Short-Form Professional Development for Educators: In this 5-minute video we have a conversation about Teacher’s Way.
Expressive arts therapy and education help teachers build and sustain relationships between students, families and colleagues. We are committed to building long-term relationships with children and their teachers and the diversified communities where our programs are most effective.
Feed Your Fire –
30 Set Two Training hours of Expressive Arts Education for personal and professional development.
Expressive arts education is about the particular qualities and approaches that can be learned and applied as an artistic process and which illuminate ways of being, knowing and doing. The curriculum includes a practice that is holistic and dynamic and involves reflection, description and problem solving. We employ a mixed-modality approach when identifying and explaining intrapersonal and interpersonal relationships/communication and creativity in a discovery-oriented process.
Educators are given tools so that they may participate deeply in reflection to their inner witness and to remain strongly connected to intuitive body-based knowledge which can guide and enhance personal growth and professional growth such as, self-care (and empathy), skillful facilitation (non-conflict resolution).
Ways to get started:
- Read about the workshop
- See inside a Teacher’s Way Workshop
- Email us to learn about upcoming Teacher’s Way workshops: [email protected]
- Form a group and reach out to Lanie for an introductory session with Expressive Arts Educators.
- Form a group of colleagues for an in depth study of Expressive Arts Oregon embodied education methods at work. Engage in reflexive participation about what embodiment means and how it intersects with the roles we play in education and in life.
Whichever way you get started, you’ll be exploring questions including:
- What is the relationship between personal mythology and how we teach/guide and trust our emotional rapport with the people we work with?
- What environments promote safety and self-directed learning?
- What structures support relationships, collaboration and caring?
It turns out that when we integrate our personal mythology with our life’s work we begin to trust our work, our style and what we believe in – and we start to manifest it more creatively and more openly. In this way, we open the door to new kinds of relationships with education and a balanced sense of solidarity and participation.
The work you do in an expressive arts workshop will be mirrored in the work you do with others.
Come explore and deepen the understanding of these important concepts and possibilities; expanding our knowledge as educators, teachers and counsel of the adults & young children that we collaborate with.
