25 th Annual Conference KAPT Mindfulness-Based Expressive Arts, Yoga & Play Therapy: Supporting Self Regulation & Resilience Cathy Malchiodi, PhD., LPCC, LPAT, ATR-BC, REAT with Emily Johnson-Welsh, MA, LPCC, LPAT, ATR-BC Workshop CEU's total 14 hours for both days attendance. APT membership will be verified for all registrants.
Mindfulness-Based Expressive Arts, Yoga and Play Therapy: Supporting Self-Regulation and Resilience
Mindfulness is simply a mental state achieved by focusing one's awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations, used as a therapeutic technique. It is widely agreed that mindfulness has many important benefits including stress reduction, self-regulation, improved executive functioning, a greater sense of well-being and development of empathy, compassion and emotional intelligence. This two-day course explores how play therapists can apply mindfulness concepts to their work with children, adolescents and families through a variety of hands-on expressive arts, yoga and play therapy approaches. Participants will learn how mindfulness supports self-regulation and personal resilience through examples of current evidence-based research and through individual and group mindfulness activities that can be applied to work with young clients in mental health, medical and school settings.
Cathy Malchiodi, PhD, LPAT, LPCC, ATR-BC, REAT
Cathy Malchiodi, PhD, LPAT, LPCC, ATR-BC, REAT is a leading international expert, syndicated writer, and educator in the fields of art therapy, expressive arts and arts in healthcare. She is a research psychologist, a Board Certified and Licensed Professional Art Therapist, Registered Expressive Arts Therapist, and Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, and has had over 25 years of experience and education in trauma intervention and disaster relief and integrative approaches to health. Cathy is the founder, director and lead faculty member of the Trauma-Informed Practices and Expressive Arts Therapy Institute, dedicated to teaching trauma-informed intervention that integrates expressive arts, neurobiology, somatic approaches, mindfulness, and positive psychology. In particular, it supports the specific use of expressive arts therapies including art therapy, music therapy and movement therapy, play therapy, dramatic enactment, humor and mind-body approaches for recovery and wellness in children, adults and families. Cathy is also the President of Art Therapy Without Borders and is one of its founders.
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Conference Agenda
Day One
7:45am Registration open/Breakfast
8:15am Welcome/Introduction
8:30am Workshop Begins
10:30am Break
10:45am Workshop Continues
12:00pm Lunch Provided --Speaker Dr. Alphonso Nichols “Psychopharmacology of Children and Adolescents: treatments and achievable goals.”
1:30pm Workshop Continues
3:00pm Break--Business Meeting
3:15pm Workshop Continues
4:30pm Workshop Ends
Day Two
7:45am Registration open/Breakfast
8:15am Welcome/Introduction
8:30am Workshop Begins
10:30am Break
10:45am Workshop Continues
12:00pm Lunch Provided--Speaker Judge Lauren Adams Ogden "Navigating Legal Issues in Play Therapy"
1:30pm Workshop Continues
3:00pm Break
3:15pm Workshop Continues
4:30pm Workshop Ends
***PARKING***
Home of the Innocents staff will be assisting with parking in the morning before the conference to direct you to available parking. Lunch is provided on both days of the conference, please be aware parking is limited and if you choose to leave you will likely lose you parking spot. Alternative parking is available on the street.
CE Hours are included in the cost of registration. Kentucky Association for Play Therapy is an APT Approved Provider 00-081.
Cancellations
Registration fees minus a $25 processing fee will be refunded upon request no later than March 6, 2018
No cash back refunds will be given after March 7th, 2018.
KAPT reserves the right to cancel the conference due to unforeseen circumstances and will notify registrants if provided accurate contact information is available; KAPT’s liability is limited to the refund of registration fees only. No cash or in kind refunds will be given due to inclement weather.