Expressive Body

Through Wounding, Trauma, Healing, and Well-being

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This is your body, your greatest gift
Pregnant with wisdom you do not hear
Grief you thought was forgotten
And joy you have never known

MARION WOODMAN

training hours

Classroom training, experiential sessions, and assignments

Internships & Supervisions hours

Across clients in individual and group settings, adults, children and special needs

Personal work

Supported by a personal therapist during the course of the program

Trauma Work, Depth Psychology

Overview

As we create our healing tapestry as expressive arts professionals, it is important to recognise the need to deepen our understanding of the practice of this approach as well as the mystery of the therapeutic relationship. The Expressive Body has been designed to delve into the deeper cords of the foundation of the therapeutic relationship and explore poignant themes and topics in the current world of Expressive Arts therapy.

Created by Dr. Kate Donohue and Brinda Jacob-Janvrin, and titled Expressive Body: Through Wounding, Trauma, Healing, and Well-Being, the program invites participants to engage deeply with their personal process while grounding the same in EXA theories. Held in a Jungian expressive arts framework, trainees will begin by exploring their relationship to the archetype of the feminine. Starting with their own Motherline, trainees will learn about their personal, cultural, and archetypal cords to the sacred feminine. With this archetypal thread lacing the year, participants will become fluent in these two imagistic approaches as well as receive relevant supervision on their work.

With a background in the language of therapy, participants will penetrate the clinical relationship in order to understand the co-transference as it is created by the therapist and client(s). Within this framework, participants will investigate neuro-typical and neuro-atypical individuals and groups. As they probe these levels of relationship, they learn how to conceptualize their client and what their story offers in terms of trauma and resiliency. This conceptualization helps trainees develop a flexible plan of guiding them through the arts and psychologically so that their Tapestry demonstrates numerous healing cords. Being mindful of the backdrop of a global pandemic and the trauma that is currently experienced in the collective, participants will have opportunities to process and begin to heal their personal trauma to create the shift that is so needed to spark transformation both in the personal as well as the collective.

In addition, trainers will introduce current research and teach on how to evaluate and assess participants as a critical thinker. Trainees will learn how to write more professionally and be able to translate one theory into another so that their colleagues with different backgrounds will understand.

Participants will also learn how to build a private practice, grasping some of the practical skills as well as how to dive into core issues through the arts. Those working in an agency will learn how to contribute in a way that intensifies the group’s understanding of their client. This program will guide trainees in ways of being a team member and an independent thinker.

The program is conceived as both a fully online module as well as part online and part on-site module and has onboard a highly experienced and diverse team of national and international EXA trainers.

Program Format

Participants can choose to complete the Expressive Body program as a linear sequential course – All Modules – or as a self-paced Hop On Hop Off learning.

All Modules

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All Modules + Internships + Supervision

The Expressive Body program consists of 11 training modules, supervised internships, case presentations, assignments, personal work and professional and personal presentations
Completing these course requirements awards certification as an Expressive Arts Therapist
Applicants choosing the All Modules curriculum will use Google Classroom as the Learning Management System
Participants follow the linear learning process of training-internships-supervisions

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Objectives

To deepen our understanding of our personal process through wounding, trauma, healing, and well-being
To ground the personal process in EXA theory
To conceptualise the client and their story in terms of trauma and resiliency
To conceptualise, articulate and translate one theory into another
To build on private practice

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Pre-Requisites

The FECAT program or an equivalent – All participants must have an understanding and an ability to work with the expressive arts in therapeutic settings
The intensity of this program will be triggering for many, if not all participants, and will include an investigation of sometimes difficult emotional states originating in childhood. This program is designed to train therapists and health professionals. It is not meant to be a container for personal therapy. Due to the depth of the work, we require that all participants be simultaneously engaged in regular personal therapy with a therapist of their choice
The applicant should be currently working with clients and in supervision for the same
A minimum of 50 hours of client work is a pre-requisite

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Course Requirements for Certification

Attendance – Minimum 90% attendance is a must in order to be eligible for certification
Client Hours & Supervisions – Trainees are expected to put into practice what they have learned during the course. Trainees have to complete a minimum of 200 client hours with at least 8 different clients. Client hours will be guided by an assigned supervisor
Personal Therapy – All trainees are expected to continue with the personal therapy and record a minimum of 24 hours of personal work during the course of the program
Personal & Professional Development Profile – All trainees are required to submit a professional and personal development profile of not less than 3000 words each, at the end of the course. Their professional profile must present their case studies across their individual and client groups and personal profile must trace their personal journey during the course. Presentations will be made to the course trainers, facilitators, and supervisor

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Assessments

Attendance, participation, and engagement in the various art forms account for 20% of the assessment
Placement and supervision account for 20% of the assessment. Trainees have to complete a minimum of 200 client hours with at least 8 different clients
Personal development profile accounts for 30% of the assessment
Professional development profile accounts for 30% of the assessment

Hop On Hop Off

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Choose Modules

Participants have the option to choose select modules as per their interest
Each module is assigned credits, which can be accumulated and consolidated against the EXB course should they choose to pursue it in the future
Participants have the option to experience the modules purely for their personal interest and to further their inner work
All participants will get a certificate of participation
Academic certification and Course Credits are optional

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Objectives & Pre-Requisites

To offer a safe exploration of trauma work
Individual modules are open to all adults interested in understanding and experiencing the therapeutic value of the arts, wounding and trauma work, healing and well-being

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Goddesses & the Deep Feminine

Jan 2027
18 - 22 Jan
Mon - Fri | 10 am - 6 pm IST
5 sessions x 8 hours = 40 hours | 80 credits
Residency (ex Bangalore)
Brinda Jacob-Janvrin, Pallavi Chander, Krupa Jhaveri, Sukhvinder Sircar
Expressive Arts Therapies, Visual Art Therapy, Talk Therapy, Drama Therapy. Authentic Movement, Dance Movement Therapy

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Dates

The program starts in July 2025 and ends in Mar 2027 (20 months)
The program follows a hybrid model – part in-person, part residential, part online
In-person sessions will be conducted at the SMArT studio in Ulsoor, Bangalore, in Nov 2025 and May 2026
The residential module will be conducted at a resort on the outskirts of Bangalore in Jan 2027
Participants residing outside Bangalore will have to make their own travel and stay arrangements during the in-person training and travel to the venue during the residential training

Calendar

EXPRESSIVE BODY CALENDAR (EXB 25-27)

	May 2025
			1	2	3	4
5	6	7	8	9	10	11
12	13	14	15	16	17	18
19	20	21	22	23	24	25
26	27	28	29	30	31

Calendar starts in Jul 2025. Dates are tentative and subject to change

Structure

classroom training

Jungian Theory, Expressive Arts, Visual Art Therapy, Psychodrama, Drama Therapy, Body Work, Authentic Movement, Natural Dreamwork, Deep Feminine

ASSIGNMENTS

Reading material and assignments that cover the theories in each modality

personal therapy

Supported by a personal therapist during the course of the program

internships

200 hours of client work, across categories of adults and children in individual and group settings

supervisions

Class and group supervision sessions of client work, duly supervised by the assigned Expressive Arts supervisor

developmental profiles

An artistic representation of Personal and Professional journey presented at the end of the course

Fee

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all modules

INR 250000 + 18% GST

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July 2025 – Mar 2027

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The application process requires you to fill and submit the form and attend a personal interview (virtual session over ZOOM) with the program director Brinda Jacob-Janvrin.

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Faculty

Kate Donohue

Motherline, Expressive Arts Therapy

Brinda Jacob-Janvrin

Authentic Movement & Deep Feminine

Katia Verreault

Trauma & the Body

Pallavi Chander

Heroine's Journey using Stories & Myths

Krupa Jhaveri

Decolonizing Creativity

Madhu Shukla

Trauma Informed Psychodrama

LAURA SMITH-RIVA

Natural Dreamwork

SUKHVINDER SIRCAR

Tantra, Rooted Masculine, Wild Feminine

JACOB KAMINKER

Jungian Theory

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