September is sexual health awareness month. Engaging in consensual, safe and pleasurable sexual experiences can contribute to a sense of fulfilment, joy and general well-being. However, many healthcare professionals are unprepared to navigate such sensitive, intimate client  taboos, cultural and religious values, and lack of information and education around the topic can impede our ability to have an empowering discussion with clients on their sexual health.

Join us for this introductory experiential talk and discover:

• Barriers that may impede our ability to have an open dialogue on sexual health in our practice
• Six principles of sexual health and PLISSIT model as an approach to discussing sexual issues
• Possible application of the PLISSIT model to promote empowering dialogue with clients

PRESENTER

Dian is a Singapore-based art psychotherapist, sex therapist and sexologist. After over a decade of clinical experience in the public sector, she founded a private practice Nambani. She brings a unique approach to her practice by integrating other therapeutic modalities, including Somatic Experiencing® and coaching.

Her specialisation is in collaborating closely with clients to navigate various challenges, including body image and confidence issues, erectile difficulties and painful sex, and relationship dilemmas such as the aftermath of affairs, mismatched libido, cultural differences and the infamous ‘’mid-life’’ crisis. Dian strives to empower her client to gain clarity, find ease, and take control of their intimate issues and relationships.

Dian is fluent in English and Bahasa Indonesia and understands expatriate cultures' unique difficulties, having resided in the UK and Singapore for over 25 years. Her practice embraces inclusivity, welcoming adults and couples of all genders, orientations, and abilities.

Date: Thursday 28 September 2023
Time: 12.30pm -2.00pm AEST (10.30am SGT/HKT and 3.30pm NZDT)
Duration: 1.5 hours
CPD: 1.5 hrs
Location: Zoom
Cost: $60 + GST (if in Australia)
Min/Max Participants: 10/20
Open to: All members
Note: this event will not be recorded due to privacy reasons.

Cancellation Policy
When you register and pay to attend one of our events, you are holding a space on our calendar that is no longer available to other members. In order to be respectful of your fellow members and the presenter, please email Michelle as soon as you know you will not be able to attend the event. We keep our events as affordable as possible and need to pay presenters the fee they request. While we understand sometimes urgent matters come up, if registrants cancel at the last minute, we struggle to pay presenters. A full refund will be given if the cancellation occurs more than 24 hours before the event. If the cancellation occurs less than 24 hours before the event, 50% of your registration fee will be refunded only to defray our costs.

This hour long drop in session will occur the first Wednesday of each month. All members are welcome to join any monthly session. There is no agenda, no commitment, just pop in anytime you like for a chat with your Executive Officer and with other ANZACATA members.

When: Wednesday 4 October 2023
Time: 12 noon AEDT (9am WA and Asia, 2pm NZ)
CPD: 1 hour
ZOOM Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/4298208695?pwd=c21EcmN0TTMreVQ0bEROVzdQeWxGQT09
Meeting ID: 429 820 8695

(no password required, you will be admitted by the host - this is the same link each month)

How to lookup your time zone in google:

If the event starts at 12pm AEDT and you're in South Australia just type the following into google 12pm AEDT to South Australia time.
(change the time and/or city as required)

You are invited to come along to our AGM on Friday 6 October at 3.00pm (AEDT). Please check the correct time zone for you.

We have a remarkable guest speaker for you followed by a short meeting where we will hear about the activities of ANZACATA in the past year and approve the financial reports.

• Agenda for the AGM with details of guest speakers
• Minutes of the 2022 AGM
  
• Annual Report with financial details

All those who register for the meeting will be emailed details of how to join the online meeting. You must register to attend.

GUEST SPEAKER:

Claire will speak about the impact of family violence and how art and play therapy transforms the outcomes of children and families impacted by violence. She will discuss the impacts of trauma, the effectiveness of multi-model interventions and the work of Emerge to disrupt the cycles of violence and trauma.

Date: Friday 6 October 2023
Time: 3.00pm -4.30pm AEDT (12.00pm HK/WA and 5.00pm NZT)
Duration/CPD: 1.5 hours
Location: Online
Cost: Free for members
Open to: All members
Note: this event will not be recorded due to privacy reasons.

If you are unable to attend you can submit your apology.

An assemblage of knowing: Three working-values. An overall style to support companioning the delicate weave of a body with/in pain to lessen the risk of more pain.

For this presentation, I will return to a creative synthesis formed as a way to consolidate research knowings from my doctoral inquiry: An Artistic Holding of Mended Bodies in Pain. A form of mending through therapeutic arts-based inquiries. In physical form, the creative synthesis is a collection of three textile panels, constructed from deconstructed rabbits who were small companions, supporting me to 'go inside' the experiences of living with post-operative ongoing or persistent pain. The cluster of materials on each panel spoke to me of the importance of attraction, care and absorption, to lessen the risk of further damage or harm to a body with/in pain when engaging in forms of mending using the arts therapeutically. I have called these three attributes my 'working values'. I look forward to sharing what I came to know with my fellow Creative Arts Therapists, in the hope of furthering a nuanced approach in our practice especially for people who are always in (or never far from) feeling pain.

PRESENTER

Amanda E Woodford: "I am a mixed media artist, registered Creative Arts Therapist, ACC sensitive-claims counsellor and ANZACATA-approved supervisor. In my academic work at The MIECAT Institute (Melbourne), I am currently subject co-ordinating the Engaging with Materials (Masters) unit and the Doctoral course. As an arts-based researcher, I identify with being a bricoleuse. My private practice is based in Ōtepoti Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand."

When: Sunday 8 October 2023
Time: 11am - 12pm AEDT (8am HKT & WA, 10am QLD, 1pm NZT)
CPD Hours: 1 hour
Where: ZOOM
Cost: $20 (+GST for Australian Members)
Open to: all ANZACATA members
Will the event be recorded:  Yes

Cancellation Policy
When you register and pay to attend one of our events, you are holding a space on our calendar that is no longer available to other members. In order to be respectful of your fellow members and the presenter, please email Michelle as soon as you know you will not be able to attend the event. We keep our events as affordable as possible and need to pay presenters the fee they request. While we understand sometimes urgent matters come up, if registrants cancel at the last minute, we struggle to pay presenters. A full refund will be given if the cancellation occurs more than 24 hours before the event. If the cancellation occurs less than 24 hours before the event, 50% of your registration fee will be refunded only to defray our costs.

Synopsis: In this interactive, LIVE webinar, Megan Walker from Market Savvy will explain how Creative Arts Therapists can scale their practices nationally to support a wider range of clients individually, and via groups and online courses.

While delivering arts therapy services face-to-face locally is a wonderful way to teach and demonstrate tactile skills, there can be risks of local competition or audience shortages in local areas.

By generating some (or all) of the practices’ income through telehealth, group programs and online courses, practices can not only differentiate their service offering, but offer increased choice, flexibility and reach for current and prospective clients.

Key learnings:

• Learn what’s possible with the additional of group programs and online courses for your practice
• Understand how to get started with a clever online course idea for your practice
• Choose the right audiences to help focus your marketing and practice growth

Date: Tuesday 24 October 2023
Time: 6pm-7pm AEDT (3pm HKT, 5pm QLD,  8pm NZT)
Location: Zoom
CPD: 1 hr
Cost: $60 (+ GST for Australian members)
Open to: All members
Ticket includes: webinar presentation, 12 months access to the recording, workbook and Certificate of Attendance (one hour's CPD – general learning) via the Market Savvy website.
Recording: This event will be recorded.

PRESENTER

Megan Walker is a 25-year health and medical marketing expert who specialises in teaching busy health and medical leaders how to create effective and ethical marketing strategies, online courses and digital marketing to reach more people and change more lives. She launched Market Savvy in 2007 and has worked with thousands of private practice owners, allied health, GPs and specialists over this time. Prior to running Market Savvy, Megan worked as a Marketing Director in hospitals, medical research institutes and health NFPs. She is degree qualified in business marketing, communications, has a Master of Business Marketing, is a Certified Practicing Marketer as recognised by the Australian Marketing Institute and is a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Cancellation Policy
When you register and pay to attend one of our events, you are holding a space on our calendar that is no longer available to other members. In order to be respectful of your fellow members and the presenter, please email Michelle as soon as you know you will not be able to attend the event. We keep our events as affordable as possible and need to pay presenters the fee they request. While we understand sometimes urgent matters come up, if registrants cancel at the last minute, we struggle to pay presenters. A full refund will be given if the cancellation occurs more than 24 hours before the event. If the cancellation occurs less than 24 hours before the event, 50% of your registration fee will be refunded only to defray our costs.

In the excitement of gaining arts therapy work, the legal significance of negotiating terms and conditions, and signing a job contract can be overlooked. It is also necessary to know how, when and why to make a mandatory report; how to document your notes in case they are subpoenaed; and how to write reports especially court reports where you may be required to give evidence or be cross-examined. Clinical supervision is crucial for best practice and if you are a supervisor, it is important to also know the extent of your legal responsibility to your supervisees. This workshop aims to provide tips and advice to better prepare you for unexpected, respectful negotiations of workplace conditions as well as outlining legal aspects of this work around note-taking, report writing, the legalities around the use of images or video recordings, the handling of subpoenas and clinical supervision.

PRESENTER:
Annette Coulter is a registered art psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, published author, and practicing artist. She is an accredited PACFA supervisor and an approved ANZACATA supervisor and is also an Interactive Drawing Therapy (IDT) trainer and supervisor. She has taught and supervised on MA art therapy programmes in Australia and overseas and specialised in work with children, adolescents, families and couples. Through private practice she provides clinical supervision, education, consultation and customised training. She is co-author of The Introductory Guide to Art Therapy, (2014).

Date: Saturday 28 October 2023
Time: 10.30am-1.30pm AEDT (7.30am HKT, 9.30am QLD, 12.30pm NZT)
Location: ZOOM (this session will not be recorded due to privacy reasons)
CPD: 3 hours
Cost: $40 (+GST for Australian members), Student members free
Open to: All members
Min/Max Participants:15/unlimited

Note: The event will run for 2 hours with approximately 45 minutes dedicated to discussion with participants.

Cancellation Policy
When you register and pay to attend one of our events, you are holding a space on our calendar that is no longer available to other members. In order to be respectful of your fellow members and the presenter, please email Michelle as soon as you know you will not be able to attend the event. We keep our events as affordable as possible and need to pay presenters the fee they request. While we understand sometimes urgent matters come up, if registrants cancel at the last minute, we struggle to pay presenters. A full refund will be given if the cancellation occurs more than 24 hours before the event. If the cancellation occurs less than 24 hours before the event, 50% of your registration fee will be refunded only to defray our costs.

This hour long drop in session will occur the first Wednesday of each month. All members are welcome to join any monthly session. There is no agenda, no commitment, just pop in anytime you like for a chat with your Executive Officer and with other ANZACATA members.

When: Wednesday 1 November 2023
Time: 12 noon AEDT (9am WA and Asia, 2pm NZ)
CPD: 1 hour
ZOOM Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/4298208695?pwd=c21EcmN0TTMreVQ0bEROVzdQeWxGQT09
Meeting ID: 429 820 8695

(no password required, you will be admitted by the host - this is the same link each month)

How to lookup your time zone in google:

If the event starts at 12pm AEDT and you're in South Australia just type the following into google 12pm AEDT to South Australia time.
(change the time and/or city as required)

This training will contain theory, experiential learning, and opportunities for supervision practice, and can be used as either an arts therapy based PD opportunity, or towards registration as an approved supervisor with ANZACATA.  It is best suited to experienced professional members, as it assumes a working clinical knowledge and experience in arts therapy. It is also open to experienced Tier and Provisional members.

The Training Will Cover:

• Definitions of supervision
• A variety of models and approaches to supervision
• Arts-based integration
• Clinical practice
• Ethics and Contracts

In keeping with ANZACATA policy, the course will be 40 hours over 5 sessions (including 15 hours of experiential practice) in preparation for ANZACATA's new requirements of Approved Supervisors in 2024. Participants will be expected to engage in supervision practice with other participants between the online sessions in order to complete the required number of hours to register as an ANZACATA supervisor.

Presenter:

Vicky Nicholls has a broad range of supervision experience, including 20 years experience of supervising students from the Master of Art Therapy (Latrobe University) whilst on placement. In her private practice she supervises art therapists and other practitioners working in a wide range of fields. She also facilitates several supervision groups. She is pleased to offer support to members of ANZACATA.

Cost & Times

A maximum of 16 members will be admitted to the online supervision training course and the cost is $450 (AUD) for each participant. GST must be added to those in Australia who participate. The course is open to all Professional, Provisional and Tier members, but please note only Professional Members can be on the ANZACATA Approved Supervisor listing.

When: The event is run over 5 days
Friday 3 & Saturday 4 November
Friday 17 & Saturday 18 November
Saturday 9 December 2023
Time: 12pm – 5pm AEDT (9am HKT & WA, 11am QLD, 2pm NZT)
Duration: 5 hours each session
CPD: 40 (25 hours + 15 hours experiential)
Where: ZOOM (zoom link will be sent 7 days before the event)
Cost: $450 (+ GST for Australian members)
Open to: 16 members (Practising members)

Please note:
- This event is now open to all Tier, Provisional and Professional members
- This event will not be recorded.

You are responsible for making sure you can attend all sessions of this course. So, do keep your diary free for all dates. We are not able to offer refunds or have you join another time. There is a wait list every time we offer this course. If you do not complete the course, you cannot get your certificate of completion and cannot join our approved supervisor listing.  If a genuine emergency occurs and you cannot complete, please contact Vicky as soon as you can.

Cancellation Policy
When you register and pay to attend one of our events, you are holding a space on our calendar that is no longer available to other members. In order to be respectful of your fellow members and the presenter, please email Michelle as soon as you know you will not be able to attend the event. We keep our events as affordable as possible and need to pay presenters the fee they request. While we understand sometimes urgent matters come up, if registrants cancel at the last minute, we struggle to pay presenters. A full refund will be given if the cancellation occurs more than 24 hours before the event. If the cancellation occurs less than 24 hours before the event, 50% of your registration fee will be refunded only to defray our costs.