Women's Christian College and East West Center for Counselling and
Training announces
Batch Four - “Diploma
Course in Expressive Arts Therapy”
Training
Calendar 2014 to 2015
Module One – December 2014 (8th to 19th)
(Psychodrama and Storytelling)
Module Two – March 2015 (2nd to
13th) (Expressive Arts Therapy)
Module Three – April 2015 (6th to 17th) (Dance Movement Therapy, Art Therapy, Counselling & Ethics)
The diploma will be issued only on
completion of:
1. 100% Attendance
2.
Trainer's
evaluation
3.
Assignments
4.
Final
Project
5.
Written
Exam (one)
6.
40
hours of personal (individual) therapy sessions
7.
Six
Supervision sessions over Skype compulsory from June 2015 to
November 2015
*****This Expressive Arts Therapy Diploma Program is the only academic
based program offered in India*****
In addition to the
Diploma, students will also receive certificates from the World Storytelling
Institute, Dance Movement Psychotherapy Institute and Psychodrama Institute
upon completion of this program.
Training Venue - Women's Christian College, Nungambakkam, Chennai
Trainers:
1 1. Dr. Herb Propper, Ph.D., is the director for
Celebrations of the Soul for psychodrama, sociodrama and sociometry in
Vermont, USA.
2. Magdalene Jeyarathnam, a practicing counsellor and
trainer, she is the Director of East West Center for Counselling and the Indian Institute of Psychodrama.
3. Dr. Veena Easvaradoss, Ph.D., is the Head of
Department for Psychology at the Women’s Christian College, Chennai.
4. Dr. Karen Estrella, Ph.D., is the Expressive Arts
Therapy Program Coordinator in the Expressive Therapies Division at Lesley
University, U.S.A.
5. Dr. Eric Miller, Ph.D., is the director of the
World Storytelling Institute, Chennai.
6. Preetha Ramasubramanian is a Registered Dance Movement Psychotherapist trained in the UK.
7. Susan
Ainlay Anand is a licensed art therapist and the treasurer of the Art Therapy
Credentials Board in the U.S.A.
**For more information on our trainers, please scroll below**
Who should attend this training?
This is an intensive program for those in
the helping profession - (open to men and women) Therapists, HR (psychology),
Social Workers, Counsellors, Psychologists, Special educators, NGO workers and
those who are working with children will benefit from this course.
How is this training delivered?
The training is divided into 3 modules
lasting 10 days each and takes place entirely in Chennai. At the completion of
each module participants will have to complete projects and assignments of 15
hours. Each participant apart from the class hours will complete 200 hours of
project work/ assignments.
Course Fee - Rs 75,000/=
Application Fee - Rs
200/=
For further details:
Application forms will be available July 1st, 2014, with Ms. Lulua Mala
at the East West Center for Counselling's office. Please email us at
lulua@centerforcounselling.org or contact us at 9884700104.
Contact Course Coordinator - 9884700135
Center for Counselling - (044) 42080810/+ 91 9884700135
WCC - (044) - 28275926/28231676/ - ext 323 (Psychology department)
What is Expressive Arts
Therapy?
Expressive Art therapy is a
relatively new form of therapeutic practice that allows an individual to
communicate their feelings and thoughts in a more visual and imaginative way.
The establishment of this practice came way in the mid-1990s. Some researchers
and psychologists believe that expressive therapy allows for a more holistic
approach, which combines various forms such as imagery, dance, music, poetry,
story-telling, dream-work, etc. In ancient times, the arts were used to
celebrate and mourn the rites of passage in one’s life as well as to welcome
the changes that one would witness; such as the annual seasons, the cycles of
nature, and the movement of celestial bodies across the skies (Sourcebook in
Expressive Arts Therapy, Atkins & Williams).
Expressive arts therapy uses
creative processes in therapeutic, rehabilitative, community or educational
settings to foster health, communication, and expression; promote the
integration of physical, emotional, cognitive and social functioning; enhance
self-awareness; facilitate change, including in the relation to personal growth
and community development. It can be practiced with individuals, couples,
families, and groups.
Expressive Arts therapy is
holistic. Its goals are optimum health and well-being, rather than the
diagnosis and treatment of disease and dysfunction. Even when expressive arts
are used within the settings of traditional medical and psychological
treatment, they are used in the service of learning, healing and growth.
Art making and creative
expression are healing, growth producing processes in and of themselves; not
adjunctive to traditional therapy. While reflection on process and product may
be part of the work, the emphasis remains on the capacity for therapeutic
transformation inherent in giving form to creative expression. The capacity for
creative expression is a fundamental aspect of heath. Thus, healing and
personal growth are possible through involvement in the creative process.
In expressive arts therapy,
body knowledge, intuitive wisdom, subjective experience and emotions are
expressed and honoured as valid ways of knowing, in and of themselves. Rational
analysis is not required to validate these ways of knowing.
Expressive therapy is
depth-oriented. Work in the arts provides access to emotions, experiences and
insights often not reached through traditional psychological practice. Such
work provides powerful access to unconscious material. It often involves the
layering of modalities. Like all interdisciplinary work, it enlarges the
capacity of both the client and the therapist to hold different perspectives,
to speak many “languages” simultaneously.
The integrity of an
expressive arts therapist is reflected in on-going personal use of creative
expression for personal healing and growth. While the therapist may have
expertise in one artistic modality, she seeks personal experience in other
modalities as well.
In its broadest and deepest
sense, expressive arts therapy is a spiritual practice. It offers the
possibility for meditative practice and for entry into what may be described as
an experience of universal consciousness.
(Appalachian Expressive Arts Collective, 2003)
A more recent approach to the
emerging ideas about and practice of expressive arts therapy is termed the
Appalachian Approach. The four categories that make up the Appalachian Approach
are developing a personal theory, nature as the model of creative process,
dreams and imagination, and expressive arts in the community (Atkins &
Williams). The four areas act as pillars that form the Appalachian Approach. It
acknowledges that certain theories and practices have to be developed and
applied towards the creative processes of the natural world. Dreams and
imagination have to be interpreted in order to understand its underlying
meaning and that the community plays an integral role in the acceptance of
specific theories and approaches. (Appalachian Expressive Arts Collective,
2003)
About Our Trainers
Dr. Herb Propper – Psychodrama (December 2014)
Herb Propper, Ph.D., T.E.P.* is a trainer
educator practitioner of psychodrama, sociometry and group psychotherapy, with
34 years’ experience in the field. He is a member of the American Board
of Examiners and a fellow of the American Society of Group Psychotherapy and
Psychodrama (ASGPP). He is director of Celebrations of the Soul center for psychodrama,
sociodrama and sociometry in Vermont, USA. He is an associate member of
the Bangladesh Clinical Psychology Society, and a 2009 Fulbright Scholar to
Bangladesh. He recently received the ASGPP J.L. Moreno Award for
distinguished lifetime service to the field.
Magdalene Jeyarathnam - Counselling
Skills and Ethics (December 2014)
Magdalene
Jeyarathnam is a
practicing counsellor and counselling trainer. She has worked as a counsellor,
counselling supervisor and counselling trainer for 19 years. She is the
Director of East West Center for Counselling and The Indian Institute of Psychodrama. She has developed
counselling training modules, protocols and guidelines for counsellors in India
and other countries especially in South East Asia. She works as a consultant
to several UNICEF, WHO, World Vision projects. She is a member of the
International Association for Group Psychotherapy and Group Processes.
Dr. Veena
Easvaradoss, Ph.D. - Counselling Skills and Ethics (December 2014)
Dr. Veena
Easvaradoss, Associate Professor of Psychology, Women’s Christian
College, Chennai, has over 20 years of professional experience in clinical and
counselling psychology. She has obtained her doctoral degree from the National
Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Bangalore. Her clinical practice
includes being Clinical Psychologist on referral for several schools, NGOs and
corporates. She has facilitated at a number of workshops on counselor training
including Grief Counselling, Counselling for teachers, Coping with Stress,
Counselling Skills, Behaviour modification, Parenting, Suicide Prevention,
Learning problems, Tsunami volunteers' counselling training among others.
Dr. Karen Estrella,
Assistant Professor – Expressive Arts Therapy (March 2015)
Dr. Karen Estrella is the Expressive Arts Therapy Program Coordinator in
the Expressive Therapies Division at Lesley University, U.S.A. As a Music
Therapist and Art Therapist, Dr. Estrella’s work has focused on developing an
integrated arts approach to counselling and psychotherapy, and she has spent
much of the past 15 years focused on developing competencies and integrating
theory in Expressive Arts Therapy. In addition, she is pursuing licensure as a
Clinical Psychologist and practicing community based mental health counselling.
Dr. Eric Miller, Ph.D – Storytelling (April
2015)
Dr. Eric Miller directs the World Storytelling Institute (www.storytellinginstitute.org)
here in Chennai. He leads various types of Storytelling Workshops. Last
year he completed his PhD in Folklore from the University of Pennsylvania.
He has been associated with the Center for Counselling since 2006.
Preetha Ramasubramanian –
Dance Movement Psychotherapy (April 2015)
Preetha Ramasubramanian is a Registered Dance Movement
Psychotherapist trained in the UK. She was awarded a distinction from
Goldsmiths College, University of London for her work with the forensic
population. She has worked with children having severe
behaviour problems, trauma, autism, cerebral palsy, abuse, etc… both in
mainstream schools and in special schools. She has also worked with drug users,
sex offenders, and adults with criminal background having severe mental health issues.
At present Preetha works with both children and adults in private practice.
Susan Ainlay Anand – Art Therapy
(April 2015)
Susan Ainlay Anand is a licensed art therapist and the
treasurer of the Art Therapy Credentials Board in the U.S.A. She joined the faculty in the Department of Psychiatry at
University of Mississippi Medical Center in 1987 after receiving her MA in Art
Therapy from New York University. Her clinical interests relate to art therapy
of medically ill and psychiatric patients, and she has published accounts of
this work in the literature. In addition to her work at the UMMC, Susan
provides art therapy services to the Hederman Cancer Center in Jackson. She has
been a member of the Nominating, Program, Scholarship, and Honors Committees
for AATA. For six years she served as State liaison for the Governmental
Affairs committee and is past chair of the Nominating committee.
