colour therapy and holistic interior design school

Transformative Therapy using Art and Music

Psycho-spiritual healing using sound and creative artwork

Please note that this course is currently full and we will be taking new enrollments from 1st October. Study and payment options are at the bottom of this page.

Home Study Course in 10 Lessons

This course is designed for those who wish to work in a complementary health field using art and music to accelerate inner healing. It will also be useful to anyone who wishes to develop their own self-knowledge and creative abilities. By linking the vibrations of colour and sound we can use them as a bridge between the visible world of the physical body, it’s emotional states and the invisible spiritual realms, thus promoting a state of wholeness and connection.

Transformative art and music differs from standard occupational therapy training. Rather than taking a psycho-analytical view point, creative expression using shape, colour and sound is viewed as a healing process promoting expansive emotional healing and spiritual growth. The therapist acts as a facilitator of empowering creative acts. The harmonising forces of colour and sound, promotes conscious merging with the primal energy of life, or as Carl Jung describes it, ‘the collective unconsciousness’. The course also introduces the work of Rudolph Steiner and Alfred Tomatis. No previous experience is needed but an interest in art and music and a with a desire to work with people in a caring role.

• Using art and music as a complementary therapy
• How colour and sound vibrations affect us.
• Colour as a mirror of the soul- colour psychology
• The healing effects of sound and music
• Healing breath and sound therapy
• Linking to your inner self through creative
visualisations to facilitate healing
• Counselling using music and creative artwork
• Regression therapy release through guided
visualisation
• Art and music for stress and as a relaxation aid
• Freeing your spirit - aid to creativity
• Balancing your left and right hand brain
• Sound and colour for meditation - Yantrology

This course requires a student to obtain 70% or more in a self-administered examination and continuous work assessment submitted for each module. An original visualisation and music tape is included with this course. Diploma students are entitled to use the initials Dip HDI. (Transformative Therapy ) using art and music

COMMENTS FROM STUDENTS IN 2008

I would just like to say how much I have enjoyed this course. It has given my art a new perspective and I have thoroughly enjoyed myself. Although at times it has been hard, it has shed light onto parts of my self and I have been able to transform these things for the better. It has been a great tool and I have always known that art has transformative powers....

Have gained so much from doing this courses and I am continuing to read and learn as well as practising drawing and painting. Thank you so much.

In 2006 I took a part time job as a support worker with adults with learning difficulties. I have been asked by the trust to work with individuals I support on a one to one basis using art to aid communication, relaxation and self-esteem. I am now planning my first 6 week group sessions using Transformative Therapy which I am to run in my home town and surrounding areas.....

A graduate student in 2010 adds this comment. Thank you for an absolutely wonderful course. I have got a tremendous amount out of it and I also found your comments extremely helpful. I am really grateful for having been given the opportunity to bring joy and meaning back into my life.

Another graduate in 2010 adds: Thank you for taking so much time to do the analysis of my art therapy drawing and share your insights, it is greatly appreciated. I am really looking forward to doing this exercise with my clients in the future.

I want to express my sincere gratitute for your detailed and gifted analysis of my Art Therapy. I was taken aback as I did not expect to receive anything at all and it was a lovely surprise. I had goosebumps reading your notes as you have identified so much that is true, both from the time in which the exercise was set and the present time. It literally left me speechless...