CE Information for The Creative Wisdom Approach: Embodying a 5-step Intermodal Expressive Arts Process

Course Description

Join the co-founders of Expressive Arts Florida Institute for an introduction to their Creative Wisdom Approach—a five-step process that draws on the natural world and the deep inner wisdom accessed through the arts. The presentation includes an overview of its theoretical foundations in nature-informed, intermodal expressive arts practice, as well as an experiential component. Through an intermodal sequence of checking in, nature witnessing, guided meditation, art-making, movement, sound, witnessing and sharing, your current inner landscape will be illuminated and expanded. Alongside this experiential process, you will learn the five steps of the Creative Wisdom Approach, as well as to how it can be implemented with clients, students, mentees, or workshop participants.

The Creative Wisdom Approach has evolved organically through Expressive Arts Florida Institute’s more than 15 years of training expressive arts therapists and facilitators, and leading workshops, trainings, and presentations.  This presentation will include applications of the Creative Wisdom Approach within professional roles, including implementation across contexts such as therapy, facilitation, education, consulting, and coaching, as well as for personal practice.

Location: Online via Zoom. Zoom links are sent out 1 week prior to the presentation date. Must be registered in either the presentation or bundle to receive Zoom link.

Date and Time: Monday, April 20, 2026 from 3:00pm - 5:00pm PDT (Pacific Daylight Time)

Cost (USD):

• Presentation cost:
  • Kathleen/Tamara's Presentation only: $25
  • Spring 2026 bundle (with Dr. Leslie Ellis): $45
• 2 CE Hours (purchased separately): $10

Presenters: Kathleen Horne, MA, LMHC, REACE, REAT and Tamara Knapp, MA, NCC, LMHC, REACE
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 the five-step Creative Wisdom Approach and its theoretical foundations in nature-informed, intermodal expressive arts practice.
2. Describe how to engage in and reflect on a structured, intermodal expressive arts process that integrates nature witnessing, guided meditation, and arts-based modalities to support insight, self-awareness, and meaning-making.
3. Identify and articulate appropriate applications of the Creative Wisdom Approach within their professional roles, including considerations for implementation across contexts such as therapy, facilitation, education, consulting, and coaching.

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.