Studying the Healing Visual Arts at BACWTT
BACWTT offers a number of courses in the healing visual arts of painting, sculpture, light and darkness charcoal drawing, form drawing and sand tray sculpting. Developed out of the artistic work of Anthroposophy and Waldorf education, the Healing Arts have a long tradition, having developed internationally over the past 115 years.
We offer a range of programs to support students to enter into this work, to learn new skills, to engage in a healing process for themselves and to develop capacities that will enable them to work with the visual arts to support others in need.
We run short introductory workshops and taster events, the Healing Power of Art online program and our 3-year hybrid Healing through Art certificated program.
Art Tasters and Workshops
We offer an ongoing series of short courses that are perfect as an introduction to the Healing Arts. By attending one of these courses you will quickly get a sense for our way of creating art and the inner processes that support health and healing.
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Healing Power of Art
Our nine-month online program with monthly live zoom classes, allows students to participate from wherever they are in the world. HPA1 provides a deeper experience and a personal process over 9 months. We gradually build a solid foundation in the essentials of artistic therapeutic work and address fundamental artistic gestures and qualities that support health. There are a balanced range of activities—watercolor painting, pastel and charcoal drawing, form drawing, and sculpting with sand and clay. Students encounter how various activities can be therapeutically effective and can find ways to bring the exercises into their classrooms or in their work with others.
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This online program follows on from HPA1, building upon the first year and going deeper into the core, artistic principles of Anthroposophy-inspired healing arts. We explore the original impulses and artistic expressions of the visual arts developed out of Anthroposophy. In the Light, Color, and Darkness work we go deeper into color movement, which corresponds to movement in our soul, color qualities and processes, the day and night spectra, forming out of the color and the fundamentals of veil painting. In sculptural work, we explore developmental metamorphic processes, the seven planetary influences, and polarities as the main themes.
Use this link to learn more about the Healing Power of Art II.
Healing Through Art
This is a three-year, hybrid program that guides students deeply into healing artistic processes to develop a firm grasp of how to work therapeutically with the visual arts. Working effectively as an artistic facilitator or therapist requires one to fully live in the artistic worlds of light, darkness, color and form. Students immerse themselves in the creative experiences and reflect deeply on their impressions and inner experiences. At the same time, classes with Anthroposophical doctors, nurses, and counselors lead to insights into the human being and healing practices, as well as professional standards of work.
Both The Healing Power of Art and The Healing Power of Art II may be taken in preparation for the Healing Through Art program.
Use this link to learn more about the Healing Through Art Program.
“The basis of artistic creation is not what is, but what might be; not the real, but the possible. Artists create according to the same principles as nature, but they apply them to individual entities……”
The Aesthetics of Goethe’s Worldview Rudolf Steiner
