The Experience of Self-Compassion
through Expressive Parts:
Blending Internal Family Systems (IFS) with Expressive Arts (EXA)
Offered In-Person or On-Line
Time: 10:00 - 5:00
Location: 57 Bearspaw Summit Place
Cost: $500 on or before February 1, 2024 ($540 after)
Facilitator: Carmen Richardson MSW, RSW, RCAT, REAT
Description: This 2 day workshop brings together two beautiful ways of working. IFS is a mindful, self-compassionate way of understanding ourselves as humans. Expressive arts allows us to deepen our way of being and expressing ourselves in the world. IFS & EXA, when blended, provides a truly powerful somatic approach to personal and professional growth. This experiential workshop will introduce participants to a blended version of these two ways of working with ourselves through the use of music, mindfulness, movement, creative writing, and art.
Three Day Training in Body-Focused Expressive Arts Therapy for Traumatized Children and Adolescents
Carmen Richardson MSW, RSW, RCAT, REAT
Carmen Richardson MSW, RSW, RCAT, REAT
Overview: This three day training will provide participants with a comprehensive framework for treating traumatized children & teens. This four- phase, resource-oriented model is grounded in attachment theory, the psychophysiology of trauma, CBT, and expressive arts therapy. It is based on Carmen’s book, “Expressive Arts Therapy for Traumatized Children and Adolescents: A Four-Phase Model”.
Training Objectives: To provide a practical, structured framework that guides assessment & treatment processes. To learn structured, arts-based, sensory interventions to effectively treat key trauma reactions and promote self-regulation. To increase clinical skills such as working with a resource-oriented lens, tracking client sensory processes, & working with the body, art & relationship.
Training Dates: July 15 - 17, 2024
Time: 9:00 - 5:00
Cost: $750 on or before June 1, 2024 & $800 after
Location: 57 Bearspaw Summit Place
Payment Methods: e-transfer to carmenr@telusplanet.net
About the four-phase model: “Although rich with creative activities, the author quickly establishes that these are not to be approached as a ‘recipe’ of activities to pick and choose from, but as strategically placed activities to support the larger picture of helping children develop the resilience needed to experience posttraumatic growth. The structured framework helps to ensure a process that is safe, but it also provides the flexibility necessary for following the child’s creative processing and use of varied activities at a pace that is safe and tolerable.”
William Steele, PsyD, MSW
Founder, The National Institute for Trauma and Loss in Children
Training Objectives: To provide a practical, structured framework that guides assessment & treatment processes. To learn structured, arts-based, sensory interventions to effectively treat key trauma reactions and promote self-regulation. To increase clinical skills such as working with a resource-oriented lens, tracking client sensory processes, & working with the body, art & relationship.
Training Dates: July 15 - 17, 2024
Time: 9:00 - 5:00
Cost: $750 on or before June 1, 2024 & $800 after
Location: 57 Bearspaw Summit Place
Payment Methods: e-transfer to carmenr@telusplanet.net
About the four-phase model: “Although rich with creative activities, the author quickly establishes that these are not to be approached as a ‘recipe’ of activities to pick and choose from, but as strategically placed activities to support the larger picture of helping children develop the resilience needed to experience posttraumatic growth. The structured framework helps to ensure a process that is safe, but it also provides the flexibility necessary for following the child’s creative processing and use of varied activities at a pace that is safe and tolerable.”
William Steele, PsyD, MSW
Founder, The National Institute for Trauma and Loss in Children
ADVANCED* TRAINING IN
EXPRESSIVE ARTS AND TRAUMA THERAPY
CHARTING A COURSE:
NAVIGATING AND ACHIEVING SAFE TRAUMA PROCESSING
THROUGH THE EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPIES
**This advanced training is for practitioners who have attended the 3 Day Body-Focused Expressive Arts Therapy for Traumatized Children and Adolescents.In this 2-day experiential and didactic training, participants will be presented with:
- Clinical case studies
- Current theory related to trauma work, including Polyvagal Theory for trauma therapy
- The opportunity to develop clinical skills essential to trauma-informed practice
- A brief overview of Carmen’s Stage Model of Trauma Processing (as outlined in her book)
- Specific Expressive Arts Therapy interventions designed to support trauma processing with a focus on Phase Three of the model
- An exploration into the “Therapist’s world view” as it is related to trauma processing
- A deeper look at developing effective stewardship skills to mitigate against a therapists experience of being exposed to secondary trauma.
- The experiential learning component will provide an invitation and opportunity to work with personal experiences to illuminate trauma-informed processes and support clinical skill development in the application of the Expressive Arts Therapies.
Training Dates: July 18 & 19, 2024
Times: 9:00 - 5:00
Cost: $500 on or before June 1, 2024 and $540 after
Location: 57 Bearspaw Summit Place
Take all 5 days for $1100
(Early Bird Only on or before June 1, 2023)
For further information or to Register, please contact Carmen at carmenr@telusplanet.net
Heart-Centered Practices with Children & Adolescents:
Blending Internal Family Systems with Expressive Arts Therapy
Dates: April 19 & 20, 2024
Time: 10:00 - 5:00
Location: On-Line Zoom
Cost: $600 on or before March 15, 2024 ($640 after)
Facilitator: Carmen Richardson MSW, RSW, RCAT, REAT
Description:
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a highly compassionate, non-pathologizing treatment modality that when blended with the embodiment practices of expressive arts therapy (EXAT) becomes an effective and empowering way of working with children and adolescents. This blended therapeutic approach provides clinicians with a truly heart-centered way of being with children and families who have experienced a range of life stresses and traumas. IFS & EXAT together create opportunities for meaningful repair of attachment injuries within the internal worlds of the child and caregiver and within the external family system.
In this two day workshop we will explore key IFS concepts and processes, providing an introduction to the theoretical foundation of this modality. Participants will also have the opportunity to practice therapeutic interventions such as unblending, witnessing, and identifying and mapping parts through the use of dramatic enactment, visual art, and creative writing. Creatively exploring our own parts that naturally show up in the therapy space is an effective way to develop therapeutic skills that can be integrated into your child/youth practice immediately.
We will further consider the experience of Self Energy, which, in IFS language, is our inherent healing resource that brings creativity, courage, compassion, calm and curiosity to ourselves and others. We will learn what Self Energy means within the therapy process, but also how we invite children/youth to experience and bring this healing energy to their most banished parts, truly creating an environment that is experienced as safe and welcoming to all parts of themselves.
Studio Self Practice:
Integrating Expressive Arts and Internal Family Systems
Dates: March 29, April 26, May 24, June 21, 2024
Time: 10:00 - 5:00
Location: 57 Bearspaw Summit Place
Cost: $1000 on or before March 11, 2024 ($1200 after)
Facilitator: Carmen Richardson MSW, RSW, RCAT, REAT
Description:
This is a 4 day experiential Studio Practice of exploring Self & parts through the arts. An invitation to take intentional time to deepen into relationship with your own parts and explore the essence of the 8 C's of Self, through guided experiential art invitations. We will utilize poetry, collage, labyrinth musings, and other expressive arts modalities to support both embodied learning and healing. Each Friday will be a unique immersive creative experience into our inner world, done in connection & collaboration with others.
This Studio Practice is for those who are already on their own personal healing journey and have some knowledge of utilizing IFS as a personal therapeutic modality. It is also ideal for therapists who want a more somatic, embodied way of learning more about these two modalities.
Art experience is not required. Some knowledge of IFS processes is required. IFS resources will be provided to those who desire additional information. This is a closed 4 day, small group process one Friday per month from March - June. Please ensure you are able to attend all four days.
HeART to HeART:
One Day Expressive Arts Retreat
Date: June 1, 2024
Time: 10:00 - 4:00
Location: 57 Bearspaw Summit Place
Cost: $250 on or before May 1, 2024 ($300 after)
Facilitator: Carmen Richardson MSW, RSW, RCAT, REAT
Description:
This is an invitation to either reconnect with your love for the arts or be introduced to expressive arts processes. An opportunity to return to the home within yourself, to create space for inner listening, to take time and reconnect with your own heart. We have the privilege to be in-person where we will create brave space and container to both witness and share with one another, deepening our experience with self and the arts. May we leave this day feeling renewed and refreshed.
Expressive Arts/Art Therapy Consultation Groups
January - June 2024
-2 hour conultaiton groups
-Cost is $65/hour ($130 per 2 hour session - $780 for all 6 sessions)
-This is not a drop in group, participants commit to attending at least 5 of the 6 sessions
In-Person Consultation
Saturdays 9:30 - 11:30 (MT)
Location: 57 Bearspaw Summit Place
January 13, February 10, March 9, April 13, May 11, June 8
On-Line Consultation
Saturdays 12:00 - 2:00 (MT)
January 13, February 10, March 9, April 13, May 11, June 8
The goals of providing these groups for practitioners and therapists are as follows:
-to create a safe/brave place to bring practice questions;
-explore questions through the use of the arts and clinical consultation;
-create meaningful connections with colleagues
If you are needing these hours for social work, art therapy or expressive arts registration, please advise in advance.
These consultation groups are arts based, with some experiential elements, and are guided and informed by Polyvagal Theory and Internal Family Systems work.
IFS Consultation Groups
If you already have a small group of practitioners and would liek to create an IFS consult group and are looking for someone to lead the consultaiton group, do let me know.
