13 Sep 2012

The Self-Portrait Experience_Training course for facilitators of the self-portrait therapy

The Self Portrait Experience® method allows anyone to trigger the creative process from their inner world and to learn how to transform their emotions into art through photography.

Cristina Nuñez (Figueres, 1962), an artist whose work has been exhibited internationally since 1994, is the creator and the main facilitator of the method, which she teaches successfully in many artistic institutions (museums, galleries and centers photography) as well as therapeutic contexts (prisons, mental health centers, rehab centers, schools of art therapy) and companies.

Nuñez holds an average of 25 workshops per year as a therapeutic self-portrait facilitator according to the method The Self-Portrait Experience®: a new profession constantly evolving, with surprising results especially in times of crisis.

The training course The Self-Portrait Experience® comes from Nuñez's desire to divulge her method as much as possible, training professionals not only to apply it in different contexts, but also to enrich it with their own personal skills. In this way, the method will evolve creatively, responding to the needs of human beings.

The course includes the introduction- to experience the method on oneself, the first part, to understand in-depth all aspects of the method and to pursue a photographic journey through one's life, and the second part, to learn how to apply the method on others and to use it in a creative way. The last stage includes an internship with the supervision of the artist.

At the end of the training course, participants will receive a certificate and a bibliography, lecture notes, contacts and useful information to start their career as therapeutic self-portrait facilitators.

Target: artists, photographers, educators, psychologists, therapists, 'seekers,' people who wish to use art for social purposes.

INTRODUCTION
Short Workshop (ME, the emotions exercise)
22-23 September 2012 (1 intensive weekend)
Addressed to all those who wish to approach the method The Self-Portrait Experience®, the short workshop allows them to experience the method and, eventually, to evaluate the possibility of starting their career as therapeutic self-portrait facilitators.

The participation to the short workshop can be independent from the others. However, it is necessary to participate to the first workshop in order to access to the next stages of the training process.

FIRST PART
Extended workshop (ME, ME AND THE OTHER, ME AND THE WORLD)
27-28 October 2012
24-25 November 2012
12-13 January 2013
(3 intensive weekends)
Addressed to those who have already experienced the short workshop and wish to continue working on their creative identity with the aim to start a career as facilitators of the self-portrait therapy, and/or to explore their inner world, empower themselves, stimulate creativity, lay the basis for the creation of an autobiographical project.

The extended workshop is also independent from the last one. However, it is essential to participate to the introduction and the first part in order to take part in the final stage of the training process.

SECOND PART
Application of the method on other people
(Dates to be confirmed, 4 intensive weekends between February and July 2013)
Addressed to those who have already acquired a deep knowledge of the method The Self Portrait Experience® and decided to start a career as facilitators of the self-portrait therapy. It includes an internship with the supervision of the artist.

It is essential to participate to the introduction and the extended workshop in order to take part in the final stage of the training process.