Using the creative process within therapeutic encounters encourages us to be in contact on many levels and layers. Creativity brings us into contact with both our inner world and knowings, with the intersubjective space we share with ‘others’
Course Content
organisation
The World Association for Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapy & Counseling had its genesis in the mid 1990s after person-centred theoreticians and practitioners felt there was not an adequate representation of the PCA at the First World Conference on Psychotherapy (WCP) in July 1996.
Nearly 25 years since it was officially formed, our desire remains to be an identifiable, international organization serving as a world-wide forum.
For details of the upcoming PCE 2024 Conference please visit PCE24.com
Presenter
Amanda is the Head of School of the Creative Arts Therapy faculty of Whitecliffe College (New Zealand). She studied psychology at the University of Melbourne, Australia and subsequently trained extensively in the Halprin Method in the USA. This model is an integration of movement/dance, visual arts, performance techniques and therapeutic practices. She gained her Master of Arts in Arts Therapy at Whitecliffe College. Amanda is on the Board the Australian, New Zealand and Asian Creative Arts Therapy Association (ANZACATA). She has presented at conferences/symposia in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Korea and Europe. Her research and artistic interests are in performative video, movement in relation to the natural environment, and duo ethnography.
Deborah is Programme Leader within the School of Creative Arts Therapy at Whitecliffe College (New Zealand) where she coordinates Research Practice. She gained her Honours Degree in Drama Studies and her Postgraduate Diploma and Master of Education in South Africa where she worked in educational/community theatre, community development, lifeskills/AIDS education and counselling, and adult education within the South African University and Health sectors (1990 to 2004). Following this she gained her Clinical Master of Arts in Arts Therapy through Whitecliffe College. She was awarded her Doctorate by the University of Auckland in 2016 for a thesis exploring her creative arts therapy practice during the Canterbury earthquakes. She is an avid and active arts-based and autoethnographic researcher and has published papers and chapters on various aspects of her arts therapy and research work in a range of international academic journals and books and has presented at conferences/symposia in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Canada and the UK.
