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Expressive Therapies: Creative Interventions for Emotional Regulation and Self-Awareness


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Speaker:
Patricia Isis, PhD, LMHC-QS, ATR-BC, ATCS
Duration:
6 Hours 11 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
May 19, 2017
Product Code:
POS051970
Media Type:
Digital Recording
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Description

Art reveals how one perceives the world, one’s cognitive and emotional functioning level, and is used as a fun outlet for self-expression and self-discovery!

Watch this recording and learn from well-known art therapist, author, and trained mindful self-compassion instructor and practitioner, Dr. Patricia Isis. You will experience simple, success oriented sociodramatic exercises, along with the utilization of breath, intention and attitude to cultivate mindfulness for challenging emotions. Also discover user friendly therapeutic movement, imagery, mindful doodling, mandalas and aluminum foil sculpture.

Through case examples, experiential activities and dialogue, you will identify a rich menu of mindfulness-based artmaking tools and techniques designed to enhance moment to moment awareness and emotional regulation for inside and outside your practice.

You will be amazed at the transformation with your clients, and no background in art therapy is required as you will be shown tools to use within your scope of practice.

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Patricia Isis, PhD, LMHC-QS, ATR-BC, ATCS, holds a PhD in the expressive therapies with an emphasis on art therapy. Dr. Isis is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida and a registered board-certified art therapist and credentialed supervisor for art therapists and mental health counseling interns. Since 1980, Dr. Isis has practiced art psychotherapy in South Florida.

Dr. Isis is the author of The Mindful Doodle Book: 75 Creative Exercises to Help You Live in the Moment, and the researcher and co-author of a recent study published in the American Art Therapy Association Journal.

For over 30 years, Dr. Isis provided clinical art therapy services in public schools to children with emotional and behavioral disabilities. She is a Certified Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) teacher and has facilitated Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) programs after training with Dr. John Kabat-Zinn and Dr. Saki Santerelli in 2000. She currently maintains a private practice, conducts research and publications, and consults with individuals, agencies, non-profits and corporations combining expressive arts therapies with mindfulness practices for trainings and workshops.

Dr. Isis is a popular presenter internationally, nationally, and locally. More information is available on her website www.MiamiArtTherapy.com

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Patricia Isis maintains a private practice and receives compensation as a consultant. She receives royalties as a published author. Dr. Isis receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Patricia Isis serves on committees for the American Art Therapy Association and on the Art Therapy Credentialing Board (ATCB) Nominating Committee.


Objectives

  • Define and experience mindfulness and mindful self-compassion through expressive arts modalities.
  • Identify the difference between contemplative mindfulness and mindful awareness while incorporating clinical tools for both.
  • Illustrate at least 3 positive side effects of mindful doodling.
  • Explore therapeutic interventions integrating mindfulness, wellness, self-compassion and the expressive arts for multiple populations and settings.
  • Discuss the differences between art therapy and therapeutic art making and working within your scope of practice.
  • Recognize the importance of art therapy consultation when needed.

Outline

Overview

  • Current Neuroscience Research
  • Ethical Implications: Working within a Scope of Practice
  • Art Therapy and Therapeutic Artmaking
  • Population and Setting
  • Selecting Art Materials

Clinical Experiential Applications and Techniques to:

  • Create Safety
  • Build Connections
  • Presence
  • Engagement

Cultivate Mindfulness of Challenging Emotions

  • Create Intention
  • Focus Attention
  • Kind Attitude
  • Breathing Practices
  • Guided Visualizations

Therapeutic Art Interventions for Self-Awareness

  • Movement for Body/Boundary Awareness and Appreciation
  • Imagemaking
    • Focusing
    • Present Moment Awareness
    • Empowerment
  • Mindful Doodling
    • Positivity
    • Self and Social Awareness
    • Compassion
  • Mandala Drawings
    • Concentration/Focusing
    • Self-Direction
    • Motivation
  • Aluminum Foil Sculpture Figures
    • Promote Body Awareness/Acceptance and Empowerment

Case Examples Throughout the Day

  • Utilizing Mindful Doodling, Mandalas, and Foil Sculptures

Challenges as Opportunities

  • Maintaining Safety and Containment
  • Promoting Presence and Success
  • Countertransferential Indications and Strategies/ Response Art
  • Art Review

Target Audience

Counselors, Teachers/Educators, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants, Psychologists, Social Workers, Speech-Language Pathologists and other Mental Health Professionals

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