Art Therapy, Ice...And Iceland

Join us on a journey and also travel alone

What you'll learn

Using different materials for art therapy exercises

About the work of other art therapists in Iceland

As you do the exercises, you will explore yourself

How to adapt and respond to films and scenic pictures

Requirements

Time

A quiet space where you will not be disturbed

A willingness to reflect

Description

This is a course about Ice, Ice Art and Art Therapy in Iceland. The idea for the course arose when there was a post in Reddit saying that art therapy did not seem to be very popular in Iceland. The post was 2011 and I wondered if things had changed. Luckily one of my co-Instructors was going to Iceland on tour and he was able to send me back some information. That information – the films, the sights – plus my own research form the core of this course. Add to that beautiful scenery and original art therapy exercises and you have a course that will show you things that you’ve probably not seen before, give you art therapy exercises you may never have tried and introduce you to , well, art therapy in Iceland, art therapy with ice.There is but one art therapist in Iceland : Unnur Ottarsdottir so we spend some time looking at her work on children with learning difficulties. Unnur makes a point of challenging the ideas of some of her predecessors. All very interesting!We look at:Icelandic lava artIce cube paintingArt with IceShading an ice cubeIce sculptureIce cube discussionYou will see films, made by my co-instructor currently touring Iceland - and you will see these films as part of art therapy exercises.This is an unusual course. An original course with exercises and sonnets written especially for these lectures.Be enthralled.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Section 2: Approach

Lecture 2 Have things changed?

Lecture 3 The Approach

Section 3: Art

Lecture 4 Iceland Lava Art

Lecture 5 Ice Cube Painting

Lecture 6 Ice Art - 1

Lecture 7 Ice Art - 2

Lecture 8 Shading an Ice Cube

Lecture 9 Ice Sculpture

Lecture 10 Ice Cube Discussion

Section 4: Engagement

Lecture 11 Film - 1 Reykjavik, Iceland

Lecture 12 Encouraging engagement

Lecture 13 Film - 2

Lecture 14 Film - 3

Section 5: Conclusion

Lecture 15 Conclusion

All artists,All travellers both inwards and outwards,Anyone aspiring to be an art therapist,All interested in art therapy