Grief and Expressive Arts is a 6 hour in person training where participants will learn how creative processes can support core grief needs such as emotional expression, connection, meaning-making, remembrance, and integration. Through a blend of clinical teaching and guided experiential exercises, the training demonstrates how trauma-informed expressive arts interventions can help clients externalize grief, regulate the nervous system, and access deeper layers of emotional experience. The training also explores ethical considerations, cultural humility, and appropriate pacing when working with grief through creative modalities. Participants will leave with a structured framework for understanding grief needs, along with a collection of expressive arts interventions designed to help clients process multiple types of losses.

For those pursuing REAT, this course includes 1 hour of individual, 1 hour of group, 2 hours of application and 2 hours of approach specific training.

By the end of the training, participants will be able to:

• Describe key grief needs relevant to expressive arts interventions.

• Explain the clinical rationale for using expressive arts in grief work.

• Facilitate at least four expressive arts interventions for grief processing.

• Identify contraindications, ethical considerations, and scope of practice.

• Integrate expressive arts into individual and group, trauma-informed grief treatment.

Format: Live experiential training combining instruction, guided activities, and case study discussion offering 6 CEU hours. All art supplies are included in the cost. There will be a 1 hour lunch break and lunch is on your own.

Training Location: My-T-By-Design Therapeutic Art Studio, 392 E. Sunbridge Dr, Fayetteville, Arkansas