At Northwest Creative & Expressive Arts Institute we invite you to participate in the power of creative process.

What we offer:

  • Continuing Education Trainings: for those seeking to learn, and continue gaining skills, on how to integrate the expressive arts into the therapeutic space. These are recommended for mental health professionals & educators requiring continuing education credits or clock hours.
  • Creative Community Workshops & Events: for educators, coaches, community leaders, healthcare workers, artists, and more, these workshops offer opportunities to create together, learn new techniques, and continue your personal creative arts enrichment through guidance from our talented facilitators. 

You do not need prior experience in any art form to participate in our trainings or workshops!

UPCOMING TRAININGS & WORKSHOPS 
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Creative Recovery: Integrating Expressive Arts into Chemical Dependency Counseling

February 11, 2026 12:00 am

Supporting Gender Diverse Clients in the Current Era

April 26, 2026 9:00 am

Expressive pArts Work: Part 1 - Introduction to Supporting Complex Trauma Healing with SoulPages® Art Journaling and Internal Family Systems Therapy

May 9, 2026 9:00 am

Expressive Arts Toolbox: Using Visual & Writing Modalities

May 15, 2026 9:00 am

Expressive Arts Therapy & Tarot Integration

May 16, 2026 9:00 am

Dreaming with Whales Series

May 16, 2026 10:00 am

Kink for Clinicians: Cultural Competency

June 1, 2026 8:00 am

Changing the Picture: Reframing Our Thoughts Through Art

June 4, 2026 8:00 am

Creative Journal Writing for Clinicians and Facilitators

June 5, 2026 9:00 am

Embodied Voices – Healing Through Movement and Expressive Arts

June 6, 2026 9:00 am

The Ethics of Self-Care : An Art Based Approach

June 12, 2026 9:00 am

Ethics of Self-Care: A Nature-Based Expressive Arts Experience

June 26, 2026 9:00 am

Expressive pArts Work: Part 2 - Diving Deeper with Complex Trauma Healing with SoulPages® Art Journaling and Internal Family Systems Therapy

July 11, 2026 9:00 am

Workshop Through the Pages: Using Children’s Books and Expressive Arts to Deepen Clinical Work

July 14, 2026 8:00 am

Embodied Movement and Enactment of Calling In: Patterns of Durable Social Transformation

July 24, 2026 9:00 am

Connecting with the Courage Within

August 7, 2026 9:00 am

Sandtray "Out-of-the-Box": An Expressive Arts Approach

August 14, 2026 9:00 am

Archetypal Enneagram: Experiential Exploration of Deep Patterning Through the Arts

August 21, 2026 9:00 am

Poetry of Becoming: A Journey of Discovery, Creativity and Growth

August 22, 2026 10:00 am

SoulPages® Art Journaling and IFS: Working with the Stages of Grief

August 29, 2026 9:00 am

The Ethics of Self-Care :: An Art Based Approach

September 11, 2026 8:00 am

Self-Making Through Book-Making Series

September 13, 2026 12:30 pm

The Story of our Hands

September 14, 2026 8:00 am

Expressive Arts Toolbox: Using Visual & Writing Modalities

September 18, 2026 9:00 am

Holding Space: An Expressive Arts Workshop on Professional Roles and Boundaries for Clinicians

September 22, 2026 8:00 am

The Creative Compass: Tools for Children and Adolescents in Expressive Arts

September 25, 2026 9:00 am

Astrology & Expressive Arts in Therapy: Exploring the Big Three

September 26, 2026 9:00 am

Reclaiming Play: Expressive Arts Tools for Nervous System Renewal and Creative Flow

September 26, 2026 10:00 am

The Ethics of Self-Care- An Art-Based Approach

September 27, 2026 9:00 am

Decolonial Practice for Facilitators, Clinicians, and Leaders

October 2, 2026 9:00 am

Reel Reflections: Using Cinema and Creative Arts for Insight and Renewal in Clinical Practice

October 15, 2026 1:00 pm

The Ethics of Self-Care: Exploring Resilience through Expressive Arts

October 16, 2026 9:00 am

Well-being Across Significant Social Difference: Health Equity & Cultural Competency

October 23, 2026 9:00 am

Expressive Arts Therapy & Tarot Integration

October 24, 2026 9:00 am

Lunch and Learn: How Creative Expression Builds Resilience in Crisis The Story of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis

October 28, 2026 12:00 pm

Little Wilds: Dollmaking in Expressive Arts Therapy

October 30, 2026 8:00 am

Working Well: Trauma-Informed Expressive Arts Approaches

November 6, 2026 9:00 am

SoulCollage®: An Introduction

November 6, 2026 9:00 am

Balancing Opposites: Finding Calm and Strength Through Art

November 10, 2026 8:00 am

Therapeutic Attunement with Somatic & Movement-Based Interventions

November 13, 2026 9:00 am

Creative Supervision for Clinicians

December 3, 2026 9:00 am

Mythopoetics in Action: An Archetypal Exploration

December 11, 2026 9:00 am

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