Ontario Expressive Arts Therapy Association

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Expressive Arts Therapists offer interventions that integrate the use of visual arts, creative writing, drama, music, voice and movement as catalysts for personal inquiry, discovery and growth.

08/17/2025

Undisciplined The Residency is a hybrid arts program for q***r artists, devoted to fostering radical imagination as a means to generate collaboration across and within disciplines.

This 1-week artist residency takes place from March 9-16, 2026 and seeks to unfold an experimental and ephemeral community of learning. How can a transitory, moving community gathered on a small island on a great lake contribute a shift in the creative landscape within and beyond its direct context?

This residency is open to a maximum of seventeen participants and encourages applications from a diverse spectrum of artists and all kinds of creative practices.

Application Deadline: October 1, 2025

Link in bio for full details.

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We are really doing this! There is a great crowd coming...The numbers are good and we are so excited to see you all ther...
08/15/2025

We are really doing this! There is a great crowd coming...The numbers are good and we are so excited to see you all there!

A Huge Thank You to Our Conference Sponsors!

We are so grateful for the generous support of Whitecliffe College, McFarlan Rowlands, Mitchell & Abbott, Adler University, and CREATE Institute.

Join us for a historic first-ever shared conference between the Canadian Art Therapy Association (CATA) and the Ontario Expressive Arts Therapy Association (OEATA), proudly co-hosted by WHEAT Institute.

📅 September 25 – 27, 2025
📍 Fort Garry Hotel, Winnipeg, MB

Be part of this unforgettable gathering of creative minds and healing practices.

Register to attend here: https://www.eventsquid.com/event/27789

✨️ Dreaming us Forward: Co-creating Belonging through the Healing Arts has plenty of exciting programming, including...💐...
08/14/2025

✨️ Dreaming us Forward: Co-creating Belonging through the Healing Arts has plenty of exciting programming, including...

💐 Invoking the Spirit of Expressive Arts Therapy: Beauty is the We Song of Flowers | Saturday, September 27, 2025, 11:00am – 12:00pm

In this community art piece, we will work with a familiar theme coined by Paolo Knill (one of the major pioneers in the establishment of the field of expressive arts therapy)– Beauty is the We-Song of Flowers. His image supports the idea that a community is a collection of individuals on a common field, and, like flowers, they have their affinities and groupings. Even with all their individual and group differences, they exist together on the same field, sharing the same sun, the same water and the same soil.

👥 With Darci Adam, Terri Roberton, Ellen Levine, Melanie Nesbitt, Naomi Tessler, Layah Davis, and Julia Tribe

🖼 Art by Julia Tribe and Georgia Fullerton

Get your tickets and plan your trip to OEATA's first shared conference with the Canadian Art Therapy Association, hosted by the WHEAT Institute.

📆 September 25 – 27, 2025 at the Fort Garry Hotel in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Learn more at, https://oeata.ca/dreaming-us-forward-conference/

This is a free group! Send referrals if you know someone who would appreciate it!
08/13/2025

This is a free group! Send referrals if you know someone who would appreciate it!

🌿 Rooted & Reaching: Expressive Arts for Grounding & Growth
Mondays, September 1 – 29, 2025
🕔 5 – 7:30 PM Central / 6 – 8:30 PM Eastern

Slow down, reconnect, and find your center through creative expression and body-based mindfulness.

Each week you will be invited to:

🎨 Practice grounding through creative expression
🛠 Build emotional regulation tools
🧠 Deepen self-awareness
🤝 Connect in a supportive group

No art experience needed - all abilities welcome.

Facilitated by WHEAT student therapist Lara MacPherson.

08/12/2025

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08/12/2025

Expressive Arts Certificate – Registration Open Until September 30th!

Ready to dive into the healing power of the arts? Join our immersive, 1-year Expressive Arts Certificate program, starting October 2025. With 200+ hours of hands-on training, you will explore diverse creative practices—from poetry and visual arts to movement and storytelling—designed to foster both personal transformation and professional growth.

Want to learn more? Book a free consultation with WHEAT Director, Darci Adam, by emailing info@wheatinstitute.com

Begin your journey in the healing arts today.

A wonderful invitation from CJAT and Canadian Art Therapy Association (CATA)
08/12/2025

A wonderful invitation from CJAT and Canadian Art Therapy Association (CATA)

The Canadian Journal of Art Therapy: Research, Practice, and Issues / R***e canadienne d’art-thérapie : recherche, pratique et enjeux invites submissions for a special issue aligned with the theme of the 46th Annual CATA-ACAT Conference: “Dreaming Us Forward: Co-Creating Belonging through the Healing Arts.”

This special issue builds upon the conference's focus on belonging, reflecting the shared vision of the Canadian Art Therapy Association (CATA ACAT), the Ontario Expressive Arts Therapy Association (OEATA), and the WHEAT Institute. The 2025 conference will take place in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on Treaty 1 Territory, the ancestral lands of the Anishinaabe, Cree, Oji Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples, and the homeland of the Métis Nation.

In a world marked by ongoing ecological, social, and spiritual challenges, the healing arts offer a powerful path for fostering belonging, connection, resilience, and renewal with an intentional focus on togetherness. This special issue seeks to honour the interconnected ways art therapists and expressive arts practitioners are dreaming us forward by co-creating belonging, cultural resurgence, and relational responsibility through our varied intersectional identities, creative practices, and professional perspectives.

Through the lens of Two-Eyed Seeing, a guiding principle developed by Mi’kmaq Elder Albert Marshall and further elaborated by Bartlett, Marshall, and Marshall (2012), this issue encourages contributors to hold space for multiple worldviews, truths, and ways of knowing. This foundational approach, which informs the ethos of our journal, calls on us to bring together the strengths of both Indigenous and Western knowledges for the benefit of all.

Visit this link to learn more https://www.canadianarttherapy.org/news/dreaming-together

08/12/2025
08/12/2025

A beautiful moment from the 2025 Kutana Wema reunion. We gathered with past participants to reconnect, reflect, and celebrate the power of community. 💛

🗓️ Next program dates: March 14–24, 2026
📣 Upcoming info session: Sunday, September 14 at 4 PM Eastern on Zoom

Learn more: redbirdtherapy.ca/kutana

08/12/2025

2-Spirited People of the 1st Nations — Thunder Bay

It’s finally here! Join us for our Grand Opening BBQ — a day full of delicious food, prizes, and connecting with community. This event is open to 2-Spirit and Indigenous community members, their families, and their friends!

It will be held on August 14, 2025 from 3:00 pm to 7:00pm at the Thunder Bay office.

To RSVP, please scan the QR code or fill out this form: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/qJ9WTG8YzX

If you have any questions, please email assistantsupervisor@2spirits.org

08/11/2025

✨ Join Jazmin Pirozek HBA, MSc Ethnobotanist based in Kenora, Ontario as she delivers her keynote "Calling the Garden into Healing: The Relationship of People to Plants!"

Learn the healing powers of Boreal and Amazon forest plants!

🗓️ September 27, 2025
📍 The Fort Garry Hotel, Winnipeg, Manitoba

🔗 Register now: https://oeata.ca/dreaming-us-forward-conference

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Who Are We?

OEATA’s Mission is to develop, steward, and promote the Expressive Arts Therapy profession and the interests of Expressive Arts Therapists. As the united voice of OEATA members, the organization serves to uphold high standards of competent and ethical practice in alignment with the Ontario College of Registered Psychotherapists.

OEATA’s Vision is for people everywhere to share in the creative powers of Expressive Arts to transform their inner worlds and communities. OEATA recognizes and fosters the essential values of imagination and creative expression through the arts in psychotherapy, education, social justice and community development.