In these online workshops, Bevan Klassen (Art Therapist) guides you through an inspirational process of video making for your professional practice. Using the Expressive Therapies Continuum (ETC) as a framework, participants will experience how video making can help those they work with:
- Self-regulate and grow in emotional awareness.
- Express personal voice as a part of identity development and self-esteem building.
- Integrate life experiences.
Exploring Video Making in Therapy:
An Overview
Choose One: Saturday, October 14; Saturday, October 28; OR Friday, November 10, 2023
11:00AM - 1:30PM Central Time (Manitoba)
Online Workshop using Zoom
$60*
In this introduction, you will discover how video making can become a powerful tool to help those in your professional practice. Together, we will begin by creating a group video that demonstrates how mindful films, digital heart storytelling, animation, and music video can be integrated into a therapeutic process. Participants will have an opportunity to begin creating their own videos. This workshop will provide an overview of how video making supports emotional regulation and identity development integrating a selection of trauma-informed, clinical approaches.
Playing in a Therapeutic Digital Studio:
Mindful Film and Music Video Making with Animation as a Healing Process
Friday, November 24, 2023 from 10:00 am - 5:00 pm Central Time (Manitoba)
Online Workshop using Zoom
$175*
In this one day, immersive workshop, you will create videos that include a variety of trauma-informed approaches for your professional practice. Participants will begin by exploring film making as a mindful and self-regulating experience. As a next step, individuals will create a music video integrating storytelling and animation techniques to support identity development. As participants share their work, witness the power of the group to hold the voice of each filmmaker. You will learn how to ensure video making is an ethical, trauma-informed and inclusive art therapy process.
Recommended Prerequisite: The overview workshop is suggested so participants can ensure video editing is a fit for their practice before going further.
Mindful Film and Music Video Making with Animation as a Healing Process
Friday, November 24, 2023 from 10:00 am - 5:00 pm Central Time (Manitoba)
Online Workshop using Zoom
$175*
In this one day, immersive workshop, you will create videos that include a variety of trauma-informed approaches for your professional practice. Participants will begin by exploring film making as a mindful and self-regulating experience. As a next step, individuals will create a music video integrating storytelling and animation techniques to support identity development. As participants share their work, witness the power of the group to hold the voice of each filmmaker. You will learn how to ensure video making is an ethical, trauma-informed and inclusive art therapy process.
Recommended Prerequisite: The overview workshop is suggested so participants can ensure video editing is a fit for their practice before going further.
Telling a Digital Heart Story:
Narrative Video Making in Therapy
Friday and Saturday, Dec. 8 & 9, 2023 from 10:00am - 5:00pm Central Time (Manitoba)
Online Workshop using Zoom
$350 *
Over an immersive two days, you will tell a digital heart story with the intention of supporting others to reauthor their own narrative. You will be introduced to a number of therapeutic activities to discover and translate a personal life event into a set of emotionally regulating art activities. By giving voice to what is hidden, the video making process breaks the silence of trauma and takes back power by reorganizing and reframing stories. As participants share their work, witness the power of the group to hold the voice of each filmmaker. You will learn how to ensure video making is an ethical, trauma-informed and inclusive art therapy process.
Recommended Prerequisite: The overview workshop is suggested so participants can ensure video editing is a fit for their practice before going further.
These groups are presented by Deep Focus Art Therapy for Art Therapists or other mental health professionals.
* - sliding scale pricing is available
Narrative Video Making in Therapy
Friday and Saturday, Dec. 8 & 9, 2023 from 10:00am - 5:00pm Central Time (Manitoba)
Online Workshop using Zoom
$350 *
Over an immersive two days, you will tell a digital heart story with the intention of supporting others to reauthor their own narrative. You will be introduced to a number of therapeutic activities to discover and translate a personal life event into a set of emotionally regulating art activities. By giving voice to what is hidden, the video making process breaks the silence of trauma and takes back power by reorganizing and reframing stories. As participants share their work, witness the power of the group to hold the voice of each filmmaker. You will learn how to ensure video making is an ethical, trauma-informed and inclusive art therapy process.
Recommended Prerequisite: The overview workshop is suggested so participants can ensure video editing is a fit for their practice before going further.
These groups are presented by Deep Focus Art Therapy for Art Therapists or other mental health professionals.
* - sliding scale pricing is available
IN THESE WORKSHOPS YOU WILL:
- Experience the inspiring process of making videos in a therapeutic group context.
- Apply strategies in video making to help clients self-regulate and grow in emotional awareness.
- Support clients in expressing their personal voice and unique film making style as a part of identity development.
- Understand how different clinical approaches naturally correspond to specific video making activities.
- Identify preferred and blocked levels of creative expression as part of treatment planning.
- Discover how video making can integrate life experiences as part of an inclusive, trauma-informed and ethical art therapy process.
- "I loved the workshop. Brief introduction. Well done. Thank you."
- "I really appreciated the facilitator's style, very knowledgable and helpful. He created a safe place to share and witness each other's work."
- "I think it is a very unique form of art that holds alot of potential for participants in a healing modality."
- "The video making software provided the tools I needed to explore my own experiences, thoughts and emotions and the video. Once presented, even in the roughest state, the video would reveal components of my healing journey that I was not aware of."
- "I still use it today to help me integrate a hard moment or stressful week. It surprised me and continues to surprise me how an art form like film or digital story telling can lead you into places you didn’t realize you needed to safely explore and express and integrate."
- "It starts with a picture, video or music and you connect it with an experience. If you stay present with it and play a little without having any motivation, you stumble to the next picture. You understand the feeling you are having and you give voice to it. It becomes a feeling for a story."
Video Examples from Clients
First, 'Running From' is an animation inspired by a dream and created by a young Indigenous woman at a temporary youth shelter. Second, 'Miss a Sunrise' is a music video created by a first-time video maker who used his original song to reflect on his cancer experience using personally selected images.
First, 'Running From' is an animation inspired by a dream and created by a young Indigenous woman at a temporary youth shelter. Second, 'Miss a Sunrise' is a music video created by a first-time video maker who used his original song to reflect on his cancer experience using personally selected images.
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Video as Art Therapy Explainer
Here is an explainer of some of the ways I use video making as therapy in my practice:
Here is an explainer of some of the ways I use video making as therapy in my practice:
WHAT ELSE DO I NEED TO KNOW?
- You will receive access to WeVideo, a video editing tool with a media library.
- You need basic computer knowledge, but no video making experience.
- These are online sessions and require a stable Internet connection for the video work.
- Tablets cannot be used in the workshops.
- The classes will be not be recorded.
- A Zoom link will be provided the several days prior to the workshop.
FAQ:
I feel overwhelmed by the idea of using technology in my therapy practice. How will these workshops help me?
If you feel comfortable using Internet-based applications on your computer, you will be able to make a video. The Overview Workshop gives you an opportunity to see if using video making is right for you. I provide individuals who have no experience creating videos, the skills and tools they need in a relaxed and fun environment to play and share their experiences.
Are these workshops only for art therapists?
No. Leaders in the field who use video making as therapy include a variety of mental health professionals. However, this workshop will focus on video making from an art therapy and expressive arts perspective. All therapists and counsellors are welcome.
I’m an art therapy student/future mental health professional. Will this be valuable for me?
Yes. I have taught video making as therapy at WHEAT Institute since 2022, so the material is appropriate for students to learn more about video making as therapy.
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ABOUT THE FACILITATOR: Bevan Klassen is an Art Therapist (DWHEAT) and works with individuals and groups to make videos as therapy. He regularly brings video making as therapy to groups and individuals at a temporary youth shelter, CancerCare Manitoba, an art therapy clinic, and his own private practice. Bevan came to Art Therapy through the joy and healing he found as a filmmaker and his desire to support others on their journey using this unique therapeutic approach. For questions contact bevan@deepfocusarttherapy.com OR |
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