How my journey began
Sharyn Latham AThR
Registered Nurse
Dip. Counselling
Certified Clay Field Practitioner
Recently met all the criteria for award of Masters therapeutic Arts Practice @ The MIECAT institute Masters in therapeutic Arts Practice 2020.
Professional status with ANZACATA
I have been interested in Art as medicine for some time now, in particular how sensorimotor based art making can help integrate and repair one’s experience of trauma. As a registered nurse with extensive experience in palliative care, trauma and grief counselling, I have witnessed first hand the benefits of art therapy on mind, body and soul. Indeed, this mode of therapy was fundamental in helping me navigate and understand my own lived experience.
My sincere wish for you and everyone I work with is that you will be able to find a way to make sense of your experience, imagine new possibilities and action them to support your emotional and physiological wellbeing.
Peace in Art acknowledges that we are privileged to be living and working upon the unceded land and waters of the Bunurong people of the Kulin Nation. We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of country and recognise their continuing connection and contribution to land, waters and culture and pay our respects to Elders past present and emerging and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders present here today.
Peace in Art values Inclusiveness on all levels and welcomes diversity.
Peace in Art acknowledges the challenges and barriers faced by disadvantaged and minority groups and endeavours to be inclusive in all aspects of its ethos. This includes people who identify as Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) and LGBTQIA communities as well as people who identify as having a disability.
What People Are Saying
“If given free reign, the thinking self will spin around in passive insightful circles rather than allowing an intuitive implicit awareness to become a transformative libidinal force”.
— Brianna MacWilliam Complicated Grief, Attachment & Art Therapy
“Art heals by transforming isolation and connecting us to others, to places, to ourselves in life affirming ways”.
— McNiff (Art Heals P. 51)
“Art therapy encourages the awareness of the implicit felt sense: how the muscles and viscera, the heart rate and breath shape our sense of well being. It fosters the development of new neurological pathways that can bypass traumatic memories to restore wholeness and wellbeing.”
- Cornelia Elbrecht 2019
“Expressive Arts therapy naturally shifts individuals from ‘being in their minds’ to being more fully in their bodies”
— Cathy Malchiodi 2020.
Find your way to calm
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Peace in Art