Level II of the Certificate Program in the Arts and Trauma Treatment
Open to All Level 1 Graduates
Program Highlights:
• Three immersive training weekends with advanced, hands-on learning, each co-led by two expert faculty members
• Five small-group virtual consultation sessions (90 min each) led by Ani Buk & additional faculty (to be announced), to sustain learning & provide targeted clinical support
• 43.5 CEs for LCATs & Social Workers licensed in New York Stat
• Saturday–Sunday format only, no Friday evenings, making attendance easier for those travelin
• Easy application process: no interviews, no letters of recommendation, just a brief update on what you’re doing now & what brings you back
Program Schedule (Quick View):
Full weekend descriptions can be viewed at the end of the email
• Weekend 1
Dates: Nov 22–23, 2025
Faculty: Brian Harris & Heidi Landis
Theme: Integrating Self, Creative Engagement, & Other: Deepening Trauma-Informed Practice
• Virtual Consultation Groups
Dates: Dec 2025, Jan 2026, Feb 2026
Faculty: Ani Buk & Others (TBA)
Format: 90 min sessions
• Weekend 2
Dates: Mar 21–22, 2026
Faculty: Britton Williams & Craig Haen
Theme: Relational Entanglements in Trauma Treatment: Navigating Difference & Dissociation in the Therapeutic Encounter
• Virtual Consultation Groups
Dates: Apr 2026, May 2026
Faculty: Ani Buk & Others (TBA)
Format: 90 min sessions
• Weekend 3
Dates: Jun 6–7, 2026
Faculty: Amber Gray & Nancy Scherlong
Theme: Stories both Silent & Spoken: Emergence of the Self & Co-Regulation
• Virtual Graduation
Dates: TBD (likely Jun 13 or 14, 2026)
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Deadline: November 10, 2025
Weekend Descriptions
Weekend 1: Nov 22–23, 2025
Faculty: Brian Harris & Heidi Landis
Theme: Integrating Self, Creative Engagement, & Other: Deepening Trauma-Informed Practice
This first weekend of Kint Level II invites participants to integrate three core dimensions of advanced creative arts therapy practice: self, creative engagement, & other. We will explore these dimensions through theory, experiential learning, and reflective dialogue. Creative engagement will be multimodal—drawing on music, movement, drama, and visual arts—to expand therapeutic possibilities and open diverse pathways for healing. Together, we will focus on supporting clients in integrating trauma experiences into daily life, fostering resilience, meaning, and connection. In parallel, participants will reconnect with themselves & each other, grounding in our shared community, engaging in sustaining creative practices, and deepening awareness of the individual, familial, & collective systems where trauma & healing unfold.
Weekend 2: Mar 21–22, 2026
Faculty: Britton Williams & Craig Haen
Theme: Relational Entanglements in Trauma Treatment: Navigating Difference & Dissociation in the Therapeutic Encounter
Weekend 2 explores the charged terrain of relational entanglements in trauma treatment. These may emerge across racial & cultural differences, or within racial & cultural connections, whether real or perceived. They may also intensify when therapy unfolds amidst geopolitical conflict or arise through dissociation & enactment. Entanglements snag both therapists & clients, testing the boundaries of the therapeutic frame & calling clinicians to engage the self with presence, courage, & care. Entanglements will be approached as an inevitable & fertile dimension of trauma work, opening pathways to repair & growth for both client & clinician. Participants will engage with theory, creative process, & reflective dialogue to examine how power, identity, & positionality shape therapeutic encounters. Experiential modalities will serve as tools for recognizing enactment, exploring repair, & transforming entanglement into opportunity. Group members will also practice creative strategies that metabolize intensity, expand tolerance for ambiguity, & sustain resilience within the patterned, disorienting landscape of trauma treatment. These practices nurture deeper engagement in the therapeutic relationship & support the clinician’s ongoing growth in awareness, presence, & skill.
Weekend 3: Jun 6–7, 2026
Faculty: Amber Gray & Nancy Scherlong
Theme: Stories both Silent & Spoken: Emergence of the Self & Co-Regulation
Weekend 3 explores the way in which our stories are rooted in our bodies through our dual capacity for movement—the body’s primary language—and our many forms of written, spoken, & witnessed expression. Through the therapist’s capacity for embodied self & co-regulation we can disrupt the unhelpful somatic patterns underneath client trauma, & practitioner fatigue & burnout, to rewrite emergent stories. Our human stories are interwoven & layered—they document history, predict the future, connect generations, preserve wisdom, & are equally embodied & spoken, non-verbal & verbal. “Trauma stories” can hold us captive to the past, & become a never-ending emotional & psychological rut we feel stuck in. These stories are written through life experience, & through all the ways we tend (or don’t tend) to ourselves & others, as well as to the degree we experience (or don’t experience) witnessing, holding, & support. Submerged below the stories, our bodies contain the possibility of re-storying: welcoming emergent wisdom to help us heal & move beyond these stuck places/stories through artful somatic self & co-regulation. Through the interweaving of these elements, group members will practice embodied & creative strategies to support containment, expansion, & growth in their personal & clinical work, & consolidation/closure of their Level II Kint experience.