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A 2-hour guided workshop led by special guest, professor and art therapist Dr. ter Maat, who designed the program to help heal trauma through the careful practice of art.
Art therapy is a mental health profession that uses creativity to engage the mind, the body, and the spirit in ways that are distinct from verbal psychotherapy alone. Individuals, families, and communities engage in active artmaking and the creative process to improve the quality of their lives. How? By encouraging creativity and artmaking, art therapy has been shown to foster self-esteem and self-awareness, cultivate emotional resilience, promote insight, enhance social skills, and reduce and resolve conflicts and distress. Creative action in art can invoke "Ahh" moments of self-realization. Additionally, engagement with the arts has the potential to inspire moments of "Awe" where one expands the limits of ordinary experience with amazement and passion. By creating art in a community setting, individuals within the collective often experience therapeutic and transformational benefits. Community arts offer outlets for social creativity and action.
This 2-hour workshop involves two parts:
Bio - Instructor
Dr. Mercedes ter Maat, Ph.D., LPC, ATR-BC is a professor in the Department of Counseling at Nova Southeastern University’s College of Psychology in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida (USA). Prior to joining NSU, she was the director of the school counseling graduate program at the George Washington University and an assistant professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She thought graduate-level art therapy and counseling courses in many universities and has over 38 years of combined working experience as a counselor educator, mental health counselor, school counselor, and art therapist. Dr. ter Maat participates in local, state, national, and international leadership undertakings in the fields of mental health counseling, school counseling, and art therapy, and has presented and published articles and book chapters on topics related to art therapy, multicultural counseling, ethics, motivational interviewing, and the use of art in counseling and therapy. She actively participates in humanitarian work, most recently in Peru, Argentina, Swaziland, and Lebanon, and her research interests are in enhancing the quality of life of immigrant, minority families, and refugees in crisis by identifying risk and promoting protective factors through school- and community-based interventions. She is a past-president and Honorary Life Member of the American Art Therapy Association, a past president of the European Branch of the American Counseling Association, and an honorary past president of the Croatian Art Therapy Association. Dr. ter Maat is a licensed professional counselor and a board-certified/registered art therapist
AGE GROUP: | New Adults | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Workshop | Speaker | Health & Wellness | Crafting/Makers |
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Mon, Apr 29 | 12:00PM to 8:00PM |
Tue, Apr 30 | 10:00AM to 6:00PM |
Wed, May 01 | 12:00PM to 8:00PM |
Thu, May 02 | 10:00AM to 6:00PM |
Fri, May 03 | 10:00AM to 6:00PM |
Sat, May 04 | 10:00AM to 6:00PM |
Sun, May 05 | Closed |