(Oxford) Diploma in Art Therapy (Extended Master Course)

Art Therapy (Extended Master Course) : an extensive course to help, interpret, express and resolve emotions - in detail.

What you'll learn:

• A combination of DBT and Art therapy skills to improve mental and emotional health
• Using a film as an example, how painting is therapeutic
• Fundamentally you will learn about yourself - and how to use Art Therapy to heal
• Art Therapy and astronomy
• How to become an Art Therapist (see workbook)
• ASMR and Art Therapy
• How Art Therapy can help the homeless
• How Art Therapy helps combat depression and loneliness
• Interacting with others via Q/A (5000+ posts)
• Questions to ask yourself when looking at your artwork

This course is 85+ hours long. If I listed all the content this Course Description would be so long that most would never read it.

What I would ask is that you watch the Preview videos which includes the Introduction where I go through all the segments of the course.

Here is a list of SOME of the topics:

Sections/Topics

• Art Therapy - daily exercises

• Art Therapy - the academic background

• Art Therapy - in the interpretation of artwork

• Art Therapy and your own journey to self-healing

• Art Therapy and Distress Tolerance

• Art Therapy and Play Therapy

• Art Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy

• Art Therapy and Creativity

• Seven day course in Positivity

• Art Therapy and the treatment of Depression in children

• Serial Killer art

• Art therapy and Loneliness

• Art therapy and telehealth

• Art Therapy and the Solar System

• Art Therapy and Stress

• Art Therapy for the Homeless

• Art Therapy and Nature

• Art Therapy and Meditation

• Art Therapy and Optimism

• Walking Art Therapy

There are many more topics plus 15 manuals and over 600 Art Therapy Exercises.

But more important is the theme of the course and it is one of going on a journey, a journey of self healing and self exploration. On the way you'll learn a lot about how you can help others - but you will learn even more about yourself.

You will also - of course - learn a lot about Art Therapy - but certainly not enough to call yourself an Art Therapist. To become an Art Therapist you need Masters Level degree and several years in training, not a one hour, ten hour or even one hundred hour course - however nicely the course in packaged. However much the Instructor is directly involved in discussions. feedback, assessment, guidance and encouragement.

Talking of which, this course (along with all courses from this Instructor) offers you the chance of attaining the Oxford Diploma - this is at no extra cost. However, the Diploma is difficult to achieve. Fewer than ten students on this course have been successful but, lifetime access, who knows how many will succeed, given time?

In addition to the length of the course, the contents, the up to date research, the many exercises and the manuals there is something else: the Q/A section. That, arguably, is the most important section of the course. It is where people post homework, ask and answer questions, comment on artwork and interpretations, explore ideas, reference further studies, relevant film clips and websites and books. It is where the 'global classroom' comes together.

You can often assess how active a course is, how involved the students are, by the activity levels in the Q/A. Look at any course you are now on. Is the Instructor very involved? Are students involved enough to share their work, to respond to the tasks given, to have a go at workbooks, to deal with daily/weekly/monthly exercises, to discuss Case Studies?

Doing so takes time - time from students and also the Instructor.

There are 6,000 posts in the Q/A for this course.

Six thousand.

That is how involved students are on this course. Students want to share, want to comment on artwork, want feedback and want guidance on their journey of self-healing.

So really it all comes down to one question:

Do you want a long, detailed course where there is a high level of Instructor interaction, lectures are added to (there are 799 already) there are numerous manuals and the Q/A is very very active?

If 'yes' - then enrol.

But before you do, please read some of the (very long) 5 star reviews - and also the 1-star ones.

In general the one star reviews are from people who have done very little of the course, have posted little in the Q/A if anything and in truth, have not involved themselves that much in the course. Whereas the long 5 star reviews are from students who have fully committed to the course, done the work, reflected on the thought processes and slowly, very slowly, have made clear progress.

If you wish to go on that (long) journey of self-healing, to share ideas and progress, to encourage and be encouraged, to learn numerous techniques, to be kept up to date via Educational Announcements and to go slowly as you evolve - then this really IS the course for you.

If however, you just want a short course that - allegedly - makes you some sort of super therapeutic art therapist and that's without any discussion and you even print your own Diploma - then this course most definitely is NOT for you.

And you are not for this course.

I do hope you decide this course IS for you and you enrol. Please remember to watch the Preview videos.

Thank you .