts not only cultivate the healing powers of imagination, they also mobilize the social engagement system through play, improvisation, musicality, movement, and creativity. When integrated into therapy, they can revitalize and energize clients, helping them to engage more fully in the present while deepening implicit and meaningful sensory-based communications. In this hands-on recording, you’ll experience how to “get past talk” with creative, action-oriented methods that can be immediately applied to your practice.

Speaker

Cathy Malchiodi, PhD, ATR-BC, LPCC, LPAT, REAT
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: Dr. Cathy Malchiodi is the co-founder and president of Art Therapy Without Borders. She has employment relationships with the Trauma-Informed Practices, Lesley University, and Expressive Arts Therapy Institute. Dr. Malchiodi receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. 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

Demonstrate arts-based approaches to enhance and deepen empathy, compassion, and interpersonal connection in our clients and ourselves.

• 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 

Use a bottom-up model for applying the expressive arts to facilitate the body’s natural resources for transformation and healing.

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

Incorporate improvisation, dramatic enactment, gesture, bilateral movement, art making, and play as foundational practices to facilitate social engagement.

• 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 

Provide action-oriented methods that “get past talk” to help clients co-regulate with others.

• 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 

Explore meaningful sensory-based communications to facilitate client engagement and improve treatment outcomes.

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

Use play, improvisation, musicality, and movement in a clinical setting.

• 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

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