Events
Accredited Diplomas
Art therapy supervision diploma
Start date: 10 and 17 March 2027 (both days)
Final deadline for applications: extended to 26 October 2026, final spaces remaining!
Online
This Level 6 accredited diploma has been tailor-made by the British Association of Art Therapists and is accredited by the Counselling and Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body (CPCAB). This intensive theory-informed and practice-based course will equip you with the knowledge and skills required to provide effective, inspiring, ethical, and art-based supervision. We will be running this course every other year. <br /> <br /> If you don't enrol this year, the next time we hope to run the course will be in autumn 2028.
CPD courses
Healing trauma with Guided Drawing: a bilateral approach to sensorimotor body mapping
16-17 March 2027
Online via Zoom
Guided Drawing is a body-focused art therapy approach that uses rhythmic, bilateral drawing to enhance embodied awareness and creative expression. This experiential course explores its application within trauma-informed art therapy practice.<br />
Introduction and Foundation courses
One week foundation in art therapy
Monday 12 April – Friday 16 April 2027
Online via Zoom
This course is for people who are interested in art therapy as a career and want to consider training as an art therapist. It is also useful for other professionals who want to gain a better understanding of art therapy. Throughout the week you will see snapshots of what art therapy looks like in various contexts.
CPD courses
Introduction to using fairy tales in art therapy
Friday 23 April 2027
Online via Zoom
Fairy tales continue to fascinate and teach us, after centuries of being told. This course explores how these stories and their language of images can be an effective and powerful tool in art therapy.
CPD courses
Art therapy with groups of children
Friday 30 April 2027
Online via Zoom
This course will support your understanding of what to consider in order to set up and facilitate art psychotherapy groups with primary age children within schools and child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS).
CPD courses
Supervision training
Tuesday 11 – Thursday 13 May 2027
Online via Zoom
This three-day course provides the theoretical and practical guidance to support your supervisory role, whether it's a clinical or managerial role, or both.
CPD courses
Psychoeducation in art therapy practice
Friday 4 – Saturday 5 June 2027
Online via Zoom
On this course we will explore how to effectively integrate psychoeducation into your clinical work. We will consider formal psychoeducational approaches, informal responsive interventions and the role of imagery to enhance therapeutic practice and support learning, collaboration and change.
Introduction and Foundation courses
Introduction to the profession of art therapy
Friday 18 June 2027
Online via Zoom
Are you looking for a new career that involves helping others, creativity, and personal growth? Whether you are starting to shape your professional path or want to change an established career, this introduction day will give you a chance to find out if the profession of art therapy may be for you.
Self-study
Audio Image Recordings (self-study)
2+ hours of self-directed learning
Available for a year from purchase date
Self-directed study online, hosted on our Learnworlds page
Audio Image Recordings (AIRs) are a unique tool that can enhance art therapy assessment, evaluation and research. This self-study course will show you how to use AIRs safely and effectively, from ethical considerations through to practical application, with real case studies.
Self-study
Mentalisation-based art therapy foundations (self-study)
6+ hours of self-directed learning
Available for one year from purchase date
Self-directed study online, hosted on our Learnworlds page
Mentalisation-based art therapy can help adults living with complex emotional needs and children experiencing social, emotional and mental health difficulties regulate emotions, improve relationships, and reduce distress. This self-study course gives art therapists foundational knowledge to integrate mentalisation-based principles into practice.
Frequently asked questions
Bookings for our online Introduction, Foundation, ARTiculate, CPD and Masterclass courses close one week before the start date, at 10.00am.
Joining instructions and materials will be available in your Memberzone, under bookings, once bookings have closed. A reminder email will be sent out to delegates one week before the course.
It is the attendees’ responsibility to check they have access to the joining instructions before the course. Contacting the office on the day or evening before the start date will not always be responded to prior to the course starting.
Employer funded bookings are available for our online Introduction, Foundation, ARTiculate, CPD and Masterclass courses.
These bookings can be made on our website by paying by card at no extra cost. The booking should be made on the delegate’s account as we will need their contact details for the course. If they don’t have an account they can create one for free here. The employer will be required to provide their credit/debit card details to complete the payment. Please also tick the employer funded option at checkout.
If your employer wants to pay by invoice, you will need to complete our Invoice Details Request – Course Booking Form, and return it to us along with a PO number. Please note, we cannot accept the form without a PO number. Please note, there is an additional £20 admin fee for bookings via invoice.
If you need further assistance, please contact us at events@baat.org.
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