   |  CATWALK ART RESIDENCY 2024 For the month of my 65th birthday I was invited back to the Catwalk Artists Residency in Catskill, NY. What a way to celebrate! I shared the beautiful Catslair House with my fellow editors Valeria Koutmina and Kelley Linhardt. We spent the month working on The Embodied Art Therapist - a 25 chapter compilation for art therapists, educators, and students which will be published in Spring 2026. Every morning sitting over the Hudson River at my desk, watching the barges passing below my window on their way toward Albany and Hudson River School painter Frederic Church's mansion Olana across the river in Hudson, NY. We met with authors, organized chapters, did a lot of writing, cooking, communing with animals, and walking in the woods and by the river. Thank you to Sheila, Victoria and Charles for caring for us so well and to the late Purcell Palmer for her generosity and her vision of supporting artists and their creative process. |
EMBODIED ART THERAPY WORKSHOPS FOR 2024
Beginning in April 2024
Workshop Schedule
Music toning anf Full-Body Polarity Drawing Workshop
Late June -details to be determined
Online Arts-Based Embodiment Methods
5 Sundays June 2-30, 5:00 to 7:00 pm
Via Zoom $75 each or $325 for all
Supplies not included (list provided)
Arts-Based Embodiment Methods Intensive Workshops
Choose one date
Sat 5/4 10:00 - 1:30 pm - full
Sat 6/8. still room for one more
465 Broadway, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
$280 each – supplies included
About Mia de Bethune
Mia has been an art therapist since 2003 with a history of working in residential treatment, trauma, and hospice care. She is on faculty at NYU in the Graduate Art Therapy program. She has been a reiki practitioner since 1998 and is a master in three lineages. She began somatic studies in 2017 and is now a practitioner and assistant trainer in Somatic Experiencing and Integral Somatic Psychology. She is also trained in Inner Relationship Focusing and Somatic Meditation and has begun studies in Polarity Therapy. She has also trained in various body- based art methods: Guided Drawing, Focusing-Oriented Art Therapy, and Somatic Art Therapy. She is developing her own method using polarity techniques and full-body drawing as part of her doctoral studies. She is a co-editor for the volume called The Embodied Art Therapist with an expected
publication or Spring 2026 by Routledge.
About the Workshops
In the Embodied Methods Workshops, Mia will cover numerous techniques from the more sensory and body-based to more symbolic/cognitive. These might include chakra meditations, Guided Drawing, Focusing-Oriented Art Therapy, Somatic Art Therapy, Four-Quadrants Drawing for pain and her own full-body polarity drawing technique combining ideas from her research, Guided Drawing, and Integral Somatic Psychology. The in-person workshops will be conducted on a choice of three Saturdays for an intensive 3.5 hours . The online training will be spread over 5 weeks of 2 hour online sessions.
In the Polarity Drawing workshop participants will focus on a different element (earth, water etc..) and chakra each week and will create a body mapping to explore emotional expansion and growth through the body. The five weeks of sessions - lasting 2 hours each – will be held in- person.
All supplies will be provided for in-person workshops at the Art Therapy on Hudson Studio at 465 Broadway, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY. For the online workshops Mia will provide a supply list and suggested vendors. All workshops will be supplemented with handouts and resources for continued training.
Mia is not yet approved as a NY State CEU provider.
Please contact: [email protected] tor 914-584-1820 to register.
Beginning in April 2024
Workshop Schedule
Music toning anf Full-Body Polarity Drawing Workshop
Late June -details to be determined
Online Arts-Based Embodiment Methods
5 Sundays June 2-30, 5:00 to 7:00 pm
Via Zoom $75 each or $325 for all
Supplies not included (list provided)
Arts-Based Embodiment Methods Intensive Workshops
Choose one date
Sat 5/4 10:00 - 1:30 pm - full
Sat 6/8. still room for one more
465 Broadway, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
$280 each – supplies included
About Mia de Bethune
Mia has been an art therapist since 2003 with a history of working in residential treatment, trauma, and hospice care. She is on faculty at NYU in the Graduate Art Therapy program. She has been a reiki practitioner since 1998 and is a master in three lineages. She began somatic studies in 2017 and is now a practitioner and assistant trainer in Somatic Experiencing and Integral Somatic Psychology. She is also trained in Inner Relationship Focusing and Somatic Meditation and has begun studies in Polarity Therapy. She has also trained in various body- based art methods: Guided Drawing, Focusing-Oriented Art Therapy, and Somatic Art Therapy. She is developing her own method using polarity techniques and full-body drawing as part of her doctoral studies. She is a co-editor for the volume called The Embodied Art Therapist with an expected
publication or Spring 2026 by Routledge.
About the Workshops
In the Embodied Methods Workshops, Mia will cover numerous techniques from the more sensory and body-based to more symbolic/cognitive. These might include chakra meditations, Guided Drawing, Focusing-Oriented Art Therapy, Somatic Art Therapy, Four-Quadrants Drawing for pain and her own full-body polarity drawing technique combining ideas from her research, Guided Drawing, and Integral Somatic Psychology. The in-person workshops will be conducted on a choice of three Saturdays for an intensive 3.5 hours . The online training will be spread over 5 weeks of 2 hour online sessions.
In the Polarity Drawing workshop participants will focus on a different element (earth, water etc..) and chakra each week and will create a body mapping to explore emotional expansion and growth through the body. The five weeks of sessions - lasting 2 hours each – will be held in- person.
All supplies will be provided for in-person workshops at the Art Therapy on Hudson Studio at 465 Broadway, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY. For the online workshops Mia will provide a supply list and suggested vendors. All workshops will be supplemented with handouts and resources for continued training.
Mia is not yet approved as a NY State CEU provider.
Please contact: [email protected] tor 914-584-1820 to register.
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