Presentation Description 

Monday, November 10, 2025   3:00 - 5:00pm PST  /  6:00 - 8:00pm EST
For Asia: Tuesday, November 11, 2025 / Click here for your time zone

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.

If you cannot attend the Live presentation via Zoom, the recording will be available for you to watch at your convenience for up to 2 months!

CE Information

This program is eligible for 2 Continuing Education (CE) hours! Click here for CE information and purchasing (must purchase separately).

Note: CE hours are only eligible for those that attend the full LIVE presentation on November 10, 2025.

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.

About the Presenter

Cornelia Elbrecht, MA, AThR, SATh, SEP, is a leader in groundbreaking art therapy techniques with a particular focus on healing trauma. An art therapist with over 40 years of experience she is a renowned author, educator, and the Founder and Director of the Institute for Sensorimotor Art Therapy. She studied Expressive Art Therapy at the School for Initiatic Therapy in the Black Forest, Germany and holds degrees in fine arts and arts education along with extensive postgraduate training in Jungian and Gestalt Therapy, Bioenergetics and Somatic Experiencing.

Best known for her cutting-edge work with Guided Drawing® and Clay Field Therapy®, she holds regular workshops around the world and at Claerwen Retreat in Apollo Bay, Australia - an internationally respected arts therapy education facility. Author of numerous books, she runs accredited online courses for art therapists, educators, and mental health professionals looking to understand a body focused art therapy approach to trauma therapy.

Registration Details

Please register with your preferred contact email – this will be your account email, where you will receive all communication about the presentation. If you have taken a course through our FOAT Online School, please register with your existing account!

For scholarship/work study inquiries please contact us by October 27, 2025.