Category: Art Therapy

Join us in congratulating all our Expressive Arts Certificate and Art and Expressive Arts Therapy Diploma graduates! We are so proud to present the class of 2023. Thank you, chi miigwech, kinanâskomitin for embarking on your art and expressive arts therapies journey with us at WHEAT!

Join us in heartful celebration, as we approach the 10-year anniversary of the WHEAT Institute: an honouring of community, art, and Mother Earth.

This celebration will be a wonderful occasion for you and your cohort to reunite and reminisce on the memorable experiences shared during your training, as we come together as a WHEAT community of Alumni, Students, and Faculty to celebrate the positive impact each of you has had on each other and the field of art and expressive arts therapy.

Here is a broad brushstroke describing the relationship, overlap, similarities, and differences between Art Therapy (AT), Expressive Arts (ExA), and Expressive Arts Therapy (ExAT) in Canada. In addition, we have included important information on the context of our AT/ExA/ExAT training within the field of therapeutic arts, and how we interface with the regulatory and non-regulatory bodies impacting our work, as well as the associations and organizations that actively represent therapists by building solid relationships with regulators and government.

Creating a Place for Everyone

PowHERhouse champions the changework of relational leaders and social impactors. Together, as allies, PowHERhouse and WHEAT are walking the path of truth and reconciliation for all our relations.

Creating a Place for Everyone

PowHERhouse champions the changework of relational leaders and social impactors. Together, as allies, PowHERhouse and WHEAT are walking the path of truth and reconciliation for all our relations.

Amanda co-facilitates our Cultural Awareness and Intersectionalities course in our new spring training program, Weaving Braids of Belonging: Enhancing Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion through Art, Movement, and Mindfulness Practices, and in our Harmonized and Rivers of Solidarity Art and Expressive Arts Therapy Diploma programs.

Lindsay Ashmore, Director of Art & Expressive Arts Therapies and Indigenous Community Outreach
We are in a time of transition of seasons, and with this comes an unsettling and revealing of what is needed next.

This occasion is a momentous one, as it honours the first students in Canada to graduate from an Indigenized Art Therapy program. It has not been an easy journey, but the results have been amazing, as our program has evolved into an Indigenous Art Therapy school called Life As Medicine, run by our collaborators, Dr.

Holiday Greetings to You!

The team at WHEAT is sending you warm thoughts of care, creativity, and belonging this holiday season as blizzards roar, lakes freeze over, and snow drifts form.

Without a single spoken word, 2022 Dual Art and Expressive Arts Therapy graduate, Connie Haw, tells a finely nuanced story of intergenerational communication that tugs gently at our hearts strings through image and song.