Workshops Available

This webinar will demonstrate eco-art practices. Eco-art practices incorporate modeling a safe environment of relationships.  Engagement with the natural environment reveals the landscape of the soul including self-attitude and relationships, as well as current needs and supporting values ​​in the context of COVID-19. The process of interacting with the gifts of nature enriches the sensory experience in conditions of isolation, restores one’s resources, and allows one to transfer the experience of a safe environment to the conditions of human life.

Art therapy can help you distract yourself from stressful situations, think positively, and relax. During this master class, art therapy techniques to reduce the impact of stressful situations on the human body will be presented. These techniques are applicable both for self-help for children and adults, and for the work of a specialist with families and youth.

During this workshop the issue of resilience, self-help, and prevention of professional burnout will be addressed. Professionals in helping professions have experienced identity crises during the COVID-19 pandemic. Creative self-help methods can positively affect psychotherapists’ experiences of life situations associated with the limitation of personal contacts, experiences of grief, and other professional challenges.

Participants will experience a protocol designed to curiously examine the present moment contents of the mind through conscious doodling and then select the most beneficial thoughts containing them into a positive setting to then integrate simply into habits of thought and behavior.

In this experiential workshop, participants are introduced to an art therapy peer-support group formed by Portland Institute clinicians during the pandemic. Presenters share the group's use of creative expression, exploration, and mutual support as the pandemic unfolded and evolved. Individual and group thematic trajectories are examined and grounded in the theories of meaning reconstruction and restorative retelling. Participants have the opportunity to create response art pieces to their own pandemic experiences, with theoretical concept discussion.