Amihan Workshops 2024

Begin the new year with discoveries, curiosity, and creativity with TAHI’s bite-sized workshops. Find here different themes within the field of the creative arts therapies and the expressive arts practice/therapy. From foundations and principles to context-focused practice; from personal professional development to exploring wellbeing, we’ll explore the field of the creative arts therapies and the expressive arts, and how this can be applied to your own fields of work and practice.

Many Me’s:
Exploring Identities

This workshop highlights the different dimensions of “identity” and its relationship to well-being. 

Throughout the sessions, participants will have the opportunity to explore their various “identities” in the context of wellness, core values, intersectionality and self-cultivation. These help discover one’s sense of subjectivity, in which entanglement plays a part in the shaping of one’s existence. 

The workshop will be driven by arts-based strategies such as diagram-making, symbol-making and other illustration activities for participants to visualize their thoughts.

Session 1: What’s your Wellness Shape? 

Session 2: The Art of Visioning: Core Values

Session 3: The Art of Thinking: Intersectionality

Session 4: Journal Series/Synthesis: Visual language, time, and placement/arrangement

Workshop in 4 parts
February 3, 10, 17, 24
8:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Online

Throughout the sessions, you can expect to:

  • Work on an operational definition of “identity” that can never be fixed, constant and static.

  • Widen the view of “identity” as deconstructive: it is entangled with its environment and changes through time. 

  • Learn how these concepts can be explored through artistic-creative activities that serve as instruments to self-cultivation.

Resource Person

Amos is a Fine Arts graduate and Masters’ degree holder in Special Education from the University of the Philippines. He is currently pursuing his PhD in Art Education at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, under the Fulbright Program.

He works on the intersection of the arts with a variety of disciplines covering critical disability studies and art education, social empowerment, and other areas where creativity plays a pivotal role in exploring new ground.

Amos has participated in fellowships and mobility grants to connect with artist-educators globally and generate conversations on this subject. He was a recipient of the British Council’s Connecting Through Cultures (CTC) Professional Mobility Grant UK-South East Asia in 2020, a presenter at the 13th SAMBHAV Arts Conference 2018 in India, a delegate at the 1st Arts and Disability International Conference (ADIC) last 2018, and a Fellow in the Arts for Good Cultural Exchange Program 2019 in Singapore.

He seeks to help grow the inclusive arts practice in the Philippines and South East Asia, an emerging profession and field of study enabling better access to the arts among diverse populations. To aide mainstreaming efforts, he is actively affiliated with various associations that include the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association (IEATA), the National Art Educators’ Association (NAEA), International Society for Education through Art (InSEA), Teaching Artists - Asia, Expressive Arts (EXA) Philippines, Art Ventures and Advocacy Network (ArtVan).

MA Education
PhD cand, Art Education

Amos Manlangit

Ka-Likhasan
Working with Nature

This weekend workshop-retreat weaves eco and art therapy modalities and practices for personal and collective healing, within the context of our work as human service professionals.

During the workshop-retreat, we are invited to journey from personal, to community, and to planetary health to address their relationship especially in the context of social, economic, and ecological disruptions such as conflict and climate emergency.

With nature as our guide, we’ll reclaim the power of our creativity and returning to the essence of our humanity. As we draw from nature as our source to empower us for our work, it also enlivens those whom we work with.

Workshop in 2 parts
March 16 & 17
9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Muntinlupa City

Throughout the weekend, you can expect to:

  • Immerse in spaces with elements of nature to find rest and rejuvenation

  • Explore and express personal experiences with nature and climate grief, and how this might affect your work in service of others

  • Reconnect with your sense of rootedness within yourself, your community, and the created world

Resource Person

Sarah Queblatin

Sarah Queblatin is an inclusive regenerative design strategist passionate in transforming the narrative of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) into “Design for Resilience and Regeneration.” With a background in mental health and psycho-social support, ecopsychology, and expressive arts, she applies a trauma-informed understanding of regenerative resilience in her work with climate and conflict vulnerable communities. Sarah is a founding member of Permaculture for Refugees. She has worked with the Global Ecovillage Network for its UN and Advocacy program and served as representative to the UN climate conferences. She founded Green Releaf Initiative in the Philippines, one of the most climate vulnerable nations in the world, working with regenerative solutions in disasters and displacement. She founded Living Story Landscapes, working with cultural memory and imagination with culture bearers and creatives in designing places of remembrance, resilience, and regeneration in communities facing loss and damages from climate emergencies.

Sarah is currently a resource person and facilitator for the Carl Jung Circle Philippines, and for the Arts and Health Institute Philippines in partnership with the European Graduate School. She is a recipient of the Next Generation Award of the Arts and Healing Network in 2012 for her work in using ritual and arts for environmental education and the peace process in the Philippines.

Sarah holds a certificate in Advanced Ecotherapy from Pacifica Graduate Institute, Permaculture in Development and Merit Diploma from Blue Mountains Permaculture Institute, and an advanced Permaculture Certificate from Aranya Permaculture Academy and Guilda Permaculture. She trained in Ecosystem Restoration and Ecovillage Design Education with Gaia Education and recently completed the Regenerative Practitioner course with the Regenesis Institute. 

Frequently Asked Questions

 

  • No, but you may incorporate the use of expressive arts within your current practice. In order to practice as an expressive arts therapist, further studies are required. The European Graduate school with whom TAHI is affiliated offers an MA in Expressive Arts Therapy program. More details can be found at this link

  • Each workshop indicates if it is online, face-to-face, or a combination of both. If you are not based in Metro Manila, you may have to make special arrangements in order to attend any face-to-face sessions. We can provide you with a list of options for accommodations upon request.

  • No, workshops identified as F2F will not have an online option.