CAT Week
Creative Arts Therapy Week
CEU's Available!
March 9-15th
Come and learn about all the expressive arts therapy modalities!

All events are open to the public,
but registration for lectures and workshops is a must.
Space will be limited!
Member's rates for the week or pay individually for each event.

Sunday, March 9th from 1-4pm Afternoon Tea
Free and open to the public!
Stop in and network with other therapists
or stop by to find out what CAT week is all about.
Community Art Building
(This project will carry on throughout the entire week in our open studio!)
Free Art Experiential with Beth Ann Short MA ATR

Tuesday, March 11th from 6:30-8pm
Sound Health: Music Therapy in Action
Members: $15      Non-members: $20
Open to the public, please call to reserve your space!
Jodi Winnwalker LCSW, MT-BC, FAMI
& Executive Director of Earthtones Music Therapy Services
How and why does music affect us? 
How can this powerful modality be applied to promote sound health?
When is it appropriate to refer a client to a music therapist?
This presentation is open to anyone interested in increasing their knowledge of the power of music for themselves or someone they care for.  Winnwalker will share the latest research on music therapy and illustrate the manner in which music is used therapeutically to address physical, psychological, cognitive, and/social functioning for people of various ages and abilities.
You are invited to participate in group discussions and experientials such as music assisted relaxation; exploration of personal music preference; guided imagery and music; active music making with drums and other rhythm instruments; singing/chanting, and movement to music.    Information will also be shared through short video clips and handouts.

Jodi Winnwalker, MT-BC, LCSW, FAMI, is the founder and director of Earthtones Music Therapy Services (www.earthtonesmusictherapy.com), an agency that provides music therapy programs designed to address the special needs of persons living with emotional, intellectual, physical, and developmental challenges.  Jodi served as Clinical Program Coordinator for the Marylhurst University Music Therapy Program from 2001-2004 and continues her relationship as adjunct faculty member and supervisor for the growing music therapy program.   Earthtones is also a Marylhurst University-Affiliated Internship Site for graduating music therapy students.

Winnwalker received her Bachelor of Music Therapy degree from West Texas State University, received her Master of Clinical Social Work degree from Portland State University and is a Fellow of the American Association for Music and Imagery.  With 27 years of cinical experience, Jodi is a frequent presenter and guest speaker at local, regional, and national conferences.  She is past president of the Oregon Association of Music Therapy (OAMT) and currently serves on the OAMT board as Clinical Education Director and Government Relations Representative.  Jodi is a recipient of the 2007 Betty Isern Howery Award in recognition for professional excellence within the Western Region.   Jodi plays in ZIMBA!, a local all-woman marimba band for her own music therapy.  See www.zimbamarimba.com for details.


Wednesday, March 12th from 6:30-8pm
Intergrating Art Therapy into Evidence-Based Treatment
Members: $15      Non-members: $20
Open to the public, please call to reserve your space!
Sylvia Hartowicz, MA, ATR
This workshop is intended for professionals working in mental health.
It will provide ideas on how to integrate art-making as an intervention in Cognitive-Behavioral therapies, so commonly used in treatment at this time.
Themes in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Seeking Safety will be reviewed and an experiential exercise will allow participants a chance to see how useful art can be within these modalities.
This workshop is limited to 10 participants.

Bio: I received my Masters in Art Therapy from the University of Illionois at Chicago in 2002. I currently work in community mental health through Lifeworks NW. I believe in approaching clients in a strength-based, client-centered manner, allowing them to define their problems and set their own goals. I am eclectic in my approach, using creative interventions, such as art and writing activities, as a way to help clients have insights into their functioning through self-exploration.
I often use cognitive behavioral techniques to help clients find new ways of thinking about and approaching problems. I have had the honor to work with diverse populations in varied settings, including but not limited to:  homeless women living in a shelter in Chicago, high-risk families in the Bronx, children in school settings both in NYC and Chicago, and adolescents in residential treatment here in Portland.
  I believe that these experiences have  helped me to grow into an individual who is accepting and understanding of all different kinds of people, with a strong ability to empathize with others and see things from their point of view. My goal is to bring more awareness to the power of art as a therapeutic intervention to the general public.

Thursday, March 13th from 4-6pm
The Art of Making Changes
Members: $20      Non-members: $25
Open to the public, please call to reserve your space!
Dana Fox LPC, ATR-BC
Did you make a New Year's Resolution? 
How is it going?
Join this workshop to feel re-energized about your resolution.  See the solutions for overcoming your obstacles present themselves as you create self-reflection art pieces.  During the workshop, you will also transform a wall calendar into a new year's resolution journal to keep yourself on track with your resolution throughout the year.
No worries if you didn't make a resolution.
Go ahead, think about it now or identify one during the workshop.

Bio: Fox practices as a psychotherapist at Western Psychological and Counseling, where she primarily works with adults seeking insight, guidance, and emotional support to make personal changes.  She received her degree in Expressive Therapies in 1999 at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Over the past 8 years, she has led art therapy workshops in community education programs and at professional conferences.

Thursday, March 13th from 6:30-8pm
Art Therapy with Transgender Clients
Members: $15      Non-members: $20
Open to the public, please call to reserve your space!
Bren Boseman, MA
Portland has become a safe haven for many Transgender individuals. 
Many Trans folks move to this area for the Transgender resources and supportive community.
Counseling can be a scary and unsafe endeavor for many of these folks who are often pathologized and misunderstood.  In this workshop you will be presented with some basic information about how to be a safe and understanding counselor for a transgender client as well as have the space to ask questions and express concerns and curiosities. 

The presenter will discuss her experience using Art Therapy with Transgender clients and provide examples of the power of this therapeutic modality with this population.

The workshop participants will be provided with an Art Therapy experiential that focuses on one’s own experience and perceptions of gender and gender roles.  This exercise is also designed to investigate our countertransferance as counselors and mental health professions when working with Transgender individuals.  Participants will be able to process this art experience within the group.
This group will be limited to 8 participants.

Bio: Boseman has a Masters degree in Art Therapy and Counseling from Marylhurst University.  Boseman works out of an art therapy studio at Owls Nest North Collaborative Therapy Space in NE Portland.  Her clients are adults, adolescents and children.  Boseman also runs Art Therapy workshops and is available for Art Therapy consultation.
"In my final year of this program I interned at the YWCA Counseling Center and was trained in working with Transgender clients.  I worked with many Trans individuals (both Male to Female and Female to Male).  I wrote my masters thesis on this subject.  I currently work in private practice and continue to work with Transgender clients.  I love this work!"

Friday, March 14th from 6:30-9pm
Social Art Night
Free and open to the public.
Pot-luck style
Art making with old and new friends!
Community Art Building
(This project will carry on throughout the entire week in our open studio!)
Free Art Experiential with Beth Ann Short MA ATR

Saturday, March 15th from 11am-1pm
Creative Ways to Mend the Self
Members: $20         Non-members: $25
Open to the public, please call to reserve your space!
Kazz Artis, MA, ATR

This workshop will examine how clinicians react to the stories of suffering and trauma of their clients.  Vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, burnout or stress.
No matter what we call it, it can cause anger, resentment, loss of focus, fatigue, isolation and depression.  We will examine and begin to understand how this work with others can seep into all areas of our lives.   Relationships, memories, happiness, creativity and rest often suffer.
This workshop will focus on how one can utilize art as therapy, as a way to begin healing.   This workshop will provide a healing and safe place to explore how your work may be effecting your compassion energy and ability to be your best.

Bio: This is my eleventh year working in the helping profession using art and my ninth year working as an Art therapist.  My work as an art therapist includes working with homeless youth with mental health and addiction issues, with prostituted women and their children, and domestic violence survivors.
Personally my art focus includes encaustic painting, mixed media collage and altered story books. Currently i have a small private practice working with adults adolescents and children and with a focus on helping helpers using art therapy.  I also work as a School Based Mental Health Consultant for Multnomah county with at risk youth within Portland Public schools.

Saturday, March 15th from 1-4pm
Alchemical Arts 101
Members: $40         Non-members: $45
Open to the public, please call to reserve your space!
Mark Gundry, MA, PhD
Join this three hour workshop and learn about the basics of alchemical psychology, share perspectives, meditate on alchemical images, and practice the alchemical arts of process painting, forming clay, and sandplay.
Both alchemy and creative art therapies engage deep processes of psychological healing and transformation. The psychologist Carl Jung spent the second half of his career studying this parallel and applying it to psychotherapy.
Engage processes of personal healing and transformation in this dynamic hands-on workshop.
  • Discover alchemical operations — such as calcination and solution — in your own emotions and creativity
  • Learn to engage alchemical processes for the sake of healing and strengthening yourself as a person
  • Deepen your creative work in a playful, supportive environment
  • Alternate between stations for process painting, forming clay, and sandplay
  • Support your individual talk therapy process through the alchemical arts
Bio: Gundry brings a rich background in Jungian psychotherapy, alchemical psychology, expressive arts therapies, grief counseling, and the study of spirituality to the workshop. He is in private practice as a psychotherapist in Portland, Oregon, where he also offers workshops on psyche and the expressive arts.
Prior to his initiation into depth psychology in the mid-1990s, he studied philosophy and religion at Boston College, where he earned his Ph.D. He wrote a book on the psychologist Carl Jung and the way that images shape our realities. He has been working on dreams, doing artwork -- painting, charcoal, nature assemblage, collage, and photography (so far!) -- and writing about his experiences for over ten years.

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