International Symposium on Expressive Arts Therapy
May 6th – 8th 2010
Workshops on Body, voice & gesture in art making & images
with 2 international facilitators

“Come, relax, learn, and grow”

Intangible Body Gestures and their Translation
into Tangible Shape and Form with Sibylle Cseri

This workshop offers an exploration of the relationship between the art making process and the body as a holder of the inner emotional world, the body as a vehicle towards mark making, the body as an echo between the senses and the creative act and the body as a manifestation into tangible artistic form.  
In this sense, together we will investigate the encounters of the body´s tangible trace and the “invisible” senses in order to gain a deeper understanding on the patient’s inner process’.

The Body, the Voice and the Image with Markus Alexander

How does one artistic modality help to shape and inform discoveries in another modality? How do changes in what and how we see, effect how we create sound? 
The body has the ability to move energy for voice-work, dance and image-making. This workshop will deepen the participant’s capacity to develop enough skill to shift to the place where inspiration happens. These two basic ingredients of the creative process, inspiration and skill will be explored in a safe and delicate environment. 
Shifts in awareness have the potential to create shifts in our everyday lives.
Participants will be given support and instruction for sounding paintings and moving sound. This will be followed by improvisation in a Dance/Theatre/Choir structure.
Panel discussion on Art Therapy around the World
Sibylle Cseri
Marcus Alexander
Monica Carpendale

Location:  Vallican Whole Community Center, Slocan Valley, BC.
Set in an idyllic setting in the Slocan Valley; a beautiful, large, open space with surrounding woods. (45mins outside of Nelson)

Presenters:

Markus Alexander, MA, REAT, CAGS, PhD Candidate is a performance artist and musician who paints. He is a registered expressive arts therapist in private practice as well as the founder/director of World Arts Organization. Markus is senior faculty at the European Graduate School in Switzerland and on faculty of St. Stephens College. He has taught recently in Sweden, Peru and Jamaica focusing on working with the arts to respond to community difficulty.

Monica Carpendale, BFA, DVATI, RCAT, BCATR, is the founder and executive director of the Kutenai Art Therapy Institute in Nelson, BC. She has 25 years of experience in Art Therapy, teaching, supervising and clinical practice. In 2009, Monica published her first book entitled Essence and Praxis in the Art Therapy Studio and her first art therapy DVD entitled An Angel with a Broken Wing. Monica is the inventor of the Blue Heron series of nine therapeutic games to help children develop better social and communication skills. Monica has presented nationally and internationally on art therapy supervision and the phenomenological method in connection to Art and Poetry Therapy and she is currently excited about the development of earth art therapy.

Sibylle Cseri, BFA, MA Art Psychotherapy, former president and co-founder of the Spanish Art Therapy Association, Lecturer of the Masters in Art Psychotherapy at the University of Barcelona, and Clinical Supervisior for students and licensed art therapists. Sibylle works foremost as an art therapist within the primary school system, attending children, parents, and teachers. She has also worked with children in foster homes where trauma, abuse, and grief have been central within the art therapy process. Sibylle has also run individual sessions in homes for elderly people suffering from dementia and Alzheimer’s and is currently attending adults in her private praxis.

Pre - Registration Required
Call for more information and registration: 250.352.2264
Visit our Website: www.kati.kics.bc.ca
201 – 601 Front Street, Nelson, BC V1L 4B6              kutenai_art_therapy@shaw.ca

Spring Conference Schedule

Thursday May 6th  2010

Friday May 7th 2010
Saturday May 8th 2010

9:00-12:00 Sibylle Cseri
Intangible Body Gestures
and their Translation

12:00-1:00
Light Buffet Lunch Provided (soup & salad)

1:00-4:00 Sibylle Cseri
Intangible Body Gestures
and their Translation

9:00-12:00 Sibylle Cseri
Intangible Body Gestures
and their Translation

12:00-1:00 Light Buffet Lunch Provided (soup & salad)

1:00-4:00 Marcus Alexander
The Body, The Voice & The Image

6:00 Evening Buffet

7:00 Panel Discussion:
“Art Therapy
Around the World”
Marcus Alexander, Sibylle Cseri & Monica Carpendale
9:00-12:00
Marcus Alexander
The Body, TheVoice & The Image

12:00-1:00 Light Buffet Lunch provided (soup & salad)

1:00-4:00
Marcus Alexander
The Body, The Voice & The Image

4:30 Closing Remarks

Conference Fees:

All three days including lunches & Friday buffet and evening presentation: $280.00
Early Registration by April 6th: $250.00

Single workshops:
Sybille Cseri Workshop: $150.00

Marcus Alexander Workshop: $150.00

Early Registration for either workshop by April 6th: $140.00

Evening Panel Discussion and Buffet: $30.00
Panel Discussion Only: $15.00