CERTIFICATE PROGRAM 2024–25

Introduction to Expressive
Arts Facilitation

This 11-month program is designed to offer you skills, experiential learning, mentoring, and theoretical foundations for a responsible practice as an expressive arts facilitator. It introduces you to the basics of the expressive arts as a field of professional practice, particularly for work in service of others and of community. The courses, running monthly from July 2024 to May 2025, are grounded in the professional practices of the expressive arts, psychotherapy and creative arts therapies, phenomenology, and Sikolohiyang Pilipino (Filipino psychology). 

Joining this program starts your journey of becoming an expressive arts facilitator, and makes you part of a community with a continually evolving practice of the expressive arts, designed to strengthen the impact of community-based initiatives and strategies for wellbeing in the Philippines through group psychosocial support.

  • July 2024 – May 2025

    Program Fees:
    Php 110,000

    Earlybird Rate: Php 100,000

    Installment plans available

    See Program Prospectus

Expressive Arts Foundations

This course introduces you to the basics of the expressive arts as a field of work, particularly in the contexts of clinical practice, social change, community development, and education. You are invited to learn new concepts by openly engaging through a process of play and curious inquiry, facilitated and self-directed experiential activities, journal writing, and generative discussions.

Introduction to Support Group Facilitation

At the beginning of the program, an introductory course on support group facilitation is dedicated to grounding the learnings in responsible practice of the arts, and framing the courses that follow into a lens of structured learning experiences (SLEs). It focuses on creating the foundation of skills that the rest of the program will build on. This course continues to focus on program design and facilitation skills as you begin your practicum activities.

Drama-Focused Expressive Arts

The course equips you with a foundation of the use of the arts in health, specifically in drama-focused expressive arts. You are invited to integrate learning into your own life, so that it influences your practice. This course is structured with readings from research and treatment in the use of drama to promote wellbeing and related fields, lectures, and embodied activities to support and facilitate reflection and integration.

Music-focused Expressive Arts

This course introduces you to music as one of the modalities used in a multi-modal approach to practicing the expressive arts. The application is suitable for various contexts such as clinical practice, social change, community development, and education, with the aim of providing therapeutic qualities and guided by responsible use of the arts. You are invited to engage in this interactive, community-based learning experience.

Dance-Focused Expressive Arts

This course introduces you to a dance and movement-centered approach to your practice of the expressive arts in your context. Through an experience of blended theoretical and experiential learning of the foundations of dance/movement therapy, you will explore and discuss how dance and movement can be restorative, promote wellbeing, and help you generate insight on your internal processes in working with or helping others.

Visual and Tactile Art for Expressive Arts

This course introduces you to visual and tactile arts – particularly painting, /drawing/mark-making, and sculpture – as one of the modalities used in a multi-modal approach to practicing the expressive arts. Through a blended theoretical and experiential learning experience of the use of visual and tactile arts in promoting wellbeing, we’ll explore how this modality helps us generate insight on our internal processes in working with or helping others.

Practicum, Mentorship, and Capstone Projects

The practicum culminates the entire program and serves as your avenue to apply the knowledge, skills, and competencies you’ve developed through the courses prior. Using the approach of poiesis, that is learning by making, combined with support from peers and faculty, your skills in expressive arts facilitation are further honed to suit their context/s of practice.

This journey is also encapsulated by the Capstone Project, which serves as your avenue to put physical form to what you learned from the Spatial Narratives and Visual Communication course. Together with a physical exhibit, you will give a creative presentation on your growth as an expressive arts facilitator.

Spatial Narratives and Visual Communication

In the work of holding space for others, it is important to have given ourselves space as well. This course allows students to explore how to communicate their journey as an expressive arts facilitator. Learnings from this course will be applied to the development of the cohorts’ capstone projects, and the concluding exhibit that will follow.

The Year Ahead

July 20, 2024

Orientation
Online

July 27–28, 2024

Opening Rituals, Community Art,
and Stories from the Field

Muntinlupa City

August 24, 2024

Introduction to Support Group Facilitation
Muntinlupa City

September 14–15, 2024

Expressive Arts Foundations
Cohort 1
Muntinlupa City

September 21–22, 2024

Expressive Arts Foundations
Cohort 2
Muntinlupa City

October 12–13, 2024

Music-Focused Expressive Arts
Cohort 1
Hybrid

October 26–27, 2024

Music-Focused Expressive Arts
Cohort 2
Hybrid

November 9–10, 2024

Visual and Tactile Art for Expressive Arts
Cohort 1
Online

November 16–17, 2024

Visual and Tactile Art for Expressive Arts
Cohort 2
Online

December 14–15, 2024

Drama-Focused Expressive Arts
Cohort 1
Muntinlupa City

January 11–12, 2024

Drama-Focused Expressive Arts
Cohort 2
Muntinlupa City

January 18–19, 2025

Dance & Movement-Focused Expressive Arts
Cohort 1
Muntinlupa City

February 1–2, 2025

Dance & Movement-Focused Expressive Arts
Cohort 2
Muntinlupa City

February 15, 22, and March 1, 2025

Program Design & Facilitation
Muntinlupa City

March–April 2025

Practicum Period

April 19–20, 2025

Spatial Narratives
and Visual Communication
Online

April 26, 2025

Community Art
Muntinlupa City

May 11, 2025

Graduation and Closing Rituals
Muntinlupa City

May 3 & 10, 2025

Capstone Project Presentations
Muntinlupa City

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Course Instructors and Mentors

  • Gina A. Alfonso

    PhD Expressive Arts Therapy
    ATR-BC, LCPAT

  • Joey Atayde

    MSc Dance/Movement Therapy
    DMT-BC

  • Rainey Dolatre

    MA(c) Education
    Expressive Arts Facilitator

  • Bambi Gamban

    MA(c) Theology
    Expressive Arts Facilitator

  • Monica Lopez Gamboa

    MA Drama Therapy
    LCAT-P

  • Krupa Jhaveri

    PhD Expressive Arts Therapy
    EXAT, TIEAT-C

  • Therese Jose

    MA Pastoral Counseling
    Expressive Arts Facilitator

  • Athena Lucas

    Master of Art Therapy
    AThR

  • Marisa V. Marin

    MA Psychology
    RPsy, CAGS

  • Mariel Paulino

    MS Psychology
    RPsy, Expressive Arts Facilitator

  • Giam Umil

    RPm, RPsy cand.
    Expressive Arts Facilitator
    MAGIS Clinical Core Team

  • Carl Cervantes

    MA Counseling Psychology
    RPsy

  • Debbie Afuang

    BA Music (Dance)
    Certified Dance/Movement Therapy Practitioner

  • Rina Alfonso

    MA Exhibition Design
    RGD

  • Pia Ortiz-Luis

    MA Social & Community Psychology
    Social Development Practitioner

Frequently Asked Questions

 
  • Yes, this entire program counts as a substitute for Module K, Intermodal Expressive Arts in the European Graduate School’s MA in Expressive Arts Therapy. Standard application process to EGS’ Masters Program still applies and the credits are applicable upon successful application.

  • 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

    There are also opportunities to deepen and expand your expressive arts practice if you become part of MAGIS Creative Spaces’ network of practitioners.

  • Most classes within the program are scheduled over the weekend and may have face-to-face sessions. If you are not based in Manila, you may have to make special arrangements in order to attend the face-to-face portions of the program. We will provide you with a list of options for accommodations upon request.

  • Every course in the program line-up is intertwined with the rest of courses, and have been designed to hone a responsible, reverent practice of the expressive arts. If you’d like to have a more bite-sized experience of the expressive arts, keep an eye out for our Amihan Workshops.

  • Because expressive arts emphasizes low-skill, high-sensitivity, having skills or prior experience in the arts is not required, but can be helpful as you engage with different learning events.