ONLINE WORKSHOPS FOR THERAPISTS
In these online workshops, Art Therapist Bevan Klassen guides therapists through an inspirational process of video making to engage the needs of those you support. Using the Expressive Therapies Continuum (ETC) as a framework, participants will experience how video making can help those you work with:
- Self-regulate and grow in emotional awareness.
- Express personal voice as a part of identity development and self-compassion.
- Integrate life experiences.
Level 1 - Exploring Video Making in Therapy: An Overview
Choose One: Saturday, March 9, 16, OR 23, 2024
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 you work with in your professional practice. Together, we will begin by creating a group video that demonstrates how mindful films, digital stories, animation, and music videos can be integrated into a therapeutic process. Then, participants will have an opportunity to create their own videos. This hand-on workshop will provide an overview of how video making supports emotional regulation and identity development integrating a selection of trauma-informed, clinical approaches.
Choose One: Saturday, March 9, 16, OR 23, 2024
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 you work with in your professional practice. Together, we will begin by creating a group video that demonstrates how mindful films, digital stories, animation, and music videos can be integrated into a therapeutic process. Then, participants will have an opportunity to create their own videos. This hand-on workshop will provide an overview of how video making supports emotional regulation and identity development integrating a selection of trauma-informed, clinical approaches.
Level 2 - Playing in a Therapeutic Digital Studio: Mindful Film, Music Video & Animation
Saturday, April 6, 2024 from 10:00 am - 5:00 pm Central Time (Manitoba)
Online Workshop using Zoom
$175*
In this one-day immersive workshop, you will create variety video making products that you can use to help those you work with in your professional practice. Participants will begin by exploring film making as a mindful and self-regulating experience. Next, 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: Level 1 - Exploring Video Making in Therapy: An Overview
Saturday, April 6, 2024 from 10:00 am - 5:00 pm Central Time (Manitoba)
Online Workshop using Zoom
$175*
In this one-day immersive workshop, you will create variety video making products that you can use to help those you work with in your professional practice. Participants will begin by exploring film making as a mindful and self-regulating experience. Next, 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: Level 1 - Exploring Video Making in Therapy: An Overview
Level 3 - Discover Your Story: Digital Storytelling
Two Saturdays, April 13 & 20, 2024 from 10:00am - 5:00pm Central Time (Manitoba)
Online Workshop using Zoom
$350 *
Over an immersive two Saturdays, you will tell an important story from your life 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 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: Level 1 - Exploring Video Making in Therapy: An Overview
* - sliding scale pricing is available
Two Saturdays, April 13 & 20, 2024 from 10:00am - 5:00pm Central Time (Manitoba)
Online Workshop using Zoom
$350 *
Over an immersive two Saturdays, you will tell an important story from your life 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 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: Level 1 - Exploring Video Making in Therapy: An Overview
* - 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 a lot of potential for participants in a healing modality."
- "Video making with my kiddos is going VERY WELL! Their focus, self-confidence and self-esteem have increased exponentially! Parents comment on their child's overall growth and desire to do more therapy. They marvel at the exciting and enthusiastic way in which their child describes their filmmaking projects on the way home in the car and the technical language that they use to describe the process. I couldn’t ask for more! The kids arrived totally stoked to "get down to creating".
- "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 has facilitating video making as therapy to groups and individuals at a temporary youth shelter, CancerCare Manitoba, school divisions, 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 [email protected] OR |
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