Events
Conferences
Annual conference 2026: Sustaining care: art therapy for workforce, communities and individuals (in-person ticket)
Saturday 7 November 2026
King's College London (Strand Campus)
As burnout rises and health services face growing demand, sustaining care matters more than ever. This conference brings together leading researchers, practitioners and service users to explore how art therapy supports psychological safety for the workforce, community wellbeing and individual recovery.
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Annual conference 2026: Sustaining care: art therapy for workforce, communities and individuals (online ticket)
Saturday 7 November 2026
Online via Zoom
As burnout rises and health services face growing demand, sustaining care matters more than ever. This conference brings together leading researchers, practitioners and service users to explore how art therapy supports psychological safety for the workforce, community wellbeing and individual recovery.
CPD courses
Child development and its significance in art therapy across the life cycle
Friday 20 – Saturday 21 November 2026
Online via Zoom
This course will explore child development from a trauma informed, biopsychological and attachment perspective. It will examine the crucial and unique role that art therapy can play in both pinpointing and reworking poorly negotiated developmental steps.
Introduction and Foundation courses
Introduction to the profession of art therapy
Saturday 21 November 2026
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.
CPD courses
Supervision training
Tuesday 1 – Thursday 3 December 2026
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
Life story work with looked after and adopted children and young people
Friday 4 – Saturday 5 Dec 2026
Online via Zoom
Therapeutic life story work is an intervention commonly offered to children and young people in care and adoptees. This course offers a helpful framework for practice to augment therapists’ existing skills and knowledge in this field.
CPD courses
Dyadic parent-child art psychotherapy training - Level 1
Friday 15 – Saturday 16 January 2027
Online via Zoom
This is a practical course to help you develop your dyadic art therapy work, whether you are experienced in working dyadically or have never practiced in this way.
ARTiculate courses
ARTiculate for staff in education and social care
Day 1: Friday 22 Jan 2027
Day 2: Friday 26 Feb 2027
Day 3: Friday 19 March 2027
Online via Zoom
We've designed this course to better equip education and social care professionals to use art safely and effectively as a communication tool when supporting young people with a range of issues such as trust, relationship building and emotional literacy.
CPD courses
A film in a day: moving stories in clinical settings
Saturday 23 January 2027
Online via Zoom
Film is a powerful medium to use in clinical settings, allowing clients to tell a story, from lived experience or made up. Therapists can also use film as a tool for reflection or to tell your own stories. This course will offer the opportunity for you to practice making a film in a day.
CPD courses
Working with looked after and adopted children: complex trauma and art therapy
Friday 5 – Saturday 6 February 2027
Online via Zoom
This course outlines the legal and regulatory framework governing working with children who are looked after, on Special Guardianship orders, in kinship care, or adoption. It promotes best practice in working safely, ethically and effectively with this group of children, many of whom have experienced complex trauma.
Introduction and Foundation courses
Introduction to the profession of art therapy
Saturday 13 February 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.
CPD courses
Dyadic parent-child art psychotherapy - Level 2
Friday 5 – Saturday 6 March 2027
Online via Zoom
Dyadic parent-child art psychotherapy is a way of working which focuses directly on the child’s primary attachment relationship. This course equips art therapists who are already developing a dyadic art therapy practice with what they need to feel confident and competent to work in this way.
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.
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.
Find out more information regarding our Accredited diplomas.
