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Creating Change: Intermodal Expressive Arts as a medium for managing and creating change in a community context.

Abstract: The art making experience has the ability to reawaken the wonder of embodied experience, and nourish the aesthetic response to our anesthetic culture. Participants will be introduced to the latest philosophy, theory and practice in Intermodal Expressive Arts Therapy. The subject matter will be explored in a lively, experiential manner, through lecture, discourse and play in the arts. Participants will learn through the dynamics of the art, play and ritual process what resources of change and growth can emerge in the presence of a co-creative community.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will understand the concepts used in the practice of intermodal expressive arts therapy: expressive competency, intermodality, and polyaesthetics.
2. Participants will learn the history and development of the field of expressive arts therapy as a post-psychological domain.
3. Participants will learn how current theory supports the use of expressive arts as a resource to manage and create change.

Break-down of the course:

9:30 – 10:30 Orientation to the day
Introductions of the presenters and participants
Sensitizing, warming up and tuning in.
Entertaining the Query.

10:30 -11:30 thinking with the eyes: color and line

11:30 -12:30 thinking with the ear

12:30 – 1:30 LUNCH BREAK

1:30 – 2:30 thinking with the whole body in space

2:30 – 3:30 harvesting with poetic language, reflection

3:30 – 4:30 ritual of response: seeing the works, responding to them

4:30 – 5:30 Ritual of ending. Reflect upon the Quesies.

5:30 – 6:30 lecture: Beyond House Tree Person