ANZACATA invites all supervisors to a forum to provide information and answer questions about the CPD and supervision auditing process to ensure you are fully informed when supporting and guiding your supervisees. The forum will be led by ANZACATA's independent auditor, Rina Reiss.

Please note this session is open to supervisors, regardless of whether they are ANZACATA-approved.

Question submission

If you have any specific questions about this topic that you would like addressed during the forum, please email to events@anzacata.org (using the subject line: Supervisors Audit Forum) by 11.59pm on Tuesday 25 November.

When: Wednesday 26 November 2025
AEDT: 6 pm - 7 pm
NZDT: 8 pm - 9 pm
HKT/SGT: 3 pm- 4 pm
Duration/CPD: 1 hr
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Open to: All supervisors, even if not ANZACATA-approved
Max: Unrestricted
Recorded session: Yes

One day I walk in flowers, One day I walk on stones, Today I walk in hours, One day I shall be home. Song in waltz timing by Bruce Cockburn

Supervisors! The current landscape is rugged for many creative arts therapists, particularly Tier and Professional members working with the NDIS. How as supervisors are we sustaining ourselves in order to best support our supervisees? How do we contribute to a culture of valuing and being valued?

In this experiential arts-based workshop, you are invited to engage in a sequence of artmaking and witnessing processes, to access the wisdom and power of your creativity in community.

You will be facilitated, through your artmaking, to explore:

• how your supervisory path has been this year
• who or what has helped you navigate the terrain
• how you stay connected with your roots - your creative arts therapist core values, passions and experiences - while adapting to change
• what resources, supports, skills and strengths to gather to encourage your (and your supervisees') next steps.

You will be invited to create a guiding image, metaphor or embodied practice to assist you to move forwards along your path, with courage, confidence and compassion.

We hope that you will be replenished and re-energised in supporting your supervisees to sustain a sense of home, while walking with flowers and stones; to connect with their potential and purpose; to re-orient, regenerate, revive and thrive.

Beyond this workshop, we invite you to join a two-monthly supervisors' peer support community online. We envisage this community as a place for cross-fertilisation, collaborative care, information-sharing and, naturally, artmaking.

Workshop numbers are limited, to maximise safety and authentic connection.

PLEASE NOTE:
This is a creative, experiential workshop, rather than a forum or an information session on the NDIS. It is open to ANZACATA-approved supervisors in Australia and will run on two different dates. Eligible participants may register for one workshop only.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

With a view to strengthening support for you and your supervisees, you can expect to employ experiential arts-based approaches to:

1. Reflect on your experience as an arts therapy supervisor over the past year
2. Identify internal and external supports that sustain your supervisory practice and professional wellbeing
3. Reconnect with core values, passions and strengths to maintain alignment and resilience in changing professional contexts
4. Develop a guiding image, metaphor or embodied practice to support ongoing growth, courage and compassion in your supervisory role
5. Foster a sense of community and shared understanding, with the aim of building an ongoing peer-supported network.

PRESENTER BIO

Sally Swain and Romny Vandoros met via Sally's bushfire recovery initiative in 2013 and have maintained a collegial creative connection ever since. They are delighted and honoured to be making this offering together.

Sally Swain (AThR, ANZACATA-approved supervisor) has been running her Art and Soul Creativity Coaching practice for more than thirty years. This includes Write for Wellbeing workshops in contexts such as Carer Gateway and Blue Knot Foundation. Embodied creativity is at the core of all she offers. Sally's internationally bestselling books include Great Housewives of Art. Her initiatives supporting arts therapists include Art Heart Action bushfire recovery program, ANZACATA-sponsored Creative Sustenance in Troubled Times series, Draw (your art) and Pour (your tea) for Arts Therapists monthly online gatherings and Arty Hearty Therapist e-newsletter artandsoul.cc.

Romny Vandoros (BAFA, AThR and ANZACATA-approved Supervisor) has for over 14 years worked in the disability, autism, compromised health and aged care (dementia) spaces, with individuals and groups alike. She co-facilitates online and in-person international corporate team-building events and art therapy wellness retreats. Co-facilitating an adult group living with stroke/aphasia at Macquarie University for 6 years and developing the integrated art therapy studio offerings at the Sydney Memory Innovation Centre for ageing Australians living with memory concerns and dementia gave her particular joy. "Finding passion in the process rather than perfection in the product" is her mantra

When: Friday 28th November
Time: 1.30pm to 4.00pm AEDT
Duration/CPD: 2.5 hrs
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Open to: ANZACATA-approved supervisors
Note: Each participant eligible to book into one supervision session only.
Min/Max: 7/14 participants
Recorded session: No (Privacy Reasons)

Cancellation Policy:
When you register and pay to attend one of our events, you are holding a space on our calendar that is no longer available to other members. In order to be respectful of your fellow members and the presenter, please email us as soon as you know you will not be able to attend the event. We keep our events as affordable as possible and need to pay presenters the fee they request. While we understand sometimes urgent matters come up, if registrants cancel at the last minute, we struggle to pay presenters. A full refund will be given if the cancellation occurs more than 24 hours before the event. If the cancellation occurs less than 24 hours before the event, 50% of your registration fee will be refunded only to defray our costs.

This research seminar will highlight key findings from Ronald Lay’s Doctor in Education research - Credentialed Art Therapists Located in Singapore and the Role of Experiential Learning in Art Therapy Education - investigating experiential learning within postgraduate art therapy training, through the perspectives of credentialed art therapists in Singapore. “I was curious to learn more about and understand how art therapy students and art therapists were navigating and negotiating underpinnings of art therapy education and practice, and how they were applying these in the context of Singapore.”

The terms and constructs “experiential”, “the experiential” and “experiential learning” have been widely used by art therapists, however (and surprisingly) few studies exist. This gap justified the interpretivist qualitative study discussed through this presentation.

The presentation has been designed to demystify research and to inspire others to summon the courage to pursue their own PhD projects and research.

Q&A rounds out the discussion.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

1. Participants will be able to articulate at least 2 features of experiential learning as part of postgraduate art therapy pedagogy.
2. Participants will be able to list at least 3 components of experiential learning as part of postgraduate art therapy training and/or art therapy practice.
3. Participants will be able to reflect upon their own experience of experiential learning and state at least 2 benefits of experiential learning that currently inform their art therapy practice.

PRESENTER DETAILS

Dr Ronald PMH Lay's research focuses on the impact of experiential learning within postgraduate training on professional practice. He is interested in how art therapy is applied within Asian and local contexts; the impact of honouring and integrating art and art-making practices as well as mental health and healing traditions that are cultural and context-specific within art therapy and art therapy education; and, the long-term impact of overseas art, culture and mental health immersive service-learning trips on training/practice. He has led the prestigious MA Art Therapy programme at LASALLE College of the Arts, University of the Arts Singapore since 2011.

When: Wednesday 3 December 2025
5.30pm-7pm AEDT
2:30pm-4pm SGT (Presenter time)
7.30pm-9pm NZDT
Duration/CPD: 1.5 hrs
Where: Zoom
Cost: $15 for members, $30 for non-members and free for students
Open to: All members (including subscription only) and also non-members
Max: Unrestricted
Recorded session: No

One day I walk in flowers, One day I walk on stones, Today I walk in hours, One day I shall be home. Song in waltz timing by Bruce Cockburn

Supervisors! The current landscape is rugged for many creative arts therapists, particularly Tier and Professional members working with the NDIS. How as supervisors are we sustaining ourselves in order to best support our supervisees? How do we contribute to a culture of valuing and being valued?

In this experiential arts-based workshop, you are invited to engage in a sequence of artmaking and witnessing processes, to access the wisdom and power of your creativity in community.

You will be facilitated, through your artmaking, to explore:

• how your supervisory path has been this year
• who or what has helped you navigate the terrain
• how you stay connected with your roots - your creative arts therapist core values, passions and experiences - while adapting to change
• what resources, supports, skills and strengths to gather to encourage your (and your supervisees') next steps.

You will be invited to create a guiding image, metaphor or embodied practice to assist you to move forwards along your path, with courage, confidence and compassion.

We hope that you will be replenished and re-energised in supporting your supervisees to sustain a sense of home, while walking with flowers and stones; to connect with their potential and purpose; to re-orient, regenerate, revive and thrive.

Beyond this workshop, we invite you to join a two-monthly supervisors' peer support community online. We envisage this community as a place for cross-fertilisation, collaborative care, information-sharing and, naturally, artmaking.

Workshop numbers are limited, to maximise safety and authentic connection.

PLEASE NOTE:
This is a creative, experiential workshop, rather than a forum or an information session on the NDIS. It is open to ANZACATA-approved supervisors in Australia and will run on two different dates. Eligible participants may register for one workshop only.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

With a view to strengthening support for you and your supervisees, you can expect to employ experiential arts-based approaches to:

1. Reflect on your experience as an arts therapy supervisor over the past year
2. Identify internal and external supports that sustain your supervisory practice and professional wellbeing
3. Reconnect with core values, passions and strengths to maintain alignment and resilience in changing professional contexts
4. Develop a guiding image, metaphor or embodied practice to support ongoing growth, courage and compassion in your supervisory role
5. Foster a sense of community and shared understanding, with the aim of building an ongoing peer-supported network.

PRESENTER BIO

Sally Swain and Romny Vandoros met via Sally's bushfire recovery initiative in 2013 and have maintained a collegial creative connection ever since. They are delighted and honoured to be making this offering together.

Sally Swain (AThR, ANZACATA-approved supervisor) has been running her Art and Soul Creativity Coaching practice for more than thirty years. This includes Write for Wellbeing workshops in contexts such as Carer Gateway and Blue Knot Foundation. Embodied creativity is at the core of all she offers. Sally's internationally bestselling books include Great Housewives of Art. Her initiatives supporting arts therapists include Art Heart Action bushfire recovery program, ANZACATA-sponsored Creative Sustenance in Troubled Times series, Draw (your art) and Pour (your tea) for Arts Therapists monthly online gatherings and Arty Hearty Therapist e-newsletter artandsoul.cc.

Romny Vandoros (BAFA, AThR and ANZACATA-approved Supervisor) has for over 14 years worked in the disability, autism, compromised health and aged care (dementia) spaces, with individuals and groups alike. She co-facilitates online and in-person international corporate team-building events and art therapy wellness retreats. Co-facilitating an adult group living with stroke/aphasia at Macquarie University for 6 years and developing the integrated art therapy studio offerings at the Sydney Memory Innovation Centre for ageing Australians living with memory concerns and dementia gave her particular joy. "Finding passion in the process rather than perfection in the product" is her mantra.

When: Friday 5th December
Time: 10..30am to 1.00pm AEDT
Duration/CPD: 2.5 hrs
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Open to: ANZACATA-approved supervisors
Note: Each participant eligible to book into one supervision session only.
Min/Max: 7/14 participants
Recorded session: No (Privacy Reasons)

Cancellation Policy:
When you register and pay to attend one of our events, you are holding a space on our calendar that is no longer available to other members. In order to be respectful of your fellow members and the presenter, please email us as soon as you know you will not be able to attend the event. We keep our events as affordable as possible and need to pay presenters the fee they request. While we understand sometimes urgent matters come up, if registrants cancel at the last minute, we struggle to pay presenters. A full refund will be given if the cancellation occurs more than 24 hours before the event. If the cancellation occurs less than 24 hours before the event, 50% of your registration fee will be refunded only to defray our costs.

Play is key in clowning and therapy. It is only in play can the adult or child be creative and use their whole personality to discover the self (Winnicott, 2005). This event explores the world of the clown and the importance of play in developing relationship. Nine core principles developed from clowning, are used to inform creative arts therapies facilitation practice. The unsocialized self, openness, vulnerability, emotion, play, speed of fun, honesty, spontaneity and failure are key to the clown's ability to build a relationship with the audience. In this event the speaker explores how these same attributes can also be harnessed in therapy to develop the therapeutic relationship and bring the client into a playful encounter to discover their own creative and playful potential. This event will be a presentation with some experiential activities.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Appraise clowning as a facilitator of play
• Reflect on your personal responses to the clowning
• Identify and analyse how you can develop your skills as a facilitator of play in therapy.

PRESENTER BIO

Drew Bird is an Associate Professor and head of Creative Arts Therapies at the University of Melbourne. He has been a social worker and drama therapist for over 20 years working with trauma in children, young people and adults and palliative care and community work settings. He was editor of the Dramatherapy Journal from 2021 to 2023. His doctorate explored the therapeutic relationship and how this has the potential to mirror the dynamic between audience and actor. He is widely published and presents internationally. Current research interest explores how clowning can inform the playful relationship in therapy.

When: Sunday 8 February 2026
Time: 11 am to 1pm AEDT
(1 pm NZDT, 8 am AWST/HKT/SGT)
Duration/CPD: 2hrs
Where: Zoom
Cost: $50 (+GST for Aust. members)
Open to: Practising and On Leave members
Min/Max: 15/30 participants
Recorded session: Yes

Cancellation Policy:
When you register and pay to attend one of our events, you are holding a space on our calendar that is no longer available to other members. In order to be respectful of your fellow members and the presenter, please email us as soon as you know you will not be able to attend the event. We keep our events as affordable as possible and need to pay presenters the fee they request. While we understand sometimes urgent matters come up, if registrants cancel at the last minute, we struggle to pay presenters. A full refund will be given if the cancellation occurs more than 24 hours before the event. If the cancellation occurs less than 24 hours before the event, 50% of your registration fee will be refunded only to defray our costs.