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Start Date
April 22, 2024
Domestic Availability
Suspended
International Availability
Suspended
Program Code
EXA
Delivery
In Person
Credential
Ontario College Graduate Certificate
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April 21, 2025
Domestic Availability
Accepting Applications
International Availability
Accepting Applications
Program Code
EXA
Delivery
In Person
Credential
Ontario College Graduate Certificate
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Program Contact
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Expressive Arts practitioners incorporate a range of creative options into their existing professional skills and areas of expertise. Learn how to facilitate the development and transformation of the people in your care through expressive arts. You will explore your own creativity and learn how to design and deliver expressive arts programming to people in a variety of circumstances. Problem solving, conflict resolution, self-exploration, group dynamics, self-care, and much more are investigated in this highly experiential and discovery-based program. Examine the theoretical and practical approaches to expressive arts as a means of assisting people, and learn how to protect yourself from burnout. Fleming's Graduate Certificate in Expressive Arts is a helpful addition to the counselling, teaching, support or ministry you currently offer others.
Mandatory courses include Expressive Arts - Exploring Relationships, Introduction to Expressive Arts, Planning Expressive Arts Experiences and Professional Issues with the Expressive Arts. The additional four courses focus on various modalities including - but not limited to - music, dance, mask, storytelling and art making.
Students may take this program part-time if there is space available, as priority registration is given to full time students. Part-time students pay individual course fees in accordance with our part-time fee schedule. There is no guarantee of part-time availability from year to year and college policy requires that students complete all certificate requirements (8 courses) within a five year timeframe. To register for an individual course, please call the school directly, 1-866-353-6464 ext. 4.
Our particular approach to training in the expressive arts is unique. A range of modalities is studied in a studio-based environment, providing an opportunity to work with a variety art materials and methods. Backed by the reputation of the Haliburton School of Art + Design and many enthusiastic instructors with experience in counselling therapies and/or the arts, you will benefit professionally and personally from your time spent in pursuit of this certificate.
- an interest in the arts
- good communication skills
- empathetic, tactful and sensitive
- culturally aware and diplomatic
- a holistic attitude toward health and well-being
- a respect for confidentiality
- active listening skills
- previous work experience in a social service capacity is an asset
The Expressive Arts Certificate will be a useful complement to an existing career in education, counselling, social work, social service, the arts, or ministry. With the broad-based focus of this certificate, expect to find yourself using many of the skills you have learned in the workplace on a daily basis.
- To gain an understanding of the creative process and the value and dynamics of the process of art-making.
- To experience firsthand self expression and the creative process in the arts.
- To encourage growth and development in others through expressive arts.
- To gain awareness of the range and scope of literature and practice within the expressive arts field.
- To understand and identify the applicability of theories to practice.
- To explore the use of expressive arts within the human services field.
- To identify how expressive arts may be used to empower individuals, families, or groups.
- To identify the levels of therapeutic relationships.
- To develop effective stress management strategies to ensure that professional rapport is objective and appropriate.
- To create expressive arts experiences appropriate to the individual and therapeutic relationship.
- To articulate and evaluate selected techniques utilized in the process of expressive arts making within a professional field of expertise.
- To design, deliver and evaluate effective expressive arts programming for a variety of environments.
- To adapt resources and delivery of expressive arts programs to ensure that material is gender free and suitable for cross cultural environments.
- To recognize parameters and limitations of using the expressive arts within non-therapeutic settings.
- To understand professional and ethical issues within the use of expressive arts.
Students applying to Expressive Arts must meet the following requirements:
- Ontario College Diploma or University Degree in Human Services or Arts or equivalent
Transfer Agreements
You may be able to use credits obtained at Fleming College to continue your postsecondary education in pursuit of a degree. The articulation and credit transfer agreements with our partner institutions are summarized here.
Expressive Arts Therapy diploma
Requirement
- Completion of the program.
Transfer Credit
- Eligible to receive 100 studio hours, this represents approximately one-year of studio time. Refer to the articulation agreement for further details.
To apply please see the Create Institute's admissions website.
For more information
Visit the The Create Institute website for further articulation and program information.
See the official articulation agreement.