All modules address 3 aspects:
• Training the artistic abilities of the student
• Training the individual student's development as a painting therapist
• Training the therapist/ client working relationship.

Practical Exercises:
• Observation and drawing with lead pencils, charcoal, coloured pencils and pastels
• Light and darkness exercises with charcoal
• Painting on moist paper
• Veil painting.

Colour Theory:
• The birth of colour in relationship to light and darkness
• The spiritual background of light and darkness
• Colour in its outer and inner manifestation
• Colour in relationship to changes of consciousness through the ages
• Light, colour and darkness in relationship of thinking, feeling and willing
• The healing potential of working with colour
• Colour meditation.

Self Development:
• Inner path of self-development
• Biography work.

Medical Topics:
• The 12 senses
• The 7 Life processes
• Embryology
• Heart, Liver; lungs and Kidneys
• Our body of liquids (the glands)
• The polarity between nerve and blood
• Body/soul inter-relationship
• The digestive system and related illnesses
• The nervous system and related illnesses
• The heart and circulation, and related illnesses
• Mental Health
• Psychosomatic illnesses
• Addiction illnesses.

Therapeutic work:
• Client case studies
• Observation and diagnosis of pictures
• Client/therapist practice exercises
• Working together with doctors and therapists.

Accreditation:
The training is accredited by iARTe: International Association of Anthroposophic Arts Therapies Educations; an evaluation and quality assurance body of the Medical Section at the Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland.

Duration of Post Graduate Training
• 3.5 years part time:
• 14 colour modules, grouped together into 4 week blocks twice a year.

Independent Work at Home includes:
• Continuation of exercises begun on the course
• Further research on course content
• Observation exercises and reading to prepare for each subsequent module
• Essay writing
• Individual study
• Training in recommended specialist subjects.

To qualify for training, previous diplomas/certificates should be from following areas:
• Pedagogical: any form of teaching, with children or with grown up people
• Curative Education/ Social Therapy: working with children or adults with special needs
• Medical-therapeutic:
eg. art therapy; curative eurythmy; rhythmical massage; speech therapy; music therapy
• Social Workers
• Counsellors
• Nurses
• Physicians
• Psychologists
• Psychotherapists.

- Applicants will ideally have a familiarity with, or an openness to learn more about the anthroposophic background.
- Maturity - minimum age is 28 years.

Throughout the training there will be individual support, guidance and assessment.

For more information contact Sally Martin [click here]