Creative Renewal: Expressive Arts Therapies for You and Your Practice

Date: Friday October 17, 2025
Time: 8:00am–11:00am Pacific Time
Location: Online
Available CEs: 3
Facilitator: Kimberly Atwood, LPC, LMHC, LCAT, MT-BC
Cost:  $119

Registration Deadline: Tuesday October 14th, 2025

We are all living through uncertain and demanding times, often surrounded by anxiety, stress, burnout, and overwhelm. This experiential workshop offers a space for creative renewal, both personally and professionally.

Learning Objectives:

Participants will:

1. Learn about mandalas as a Jungian technique to explore symbols, archetypes, and creative processing through right-brain activation.
2. Learn a method that integrates journaling with visual art and music to support the emergence of unconscious material into conscious awareness.
3. Explore how expressive arts therapies draw on the body’s wisdom, offering insight, healing, and guidance.
4. Engage in deep relaxation and creative exploration for personal restoration and professional integration.

Required Materials

• Journal
• Pen, Colored pencils/markers, and/or crayons
• Sketch Pad (or you may use your journal)
• Oatmeal cover sized circle to trace/draw in sketchpad or journal
• Have the ability to lie down on the floor or bed and be uninterrupted
• Pillow, blanket and eye pillow or eye covering (optional)

Northwest Creative & Expressive Arts Institute Cancellation & Refund Policy

Earning Continuing Education Credits

To receive a CE Certificate for completion of this workshop, you must officially register, attend the workshop in its entirety and complete an evaluation form after the workshop. The evaluation form is emailed to you by the following Friday of the workshop. After completing & submitting the evaluation form, a CE Certificate will be emailed to you within 5-7 business days.

Who is eligible to receive CEs?

• 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 Continuing Education credits 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 and Expressive Arts Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists. #CAT-0123.

Northwest Creative & Expressive Arts Institute (NWCEAI) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7104. Programs that do no qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Northwest Creative & Expressive Arts Institute (NWCEAI) is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.