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Art as Therapy: Emotional and Social Development in Schools

“Art as therapy” is Edith Kramer’s term, and it puts the healing in the making itself rather than in an adult decoding what a drawing means. That distinction is the part a teacher can honestly do, and the whole week is built on it.

Session dates6–10 Sep 2027
LocationEma Antalya
Duration5 days
FundingErasmus+ eligible

About this course

Most teachers already reach for paper and paint when a class is going through something difficult. This week keeps the benefit in the making itself, not in an adult deciding what a drawing means, and shows you clearly where a teacher’s part ends. Monday — you learn where the line between a teacher’s art session…

Methodology

Making Before Meaning

Every format is practised as a maker first. You work the material yourself before asking a child to, because the response you can give depends on knowing what that material does in the hand.

A Line You Can Defend

The week is organised around what a teacher may do and what belongs to a qualified therapist, so that every activity you take home sits on the safe side of it and you can say why.

Observation Instead of Interpretation

You practise recording what a child did with the material, in what order, and what they said about it — a record a colleague or a professional can actually use — rather than deciding what an image means.

What you'll take home

Run art-based sessions in which the therapeutic work is in the making, and explain to a colleague or a parent why that is the claim you are making and not a larger one.

Recognise the five ways children use art materials — exploring the material, discharge, copied stereotype, picture-in-place-of-words, and formed expression — and respond differently to each.

Intervene as a “third hand”: help a child reach the piece they were trying to make without taking the work over.

Design an eight-session sequence — or ten, where the timetable allows — for a named group in your own school, structured against what the children in the research said helped.

State where your own competence ends, and name both referral routes — safeguarding and therapy — in your own country’s system.

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Where our participants come from

Aggregated across all EMA courses, not specific to this session.

Romanian 22%
Polish 16%
Lithuanian 9%
Portuguese 8%
Bulgarian 7%

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