Category: Expressive Arts Therapy

A Human Resource Certificate Program

April 2023 Update: We are open to creating a program that meets the needs of your community or organization. Contact us at info@wheatinstitute.com to book a call and learn more about what may be possible!

Bonface Beti, Expressive Arts for Social Change and Peacebuilding Director

As Director of Expressive Arts for Social Change and Peacebuilding at WHEAT, I bring a specialization in Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding through the arts.

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.

Growing Social Justice through Arts in Community

The Rivers of Solidarity: Expressive Arts for Social Transformation Certificate will engage participants in reflection, personal practice, and action on issues of identity, relationship, and social transformation.

We are excited to be initiating an online artspace Wednesday evenings, starting this week, on June 30th, at 6 PM CDT.

heARTSpace Studio is a weekly, drop-in expressive arts gathering to honour the heARTS response to intersectional issues that matter.

As a means of self-expression and emotional release that combines with tradition and storytelling, nearly every culture in the world embraces dance in some form or fashion. Not only does it have physical benefits worth celebrating, but it's good for the cognitive and emotional self as well.

When I was a child, my grandmother collected calendars of Inuit art. The images were eye catching to me given their often stark, curved lines and minimalist presentation: quite different from the images I was accustomed to seeing my grandmother paint, which included primarily naturalistic prairie scenes and portraits.