​Fundamentals of NarrARTive Expressive Arts Therapy & Coaching: Certificate Series​

Dr. Shoshana Simons has developed a dynamic approach that integrates Narrative Therapy with Expressive Art and is currently writing a book about her approach.

This workshop series is an incredible opportunity to work with Shoshana and obtain the first ever Certificate in NarrArtive Expressive Arts Fundamentals from Northwest Creative & Expressive Arts Institute.​

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Workshop Details

​Instructor:  Shoshana Simons, Ph.D., RDT
Dates:​​​​ Thursdays March 3 – March 31, 2022
Hours: 4:00 – 7:00 pm PT, each day.
Location: Online via ZOOM-  link will be sent prior to workshop.
CEs and Clock Hours: 15 CEs available for counselors, therapists, and social workers (NBCC Approved CE Provider); 15 Clock Hours available for teachers, school counselors, administrators, and support staff (WA State Approved Clock-Hour Provider).
Cost:  $495.00.
Please note: Students will be permitted to have up to one excused absence with a make up lesson.

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After successful completion of this workshop series, participants will receive a Certificate in NarrARTive Expressive Arts Fundamentals from Northwest Creative & Expressive Arts Institute.

Workshop Series Description

NarrARTive Expressive Arts therapy is a dynamic & multimodal way of working with individuals, couples, families, groups & communities informed by relational-cultural neuroscience. Through this highly collaborative, playful approach, we weave visual arts, poetry, music, guided imagery, puppetry, drama, sand tray, movement & dance into the core principles and practices of narrative therapy & coaching.

These concepts and practices include externalization, inner & outer conversations, NarrARTive re-authoring practices, collective arts practices, and a unique arts-based reflecting team method.

Each class includes an engaging theoretical overview of the topic for the week, a live demonstration of the approach and opportunities to practice in dyads and small groups.

Therapists, coaches, health & human service professionals, educators and consultants are all welcome! A passion for using arts processes for growth, healing and change is more important than “artistic skill”.

 

Overview of the Program

• Class One: Woven at the Roots: Introduction to theories and practices of NarrARTive Expressive Arts Therapy
• Class Two: Assessment through a Narrative EXA Lens
  -Tree of Life as an Assessment Tool
  -Arts-based community genograms
• Class Three: “Body-Talk” Integrating relational neuroscience and somatic awareness into NarrARTive practice
• Class Four: Expanding Response:
  -Narrative Arts Reflecting Teamwork
• Class Five: Working with Couples & Relationships:
  ⁃Grafting the Tree of We: Narrative Expressive Arts Relationship Therapy

 

 

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​Shoshana Simons, Ph.D., RDT is Full Professor and Co-Chair of the Expressive Arts Therapy Program at CIIS. Trained as a drama therapist and voice actor, Shoshana has a rich background in integrating performance and expressive arts structures into multiple contexts of work with children and adults in educational, therapeutic and larger systems. She has a particular interest in the integration of the arts into spiritual practice and socio-emotional development. She is passionate about using the performance and expressive arts as catalysts for healing and social change.

Over the last several years, Shoshana has focused on developing an expressive arts-centered approach to narrative therapy and is currently involved with the development of a blended learning Certificate Program in Narrative Expressive Arts Therapy. Shoshana is highly skilled in the art and science of teaching and curriculum development. She has over 20 years of practice integrating experiential learning methodologies into her classes, both face-to-face and online. In the early 1990’s she pioneered teaching blended learning classes in Narrative Therapy in Goddard College’s MA Counseling and Psychology program.

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

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