Championing Art in Art Therapy Training: A Multidimensional Art Collaboration in Southeast Asia (Promotion de l'art dans la formation en art-thérapie : une collaboration artistique multidimensionnelle en Asie du Sud-Est)

Abstract

Art therapy is a dynamic discipline that readily embraces opportunities to further develop and expand practices and applications. This can be observed in art therapy training pedagogy, initiatives, and projects. For those art therapy training programs that are new and/or are being developed in regions around the world, it is important that their contributions to the field are acknowledged and shared with a global audience. Art-based methodology supports the reflexive stance of this preliminary investigation and documents this initial phase of a larger research initiative. This article serves to highlight an overview of a cross-border, cross-cultural collaboration that led to a two-part digital experiential workshop between a Bali-based artist and an artist/art therapist, involving his postgraduate art therapy students from LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore. The art in art therapy is championed with a focus on integrating technologies with one’s art practice, one’s artist identity, and one’s art therapy practice.