CIRCUS ARTS THERAPY® Training
Level 1
Introduction to Adaptive Apparatus and Juggling in Therapy
- Date: Friday, February 21, 2025
- If you cannot attend this workshop on 2/21, you can pre-register for the on-demand version here: https://www.theknowledgetree.org/p/circus-arts-therapy-online
- If you cannot attend this workshop on 2/21, you can pre-register for the on-demand version here: https://www.theknowledgetree.org/p/circus-arts-therapy-online
- Time: 10:30am - 5:30pm Eastern Time
- 6 Core CE Clock Hours Included - Details by License Type can be found here: https://www.theknowledgetree.org/p/circus-arts-therapy
- Location: Live Interactive Webinar (“Synchronous”) on Zoom
- Investment: $159 before Friday, February 7th at 5:00pm Eastern Time, $179 after
- Target Audience: Therapists, Circus Educators & School Teachers
- To Register: CLICK HERE
course DESCRIPTION
This course, presented by Carrie Heller-Altfield, LCSW, RPT, is an introduction to adaptive ground-based circus arts activities and exercises.
Circus Arts Therapy® has been utilized to help a wide variety of clients, including those with sensory, attention, and learning differences. It applies to neurotypical, neurodiverse, and physically diverse clients and their families. The Circus Arts Therapy® program's evidence-based benefits include increased emotional control, teamwork, and physicality (strength, flexibility, and coordination). Therapists will be able to add this to their toolbox and use it in individual, sibling, partner, family, and group sessions. Circus Arts Therapy® is based on the publication Circus Arts Therapy® Fitness and Play Therapy Program Shows Positive Clinical Results written by Carrie Heller and Dr. Lauren Taglialatela, which can be found in the International Journal of Play Therapy, April 2018 edition here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pla0000068.
This training includes how trauma-informed teaching and therapeutic language are utilized in the Circus Arts Therapy® room. Therapists will become acquainted with individual, partner, and group juggling to use in therapy. Additional ground-based circus arts apparatus will be introduced; short video clips will also be shown.
Equipment needed for this workshop: 5 juggling scarves (2 matching color pairs plus a 5th scarf of a different color) and 2 or 3 juggling balls. Links to purchase these can be found here.
Circus Arts Therapy® has been utilized to help a wide variety of clients, including those with sensory, attention, and learning differences. It applies to neurotypical, neurodiverse, and physically diverse clients and their families. The Circus Arts Therapy® program's evidence-based benefits include increased emotional control, teamwork, and physicality (strength, flexibility, and coordination). Therapists will be able to add this to their toolbox and use it in individual, sibling, partner, family, and group sessions. Circus Arts Therapy® is based on the publication Circus Arts Therapy® Fitness and Play Therapy Program Shows Positive Clinical Results written by Carrie Heller and Dr. Lauren Taglialatela, which can be found in the International Journal of Play Therapy, April 2018 edition here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pla0000068.
This training includes how trauma-informed teaching and therapeutic language are utilized in the Circus Arts Therapy® room. Therapists will become acquainted with individual, partner, and group juggling to use in therapy. Additional ground-based circus arts apparatus will be introduced; short video clips will also be shown.
Equipment needed for this workshop: 5 juggling scarves (2 matching color pairs plus a 5th scarf of a different color) and 2 or 3 juggling balls. Links to purchase these can be found here.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
In this workshop, you will learn how to:
- Discuss the research and client populations appropriate for Circus Arts Therapy®
- Explain both the Adaptive and Clinical Methodologies of the Circus Arts Therapy® fitness and play therapy program
- Explain how trauma-informed teaching is applied to Circus Arts Therapy®
- Discuss how the specific exercises and activities of the Circus Arts Therapy® program help both neurotypical and neurodivergent clients enhance their neuronal connections and emotional regulation
- Identify the therapeutic language used in the Circus Arts Therapy® room
- Describe how to design a sensory-friendly Circus Arts Therapy® room
- Demonstrate adaptive solo, partner, and group scarf juggling and ball juggling and discuss their therapeutic applications
