Enroll now for a February 2025 start.
The training will commence February 23, 2025. Secure your place now. Monthly installment options available.
FOR MENTAL HEALTH
PROFESSIONALS
A solid professional development option for creative arts therapists, counsellors, social workers, occupational therapists and educators to develop their skills and offer this modality to their clients.
6 MONTHS COURSE
12 MONTHS ACCESS
Delivered over twelve, fortnightly modules this course teaches you the fundamentals of Clay Field Therapy® when working with children and young people.
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TRAINING
Receive a 'Certificate of Completion' from the Institute for Sensorimotor Art Therapy and earn up to 48 CPD Points. Certified professional development training.
"Solutions at the Clay Field emerge from vital developmental needs and speak through the body's felt sense. Once these new options to life become integrated, they are remembered similar to learning how to swim or ride a bike. They are implicitly learnt, bottom-up achievements."
Cornelia Elbrecht
Neurological research has proven that trauma is held in the body and needs to be treated through embodying therapies.
Instead of addressing the storied memories, Clay Field Therapy® focuses on regulating the nervous system, building resources, encouraging active responses to once overwhelming events, and nurturing developmental deficits.
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Touch is the most fundamental human experience. We learn safety and love through touch, but also abuse and violence. Clay Field Therapy® is capable to repair interpersonal trauma. The focus is on haptic perception, which describes how we sense and perceive with our hands. The material will reciprocate every communication impulse. Every time children reach out with a motor impulse, they will receive sensory feedback from their own action pattern.
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This sensorimotor feedback loop defines the essence of Clay Field Therapy®. The approach does not ask for what happened, but will address trauma as developmental setbacks.
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Children who do not respond to cognitive and image-based approaches can practice processing and ordering incoming information in an embodied way.
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They learn to organize their implicit sensorimotor base, which gradually enables them to respond to relationships with their environment in an increasingly fulfilling way.
Certificate in Clay Field Therapy® with Children - February 2025
US$1790
Installment options available.
Enroll NowAt the Clay Field the hands can push, punch and strangle, or they can caress, find nurturing and protection.
Course start date 23 February 2025
Now accepting enrollments to join this group training.
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A comprehensive training presented by Cornelia Elbrecht
The course has been developed in collaboration with Prof Heinz Deuser and his extensive, pioneering research and development in the Work at the Clay Field®.
Founder & Director
CORNELIA ELBRECHT
BA. MA. (Art Ed), AThR; SATh; IEATA; IACAET; SEP. Cornelia is the Founder and Director of the Institute for Sensorimotor Art Therapy. She has over 45 years of experience as an art therapist and has been conducting professional certified training in Initiatic Art Therapy, Guided Drawing® and Clay Field Therapy® for nearly two decades. She has studied at the School of Initiatic Art Therapy in Germany, is trained in Jungian and Gestalt therapy, Bioenergetics, Shiatsu and Naturopathy. More recently Cornelia has completed her trauma therapy training with the Somatic Experiencing Training Institute (SETI). She has published four books on Sensorimotor Art Therapy®. Cornelia works in private practice and conducts training throughout Australia, internationally and online. She is an accredited supervisor with ANZACATA.
Objectives and Learning Outcomes
On completing this training participants will:
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This training is recognised as professional development with the Australian Counselling Association (ACA). The Australian, New Zealand and Asian Creative Arts Therapies Association (ANZACATA) accepts our courses as professional development.
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