Broken Bowl

Facilitator: Christa Brennan, LCAT, LPC, ATR-BC, CADC
Read more about our Instructors/Facilitators here.

Date: Saturday, September 28, 2024
Hours: 10:00 AM – 5:00 pm PT
Location: In-person at the NWCEAI Studio: 1631 15th Ave. W. Suite 305
CEs: 6
Clock Hours: 6
Cost: $199.00
Limited to 12 people

Broken Bowl is an experiential workshop based on the Japanese philosophy of Wabi Sabi and the ancient practice of Kintsugi.

Kintsugi is the practice of repairing broken pottery with gold, and Wabi-sabi is a Zen Buddhist philosophy that teaches us to embrace the imperfect nature of life. Broken Bowl borrows these concepts and applies them through the use of art therapy to help individuals with grief, loss, and trauma. This approach treats the cycle of breakage and repair as a part of an object’s history rather than something to be discarded or disguised. It serves as a metaphor for our own healing process as individuals.

In this day-long, hands-on workshop, you will engage in a process of intentional destruction by breaking your bowl, decorating the pieces to help make meaning, and finally putting them back together to create something new. This creative approach to grief work merges expressive arts with attachment theory, trauma theory, and Niemeyer’s constructivist theory of meaning making. This deeply personal experience aims to help you cultivate radical acceptance, curiosity, and self-compassion and may bring up strong emotions surrounding loss. Therefore, it is recommended that participants bring a journal/notebook to help them process the day. Participants will learn the fundamentals of Broken Bowl, and how to apply it to a variety of clinical settings.

After completing the session, if you are interested in leading your own Broken Bowl workshop, please register for the next available online Facilitator Training in order to be certified.

Cancellation Policy: We require cancellation notification at least 2 weeks prior to the workshop date in order to use your registration fee towards a future workshop. No refunds will be given. read more…

School Counselor/Teacher (OSPI) Approved by the Washington State Office of Public Instruction as a “Washington State approved clock hour offering workshop.”

This workshop offers 6 CEs for Mental Health Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists and Licensed Social Workers.

If you are outside of Washington State, we advise that you check with your state licensing board to confirm that they accept NBCC approved CEs.

Northwest Creative & Expressive Arts Institute is a NBCC Approved Continuing Education Provider ™,
ACEP No. 7014.