Interactive Drawing Therapy

Interactive Drawing Therapy are seeking registrations for foundation courses being run this year.  Interactive Drawing Therapy reveals, heals, moves, fascinates, astounds, awes, and delights! It is also a valuable tool for self-work.

Interactive Drawing Therapy offers training courses to helping professionals and is used in one-to-one and group work by counsellors, psychologists, youth workers, mental health teams, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, corrections officers, alcohol and drug services, specialist education services, school counselors, Aboriginal and Maori service providers, sexual abuse and refuge centres, new immigrant services, stopping violence agencies, chaplains, psychotherapists, social work agencies, hospice staff, and many others.

• Allows the words, images and behaviours of the client to reveal where they are in their therapeutic process, the nature of the underlying issues and how best to intervene - helps you know what to do, and when to do it!
• Accesses deeply resourceful and wise parts of the unconscious (the level at which deep, far-reaching transformation occurs)
• Is suited to both short-term crisis work and long-term developmental work, and can be used in simple non-interpretive ways or more intensively at greater depth
• Does not require drawing ability or artistic talent – stick figures and gingerbread people are fine!
• Can be used as a sole stand-alone modality or to complement other intervention techniques
• Works across a range of age and client groups, can be used in individual and group settings, and with couples and families, particularly suitable for cross cultural application as it does not involve counsellor interpretation, can be used with clients who are not verbally or conceptually fluent
• Provides a powerful and original schema identifying stages of the therapeutic process and appropriate stage-specific interventions
• Is an easily-learnt, user-friendly therapy which is instantly applicable from the very first day of training.

Foundation Courses

Below is the schedule for our Foundation Courses. Each unit of the two-unit Foundation Course consists of two full days (8.30 am to 5.00 pm).

You can just register for Unit One initially, and choose to complete Unit Two at a later date, or in a different location (including Australia), although most course participants are eager to take their IDT to the next level and complete the second unit as soon as possible!

UNIT ONE (Basic Method & Principles)
WELLINGTON A: No course
PALMERSTON NORTH: May 22-23
NAPIER: Jun 12-13
HAMILTON: Jun 19-20
TAURANGA: Jul 3-4
WHANGAREI: Aug 21-22
AUCKLAND B: Sep 18-19

UNIT TWO (IDT Therapeutic Process)
WELLINGTON A: Jun 5-6
PALMERSTON NORTH: Jun 26-27
NAPIER: Jul 24-25
HAMILTON: Jul 31-Aug 1
TAURANGA: Aug 14-15
WHANGAREI: Sep 25-26
AUCKLAND B: Nov 13-14

Interested? Register now (you can opt to be invoiced or to pay later), or for more information, please visit our website or contact the IDT office.

Frances Hoffmann
Office Administrator
(on behalf of) Russell Withers
Course Director
Interactive Drawing Therapy Ltd
PO Box 47 419
Ponsonby
Auckland
New Zealand
Phone + 64 9 376 4789
Fax + 64 9 376 4759
E-mail:
Website: www.InteractiveDrawingTherapy.com