Art Therapy Groups

Introduction to Art Therapy Workshop
Full day intensive (also suitable for Health Professionals)
Saturday 28 Jan 2012
10am  –  5pm
$210 / $185

For Health Professionals
Thursday 1 March 2012
1 – 4pm
$110

No artistic experience required. Includes brief history, current uses & substantial experiential workshops. These workshops are suitable for anyone with an interest in art therapy, or anyone wishing to gain an understanding and experience with a view to studying art therapy. They are also useful for Health Professionals who wish to gain more experience through their own art making process. The facilitator: Robyn deVries is an experienced group and workshop facilitator and an Art Therapist in private practice. She has a Master of Art Therapy and a Diploma of Gestalt Therapy, is a registered member of the Australian & New Zealand Art Therapy Association and co-founded the Melbourne Art Therapy Studio in 2004.

Creative Expression Group
Saturdays  10am - 12pm
$300 / $260 for 10 weeks
Art Therapy is based on the idea that the creative process of art making is healing and life enhancing. It helps to promote awareness, support creative choice and encourage responsibility in one’s effort to realise a meaningful and fulfilling life. This group will provide an opportunity to unleash your creativity through a guided exploration of art materials. You will be supported on your art making journey, allowing time & space to explore your creative potential.

Facilitator: Art Therapist Aliza Levi has spent the past fifteen years making her own art
and facilitating art making groups in both Australia and South Africa. In the past five
years, since completing her MA in art therapy, she has run various art therapy groups as
well as worked with individuals and couples in community and private practice.

Creative Journeys for Women
Mondays 6 - 8pm
$300 / $260 for 10 weeks
This group will provide you with an opportunity to explore your inner world via the art process. Directives will be given to offer you a place to investigate, play, and portray the aspects that encompass you, in a safe and confidential environment. Art Therapy is based on the idea that the creative process of art making is healing and life enhancing. It helps to promote awareness, support creative choice and encourage responsibility in one’s effort to realise a meaningful and fulfilling life.

Facilitator: Art Therapist Jane Joske (AThR) Jane has facilitated the Creative Journey for Women since 2009, and enjoys all aspects of engagement with the visual and performing arts and on a personal level is particularly interested in painting. She currently works in the disability sector with adults. Jane is a registered professional member of ANZATA (The Australian and New Zealand Art Therapy Association).

Focusing & Art Therapy
a natural combination
2 DAY INTENSIVE
facilitated by Robyn deVries (AThR) and Jo Kennedy (Focusing Australia)
Saturday 17 - Sunday 18 March 2012
10am – 5pm           
$420 / $380
Focusing incorporates a gentle way of inner listening, an empathic way of being towards oneself, and provides access to the body's innate wisdom. Through Focusing, access to imagery occurs through the bodily felt sense of an issue, situation, or experience.
Focusing adds an aspect of mindfulness to the art therapy process, along with a sense of groundedness to the image through the felt sense of the body. Experiences of self-compassion, self-care, inner trust, and authenticity are heightened.

The Facilitators
Jo Kennedy - After a 25 year meditation practice Jo was deeply moved when she discovered Focusing. It has enriched her life, shown her how to build strength in her cancer recovery and given her access to a deep source of creativity and healing. “Learning to listen to this deep, more bodily knowing is the most exciting journey I have ever been on” she says. Jo is a certified Focusing practitioner/trainer, trained by internationally renowned Inner Relationship Focusing teacher Ann Weiser Cornell.

Robyn deVries co-founded the Melbourne Art Therapy Studio in 2005, has an MA in Art Therapy and a diploma in Gestalt Therapy and is completely sold on the power of the “here and now”, phenomenology and compassion. She facilitates Art Therapy groups with a large variety of clients and works individually with clients and runs workshops at the Melbourne Art Therapy Studio and elsewhere.

Mandala Workshop
facilitated by Aliza Levi (AThR)
Coming soon

Spirit Doll Workshop
facilitated by Jane Joske (AThR) 
Coming soon