Overview
Our programs help students develop the skills, knowledge, and perspectives necessary to succeed as arts therapists and practitioners through arts-based learning, creating, reflecting, and connecting to support personal and social transformation. We are engaged in a decolonizing journey through awareness and action on the impact of systems on identity: culture, race, gender, sexual orientation and abilities. We use arts therapy education as a lever of social change towards liberation, equity and sustainability.
Our programs are built on the foundations of kindness, gentleness, open-mindedness, and love, in the service of building understanding, equity, and peace on our globally inter-connected planet. Solution-oriented in essence, we integrate elements of psychology, phenomenology, counselling, somatic awareness, and Indigenous worldviews to offer playful, dynamic, and informed programs that support the nourishment of the imagination and strengthening of individual voices. We strive to create ideal growing conditions by gathering creative, intelligent, and inspiring faculty who support and honour the deepest essence of each individual, whether colleague, student or client.
Art Therapy Diploma
The Canadian Art Therapy Association indicates art therapy “combines the creative process and psychotherapy, facilitating self-exploration and understanding. Using imagery, colour and shape as part of this creative therapeutic process, thoughts and feelings can be…
Expressive Arts Therapy Diploma
Expressive Arts Therapy is an inter-modal, person-centered, phenomenological approach towards personal and social transformation, which emphasizes the use of presence and imagination in problem solving and wellness. Using a multi-faceted art and therapy-based skill set,…
Dual Diploma in Art and Expressive Arts Therapy
The Dual Diploma program combines all required courses in our Art Therapy and Expressive Arts Therapy programs. Students graduate as Art and Expressive Arts therapists providing maximum capacity to support others through both arts-based psychotherapy…
Creative and Expressive Arts Certificate
The certificate program features a variety of talented expressive arts educators, therapists and artists, sharing knowledge born of years of practicing their crafts and honing their skills The program includes weekend classes, as well as…
Métis Creative Arts Certificate
The Métis Creative Arts Certificate program builds on the rich Métis history and culture in Manitoba through the exploration of various art forms including hide work, beading, storytelling, writing, felting, film, fiddling, and other traditional…
Indigenous Language Classes
Online Cree Classes – Fall 2025 Cree Storytelling and Beginner Cree (Level 2)October 14 – December 16, 2025Tuesday Evenings | 5–6 PM Central and 6:15 – 7:15 PM Central Offered online through Zoom Class Fee: $200.00…
kâniyâsihk Cree Culture Camp
Join us next year August 4 – 7, 2026 (TBC) in Ministkiwan Lake Cree Nation (Northern Saskatchewan). kâniyâsihk Culture Camp provides land-based activities around medicine hikes, canoeing, birch bark basketry, canoeing making, beading, and feather…
Programmation en langue française
Les arts pour la paix et la guérison:Un pont vers l’avenir Les samedis, de janvier à juin 202 63 heures en ligne Pour plus d’informations:Natalie LabossièreLiaison WHEATNatalie.d.labossiere@gmail.com Fondements des arts comme outil: Devenir une personne…
School-Based Creative Arts Interventions Certificate
Designed to amplify wellness and success for students and school – based teams, this program offers participants theoretical and experiential engagement in creative arts principles through the modalities of film, drama, mindfulness, movement, music, visual…
Land Acknowledgement
WHEAT Institute and Painted Sky Studio are located on Treaty Territories and Ancestral Lands of Anishinaabeg, Ininiwak, Anisininewuk, Dakota Oyate, Dene, and Inuit, and on the National Homeland of the Red River Métis.
We acknowledge the harms and mistakes of the past and respect the spirit and intent of the Treaties and Treaty Making. We dedicate ourselves to working in partnership with First Nations, Inuit, and Métis people in the spirit of truth, reconciliation, and collaboration.