BAAT - The British Association of Art Therapists

BAAT - The British Association of Art Therapists We are the UK professional membership body for art therapists. Twitter: https://twitter.com/baat_org
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🌟 Join the UK’s professional community for art therapistsWhether you’re an art therapist, a trainee, or simply passionat...
21/11/2025

🌟 Join the UK’s professional community for art therapists

Whether you’re an art therapist, a trainee, or simply passionate about the field, you’re welcome here.

As a member, you’ll gain:
✔️ Free CPD opportunities
✔️ Resources and guidance
✔️ A supportive network to connect, learn and grow
✔️ Professional updates and member-only discounts

Become part of a community shaping the future of art therapy.

Join us today: https://baat.org/baat-membership/

🌍💙 World Children’s DayToday we celebrate the rights, voices and wellbeing of children everywhere.Art therapy can play a...
20/11/2025

🌍💙 World Children’s Day

Today we celebrate the rights, voices and wellbeing of children everywhere.

Art therapy can play a powerful role in supporting these rights. When children experience social, emotional or mental health difficulties, they sometimes lack the skills needed to immediately express their feelings or needs in words.

Art therapy can help them to find the words or ways to express their thoughts, feelings and needs,

➡️Swipe to read what children say about art therapy

🔗 Read more about art therapy for children in schools: baat.org/art-therapy/evidence/art-therapy-for-supporting-children-in-primary-school/

📣 Supervision diploma applications are now open again!Develop skills, knowledge and confidence in providing effective, i...
18/11/2025

📣 Supervision diploma applications are now open again!

Develop skills, knowledge and confidence in providing effective, inspiring, ethical and art-based supervision.

📆 Deadline for applications: 19 April 2026

Why apply for the diploma?

✨️ Level 6 diploma accredited by Counselling and Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body (CPCAB).

✨️ Intensive theory-informed and practice-based

✨️ Part time or full time

✨️ Open to UK and international art therapists (qualified to masters or equivalent level)

Two scholarships of £1,000 are available to apply for - open to members of an underrepresented group or those who have faced barriers due to a disability.

📆 Start date: 10 and 17 March 2027 (both days)

🔗 Find out more: https://baat.org/event/art-therapy-supervision-diploma-3/

Practice paper from our journal | 'Creative arts as self-care: vicarious trauma and the trainee art therapist' ➡️ This ...
17/11/2025

Practice paper from our journal | 'Creative arts as self-care: vicarious trauma and the trainee art therapist'

➡️ This paper explores the use of creative arts practice for self-care by an art therapy trainee with lived experience of symptoms of somatic disorder and complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD), working in a secure setting.

🔗Read more: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17454832.2025.2550415?src=

Last chance to join! | Setting up in private, sessional or independent practice📆 Friday 21 – Saturday 22 November 2025, ...
14/11/2025

Last chance to join! | Setting up in private, sessional or independent practice

📆 Friday 21 – Saturday 22 November 2025, 10am - 4pm

Whether you are an experienced or newly qualified art therapist, this course will offer you all the practical tips you need for setting up your practice.

✨️ Practical knowledge of how to set up your practice
✨️ Gain clarity on what type of practitioner you are setting out to be.
✨️ Develop Competence to work safely, ethically, and legally.

🔗Find out more: https://baat.org/event/setting-up-in-private-sessional-or-independent-practice/

🎨 Open gallery artwork by Ansa MuhammadDrawn into drawer Nightmares into light | calico, scrap fabric, cotton pearl thre...
14/11/2025

🎨 Open gallery artwork by Ansa Muhammad

Drawn into drawer Nightmares into light | calico, scrap fabric, cotton pearl thread, found beads | 2025

💬 "This artwork emerges from my encounters with recurring nightmares. Whenever fear would wake me, I turned to stitching as a way to calm myself. The act of hand-stitching became more than a craft it became a form of inner healing, a way to soothe my soul and transform fear into something tangible and gentle."

Thank you for sharing your artwork with us. Find out how to submit your art to our galleries: https://baat.org/galleries/about/

Last chance to book! | Learning disabilities: co-producing effective art therapy📆 Thursday 27 – Friday 28 November 2025,...
13/11/2025

Last chance to book! | Learning disabilities: co-producing effective art therapy

📆 Thursday 27 – Friday 28 November 2025, 10am - 4pm

Develop your skills and confidence when working with people with learning disabilities as an art therapist.

✨ Taught by Nicki Power and the Lawnmowers theatre group (who shared a fantastic presentation at our conference!)

✨ Coproduced with people with learning disabilities

✨ Combines clinical experience and research evidence

✨ For qualified and trainee arts therapists

🔗Find out more and book your place: baat.org/event/learning-disabilities-co-producing-effective-art-therapy/

📣✨ We’re thrilled to celebrate the outstanding contributions of art therapists in our community! Congratulations to:🎉 Ca...
12/11/2025

📣✨ We’re thrilled to celebrate the outstanding contributions of art therapists in our community! Congratulations to:

🎉 Cath Wakeman OBE, awarded our Innovation Award for pioneering the charity Imara and developing a unique pre-trial art therapy and advocacy service for children and families.

✨ Lillian Shipton & Heather Dimarco, awarded our Inclusive and Anti-Oppressive Practice Award for their inclusive art therapy work at Edinburgh R**e Crisis Centre.

A big thank you and congratulations to the nominess, Adam Levene, Mariana Loewy and Susan Young, to our members who made nominations and to our sponsors Daler-Rowney.

🔗 Read more: baat.org/insights-updates/cath-wakeman-obe-lillian-shipton-and-heather-dimarco-awarded-in-art-therapist-awards/

Today on Remembrance Day, we are thinking of those who have died and suffered in military conflicts across the world. ⁠⁠...
11/11/2025

Today on Remembrance Day, we are thinking of those who have died and suffered in military conflicts across the world. ⁠
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10/11/2025

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our annual conference today! We hope you enjoyed the day and have left feeling inspired. ✨

A big thank you to our wonderful presenters, and our steering group and staff who who organised the event!

And thank you as well to our sponsors and Howden.

article from our journal | '‘I never get this space anywhere else’ – the development of Outside, Alongside – an NHS ar...
05/11/2025

article from our journal | '‘I never get this space anywhere else’ – the development of Outside, Alongside – an NHS art therapy group outdoors'

🍃There is a developing body of research concerning the benefits of outdoor art therapy. This paper, co-authored by participants, describes the development of an outdoor art therapy group for adults in an mental health setting.

🔗 Take a read for free: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17454832.2024.2403408

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