NEWS It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe. Muhammad Ali
HPC 5535 - Expressive Arts w/ Children & Adolescents: This institute is designed to present a comprehensive and developmentally oriented approach for the application of play theories, techniques, and the creative/expressive arts to the process of counseling children and adolescents. The course consists of class discussions, presentations, cooperative and group experiential learning activities, videos, and "hands on" type of activities/projects which students will prepare and present. Students will learn the techniques of play therapy, art, music, movement, creative dramatics, sand-play, bibliotherapy, and puppetry in both the school and agency setting. HPC 5545 - Dreams, Art, & Nature: An exploration of the resonance between the outer landscape of the natural world and the inner landscape of the psyche, integrating expressive arts therapy, ecotherapy and dreamwork. The course will include theoretical background in expressive arts therapy, ecotherapy and dreamwork as well as a variety of experiential group and individual art making activities, using dreams and nature.
We are offering continuing expressive arts therapy concentration and certificate students the opportunity to send one submission of work to be considered for publication in the online expressive arts therapy student artwork gallery, which is hosted on the ASU expressive arts website. Please read the attachment for information about general requirements and submission guidelines. EXA students, we look forward to your participation in this new project. Please, email me with any questions.
The International Expressive Arts Therapy Association, in conjunction with North Carolina Arts for Health, held the 2007 conference at Appalachian State University's Broyhill Inn and Conference Center May 23 - May 27, 2007. ORCHESIS 2008 Spring Glow Art Reception The 2008 Spring Glow Reception will be held on May 9, 2008. This is the night before graduation so that it may serve as both a celebratory and honorary night for graduating seniors as well. The hope in this is that family and friends of graduating seniors may also attend and therefore have the opportunity to get a sense of what the expressive arts community is about...[More Details TBA]
ORCHESIS Spring 2008 Teaching Learning/Learning Teaching Workshop Series
SPRING 2008 THEMES *Reclaiming the Story as Your Own |
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In honor of all that we do, all about which we are passionate, Orchesis is initiating and sponsoring a
workshop series that offers students the opportunity to share these passions in a group setting. In so
doing we have the opportunity to both learn the finer points of creating and facilitating a workshop
with others, while learning of the creative and rich passions, or marketably speaking skills, of our
peers...[