Art 2 Heart

Helping Educators build supportive connections with children through art!

ART 2 HEART IS FOR EDUCATORS WHO WANT TO LEARN HOW TO SUPPORT CHILDREN TO EXPRESS AND COMMUNICATE FEELINGS THROUGH ART WHILST FINDING STRATEGIES TO COMBAT BURN OUT AND BUILD SUPPORTIVE TEACHING ENVIRONMENTS

This course is for you if...

Without...

Having to be an art teacher

Teaching children to express themselves is more about a creative process not showing them how to become an artist!

Burning out

Dealing with trauma in children can impact you in deep ways and lead to burnout if you don't have the skills and tools to overcome it!

Being a psychology major

Trauma shows itself in children with patterns of behaviour and expression. I'll show you how to identify it and gain the skills to support children!

If this sounds like you, I have good news.

There is a way to support children who have experienced trauma. In Art 2 Heart you will learn to use art as a medium to help children deal with challenging emotions allowing them to improve their overall wellbeing, whilst at the same time cultivating self care to avoid burn out or vicarious traumatisation.

It starts with understanding the impact of trauma.

Wondering where to start? Let me introduce you to

Art 2 Heart - for Educators

Here's What's Included With Art 2 heart - For Educators

Guides & Creative Tools

These will help you quickly implement what you learn so you can start using them immediately.

These include:

Art Journals
Guided Audio Meditations
Guides To Help Improve Health
Guides To Help Improve Wellbeing

Self-Paced Learning

Complete the modules in your own time and at your preferred pace, with weekly support from the instructor.

Materials Include:

Resources
Video Lessons
Reflections & Quizes
Support Sessions with Instructor

Detailed Instruction

Each lesson builds upon the one before helping you to apply what you learn.

Lessons In:

Introduction to trauma and its impact
Traumas influence on behaviour
Flourishing and healing from trauma
And more...

SEE THE COURSE IN ACTION CLICK PLAY ON THE VIDEO BELOW

AS an Educator establishing relationships is at the heART of maximizing success.
Art is one of the best ways of enabling connections and engagement reducing the possibility of experiencing burn out and vicarious traumatisation.

Join me in this experiential course and turn theory to practice!

Meet your instructor
Dr. Shiri Hergass

Dr Shiri Hergass is a clinical social worker and art therapist. She has spent over 25 years working with children and adults who have experienced trauma. In addition she has trained and guided mental health professionals and organisation in their complex roles supporting others. Her work spans private practice, group facilitation and research.

She has extensive experience working with people across diverse cultures and settings, including facilitating art therapy groups in preschools in remote outback NSW and for mothers and babies in jail. Her experience with diverse populations and cultures means she takes an inclusive approach in her work, maintaining culturally awareness and sensitivity.

Shiri has been awarded the role of Reconciliation Ambassador for the Australian Association of Social Work, an acknowledgement of her work and experience.

"Working with Shiri in her trauma healing journey has been one of the most rewarding knowledge that I value dearly in my teaching career. Understanding trauma has not only me a better teacher but also a more empathetic person. Each module from this course presented deep work within personal as well as professional life. I find that this course has open up a lot learning opportunity and inspired me as teacher to advocate for trauma inform practice in every early learning services. Thank you Shiri for sharing your knowledge, patience, non-judgemental nature, and your kindness. It has been a beautiful and an enlighten six weeks."

~ Winnie Prawiradiraja, ECT

These are the MODULES included:

Module 1:
Understanding Trauma

Deep dive into stress and trauma and the way children express it in schools.

Module 2: The Impact Of Trauma On The Body

How trauma impacts the physiology and neurobiology of a child.

Module 3: How trauma influences behaviour

How trauma manifests in children's behaviour and emotions.

Module 4: Transgenerational Trauma

A brief look at Epigenetics and it's relevance to children.

Module 5: Vicarious Traumatisation

When children are traumatised, teachers are too. Protecting educators from vicarious traumatisation and burn out.

Module 6: Flourishing & healing from trauma

Identifying the optimal educator within so that we can achieve high quality care in the classroom.

Module 7: Trauma-informed practices

5 principles to a trauma informed and sensitive classroom.

Module 8:
The Seasonal Model

An innovative tool to support vulnerable children and their educators.

Module 9: Summary and conclusion

Reflecting and integrating on the concepts learned and embedding them as ongoing part of education.

"Shiri’s Art to Heart online course was extremely easy to follow, engage in and allowed a safe space for us educators to develop our knowledge of trauma and it’s affects on both children and professionals working closely with them. It was reflective and accommodated a community of learning for educators wanting to enhance their knowledge and way of working with children who have experienced trauma. Shiri is somebody who has a wealth of knowledge and is able to deliver the course content in a way that is easy to understand and allows growth for all involved. I found this course to be inspiring and motivating as it allowed me to reflect on my current practices as an Early Childhood teacher. The course was validating and helped to shift my mindset. Shiri is somebody I will continue to learn from in the future and build my professional knowledge with"

~ Britt Testa, ECT