Overview and Requirements

Body Mapping with Guided Drawing: A Sensorimotor Art Therapy Approach, is eligible for 2 Continuing Education (CE) Hours. Approved as a Live online program for NBCC CE Credit.

To obtain CE Hours, participants must register for the CEs and follow the steps below:

  • Register for the presentation prior to the Live Zoom program start time (BEFORE 3:00pm PST on November 10, 2025). You can register for this presentation alone or the Bundle (that also includes presentations by Akira Ikemi and Fiona Chang).
  • Attend the entirety of the Live Zoom program. Must participate with your camera on to verify presence.
    • Note: CE hours are NOT available for partial attendance.
  • After your attendance has been verified, complete the CE Evaluation.

  

How to Purchase CE Hours

The 2 CE Hours are offered for a separate fee of $10. Click the button below to purchase the CE Hours.

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    $10.00Continuing Education (CE): Body Mapping with Guided Drawing: A Sensorimotor Art Therapy Approach

    2 CE Hours for Live Online Presentation by Cornelia Elbrecht, AThR, SEP, SATh, ANZACATA, IEATA, IACEAT
    Register for CEs

How to Obtain CE Certificate

Within 1 week of the Live Zoom program, the Focusing and Expressive Arts Institute will process attendance verification. Those who have met the attendance requirements will be emailed a link to access the CE Evaluation. CE certificates will be issued within 1 business week of the completion of said CE Evaluation. Please note that you must meet the satisfactory completion requirements to be eligible for a CE Certificate. For questions, email [email protected].


Course Description for Body Mapping with Guided Drawing: A Sensorimotor Art Therapy Approach

This presentation provides an introduction to Guided Drawing®– an approach developed by Cornelia Elbrecht that uses rhythmic bilateral repetition to explore emotions and felt sensations in the body as flowing or blocked internal movements. Trauma manifests physiologically as bracing patterns, tension, pain, or numbness, accompanied by strong emotions. In Guided Drawing®, the focus is not on the story of what happened, but on the implicit responses needed in that present moment. The process is self-guided, which is profoundly empowering for the client.

Clients draw their involuntary motor impulses with both hands and closed eyes on large sheets of paper increasingly focusing on the movements needed to ease the felt tension or pain. Being able to apply a ‘self-massage’ or to complete a thwarted impulse to act can be surprisingly effective. The therapist has the option to introduce archetypal shapes as interventions to structure and support this bottom-up approach.

This presentation is both didactic and experiential. After presenting the core concepts of Guided Drawing®, Cornelia will teach three archetypal shapes that serve to resource clients, along with time for a self-directed experience of Guided Drawing®. There will be opportunities for sharing and question-answer.

Location: Online via Zoom. Zoom links are sent out 1 week prior to the presentation date.

Date and Time: Monday, November 10, 2025 from 3:00pm - 5:00pm PST (Pacific Standard Time)

Cost (USD):

  • Presentation (Cornelia Elbrecht's only): $25
  • Presentation Bundle: $65
    Includes presentations by Fiona Chang, Akira Ikemi, and Cornelia Elbrecht


Presenter: Cornelia Elbrecht, AThR, SEP, SATh, ANZACATA, IEATA, IACEAT
This presentation series is hosted by the Focusing and Expressive Art Institute (Laury Rappaport, Ph.D., LMFT, ATR-BC, REAT).

Content Level: Open to those new and experienced in Focusing, Expressive Arts, and FOAT!

Learning Objectives:

  1. Summarize at least 1 benefit of rhythmic bilateral drawing with closed eyes to connect with the implicit memory systems of the body.
  2. Describe how body mapping can be used as a way to explore physiological tension and bracing patterns.
  3. Apply self-regulating and self-healing strategies through the application of archetypal shapes.


Satisfactory Completion for CEs: This offering is approved for 2 CE hours. Participants must have paid the presentation (or bundle) fee and CE fee, attended and participated throughout the entirety of the Live Zoom program (with camera on to verify presence), and completed the CE evaluation. Full attendance is required (there are no partial CE hours). 

Cancellation/Refund Policy: All refund requests are subject to review by the Focusing and Expressive Arts Institute Training Director. Please see our Policy Page for details (see "Roots, Branches, and Wings Series" for presentation refunds; see "Courses approved for NBCC credit through the Focusing and Expressive Arts Institute ACEP" for CE refunds).

Grievance Policy: For questions, concerns, or comments, contact us at [email protected].

Disability Accommodations: To request accommodations, contact us at [email protected].

Disclosure Statement: There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.



Focusing and Expressive Arts Institute has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7596. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Focusing and Expressive Arts Institute is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.