Two Day Art Therapy Symposium, Halifax, NS

Nourishing & Flourishing: 
Essential Art Therapy Practice for a Challenging World

Two Day Symposium
Thursday & Friday, March 15 & 16, 2012

Cost $180 (Early Bird rate, both days)
(Includes lunch)
   
Time: 08:30 a.m. till 4:30 p.m. both days
 + Thursday evening (talk & film)

Location:
Chocolate Lake Hotel
20 St. Margaret’s Bay Rd., Halifax, NS

· To sign up for the Symposium please contact Nick Zwaagstra, director of the Chebucto Art Therapy & Counselling Centre
by phone: (902) 499-4354, or e-mail: nzwaag(at)ns.sympatico.ca
 
This 2 day symposium will spotlight the value of art and culture in prevention, rehabilitation, and therapeutic treatment. Contem­porary use of art therapy is very valuable in addressing many of the emotional and physical issues facing individuals, families and communities today. The symposium has a twofold purpose: (1) to broaden interest in art therapy and for professional development; (2) to introduce a new Art Therapy training program in Halifax through Chebucto Art Therapy & Counselling Centre in conjunc­tion with Kutenai Art Therapy Institute (Nelson, BC).

Featured Speaker: Monica Carpendale
Monica Carpendale, BFA, DVATI, RCAT, BCATR, is the founder and Executive Director of the Kutenai Art Therapy Institute. With over 30 years of experience Monica is an internationally recog- nized educator, presenter, author, film maker and inventor of therapeutic board games.

Other Speakers:
Lani Gerity, DA, ATR, holds a doctorate from NYU in Art Therapy. She has been practicing Art Therapy since 1980, with an emphasis on dissociative identity disorder and puppet-making. Lani is the author of Creativity and the Dissociative Patient, and editor of Edith Kramer’s collection of papers, Art as Therapy, along with various articles and chapters in other books. She writes, leads workshops, teaches and supervises art therapists in Canada and USA. Her current research is in the fields of positive psychology, culture and art therapy.

Nick Zwaagstra, MC:AT, RCAT, CCC, RCT is the director of CATCC. He has over 15 years of ex- perience in counselling and art therapy, providing support, assessment and treatment for people of all ages who have challenges such as HIV/ AIDS, mental health, trauma, palliative care, bereavement.