Sky Mountain Institute's Expressive Arts Program 2008 is designed to realign our relationship to our bodies, our place-worlds, and to the planet through a vision of a sustainable person-earth presence, a practice of relational depth, and an experience of imaginal competency. We are committed to providing an open and "free space" in which our expressiveness can thrive and find ways back into community. Our special emphasis is a shift from the ego-centric self to the ecological self and the practice of place.
(Friday: 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Saturday: 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM, Sunday: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM)
The Building BLocks of Expressive Therapies and the Ecological Imagination
Special Focus
The Body as a Source of Wisdom and Art: Somatic experiencing
Shifting from an ego-centric to an Eco-centric orientation
Birth Patterns as Core Life Stories and Symbolic Interweaves
Archetypal Focus:
Sacred Center, Tree of Life, and the Divine Child
(Friday: 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Saturday 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM, Sunday: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM)
The Visual Arts, Collage, and Clay and the Speaking Earth
Special Focus:
Tending our Dreams: The language of psyche and world soul
The Handmade Life: Stories that teach and heal through the ages
Re-creating Narrative Continuity: Personal and historical omissions
Archetypal Focus:
The Journey, Animal Voices, and the Healer
(Friday: 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Saturday: 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM, Sunday: (9:00 AM - 4:00 PM)
Symbolic and Imaginal Worlds: Sandtray Therapy and Play Therapy
Special Focus
The Multidimensional World of Sandtray Therapy
The Practice of Place as the Interplay of the visible and the invisible
Liberation Arts: Our personal and societal shadow
Archetypal Focus:
The Visionary: Allies, Angels and the Underworld
(Friday 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Saturday: 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM, Sunday: 9:00 PM - 4:00 PM)
Enactments, Storytelling, Psychodrama. and Voice Dialogue
Special Focus
Enacting Personal and Cultural Myths, and Silenced Stories
Shape-shifting and Shamanic Journeying
Performance of the Council of All Beings
Archetypal Focus
The Teacher, Alchemy and Shamanic Mediators
The complete Expressive Arts Therapy Program is $1300.
We provide 68 CUEs for MFTs and LCSWs and 100 hours of on-site/off-site training. Past participants of Sky Mountain trainings are eligible to attend any one and/or combination of Modules I, II, III, or IV for this year's Expressive Arts Therapy Program at $325.00 per Module(each providing 17 CEUs). Residential accommodations are available on a limited basis.