Art Therapy In A Collaborative Context: A symposium featuring Bruce Moon

Sunday, May 15 · 9:00am - 4:00pm

Columbus Drive Auditorium

280 S. Columbus Drive (At Columbus & Jackson)

Chicago, IL

$20 students || $30 professionals || $35 professionals seeking (6) CEUs
Register online at http://tinyurl.com/art-therapy-symposium*
Light breakfast and lunch provided

This symposium is an exploration of the shared significances, opportunities, and challenges activated by collaborative arts and arts therapies contexts. Keynote speaker Bruce Moon, an art therapist and professor at Mount Mary College, will lead an experiential workshop that incorporates movement, poetry, sound, and performance. This day-long program will culminate with student presentations that challenge disciplinary parameters and engage the parallels of interdisciplinary and community collaborations. We welcome to the symposium all artists, arts educators, health care professionals, social workers, counselors, students, and researchers who are interested in examining the potential for collaborative approaches to scholarship and practice in the therapeutic applications of the arts.

Bruce L. Moon, PhD, ATR-BC, LPC, HLM is a professor, chair of the art therapy department, director of the graduate art therapy program, and co-founder of the doctoral program at Mount Mary College. He is the author of Art-Based Group Therapy; Existential Art Therapy; Introduction to Art Therapy, and seven other books. His clinical specialty is working with adolescents with emotional and behavioral disorders. He has worked in the field since 1973.

Objectives for Symposium
Attendees will be able to:
1) Describe three ways that art therapists' personal art making helps to prevent burn-out;
2) Describe three purposes for responsive art making;
3) Discuss the interrelationship of art therapy practice, art practice, and art-based research.

*Please note that in order to attend this symposium, you must register for it online.

To see the symposium postcard and other exciting upcoming art therapy events, go to: http://saicmaat.wordpress.com

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Related event:
The Art of Connection
May 13-May 27, 2011
Public reception: Friday May 13, 7- 8: 30 pm
Betty Rymer Gallery, 280 S. Columbus Drive
www.saic.edu/exhibitions