Chapman University Extended Education, in partnership with Art & Creativity for Healing Inc., is proud to offer the Art for Healing Certificate Program, the first in the nation.

This program is designed for counselors, teachers, therapists, medical professionals, artists, and others interested in learning the Art for Healing method and using the exercises in their own work with children and adults suffering from abuse, illness, grief or stress. Participants will learn how to use the language of color as a way to facilitate creativity and emotional expression through abstract painting and other visual methods, such as collage.

Throughout the certification process, students will be asked to participate and facilitate segments of a workshop. This certificate allows for the individual use of the Art and Healing methods within private practice as a supplement to existing therapeutic, educational, or artistic programs.

Certificate Requirements

Expressing Feelings with Color
This is the introductory workshop for the Art for Healing Certificate training. Students will experience the methods of Art for Healing firsthand, expressing feelings of abuse, illness, grief or stress through the language of color.

Level One Facilitator Training
This two-day class is designed to teach students how to run a successful workshop with their own clients including how to create a comfortable and safe environment as well as to practice facilitating projects.

Art for Healing - Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced Series
Art for Healing Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced Series contain exercises that are designed to teach participants the language of color and how to express and process emotion through visual art. Participants in the Beginning series use collage, watercolor, acrylic painting and journaling to complete a series of artworks. Intermediate participants complete a second series of artworks using these varied mediums to take the process to a new level of emotional expression. The advanced series focuses on acrylic painting to explore and process each participants's own creativity on a deeper level through the completion of an additional series of paintings.

Art for Healing Workshop Volunteering
Participants must complete the Level one Facilitator Training prior to beginning this portion of the program. To complete the Art for healing certification program, participants are required to complete 12 hours of volunteering at our Art for healing workshops held on site at our studio, or at one of our 30 partner agencies.

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For more information go to www.art4healing.org/chapman.html