Expressive Arts Therapy Supervision

Facilitated by Jennie Kristel, MA, REAT, APTT

6 Month online group (meeting 1 time per month)

Meetings will be via Zoom platform

This supervision group will meet monthly via Zoom for therapists who are interested in pursuing the REAT credential through the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association (IEATA) and are wanting group hours toward this.

Expressive arts therapy supervision is a relation and arts based dialogue to support reflective, cooperative facilitation process to provide ethical and professional guidance with the goals of developing and strengthening sound expressive arts therapy practices.

We will, over 6 months, explore the foundational practices of using the expressive arts in therapy, singular arts compared to intermodal, or superimpositionally using the arts, in and as therapy, explore the architecture of a session, transference and counter transference issues, ethical dilemmas, case studies, and most importantly, questions that you have both individually and as a group. How do we bring the arts online, and issues stemming from our work and lives during the pandemic will also be explored.

 Using the arts as a point of inquiry, we will use the arts as well as dialogue to explore our questions, and aesthetic responses to the material.

While supervision is not therapy, we will be exploring how our personal selves enters the work. It is encouraged for you to have outside support if needed.

Meeting Fridays 9-11AM EST

January 28,2022

February 25, 2022

March 18, 2022

April 22,2022

May 27, 2022

June 10, 2022

What is needed?

• Some art supplies, scarves, objects clean recyclables,
• Musical instruments (can be handmade from recyclables!)
• Props
• A quiet and confidential space to work in.
• A good internet/wifi and computer.

Cost: 210.00-$360.00 (sliding scale)

Registration Form:  https://forms.gle/mY7yPxAuqTn1t2PZ7

About the Facilitator:Jennie Kristel, MA, REAT, APTT based in the US, and received her degree in expressive therapies from Lesley University in 1986. Being raised in the shadows of the Holocaust, and having a life long disability has framed her work and commitment to social justice. She has worked in a variety of clinical and non-clinical settings and populations including inpatient and outpatient hospitals around issues of grief, loss, trauma, and anxiety often stemming from identity loss. She is in private practice (www.journeyworksllc.com ) working with survivors of domestic and sexual violence. She is an Core instructor at Lesley University, and offers workshops and trainings internationally, in the field of expressive arts therapy and Playback Theatre. She co-authored Using art therapy in diverse populations: Crossing cultures and abilities (2013) as well as numerous articles around using the arts and Playback Theatre. She is a REAT supervisor/reviewer through the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association. Currently she is focusing her work in transgenerational and ancestral trauma and the forces that shaped the persons and their relationships: personally, spiritually, and collectively using Sociometry, Sociodrama and expressive art therapy. She is also a mixed media artist exploring the world through toy theatre, printmaking and weaving. She loves to dig in the garden, sing and explore sometimes all at once.