Diploma of Transpersonal Art Therapy (51939)
Duration: One year intensive or over two years or Mid Year 18 months.
VET FEE Help is available for prospective students
Why study this course?
The Diploma of Transpersonal Art Therapy is a nationally recognised by ASQA and is designed to equip you with the skills required to work as art therapists in the community services sector or private practice.
The course provides the skills and knowledge essential for art therapy practice including: working with clients, working with groups, life transformation, grief, loss, risk management, children and life transitions and case management.
Career outcomes
This course is particularly relevant for those who wish to gain employment in organisations such as counselling services, government agencies, alcohol and drug centres, rehabilitation, community health centres, outreach services, residential services, elderly, disability, refugee support services, youth centres and women’s health centres, men’s health services ,schools, corrections and private practice.
Course Overview
The Transpersonal Art Therapy Diploma is creative and enriching experience. One does not need to be an artist or have artistic talent to complete this course. Art therapy is a journey towards greater self-awareness by accessing personal creativity. Each Module deepens the theory and practice of working creatively with client by using paint, clay, music, movement and dance. Art therapy is a client-centred process supporting them to engage creatively with their own unconscious to find healing and awareness. The first part of the art therapy course is orientated towards applying art therapy self-awareness techniques and methods to gain insight into one’s personal mythology and creative unconscious.
Diploma of Transpersonal Art Therapy – Modules
1. Foundations of Transpersonal Studies - The Spectrum of Consciousness
2. Foundations of Art Therapy 1
3. Foundations of Art Therapy 2
4. The Symbolic Thread
5. Poetics of Life Cycle
6. Mental Health, Art and Transpersonal Experience 1
7. Mental Health, Art and Transpersonal Experience 2
8&9. Communication and Counselling Skills
10. Transpersonal Art Therapy Practice
11. Professional Practice Issues
12. Non-teaching Practicum - Voluntary Supervised Placement (50 hours)
At Phoenix we….
• value the individual and their life experience
• are focused on the person as the instrument of healing
• recognise the importance of self awareness
• value the use of various states of consciousness in healing
• recognise the importance of culture building in the Institute and society
Phoenix programs are for students who are:
• seeking a vocation in psychological and transpersonal work
• wanting to make significant personal life changes
• wanting to authenticate and understand personal life experience
• seeking to gain deeper access to one’s internal life, its path and direction
• seeking methods of healing based on both modern and traditional knowledge
• keenly interested in community building through creativity and vision
Contact
For more information call Phoenix on 03 95104264
Email: info@phoenixinstitute.com.au
www.phoenixinstitute.com.au
314 Queen St Melbourne 3000
