Cultivating Relationship: Honoring the Land
Cultivating Relationship: Honoring the Land

“Since moving to our home in the fall of 2019, I have been engaging in practices to form relationships with the land and more-than-human kin. These experiences support me to cultivate intentional relationships with the natural world and involve observing, embodying my senses, expressing gratitude and cultivating reciprocity. They are practices grounded in the ancient eco-psychological premise that humans and the more-than-human world are interconnected and interrelated and that our health and wellness are inextricably linked.”

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ArticleLaura AndrewArticle, Laura Andrew
The Magpie’s Nest: Arts-based Supervision
The Magpie’s Nest: Arts-based Supervision

The Magpie’s Nest: Arts-based Supervision is intended as a guidebook, resource, and source of inspiration to support the professional development and supervision for clinicians, art therapy students, art therapists, art therapy educators, on-site supervisors, peer supervisors, on-line digital art therapy supervisors, and registered art therapists providing group and individual supervision.

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Essenze, AnnouncementSamuel StevensonBook launch, Monica Carpendale
Walking With: An Emerging Dialogue with Art Therapists in the Cultural Commons
Walking With: An Emerging Dialogue with Art Therapists in the Cultural Commons

Walking With is a unique compilation of writings and art from nine geographical and culturally diverse groups of people. This work explores the theory and practice of art therapy, cultural differences, ethics in art therapy, the business of art therapy, and Open Studio models. Tzafi Weinberg and Monica Carpendale have created a wonderful space for a diverse gathering of writers and art therapists to explore how art therapy can be a common ground between cultures for communication, connection, and healing.

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Essenze, AnnouncementSamuel StevensonBook launch, Monica Carpendale, Tzafi Weinberg
Faculty Spotlight | Juanita Kiff
Faculty Spotlight | Juanita Kiff

Juanita Kiff, BSc, DKATI, RCAT, is an avid painter and clinician who offers mental health and substance counselling and art therapy services primarily focused on Indigenous populations. She is devoted to the preservation of traditional knowledge, the use of traditional healing methods and all efforts toward mending our relationship with the Earth. Her work is grounded by ethical, cultural, and spiritual sensitivity from an ancestral trauma-informed and anti-oppressive approach.

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Faculty Spotlight, ArticleSamuel StevensonInterview, Juanita Kiff
Faculty Spotlight | Jennifer Schwartz
Faculty Spotlight | Jennifer Schwartz

Jennifer Schwartz, B.Ed, DKATI, RCAT has worked as an art therapist for over 20 years in rural Child & Youth Mental Health. She lives in the mountains overlooking the Slocan Lake with her family, chickens and gardens. She specializes in complex trauma and is especially interested in understanding how both art therapy and the therapist’s imagination can help contain and transform persecutory anxieties.

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Faculty Spotlight, ArticleSamuel StevensonInterview, Jennifer Schwartz
Faculty Spotlight | Martine Bédard
Faculty Spotlight | Martine Bédard

Martine Bédard, MED, DKATI, BED, BSC, is an art maker, a mother and an educator who lives her life inspired by the creativity she finds in nature, people and the world. Martine is the co-founder of Art for People Projects, an organization which raises money to support creative projects both locally and abroad. Her approach is strongly flavoured with the gratitude she feels for the relationships in her life, and her commitment to living in the moment.

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Faculty Spotlight, ArticleSamuel StevensonInterview, Martine Bédard