Art, Counseling, and Social Action – Bridging from Islands of Confidentiality to Communities of Care 

 

Please join us for our Lunch and Learn Series with Vicki Williams Patterson. Bring your own lunch, water and coffee will be provided.

 

Title: Art, Counseling, and Social Action – Bridging from Islands of Confidentiality to Communities of Care

Summary: Our efforts at the beginning of a counseling relationship are intense as well as time consuming. Counselors are asked to consider their clients’ culture as well as their history, physical condition, and relationships. In the process of assessment, we often discover social conditions that can derail our efforts as counselors. Hunger, abuse, discrimination, homelessness, poverty, lack of transportation, and violence are real factors in our clients’ lives. Not only do these conditions influence our clients’ mental health, they can actually be the cause mental illness. We can refer our clients to resources, but often their situation is so dire that they are unable to access those resources. On our own time, we can take action to address the troubles in our society, but what if there were a way to take social action within the counseling relationship? In this workshop, we will begin to explore how art-making can facilitate the bringing of social action into the counseling process.

Objectives:

1. Participants will become familiar with social action as both an internal and external event.
2. Participants will experience art tasks designed to raise their awareness of the need for social action within themselves.
3. Participants will experience art tasks designed to develop a sense of self-worth and empowerment withing their clients.

 

SPEAKER:

 Vicki Williams-Patterson, MCAT, ATR-BC, LP-AT

 

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