Weekend Workshops at Claerwen Retreat, Apollo Bay:
The following are an exciting selection of courses that will be held at Claerwen Retreat in 2012. For more information please contact the course facilitators directly. Please note all courses fees listed do not include accommodation. Visit our accomodation page for more information on the range of rooms available, or contact us directly to make an enquiry.
The following facilitators will be running courses in 2012:
- Cornelia Elbrecht - Initiatic Art Therapy
- Francesca White - Feldenkrais and Art Therapy
- Arleen Hanks - Life Alignment Training
- Janice Mandara & Troi Leonhard - Art Therapy
- Wendy Nash - MARI Practitioner Training
- Helena Ambrosia - Expressive Art Workshops
- Liz Kinnane - Art Therapy & Children
- Maggie Wilson - Art Therapy Training for Professionals
Facilitator:
Cornelia Elbrecht MA (Art Ed), AThR, Director of Claerwen Retreat:
cornelia_elbrecht@claerwen.com.au
Vasalisa the Wise
We will retrace key-stages of the night-sea-journey, learn about the power of intuition and meet the dark goddess the Baba Yaga within. Based on the Russian fariytale: doll-making, sculpting with clay and scrap materials, painting, and Active Imagination.
February 17th - 19th, 2012
Fee: $350 per weekend
Click here to download the Workshop application formInitiatic Art Therapy
The name ‘initiatic’ is derived from the term initiation. Initiatic Art Therapy has the potential to initiate an inner process that unfolds like a journey leading towards healing and meaning. The focus in the various workshops and trainings for professional development will be on the experience of ongoing group work with art therapy in an environment suitable for personal growth. The approaches and techniques will be made transparent in order to make it possible to acquire profound techniques of working with visual arts in a therapeutic way. The aim is to teach a variety of tools suitable for a variety of different client groups and inner needs.
Certificate in Initiatic Art Therapy – 8 weekends over 2 year:
13 – 15 April, 2012
13 – 15 July, 2012
21 – 23 September, 2012
30 November – 2 December, 2012
Certificate in Clay Field Therapy – 3 weekends:
13 – 15 April, 2012
13 – 15 July, 2012
21 – 23 September, 2012
30 November – 2 December, 2012
Advanced Training: Art Therapy Approaches to Trauma Healing:
3 – 5 August, 2012
Advanced Training: Guided Drawing:
17 – 19 August, 2012
Visit www.arttherapy.net.au for further information.The Healing Power of Rituals
Rituals are celebrated in all cultures to contact the numinous, the invisible, the intangible, that which cannot be named. Rituals are used to invoke the divine, to appease the gods, to communicate with spirit, to pray for healing. Rituals are celebrated as rites of passage, at birth, at death, on the brink of puberty, to tie the knot in marriage. Rituals can call back lost, dissociated parts of the soul. Shamans and priests are the traditional facilitators of rites. We also have an inner shaman, an inner priestess.
During this weekend workshop we will work with Active Imagination, guided imagery, mandalas, drumming, chanting, dancing, and of course drawing, painting, collage and sculpting; in particular with collected “nature stuff”; whatever from the plant, mineral and animal kingdom has significance for you. The aim is to focus on the enlightened, empowered, harmonious beauty of humanity and to support the raising of this consciousness.
October 12th - 14th, 2012
Fee: $350 per weekend without accommodation.
Click here to download the Workshop application form
Facilitator:
Wendy Nash MA Counselling, B. Ed., Reg. MARI Pract/Teacher, Cert. Intiatic Art Therapy; PCA, PACFA:
wendy@wendynashstudio.com
MARI Practitioner Training
Mandala Assessment Research Instrument
Based on the Mandala studies of Carl Jung and Joan Kellogg, the MARI provides pathways to integrate this powerful body of universal knowledge on the drawn mandala into your professional practice. Engage with Archetypes, colours, symbols as they relate to The Great Round of Life to discover a powerful assessment tool for professional enhancement working with life energy, trauma, addictions, empowerment, setting goals, life transitions, tracking therapeutic progress, growth and spiritual enrichment.
4 – 6 May, 2012
29 June – 1 July, 2012
28 - 30 September, 2012
Friday 8pm – Sunday 5pm:
Fee: $350 per weekend, excluding accommodation
Click here to download the full course outline
Facilitator:
Helena Ambrosia Cert. App. Art, Dip. Prof. Counselling and Cert. Initiatic art therapy:
uniqueambrosia@yahoo.com/www.uniqueambrosia.com
The Art of Soul
Expressive Art Workshop
Exploring the soulful all-knowing aspects of self, making contact with inner wisdom and creating art that is inspired by this inner exploration. The journey will combine working with the Gateways to Consciousness Self Realization cards and expressive art process. It will lead you to a place where insight around the deeper meaning of the life you are living will be revealed, celebrated and captured in the art.
11 – 13 May, 2012
Friday 8pm – Sunday 5pm:
Fee: $300, excluding accommodation
Click here to download an application formThe Bridge between the Worlds
Expressive Art Workshop
Exploring the relationship between our inner and outer worlds to gain alignment with the depth of self and the meaning of having a true life purpose. A space for contemplating the deeper dimensions of your true potential. The journey will combine working with the Gateways to Consciousness Self Realization cards and expressive art process to build the bridge between your worlds. It will lead you to a place where insight around the life you are living and the life you are dreaming will be revealed celebrated and captured in the art.
19 – 21 October, 2012
Friday 8pm – Sunday 5pm:
Fee: $300, excluding accommodation
Click here to download an application form
Facilitators:
Maggie Wilson AThR, Program Co-ordinator at the Mater Child and Youth Mental Health Service as the Kids Of Parents with Mental Illness. Lecturer in the Masters of Mental Health Art Therapy Program at the University of Queensland:
Maggie.Wilson@mater.org.au
Trish Landsberger MA Gestalt Therapy, Experiental and Creative Arts Therapist
Parent Trail One Training
The Parent Trail Training is an art therapy/ creative arts workshop for clinicians or students wanting to work with Parents Living with Mental Illness. Parent Trail One is a 10 week program. Using the creative arts as a base for collaborative group work with parents who wish to improve their relationship with their children and understand how their mental health issues impact on their families. The weekend workshop training will provide participants with experiential art-therapy group work techniques and cover enough aspects to equip participants with enough experience and confidence to facilitate their own creative Parent Trail group.
16 – 18 November, 2012
Friday 7pm – Sunday 5pm:
Fee: $400, excluding accommodation
Facilitator:
Arleen Hanks International Life Alignment Practitioner and Trainer, Psychophonetics practitioner:;
hanksa@bigpond.net.au/www.life-alignment.com
Life Alignment Training
Life Alignment is a gentle combination of psychotherapy, sacred geometry, energy medicine and kinesiology. It is safe and precise. The Life Alignment Programme offers greater understanding of how our thoughts, feelings and actions affect our daily life and our physical health. It provides an insight into the anatomy of the Human Energy Field - the life force that sparks and governs the human body - and will empower you by helping to bridge the gap between the rational thinking mind and the higher intuitive mind. Through a basic understanding of the Human Energy Field, you will learn how conflict and stress within our mind and emotions cause our health to suffer. The Life Alignment Programme teaches you how to realign your energy field in order to bring about the mental and emotional balance which is the basis of true health and happiness. These seven training workshops offer the certified practitioner’s Level and will enable participants to work with this amazing form of Energy Medicine.
Body Spin:
23 – 25 March 2012
Fee: $650 (Open to anyone)
Life Map:
26 March 2012
Fee: $165 (Open to anyone)
Module One:
22 – 24 June 2012
Fee: $425 (must have done Body Spin)
Life Path Process:
25 June 2012
Fee: $165 (Open to anyone)
Module Two:
24 – 27 August 2012
Fee: $750 (must have done Module One)
Vortex One:
26 – 28 October 2012
Fee: $425 (must have done Body Spin)
Manifesting Abundance:
29 October 2012
Fee: $165 (Open to anyone)
All days start at 9.30 am and finish at 5pm.
Click here to download the full course outlines
Facilitator:
Francesca White Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner, Cert. in Initiatic Art Therapy, Certified Psychotherapist:
franwhite@optusnet.com.au
The Art of Movement
Feldenkrais and Art Therapy
The Feldenkrais Method is for anyone who wants to reconnect with their natural abilities to move, think and feel. These gentle lessons can improve your overall well-being. The Feldenkrais Method® focuses on the relationship between movement and thought, increased mental awareness and creativity that accompany physical improvements. It is suitable for all ages and levels, anyone who would like to improve freedom of movement, breathing, posture, alignment, and general well-being.
2 – 4 March, 2012
Friday 8pm – Sunday 5pm:
Fee: $400, excluding accommodation
Click here to download the full course outline
Facilitators:
Janice Mandara AThR, B.Ed, Grad. Dip Counselling; Art Psychotherapist and Healer/Counsellor:
mermoon@vic.chariot.net.au
Troi Leonard PhD Esoteric Philosophy, Sound Healer and Spiritual Guide:
mail@rainbowphoenix.dk
Entering into Sacred Oneness
By connecting to the Heart of Oneness, we open to an ecstatic space of communion with the mysterious and the sacred. We enter a universal state of stillness and immense inner peace. The retreat offers tools to help instill positive mental attributes, overriding “old tapes” and releasing limiting structures of the past. By deepening into the heart and “clearing the channels”, we are more able to embrace the changes necessary and open to freedom, and expressing our joy of being. This transformative retreat incorporates ritual & ceremony, art therapy, invocations/mantra, forgiveness exercises, meditations and dyads.
27 – 29 April, 2012
Friday 8pm – Sunday 5pm:
Fee: $280, excluding accommodation
Click here to download the full course outlineDivine Feminine Fire
What we are often seeking and yearning for in life, is to be inspired within ourselves and each other, and to be free to express what makes our heart sing. This retreat is designed to initiate and release a measure of the sometimes misunderstood and hidden power, as the ‘Kundalini Mother’. This divine feminine fire is our creative, soul potential. The week-end will offer creative ways to break through self-denial and judgments, and open to dance, art, sound healing and inspired self-expression. This retreat is a reawakening to your passion for life, love and creativity.
1 – 3 June, 2012
14 - 16 September, 2012
Friday 8pm – Sunday 5pm:
Fee: $320 per weekend, excluding accommodation
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Facilitator:
Liz Kinnane MA (Ath), AThR, Dip Counselling, Dip Applied Social Science:
ekinnane@bigpond.net.au
The Wonderful World of Working with Children
This training offers three weekends to learn a variety of art therapy tools to consolidate skills and explore fears around working with children. Elizabeth believes in the importance of creating a safe place and simply being with the child as they discover their balance in life. The aim is to find a starting point with the children and to learn ways to counsel alongside them.
25– 27 May, 2012
31 August – 2 September, 2012
23 - 25 November, 2012
Friday 8pm – Sunday 4pm:
Fee: $300 per weekend, excluding accommodation
Click here to download the full course outline