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 16 & Saturday 17 June
Friday 14 & Saturday 15 July
Saturday 29 July 2023
Time: 12pm – 5pm AEST (10am HKT & WA and 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.

In a Climate Conversation people attend to share their feelings about the climate and ecological crisis – a thinking and feeling space, a haven from busyness and activity. We do this in a safe space, because sharing feelings in a supportive setting helps to build our resilience during this confusing and difficult time.

Instead of assuming that our anxiety will go away if we act, or assuming that embracing anxiety means accepting the planet's fate, research advocates for the creation of more safe spaces, platforms free of judgement with expectations of respect and a willingness to listen, where feelings can be shared and heard.

We have limited numbers to 12 participants supported by two facilitators.

This event is experiential. Explore how art can support and enhance a climate conversation. What to bring:

• your art/drawing materials
• a natural object or photo of a natural object that has meaning for you
• your cup of tea or coffee and cake or yummy treat snack to gather around the zoom screen

The duration is 90 minutes. 15 minutes at the end of the program will include reflection on how the drawing/art enhanced the experience of the Climate Conversation.

Date: Monday 19 June 2023
Time: 5pm - 6.30pm AEST (3pm HKT & WA, 7pm NZT)
Location: ZOOM (this session will not be recorded due to privacy reasons)
CPD: 1.5 hours
Cost: $60 (+GST for Australian members)
Open to: All members

Facilitators

Michelle O'Sullivan is a highly experienced practitioner in leadership development, HR, organisation transformation and change. Michelle creates the space to explore the undiscussable, sit with ambiguity, seek to understand, and provide a source of inspiration whilst holding the organisation and the individual in mind.

Fiona Martin brings practical experience to facilitation and coaching, drawing on experience as a senior executive and business entrepreneur with a focus on learning and development, innovation, building collaboration. She is qualified in Organizational Role Analysis and is an accredited Advanced Analytic-Network Coach.

Topic Overview: Māori and Pasifika approaches in creative therapies spaces

An extension of the presentation in December 2022, and suitable for both first and second-time attendees. Marion Gordon-Flower, AThR, will overview her context of work and introduce two cultural-specialist colleagues, Manaakinui Te Kahu and Emanita Aholelei. Manaakinui will offer his insight to the Māori practices of karakia (prayer or incantation) and offer an appropriate karakia for creative arts therapists to add to their kete resources. There will be an exploration of the significance of Tāwhirimātea, atua of wind and weather and how hā, our breath, is a connection to wairua, spirituality.  Manaakinui will take you on a journey through hā using tāonga pūoro, traditional Māori wind instruments.  Participants will experience the sounds and vibrations of different instruments and be invited to make meditative and creative responses in their preferred arts therapeutic media.  Emanita will share pūrākau stories of Pasifika and how these are brought into waiata songs as an expression of wairua.  She will bring the pūrakau into a Samoan dance, a seated sasa.  These traditions have led to the strong cultural value of storytelling, for that is how they kept the past alive This will be an opportunity to participate in a Samoan dance experiential.  The session will expand upon the interconnection of wai (water) and hau (breath) in wairua, and as a part of the closing, Marion will share a mindfulness-movement-meditation. 

This event is experiential, so please bring your journal and art media to the zoom.  There will be opportunities to make responses through the course of the session.

Date: Thursday 22 June 2023
Time: 4pm - 6pm AEST (2pm HKT & WA, 6pm NZT)
CPD: 2 hours
Location: Zoom (link will be provided in registration email)
Cost: $45 (+GST for Australian members)
Open to: All members (maximum 40 participants)

Please note: This event will be recorded.

Biographies

Marion Gordon-Flower, BMA, Dip. T, MAAT (Clinical) Hons, AThR, is an established practitioner and internationally published author in the creative arts therapies field in Auckland since graduating with her master's degree in 2008. She has been a regular presenter at conferences in New Zealand, Australia and Singapore (prior to Covid-19). She was a committee member of Creative Therapies Association of Aotearoa and established the Arts Therapy 5-Pt Star model and assessment tool through international research. For the past five years, Marion has worked for a Māori iwi mental health and social housing NGO, assisting in the development and facilitation of culturally-based creative therapies group programmes. She currently co-ordinates and oversees programmes with four different cultural foci of Māori, Pasifika, Asian and Muslim and is arts therapist for a youth crisis respite unit and day programme, which caters for ethnic and gender diversity.

Manaakinui Te Kahu is a pou whirinaki Māori cultural specialist and advisor, skilled in the many different dimensions of Māori protocols, rituals, arts and healing practices. He currently provides culturally-based services within transitional housing to assist the residential community in moving forward from homelessness, and is also a degree student in theology.
Ko Whakataha ko Tāwhirirangi ngā maunga
Ko Ngātokimatawhaorua Ko Takitimu ngā waka
Ko Waitangi ko Mohaka ngā awa
Ko Te Rangiawhiowhio ko Te Kahu o te Rangi ngā tipuna whare
Ko Te Whiu ko Ngāti Pahauwera ngā hapu
Ko Ngāpuhi ko Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairoa ngā iwi.
Ko Manaakinui Te Kahu tōku ingoa.
Tihei mauri ora
"My passion is in education around the Māori worldview and all the treasures it has for todays ever changing world. I have a particular passion for taonga pūoro or our treasured Māori instruments. It is a few of these gifts that I will be sharing within the therapy space and how the treasures of our ancestors may help in bringing wellbeing to someone's hauora, social, mental, physical and spiritual health, in relationship to the natural environment."

Emanita Aholelei has a background in traditional arts of the Pacific Islands and the fashion industry. After making her own health recovery journey, she has become a specialist in the therapeutic use of Pasifika arts in mental health. She has facilitated highly successful community-based group programmes in central Auckland since 2017 and has recently been promoted to Manager of Consumer Leaders, an advisor team to Te Whatu Ora which is the new Health New Zealand. Emanita has previously been a presenter at TheMS Conferences in Sydney and Perth where she presented a Pasifika model for heath recovery which used the visual concept of canoe.
"I am of Tongan/Fijian decent born in Aotearoa, and involved in a variety of projects in the mental health services, maternal mental health, youth justice and Pasifika mental health. I also continue to support whanau/family members with their mental health needs outside my work. Through my own recovery journey, I have discovered the significance of culture in health and have developed approaches which assist people to reconnect and discover a sense of belonging through Pasifika culture, materials, language and the history, passed down from our Pacific ancestors. I value my Tongan culture and everything that comes with it including my passion for creative arts. Malo Au Pito, Vinaka vakalevu."

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 5 July 2023
Time: 12 noon AEST (10am WA and Asia, 2pm NZ)
CPD: 1 hour
ZOOM Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2028240644
Meeting ID: 202 824 0644

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

The World Health Organisation recognises that people's mental health around the globe is seriously affected by climate change.

In a Climate Conversation people attend to share their feelings about the climate and ecological crisis – a thinking and feeling space, a haven from busyness and activity. We do this in a safe space, because sharing feelings in a supportive setting helps to build our resilience during this confusing and difficult time.

Instead of assuming that our anxiety will go away if we act, or assuming that embracing anxiety means accepting the planet's fate, research advocates for the creation of more safe spaces, platforms free of judgement with expectations of respect and a willingness to listen, where feelings can be shared and heard.

You will have the opportunity for thinking about the application of practice skills in the Art Therapy setting.  Getting clarity on using your clinical thinking and practice within a climate anxiety setting.  Explore in a safe and held space. In this session, we will:

• Principles of a Climate Conversation
• How to host a climate conversation and underpinning theory
• Drawing on critical reflection theory and techniques
• Using your clinical skills to create the space for clients to explore.

Pre-reading Hand-outs to enrolled participants

This event is experiential. Explore using your clinical thinking and practice within a climate anxiety setting.  Explore how art can support and enhance a climate conversation. What to bring:

• your cup of tea or coffee and cake or yummy treat snack to gather around the zoom screen.

We have limited numbers to 12 participants supported by two facilitators. The duration is 120 minutes.

Date: Monday 17 July 2023
Time: 4pm - 6pm AEST (2pm HKT & WA, 6pm NZT)
Location: ZOOM (link provided 7 days before the event)
CPD: 2 hours
Cost: $80 (+GST for Australian members)
Open to: All members
Note: this session will not be recorded due to privacy reasons.

Facilitators

Michelle O'Sullivan is a highly experienced practitioner in leadership development, HR, organisation transformation and change. Michelle creates the space to explore the undiscussable, sit with ambiguity, seek to understand, and provide a source of inspiration whilst holding the organisation and the individual in mind.

Fiona Martin brings practical experience to facilitation and coaching, drawing on experience as a senior executive and business entrepreneur with a focus on learning and development, innovation, building collaboration. She is qualified in Organizational Role Analysis and is an accredited Advanced Analytic-Network Coach.

Ella discusses findings from her PhD research where she used dance movement therapy (DMT) to engage women navigating the criminal justice system in Victoria. As part of the study, participants were invited to offer feedback, which was analysed using reflexive and interpretative methods of ethnographic data generation. Three themes emerged through the data which were understood to reflect notions of fun, fitness, and relaxation in DMT. In this presentation Ella discusses the value of participatory research as a way of ‘learning with and from’ participants. Ella also articulates the beginnings of a theoretical perspective, described in her doctoral thesis as an “exercisePLUS” perspective: this conceptualisation of practice explores the value of physical fitness and exercise in DMT and connects these elements of practice to existing trauma discourse. It is hoped the ideas presented will contribute toward the further development of community-based research and practice within creative arts therapies.

PRESENTER:

Ella is a Lecturer at the University of Melbourne, and a researcher-practitioner. She currently leads the dance therapy track in the Master of Creative Arts Therapies program. Ella holds a PhD in dance movement therapy: her doctoral project focused on developing collaborative approaches to DMT practice with women navigating through the criminal justice system. Ella's prior practice experience includes aged care and adult disability. Alongside her academic duties, Ella explores DMT with residents in a forensic mental health unit. She enjoys working with diverse groups of people to explore their perceptions and knowledge/s of using dance as a health and wellbeing resource. Ella works both online and in-person. She is guided by trauma-responsive and strengths-based models of practice.

Date: Wednesday 19 July 2023
Time: 5.30pm - 6.30pm AEST (3.30pm HKT & WA, 7.30pm NZT)
Location: ZOOM (this session will not be recorded due to privacy reasons)
CPD: 1 hour
Cost: $20
Open to: All members
Min/Max Participants: 10/Unlimited

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 5 hour refresher training is for professional members who have been supervising for several years. It is for arts therapists who may have already completed supervision training some time ago and want to ensure that their practice is up to date and/or to allow them to meet the requirements to become approved supervisors with ANZACATA, if the training they have done does not add up to the required 20 hours.  Also the new ANZACATA supervision policy requires approved supervisors to 'refresh' their training every 5 years.

Current and relevant readings for all areas of the training will be provided.

The training will revisit:

• Definitions of Supervision
• Models and approaches to supervision
• Arts Based Integration
• Clinical Practice
• • Understanding the tasks of the supervisor and tasks of the supervisee
  • Understanding our own process as supervisor, developing reflexivity and exploring parallel processes
  • Understanding the impact of contextual issues

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.

When: Friday 28 July 2023
Time: 12pm – 5pm AEST (10am HKT & WA and 2pm NZT)
CPD: 5 hours
Where: ZOOM (zoom link will be sent in the registration confirmation email)
Cost: $150 (+GST for Australian members)
Open to: 15 members (Professional level only)

Note: This event will not be recorded.

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.

These bi-monthly 2-hour supervision sessions will give senior art therapists who are approved supervisors the opportunity to explore and develop how they supervise other art therapists.

Fran will encourage countertransference art making, clinical case presentations and workforce consultations as a framework for the sessions. Within this framework the following topics are likely to be explored:

• Boundaries, creativity and ethics in arts based supervision
• The novel and complex practice of working with art therapy images
• Promoting clinical judgement and expertise in context of unpredictable and unstable work environments
• Case studies of supervision dilemmas

NOTE: This event is open to Approved Supervisors ONLY

Presenter:

Fran Nielsen (AThR) has 15 years of supervision experience supporting art therapy services within NSW Health. This includes the supervision of new recruits as well as implementing art therapy positions for the Sydney Local Health District. Fran has also been responsible for developing art therapy principles and procedures within NSW Health to qualify senior levels of expertise and has advocated for Senior Art Therapist's Positions. She is passionate about developing this understanding within Mental Health Departments and is committed to supporting other Senior Art Therapists.  

Start date: Friday 4 August 2023 (continuing bi-monthly)
Time: 11am - 1pm AEST (9am HKT & WA and 1pm NZT)
Duration: 2 hours
CPD: 12 hours (6x2hr sessions)
Location: ZOOM
Cost: $480 (+GST for Australian members) in total for 6 x 2 hour sessions
Open to: Approved Supervisor listing ONLY
Recording: This event will not be recorded
Session Dates: 4 August, 6 October, 1 December, 2 February, 5 April, 7 June

FAQ:

What do we do if some in the group supervise or are supervised by others in the group?
Once the event is full we will email all registrants to let them know who is attending to see if anyone has any boundaries issues with anyone else in the group (one participant supervises another participant for example). If there are boundaries issues and someone wishes  to withdraw, we will then go to the waiting list to select a new person from there and ask the same question again of the group to ensure boundaries are kept and all feel comfortable to participate.

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.

ANZACATA is offering subsidised fortnightly online group supervision sessions with Dian Handayani for Practising Members in Asia. The sessions will run for 90 minutes and the maximum number of participants is 8. First come, first served. The total cost for the 10 sessions is $500. Payment for all sessions will need to be made upfront.
Join group art therapy supervision sessions to support each other in navigating the "transitional space" between academia and working experience. The objectives of the sessions are as follow:

1. Build a community of new creative art therapists around
2. To create customised group learning/ supervision goals that can include and are not just limited to case discussions, practice sessions or peer support.
3. To create a personalised learning/ professional development plan as a new therapist. These plans can include and are not just limited to self-care plans or courses/ conferences plans.
4. Expand your connection and resources and appreciate the unique culture around creative arts therapists' practice in the region.

PRESENTER

Dian Handayani is an art psychotherapist trained at the Master's level at LASALLE College of the Arts in Singapore and an approved supervisor with ANZACATA. She is also skilled in multiple therapeutic approaches, including psychodynamic and depth (Jungian) psychology, solution-focused therapy, coaching and gestalt techniques. Dian is a trauma-informed practitioner. Her career in mental health services began at Singapore General Hospital, where, over a decade of experience, she supported individuals and groups with eating disorders, trauma, depression, anxiety, other mental health, and various medical conditions to cope with their challenges. Following her passion for sexual health and wellness, Dian then completed her MSc in Medicine: HIV, STIs and Sexual Health (Counselling) at the University of Sydney. She provided therapy for the men's sexual wellness clinic at the hospital. Dian has now enrolled at the Sex Coach University (SCU).

Start date: Tuesday 15 August 2023 (weekly)
Time: 9.30am Singapore/Hong Kong time
Session dates: 15/08, 22/08, 29/08, 05/09, 12/09 break 26/09, 03/10, 10/10, 17/10 and 24/10
Duration: 1 and ½ hours
Location: Zoom (link provided in the registration confirmation email)
Cost: $500 + GST (if in Australia) for 10 sessions
This event closes after 8 participants have signed up.
Open to: Practising members
Note: this event will not be recorded.

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.