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Course Description & Educational Goals
This two-day training is designed to prepare therapists, social workers, counselors, case managers, advocates and other helping professionals to facilitate trauma-informed art workshops with survivors of interpersonal trauma, oppression and marginalization. The training identifies ways of working more effectively with this population using art and trauma-informed practices.
Learning Objectives
- Trainees will experience six hands-on art workshops facilitated through a trauma-informed lens and have an opportunity to integrate the learning.
- Trainees will be able to apply our research-informed arc of healing / workshop structure to facilitating art workshops.
- Trainees will be able to identify and carry out at least three strategies that honor various levels of participation and reinforce participant self-determination.
- Trainees will be able to identify at least three different options for providing grounding and self-regulation exercises.
- Trainees will be able to facilitate art workshops using at least two techniques that honor intersectionality and have an opportunity to identify how to apply it to their setting and population.
- Trainees will be able to state at least three options to address power dynamics as a facilitator.
Presenters Include
Tiombe Wallace, MFT, is a licensed marriage and family therapist with over 23 years of experience working with trauma survivors using A Window Between Worlds art workshops in crisis centers, community services, and educational settings.
Christy Turek Rials is the Director of Training and Outreach for A Window Between Worlds and has facilitated workshops with survivors of trauma as an advocate at sexual assault and domestic violence programs, working with adults, children, and teens through an anti-oppression, trauma-informed lens for over 20 years.
Kat Mardo innovates and facilitates A Window Between Worlds live and on-demand training offerings, supporting building our network of program partners. Kat specializes in embodied art and holds a BFA in Theater Performance from New World School For the Arts.
Cathy Salser is a durational artist and Founder of A Window Between Worlds with over 30 years of experience developing interactive art-based journeys that invite brave, creative space for disrupting and divesting from legacies of trauma, holding time and connection as primary art media.
Course Schedule
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- Triple Focus, Agenda, Self-Regulation
- Community Agreements
- Co-Creating Trauma-Informed Community: AWBW Lens on Art
- Hands-on Art Workshop
- Art Workshop Review & Reflect
- Wellness Break
- AWBW Arc of Healing
- Structure of an Art Workshop
- Hands-on Art Workshop
- Food Break
- Art Workshop Review & Reflect
- Listening is Art
- Trauma Informed Art Facilitation
- Facilitation Practice & Feedback
- Wellness Break
- Exhibits & Community Engagement
- Facilitator Dashboard & Manual
- Hands-on Art Workshop
- Wellness Break
- Art Workshop Review & Reflect
- Reminders for the Day & Evaluation
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- Community of Practice
- Hands-on Art Workshop
- Art Workshop Review & Reflect
- Wellness Break
- Information Sharing & Workshop Resources
- Art Supply Tips, Information & Resources
- Hands-on Embodied Art Workshop
- Trauma Informed & Intersectional Art Workshop Facilitation
- Food Break
- Hands-on Art Workshop
- Art Workshop Review & Reflect
- Wellness Break
- Addressing Questions & Challenges
- Hands-on Art Workshop
- Wellness Break
- Art Workshop Review & Reflect
- Closing, Training Evaluations, Announcements
Frequently Asked About Topics
Training cost is $1500 (Limited regionally based scholarships available.) This fee includes ongoing access to 600+ art workshops, facilitation tools and resources to use with your participants, and free professional development opportunities. Continuing Education Hours Cost is $120.
There are no refunds. AWBW does permit transferring your registration to training held at a later date, or to a coworker, after notifying and receiving approval at trainings@awbw.org. AWBW’s Director of Training provides guidance in transferring the registration.
Course Completion certificates will be awarded at the end of the course in exchange for a completed evaluation form. On time attendance of all instruction time is required for CE credit.
AWBW takes seriously the commitment to our community of practice to create trauma-informed, culturally relevant, and ethical learning and healing environments. Hearing a grievance or complaint is an opportunity for growth, remediation of the grievance, and strengthening relationships. The Director of Training & Outreach, Christy Turek Rials, or in cases where the grievance might include that staff member, the Director of Programs, Rudy Hernandez, will reply to all grievances within 3 business days to formulate a plan for any remediation or to answer questions and concerns of the participant. If the response to the grievance is unsatisfactory, the Executive Director, Zachery Scott will handle any additional needs of the complainant to assist them in a satisfactory outcome from their grievance, free from retaliation or unfairness.
To request accommodations, please email trainings@awbw.org
AWBW (Provider #1000151) is approved by the California association of marriage and family therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFT’s, LCSW’s, LPCC’s and LEP’s. AWBW maintains responsibility for the program and all its content.