Recycled Art Project!

lululemon athletica Natural and Recycled Art Project

Attn: GWU art therapy students and staff, and PATA members!

The GWU Student Task Force is happy to introduce a natural and recycled art project that will showcase art created by people in the field of art therapy. Students, staff and PATA members are encouraged to work on a natural and recycled art piece (must be smaller than 3ft x 3ft) either individually, in a pair or in a group. Visit the lululemon website, www.lululemon.com, for inspiration and to understand lululemon's values and legacies. The piece must include a description of the materials used (e.g., "I incorporated old receipts, broken glass and found tree branches"), as well as a paragraph artist's statement (this is a great way to promote art therapy in our community by educating lululemon guests about what we do).

Then, in April (date TBA), lululemon will hold an opening--hopefully at the lululemon Georgetown store--and lululemon staff will choose artwork to display in stores. Small gifts will be given to artists chosen to display their work.

Artwork will be returned to the GWU art therapy studio in Alexandria after the exhibition for pick up by artists.

The due date for the natural/recycled art project for the Lululemon stores
is March 25th. Please contact Kimberly Ottinger at
kotter@gwmail.gwu.edu with questions

Trainings Retreats in Maine

Sandtray-Worldplay and Dynamic Expressive Play Therapy Trainings Retreats in Maine
with Gisela De Domenico, Phd, MFT, RPT-S



May 12th to June 13th, 2009: Levels One – Five.

20 minutes from the Portland International Airport in Maine

at the VQISR Playhouse by the Beach. Lodging available.



The 2009 Maine Sandtray-Worldplay Training Series:

May 12-16, 9-5pm, Level 1, open registration

May 18-22, 1-7:30p, Level 2 pre-requisites

May 24-31, 9-5pm, Level 3

June 2-6, 9-5pm, Level 4 pre-requisites

June 8-12, 9-5pm, Level 5 pre-requisites



The Dynamic Expressive Playtherapy:

Interfacing Sandtray-Worldplay and Play Therapy Training

May 24 – 28, 9-5pm, open registration



The Transformational Retreat Day:

June 13, 10-7pm, open registration



Early Registration for the Maine Workshops ends March 15th, 2009



Psychotherapists, Play and Expressive Therapists, Counselors, Mediators, Educators, Spirit-Soul-Heart-Mind Weavers, Business Consultants, Ministers, and Transformational Healers are invited to explore, receive and bring teachings to our Vision Quest Circles of Play.



We come together in Community: We explore the Possibilities

With supervised play sessions, lecture, case presentation, consultation and explorations of the natural world around us we refresh and revitalize our personal and professional Life. We enrich our psychotherapeutic practice with children, adults, couples, families & groups:



For Individual Goals and Objectives of each Training Session with Gisela:

Visit http://vision-quest.us/vqisr/trainings.htm

For Essence of Sandtray-Worldplay approach to sandplay:

Visit http://vision-quest.us/vqisr/trainings.htm

To Register for these Vision Quest Into Symbolic Reality Workshops:

Visit http://vision-quest.us/vqisr/register.htm





When Play heals our Body, Mind, Soul and Spirit our Community thrives
www.vision-quest.us/vqisr 510 530-1383 sandtrayworldplay@gmail.com



CE: APT Provider #95-018; NBCC #5411; CA-LCSW-MFT #PCE 732;

Renewing the Spirit

Renewing the Spirit: Combating Compassion Fatigue
Rebecca Wilkinson, MA, ATR-BC

Smith Farm Center for Healing and the Arts
1632 U Street, NW
Washington, DC 20009
202 483 8600


Saturday, March 7, 2009 | 10:00 AM-3:30 PM | $75
(5.5 CEC's available */$15 administrative fee)


Designed to address the special needs of and provide support to
healthcare professionals and caregivers but also open to anyone
seeking to increase a sense of balance and manage stress, this
workshop will focus on strategies to combat compassion fatigue and
burnout.

Through art, movement, poetry and writing we will explore ways that we
can renew our passion for our professional work and create and
maintain congruency between our professional and our personal lives.
We will increase a sense of balance and connection between those two
worlds by bringing our attention to ways that we observe and respond
to internal and external experiences.

Previous art experience is not needed in order to benefit from this
arts, healing, and creativity program. The workshop is designed for
all ranges of artistic experience--you need not consider yourself an
artist to attend.

Objectives 1) Attendees will be able to list three characteristics of
burnout and compassion fatigue.

Objectives 2) Attendees will be able to list three strategies for
renewing the spirit and combating compassion fatigue.


Contact Darien Reece, Smith Farm Center
To register or for more information call 202-483-8600 or email
darien@...

1632 U Street NW | Washington DC | 20009
Metro accessible | Red & Green Lines | FREE Parking available


NBCC Provider #6327
*Smith Farm is an NBCC Approved Continuing Education Provider an may
offer NBCC approved clock hours for events and programs that meet NBCC
requirements. Events and programs for which NBCC approved clock hours
will be awarded are identified in the Smith Farm calendar. Smith Farm
is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.

Animal Essences: Finding our Power & Helping Animals for Self- Healing

Round Oaks Creative Center invites you to attend a unique, experiential workshop

Animal Essences: Finding our Power and Helping Animals for Self- Healing

The Special Power of the Animals Essences in Self-Healing

Place: Round Oaks Creative center, 1443 Glenside Green, Charlottesville, VA 22901
Phone: 434-973-7543 pframe79@aol.com

Time: Saturday, March 7, 2009 10am-5pm

Cost: $75

Instructor: Daniel Mapel

"Animal Essences" is a workshop that would appeal to many art therapists who are using sandtray in their art therapy practice. It brings the healing aspect of many animals, such as found in the sandtray, into focus and the special healing energies they bring. Daniel Mapel has developed this program with experiential exercises, meditation, visualization, slides and the essences (which are like the Bach flower essences). It will deepen your understanding of the power of animal energies in the human healing process. Daniel has an international reputation, and this is only the second time he has offered this workshop in the United States.

Bring your lunch or go to local restaurants. We supply drinks, fruit and snacks.

Limited space: Register early. Send in a $25 non-refundable deposit to Phyllis Frame, 1443 Glenside Green, Charlottesville, VA 22901

Film screening a success!

Last night's screening of Born into Brothels was excellent as PATA members and local Busboys and Poets regulars packed the house to view the extraordinary film. Art therapist Sangeta Prasad added commentary and took questions after the film was shown. Much thanks to Multi Cultural Chair, Elva Anderson for arranging the event at no cost thanks to the support of Busboys and Poets! This event was particularly fun as well as effective in both educating the public and PATA members about multicultural art making and helping the public understand what the core of art therapy is about.

Screening of Born Into Brothels

PATA presents a
Screening of Born Into Brothels
at Busboys and Poets
on 14th and V. Street NW,
Washington, DC!

This Sunday, February 15th at 8:00 pm


Born into Brothels, by Ross Kauffman and Zana Briski, is the winner of the 77th annual Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Born Into Brothels captures the portraits of several children who live in Calcutta, India’s Red Light District, where their mothers work as prostitutes. The New York based photographers teaches them to use photography which awakens their creativity, talents and sense of worth.

Come see the restorative power of art and how art and education can empower children to transform their lives!

Film time: One hour and twenty three minutes (1 hr 23 mins)

Sponsored by: The Potomac Art Therapy Association (PATA)
Free and open to the public - donations accepted!

Screening will be followed by a discussion with art therapist and author Sangeeta Prasad, who has a wealth of knowledge of doing art and art therapy with children in India. Sangeeta Prasad, ATR-BC, is a Fine Arts graduate of Stella Maris College, Chennai, and has a M.A in Art Therapy from George Washington University, Washington, D.C. She has over 20 years of experience working with children and adults with serious mental illnesses and other disabilities. She has used her experience as an educator and as an art therapist to lay a foundation for a holistic approach to teaching and using art. Her goal is to bring art education to every school in India and to introduce the concept of art as a form of therapy for children with special needs.

Sangeeta is the author of Creative Expressions: Say it with Art. Creative Expressions: Say it with Art is a book for teachers and parents who are interested in art as a visual mode of communication and a therapeutic tool for children aged 2 through 12. Art therapist Sangeeta Prasad addresses both the value of art therapy for children with special needs, and the need for a comprehensive approach to teaching the visual arts as part of the education curriculum. Using examples of children's artwork collected in India, she includes a framework for the art curriculum, including how to set up the art environment, how to organize art at the kindergarten level, and detailed art lesson plans that will help teachers structure the proposed theories presented in the book.
If you are interested in the book here is the link:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw_1_18?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=creative+expressions+say+it+with+art&sprefix=creative+expressio

See you Sunday, February 15th at 8:00 pm at

Color Career Counselor

I came across this article and career testing based on color preferences, which as an art therapist intrigued me. Here is what it's all about:

Can Your Favorite Color Determine Your Perfect Job?

Rachel Zupek, CareerBuilder.com writer

Do you ever wish finding the perfect job could be as easy as 1, 2, 3? According to new research, it might be as easy as red, yellow or blue.

That's right; by determining which primary, secondary and achromatic colors you prefer most and least, you can figure out a successful career path based on how you approach work, the types of workplaces where you work best and how you handle work tasks.

The Color Career Counselor, powered by The Dewey Color System -- the world's only validated, non-language color-based career testing instrument -- uses color preferences to determine successful career paths. Dewey Sadka, author of "The Dewey Color System," says using colors instead of a questionnaire eliminates the chasm between self-perception and self-truth and reveals your core motivations.

"What if you misinterpret a [career assessment] question or the choices don't reflect your personality?" Sadka asks. "Color preference indicates your personality's best career fit. Preferred colors indicate passionate career pursuits; non-preferred choices establish workplace skills you least enjoy."

How it works
The Color Career Counselor is simple. First, you click your preferred primary color (red, yellow or blue). From there, you choose your preferred secondary (green, purple or orange) and achromatic (black, white or brown) colors.

"Your preferred colors determine how you attack each task. They indicate your talents -- what you prioritize first in order to be successful. They also highlight what you overdo, especially when you feel great," Sadka says.

For example, if you're partial to yellow, you're information-driven; blue preference people are idea-driven and people who prefer red are results-driven. If you favor green as your secondary color, you realistically evaluate situations; purple indicates you like fact-finding possibilities and orange signals that you scrutinize feasibility. Finally, if black is your choice from the achromatic colors, you consider value above all else; white shows that you like having options and brown confirms that you like implementation and accomplishing tasks.

On the other hand, your least preferred colors determine tasks and issues that you tend to forget.

For example, if your least favorite color is orange, sometimes you over-commit yourself by trying to do too much at once. If you dislike the color green, you try to fix everything for your colleagues rather than making them do it themselves. Or, if your least favorite is teal, you feel a deep need to prove you are competent and you don't care what other people think.

In managing these areas head-on, Sadka says you won't miss the incidentals that could impede your success.

Put to the test
To see for myself if this "scientific" test was for real, I took the test three different times and got the same results each time, affirming that I am, in fact, in the right career.

I'm a "creator," says the Color Career Counselor. I'm "nonconforming, impulsive, expressive, romantic, intuitive, sensitive and emotional." It says I enjoy working independently, being creative, using my imagination and constantly learning something new.

For my suggested "creator occupations," I was given an extensive list of careers that included jobs I've considered (architect, interior decorator, English teacher), jobs people told me I should pursue (author, creative director, public relations) and jobs that I currently hold or aspire to in the future (reporter and editor).

What about you?
So are you a researcher, creator, social manager, persuader, doer or organizer? To find out what career path you should be following based on your preferred colors, here are a few examples of what certain choices say about you, and the careers and skills that compliment them.

If you prefer: yellow, purple and white: You're the communicator.
You create profitable perspectives -- how to break into new accounts or be heard by other employees. By simply identifying a client's point of view, you develop strategies that open doors, even if they had already been shut. Your excellent communication skills can create problem-solving forums. Careers in corporate communications, marketing or religious occupations work best.

If you prefer: red, green and black: You're the investor.
You know the value of money and resources, as well as the intrinsic worth of each co-worker's contributions. Your supportive, yet analytical personality works best in finance, accounting, banking, manufacturing, property management, production analysis, investment, money management, consulting, product sales or teaching.

If you prefer: blue, orange and brown: You're the activist.
Your strong community beliefs and no-nonsense approach improves services for those around you. Occupations where you can improve existing specifications or impact social values work best for you. Consider careers in engineering, building, or developing new programs, companies or products. Also consider law enforcement, firefighting, social or government work.

These are only a few of hundreds of different color profiles. For your own free career evaluation, please visit: http://www.careerpath.com/career-tests/colorcareercounselor.aspx.

Rachel Zupek is a writer and blogger for CareerBuilder.com. She researches and writes about job search strategy, career management, hiring trends and workplace issues.

I took the test myself, and as an art therapist, I'm glad that the results came out the way they did! It's nice to know I'm in the right field.

BEST OCCUPATIONAL CATEGORY

You're a CREATOR
Key Words: Nonconforming, Impulsive, Expressive, Romantic, Intuitive, Sensitive, and Emotional

These original types place a high value on aesthetic qualities and have a great need for self-expression. They enjoy working independently, being creative, using their imagination, and constantly learning something new. Fields of interest are art, drama, music, and writing or places where they can express, assemble, or implement creative ideas.

CREATOR OCCUPATIONS

Suggested careers are Advertising Executive, Architect, Web Designer, Creative Director, Public Relations, Fine or Commercial Artist, Interior Decorator, Lawyer, Librarian, Musician, Reporter, Art Teacher, Broadcaster, Technical Writer, English Teacher, Architect, Photographer, Medical Illustrator, Corporate Trainer, Author, Editor, Landscape Architect, Exhibit Builder, and Package Designer.

CREATOR WORKPLACES

Consider workplaces where you can create and improve beauty and aesthetic qualities. Unstructured, flexible organizations that allow self-_expression work best with your free-spirited nature.

Suggested Creator workplaces are advertising, public relations, and interior decorating firms; artistic studios, theaters and concert halls; institutions that teach crafts, universities, music, and dance schools. Other workplaces to consider are art institutes, museums, libraries, and galleries.

2nd BEST OCCUPATIONAL CATEGORY

You're a PERSUADER
Key Words: Witty, Competitive, Sociable, Talkative, Ambitious, Argumentative, and Aggressive

These enterprising types sell, persuade, and lead others. Positions of leadership, power, and status are usually their ultimate goal. Persuasive people like to take financial and interpersonal risks and to participate in competitive activities. They enjoy working with others inside organizations to accomplish goals and achieve economic success.