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This page lists schools and programs where one can obtain a degree or credential focusing on art and healing. Please use the contact information provided to obtain current information.
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Antioch University Seattle's School of Applied Psychology, Counseling & Family Therapy
Seattle, WA
(206) 268-4810
This school offers graduate training programs in both art and drama therapy. It is one of the few programs in the United States that provides an opportunity for students to combine drama therapy training with a clinical master's degree in psychology. http://www.antiochsea.edu/academics/psychology/index.html
Art-to-Earth
Superior, Wisconsin
(715) 394-8508
The Northland Center for Art and Ecopsychology encourages environmental awareness through art. While exploring the relationship between humans, the earth, and all living things, art fosters the development of intellectual, emotional, and spiritual growth that contributes to a society rooted in social responsibility and global awareness. Ecopsychology is concerned with development of a synergistic and sustainable relationship between humans and the nonhuman world for the benefit of earth as a whole. Through the University of Wisconsin, Superior, students can get their Master of Arts in Studio Art with a focus on Expressive Ecopsychology. http://www.art-to-earth.com/
California College of the Arts
Oakland, CA
(510) 594-3600
Offers a BFA program in community arts, which draws on the resources of the Center for Art and Public Life. This interdisciplinary program focuses on community-based arts practice and theory, with an emphasis on service learning, civic engagement, and issues in diversity. Students in the program will graduate with an understanding of how historical, social, economic, and political factors of communities relate to community art. They will also acquire the necessary skills, conceptual thinking, and professional practice to enable them to fulfill their creative potential and make art for, in, and with the community. http://www.cca.edu/academics/communityarts/
California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) Certificate in Sound, Voice & Music Healing
San Francisco, CA, USA
(415) 575-6175
The first certificate program of its kind in the nation, this yearlong program offers students an in-depth study of sound’s power to transform consciousness and facilitate healing and well-being. The program integrates theory and practice in a comprehensive curriculum built upon both scientific research and spiritual wisdom traditions. Students not only gain a solid academic foundation in sound healing - one that can enhance intellectual growth and their careers - but experience firsthand, sound’s tremendous power to transform and heal. Based on a multicultural, multidisciplinary, and integral approach to the study of voice, music, and sound, this program explores the effect of sound on the human mind, body, and spiritual development. The curriculum: synthesizes scientific discoveries from the West with the wisdom of the East, as well as with South/North American indigenous sound and shamanic healing; offers a mind-body-spirit perspective in working with sound and musical instruments in therapeutic facilities; and encourages students to work with various music, voice, and sound modalities in developing therapeutic insight. http://www.ciis.edu/publicprograms/sound/program.html
California State Unversity's B.A. in Visual & Public Art
Seaside, California
(831) 582-3000
Integrates individual production and collaborative processes, skills and projects, and the expressive and analytical. Addresses issues of working in public space creating murals, sculptures, installations, book arts, painted and electronic billboards, light sculptures, large-scale digital and cyber art, time-based work, performance and environmental art, and public ceremonial works. Balance of studio and theory through a combination of core concept and skill courses, visiting artist experiences, independent learning opportunities and a community-based projects/service learning component. http://csumb.edu/site/x643.xml
Chaplaincy Institute for the Arts and Interfaith Ministries (ChI)
Berkeley, California
(510) 843-1422
"Never has such a program been more needed, nor justified...You are in tune with a great tide in medicine: the return of spirituality." -Larry Dossey, MD, about the Chaplaincy Institute
The Chaplaincy Institute (ChI) offers an innovative and unique course of study that combines the spirtual and the creative. ChI offers ordination as an Interfaith Minister, Certificates in Spiritual Direction, and weekend intensives in Art and Spirituality. Past students have participated in everything from building prayer wheels in Shands Hospital in Florida to pilgrimaging to meet the Dalai Lama in India. http://www.chaplaincyinstitute.org/
College of the Atlantic (COA)
Bar Harbor, Maine
(207) 288-5015
The mission of this school is not only to understand relationships with the environment, but also to do something to improve them. All students enrolled major in Human Ecology, the study of our relationship with the environment. Students explore their own creative work, and immerse themselves in a diverse community of learners to discover and pursue their passions. Before graduating, all seniors create an original project that represents the culmination of their work. Some write novels or scientific research papers. Some create an art show or a new non-profit. http://www.coa.edu/html/about.htm
Creative Community Building at the University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut, USA
(800) 240-9721
This program emphasizes applied creativity, helping individuals and communities look at their strengths, assets and resources as well as providing tools for collaborating to shape and create the kind of community in which people want to live, work and play. Emphasizing interdisciplinary, ecologically and socially-engaged work, classes encourage openness to the possibilities for the many different ways in which people can explore their own creativity, and then express it in meaningful ways within their organizations and communities. Topics include: tools and strategies for creative thinking and action; imagination; change; creative leadership; purpose and meaning; learning and education; personal development; creative community: workplace democracy; diversity and integrating differences; collaboration; participatory public art; sustainability and ecology; politics and direct democracy; peace and non-violence; quality of life; and human rights. http://www.creativecommunitybuilding.org/
European Graduate School (EGS) - Expressive Arts & Social Change Program
Saas Fee, Switzerland
This program trains participants to assist people in using the expressive arts to respond to and bring about social change. Work in this field can be carried out in a multitude of ways, including advocacy programs, community art-making, therapeutic arts projects, social activism and the use of the arts to respond to situations of crisis, conflict and social upheaval. The program emphasizes the sustainability of projects and the resilience of individuals, groups and communities. The arts are seen as resources for coping with critical situations and as providing frames for the expression of both the joy and the suffering of human life. Upon completion of the program, students will be awarded a Master of Advanced Professional Studies diploma (MAPS). The MAPS can also lead to further studies towards a Master of Arts or Doctor of Philosophy degrees. Please consult with the Program Director for information. http://expressiveartsandsocialchange.org/overview.html
Florida State University's Arts & Community Practice Certificate Program
Tallahassee, Florida
(800) 378-9550
For undergrads and graduate students in social work, dance and art education/therapy. Focused concentration on application of arts to community development. Inclusive of groups and families, addresses all stages of human development. Particular attention to prevention, enrichment and response to social concerns. http://ssw.fsu.edu/index.php?clickLink=certificatesART
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