- No previous experience necessary
- Suitable for all levels - even beginners
- Diploma course
- Become fully accredited with the CPD Standards Agency
- Gain 10 hours of CPD / CE Credit
- 62 Lessons
- 121 Download resources
- Unparalleled tutor support 365 days
- Exclusive interactive sharing gallery
- Fully accessible on mobile and tablet devices
- Self-paced so you can study at a time that suits you
Who is this course for:
- Beating mental blocks and boosting your creativity levels
- People wanting to explore therapeutic art for relaxation and recreation
- Those wishing to discover the many facets of their personality
- For existing counsellors, therapists and other practitioners, who wish to further their learning and add to their existing practice by incorporating new techniques
- Those who would like to explore the self-healing properties of the creative process and creating art without judgment and being critical
- People wanting to use therapeutic art for working and supporting other people
- Those wishing to broaden their knowledge around basic art techniques
This course is perfect if you're new to the world of art therapy and are wanting a more recreational introduction to the subject.
The lessons in the course have been carefully created so that you can experience and enjoy making art as a creative process, rather than focussing on the level of your artistic skill, without being pressured to produce a perfect end result.
I've chosen specific exercises and activities that will help build your confidence when working creatively.
On completion of the course, students will receive three professional certificates. These include a fully accredited diploma, full accreditation with the CPD Standards Agency and the addition of 10 hours of credit.
Here’s just some of the things the course can help with:
- Gain confidence and esteem through the medium of expression
- Lower anxiety and stress levels through active meditation
- Learn how to use art for the purpose and benefit of health and well-being
- An introduction to basic drawing skills
- Gain an understanding of the many art mediums, tools and materials
- Learning to work using metaphors
- Heal yourself through creativity
This course focuses on using art and the creative process not only as a healing model but also embraces the pure pleasure that creating art brings us as a means of recreation.
The syllabus is varied and covers a wonderful array of topics. We'll be learning how to make your own mind maps, explore the benefits of intuitive painting, poetry, and seeing how digital art can help express ourselves in this modern age.
For those people who may not have picked up a pencil since school, we'll be looking at ways you can easily master basic drawing skills, including creating your own shading guide, shading techniques and 3D sketching.
Of course, as with my other courses, we'll be enjoying the classics, such a pattern drawing, understanding colour and composition, as well as creating your very own family tree.
The course is suitable for everyone and something you can enjoy either alone, or in group settings, including family bonding or working in the role of supporting others.
I'll show you how you can really benefit from active meditation, and how much sharper your focus and concentration becomes from just a few minutes, of colouring-in.
The course will provide you with endless resources to really indulge your creative side (even if you believe you haven't got one!). As I tell my own clients, we each have a creative side, some of us just need time to nurture it, and that's just what I'll help you to do.
Materials Needed
All you need is an internet connection to get started. In terms of art supplies, we recommend basic materials such as paper, pencils and pens etc. It isn’t necessary to invest in expensive equipment to get full benefit from the course.
Course Syllabus:
- Introduction To The Course
- Looking at pattern drawing
- What is art therapy
- How can art help us
- What's in your heart
- Introduction to materials for drawing
- Understanding Value
- Create your own shading guide
- Techniques for learning to shade using pencil
- Drawing perspective
- Self portraits
- Drawing hats
- Principle of 3D
- Drawing 3D spheres
- Drawing a 3D cube
- Drawing with children
- More drawing with children
- Exercises to improve your drawing skills
- Using watercolours
- Beating mental blocks
- Easy steps to refine your drawing
- Using acrylic paint
- Stippling techniques
- Practice your stippling
- An introduction to abstract
- Zentangles
- Intuitive art
- Tips to get started with intuitive painting
- Painting in a natural wat
- Drawing with music
- Mandalas
- Colouring for enjoyment
- Colouring-in for adults
- Paisley painting
- Colour psychology
- Your ideal home
- What scares you?
- The valley of life
- What animal would you be?
- Your interpretation of a masterpiece
- Beyond your comfort limit
- Drawing yourself as a tree
- Line art
- Painting your timeline
- Using your body as a blank canvas
- Painting a window
- Hand lettering
- Creating collages
- Cartoon animals
- Silencing your inner most critic
- Ways to combat negative thinking
- Mind maps
- Introduction to mindfulness
- Easy guide to poetry
- Metaphors
- Family trees
- A forgiveness box
- Planning a balloon release
- Paparazzi
- Digital creations
- Create your own font
LIBBY SEERY - Ad.Dip.Psych, PGDip.CBT, Dip.Couns, Dip.NLP, Dip.Psych.Coach
I am a Psychotherapist, Counsellor, and Therapeutic Art Practitioner.
I run a very successful practice in Harley Street, London which is recognised the world over as a centre of medical excellence.
I am a highly trained specialist with a wealth of experience, working with people from all walks of life; including referrals from charities, I'm involved in, to very high profile clients from all over the world.
As well as my client work, I have had a number of works published and have appeared on TV and radio.
All of my online courses are fully accredited with the CPD Standards Agency and offer students the opportunity to gain CPD credits/hours.
I am also the founder of Renaissance Life Therapies Training Academy, which offers courses in art therapy, counselling, CBT and other areas of self-development.
As an accredited CPD training provider, I have more than 120,000 students, from 190 countries, and have been honoured with a number of awards for my contribution to education.
I also write and lecture on my subject, as well as training other doctors and counsellors in specialist areas of counselling and therapeutic art.
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