VFTS 2023 8 | Kathleen and Tamara | Expressive Arts: A Personal & Professional Guidance System

FEATURED GUESTS: Kathleen Horne, M.A. LMHC, Registered Expressive Arts Therapist (REAT), Registered Expressive Arts Consultant Educator (REACE) has been a psychotherapist since 1980 and an expressive arts therapist since 1996. She has a M.A. in Counseling from University of South Florida, and a Graduate Certificate in Expressive Arts Therapy from California Institute of Integral Studies. Her training and practice in expressive arts has been life-changing, both personally and professionally. Kathleen is Co-Founder and Core Faculty of Expressive Arts Florida Institute, and, since 2011 has been training students in the field of Expressive Arts, as well as offering a wide variety of workshops and community programs. She believes that expressive arts is a wisdom practice, and is dedicated to living and sharing the transformational gifts it offers. She is a visual artist, with a love and life-long practice of creating mandalas. Kathleen divides her time between Sarasota, FL, and Cortes Island B.C. She has been a board member of IEATA since 2007, and is proud to be the recipient of the IEATA Shining Star award for 2023.

FEATURED GUESTS: Tamara Teeter Knapp, MA, REACE, Mental Health Counselor Intern, Certified K-12 Art has 20+ years’ experience educating others through the arts. She is co-founder and core faculty at Expressive Arts Florida Institute and began her teaching career as a Waldorf teacher in 1997 in Alaska before relocating to Florida where she taught art and elementary education. Tamara continues to value the integration of arts in education and has been training others in the field of expressive arts for ten years. Since earning a master’s in mental health counseling, she has worked to integrate her extensive experience and knowledge of expressive arts in her clinical work. Tamara continues to develop her interest in body-based intermodal processes that integrate theories in neuroscience and creative modalities. The focus of her work is to help others to discover the healing and transformative power of their own creativity.

LISTEN & LEARN:

• The origin story of Expressive Arts Florida.
• Accessible learning opportunities to become a Registered Expressive Arts Therapist.
• How Kathleen & Tamara define self-compassion and use the arts to practice it.
• How they use collaboratively use the expressive arts as part of business administration and development.

RESOURCES MENTIONED ON THE SHOW: www.expressiveartsflorida.com SESSIONS AT THE SUMMIT: Thursday November 16th, 2023 10:00AM-1:00PM Cultivating Self-Compassion Through Expressive Arts Practice Cultivating Self-Compassion, an experiential intermodal expressive arts session for all counselors and therapists, offers an opportunity to build skills of self-compassion using imagination and expressive media. Drawing upon imagery and contemplative practice, participants will identify ways to provide self-compassion in response to emotional pain and difficulty. They will discover a creative approach to working with themselves and others to provide tools of self-compassion that contribute to healing and growth. Through the introduction of simple expressive arts practice, participants will consult their own inner knowing and be guided through a simple, nourishing experience that can easily be taught to their clients in treatment in virtually any clinical setting. Participants in this 3-hour virtual workshop will be invited to share the gifts that their images bring, connect within and in community, as well as witness their own and others' compassionate presence.

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