• Course are taught in both Arabic and English.

• Students will attend two days (Friday and Saturday) for two weekends a month of training over 10 months.

• Meetings will be in person and IN CAIRO with Aisha,
  and online via Zoom with Markus.
  

  All class hours, field placement hours and individual and group supervision hours through the World Arts Organization Expressive Arts Diploma Program count as hours toward registration through the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association, IEATA.

This Certificate Training Program in Intermodal Expressive Arts, is a two-level Certificate Training program and is for those interested in pursuing the Expressive Arts as a professional path, whether integrating it into an existing career or beginning a career in the expressive arts field.

This program offers an introduction for individuals who may want to use the arts in their clinical practice, community work, teaching methods or personal experience.

Somatic Therapy is a body-centered psychotherapy integrative methodology, healing mind-body with the expressive arts and movement.

Expressive Arts Therapy is an approach to healing through the imagination using different forms of creative expression such as painting, music, drama, and dance to help you explore and transform emotions. The focus of expressive arts therapy is on the therapeutic effect of the creative experience, and it highlights the human capacity to transform thoughts, emotions, and experiences into tangible shapes and forms. It can involve gesture, movement, dance, clay, puppetry, creative writing, journaling, poetry, theatre, performing arts, sand tray, photography sound or music and visual arts.

Application Process

1st step: Applicants must complete the following online application form:

https://forms.gle/Fx2kqg9xaJCCrMJm6

2nd step: Selections will be announced

3rd step: Selected applicants finalize their registration by paying the first module fee.

About the Facilitators:

Markus Scott-Alexander, PhD, REAT, is a pioneer in the field of expressive arts therapy education. He is the author of Expressive Arts Education and Therapy (Brill Publishing, 2020). The material for the book came out his work as an artist-in-residence at the University of Alberta in Canada where he was a dance theatre director/choreographer. He recently retired from his position at the European Graduate School in Switzerland where he was senior faculty. Markus is the first registered expressive arts therapist in the world and has been an active therapist and teacher since 1986. He has worked extensively with international expressive arts training centers focusing on personal and community body awareness and movement via a multi-modal approach.

Aisha Radwan, MSc Psychology, is an Egyptian artist and an expressive arts therapist. She works as a part of The Clinic Psychology Center, and MPC Maadi Psychology Center. Aisha is a Master degree researcher in psychology, one from the UK Liverpool University, and another psychology master degree in Expressive Arts Therapy from Helwan University. She holds an Art Therapy Diploma and is Art Therapy course certified by The British Art Therapy Association. She has worked as college faculty in India teaching Expressive Arts, an Expressive Arts therapist with The Knowledge Hub Universities students and the International students of Coventry University UK. Aisha has also worked as an Expressive Arts therapist at Berjeel Hospital in Abu Dhabi, UNICEF, Hermal Hospital, Nile Sanitarium, Dr Sandra Elsisi psychiatry clinic, and has been a part of the first wellness festival in Egypt, RAABTA. Since 2017, she has been holding individual and group Expressive Arts Therapy retreats and sessions.

Please contact Aisha with any questions about the course.