Speaker: Lindsey Sherwin, LMHC
CEU Hours: 1.5 CEUs

Explores expressive arts approaches to emotional regulation and empathy.

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify at least 3 ways expressive arts interventions support compassion, emotional regulation, awareness, and personal/social resilience.
   

2. Strengthen attunement, emotional meaning, relational capacity, and self-awareness in daily therapeutic practices.
   

3. Reconnect with the concepts of self-care integrated with meaning-making, decision-making, and a deeper understanding of roles/identity through applying the use of structured EXA activities to support young people's emotional wellbeing and exposure to new approaches in order to explore spirituality through the arts and arts-based processes within a therapeutic lens.
   
   This learning is applicable within therapeutic contexts; relevant in both clinical or educational settings. Designed for facilitators, creatives, professional counselors, social workers, case managers, and other helping professionals seeking innovative and embodied creative approaches to support the adolescents and young adults in their care.

Speaker: Dr. Piper Hart, EdD
CEU Hours: 1.0 CEU

Explores neuroinclusive arts practices that support regulation, belonging, and mental wellness.

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify three ways neuro inclusive expressive arts practices can support emotional regulation, belonging, and mental wellness.
   

2. Apply a sensory mapping framework to design more compassionate, accessible wellness experiences.
   

3. Translate neuroaesthetic and expressive arts concepts into practical strategies for clinical, educational, or community settings.

Speaker: Shahram Heshmat, PhD
CEU Hours: 1.0 CEU

Explores aesthetics as a tool for emotional wellbeing.

Learning Objectives:

1. Discuss the mental benefits aesthetic pleasure.

2. Describe aesthetic living - taking a genuine interest in all details of daily life.

3. Discuss the making of aesthetic elements

Speaker: Terri Goslin-Jones, PhD and Cyra Sweet Dumitru, MA, PPM
CEU Hours: 1.5 CEUs

Explores poetic inquiry and trauma healing through expressive arts.

Learning Objectives:

1. Introduce participants to poetic medicine principles blended with other expressive arts modalities such as visual art and movement.

2. Introduce participants to ways of listening to their hearts, enhancing self-awareness and self-compassion.

3. Participants will explore creativity through imagery, language, and movement to enhance sensory awareness.

4. Participants will engage in multidimensional, creative processes building an atmosphere of trust and connection within our circle.

Speaker: Christine Brooks, PhD
CEU Hours: 1.5 CEUs

Explores creativity as a wellbeing and clinical practice.

Learning Objectives:

1. Articulate the evidence base supporting everyday creative practice as a contributor to personal and collective wellbeing, drawing on research from arts and health, social prescribing, and human-centric skills frameworks, and distinguish this fuller wellbeing frame from narrower wellness-as-behavior models.

2. Identify at least two personal barriers to consistent creative practice (including internal resistance and structural constraints) and apply the Resistance-to-Persistence reframe to develop a sustainable, individualized approach.

3. Distinguish between high-skill artistic production and low-skill / high-sensitivity everyday creative engagement, and explain why this distinction is clinically and programmatically significant in healthcare, coaching, and community-based settings.

4. Evaluate the six Everyday Arts principles in relation to their own professional practice and identify at least one actionable integration point for their personal wellbeing praxis or client/community programming.

5. Articulate a personal call to action for extending Everyday Arts outward to the people they serve, their wider communities, and unknown others.