Investigating Ethics in the Creative and Experiential Therapies

30 April 2024, 7 - 9 pm AEST
Recording provided to all registrants

This event is designed to assist people with their CCET membership applications.

It will be an opportunity to help CCET membership applicants consider how they might answer and demonstrate the first capability in CCET's application appendix 1: 
"Apply ethical principles and decision making in creative and/or experiential practice"

C.CET members identify as Creative / Experiential Therapists and demonstrate values, knowledge, attitudes, capabilities (skills and abilities) to safely, effectively and consistently use creative and experiential approaches in our therapeutic work with people.

(from the PACFA College of Creative and Experiential Therapies Membership Statement and Criteria)

Facilitators - CCET Leadership Group:

Carla van Laar (Convenor): Carla is a Clinical PACFA member and accredited supervisor. She is an Artist and Creative Arts Therapist based in Boon Wurrung Country, Inverloch, Victoria. Carla’s book Bereaved Mother’s Heart (2007) broke social taboos about maternal grief. Seeing her Stories (2020) presents Carla’s research into making Women’s stories visible through art. Her most recent publication is “Art Therapy First Aid: Growing Capacity with Art Therapists in Communities Affected by Australian Bushfires” (in Scarce, J. (Ed.) 2022). She is a lead campaigner in the ACTivate Arts Therapy collective and Founding Director of the Creative Mental Health Forum.

Tara Harriden (Deputy Convenor): Tara belongs to Wiradjuri Mob from down Wagga Wagga way and also has some Irish and Scottish Ancestors. She currently runs Whole Hearts and Minds Services – a private Arts Therapy practice in Brisbane. Tara is the Pastoral Care representative on the National Human Research Ethics Committee at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) and is also undertaking her own research investigating the benefits of cultural safety-centred, arts-based clinical supervision for mental health workers.

Sandy Buchanan: Over the last ten years Sandy has turned her attention to the therapeutic benefits of creative process, as an Expressive Arts Therapist, Counsellor and Mentor. Sandy's areas of special interest are: Women experiencing cancer and their families; Autism and partners of Autistic adults; Melbourne's homeless community, palliative Care and End of Life; our elderly, living in aged care & in the community. This includes dementia specific programs, behavioural and recreational therapies, and carer support.

Loren Weber: Loren is an Art Therapist and Counsellor from the Blue Mountains in Greater Sydney, New South Wales. Since qualifying as an Art Therapist in 2017, she has accumulated experience in variety of contexts including public and private hospitals, school settings, the government sector, not-for-profit organisation working within the Aboriginal community and in private practice working with NDIS clients.

Lisa Mosely: Dr Lisa Moseley is an arts therapist/counsellor with over 20 years professional experience, working with individuals and families, through all stages of life, across various socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds. Lisa has previously worked and created projects in education settings with children living with diverse physiological, sensory and learning challenges and youth at risk of AOD and homelessness issues, and adults transitioning from in-patient mental health facilities, living in the community with chronic mental illness. Her focus since 2016 has been working with clients of refugee backgrounds, integrating creative arts and experiential therapies with trauma-informed, somatic experience theories and practices. 

Kevin Franklin: Kevin lives in Perth on Whadjuk Country and is a PACFA Registered Clinical Psychotherapist / Clinical Registrant, a Fellow of the APS College of Clinical Psychologists, and Member Psychodramatist, and Trainer-Educator-Practitioner with AANZPA, a founding group-member of PACFA. From 1976 Kevin participated in experiential Psychodrama, then trained in Psychodrama theory and practice, at Perth’s Wasley Centre. Since 1995 he has been a Clinical Psychologist in private practice and the Director of Training for the Perth Campus of Psychodrama Australia which seeks to awaken and strengthen the abilities of people in many settings to express themselves relevantly, responsively, and creatively in the ordinary here and now situations in which they live and work.

Diana Sands: Diana is a postvention and prevention clinician, researcher and educator. Diana provides counselling following sudden, violent and traumatic death, and in particular individual, couple and family counseling and group programs, for those who have lost a loved one through suicide. Her counseling and group programs draw on a range of theoretical perspectives including narrative and family systems theory and incorporate expressive artwork.  Diana has presented seminars and workshops in Australia and Internationally drawing on her clinical experience and research. She has published a number of peer reviewed academic articles and book chapters and is the author of a book and DVD resource Red Chocolate Elephants: For Children Bereaved by Suicide.

College information, details about the leadership group and application process can be found of the PACFA CCET webpage. 

Contact: [email protected]

CPD hours:

This event does not confer CPD hours

What to Expect After you Register:

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Event Cancellations

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