CATA-ACAT 2022 Symposium: Relationship & Reciprocity

September 24, October 22, November 26 

8am-4pm PT / 9am-5pm MT / 11am-7pm ET / 12pm-8pm AT

Online via Zoom

Join us in three days of arts-based workshops this fall, exploring land-based practices and social justice in art therapy, with facilitators bringing a broad range of experiences in art therapy and a shared passion for individual and collective healing through the arts. Together we will creatively explore these questions central to not only our professional practices, but also our ways of being in community and the world:

• As art therapists, how can we practice with eco-sensitivity and be in right relationship to the land?

• How can we address the ongoing social injustices and violence as individual practitioners and as a profession, in relationship with communities and each other?

• How do we continue to expand our learning and practices in anti-racism, anti-oppression, decolonization, and environmental justice?

• How can we integrate reciprocity into our art therapy practice?

Registration Open!

Register for one, two, or all three full-day passes. Each symposium day includes four 1.5-hour arts-based workshops.

• Each symposium day pass: $200

• Register for all three days: $75 off

• Students: 20% off

• CATA-ACAT Members: 10% off

• Students or practitioners in creative arts therapies identifying as Black, Indigenous, or people of colour / racialized (BIPOC): 40% off

*Please note that discounts for the student, CATA member and BIPOC student/practitioner discounts, whichever the greatest percentage off applies, but discounts do not overlap.

View the symposium schedules, workshop descriptions, presenter bios, and registration at the button below!

September 24: Cultivating Relationships

Opening with Dr. Fyre Jean Graveline

Four 1.5-hour workshops presented by:

• Denise Nadeau and Alannah Young (BC)

• Francesca Bernardi (UK) *Rescheduled to Nov 26 due to storm

• Dan Summer & Brigitt Yermakov (NJ, USA)

• Hailey Tallman (ON)

October 22: ReMatriation for heARTivists

A full day of immersive learning, witnessing, and arts-making experience with LIFE as Medicine: Circle of Indigenous Healing Arts, facilitated by: Dr. Fyre Jean Graveline, Jean Tait, Jennifer Vivian, Chris Larsen, Dr. Lana Whiskeyjack, and LIFE as Medicine Collaborators.

Artwork: Earth Guardian by Jean E. Tait.

Symposium Gallery

Symposium participants were invited to share their artwork in a gallery with CATA-ACAT and LIFE as Medicine. Much gratitude to participants who have shared their creations and words. The gallery can be viewed here.

November 26: Living Reciprocity

Four 1.5-hour workshops presented by:

• Rapinder Kaur (ON)

• Andrea Cook (QC) *Cancelled due to presenter’s extenuating circumstances

• Francesca Bernardi (UK)

• Sarah West (BC)

• Sharlene Friedman & Suzanne Thomson (ON)

The CATA-ACAT Annual General Meeting will also take place on November 26 - all are welcome, only members can vote. Participants can register for the AGM on its own, without attending the rest of the symposium.

Questions & Support

For questions, accessibility needs, and other support please email communications@canadianarttherapy.org