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SPEAKING & CONSULTATION

“Self-care can just be coming to the museum and giving yourself time to come and look at beautiful things for an hour. But if you're looking for that next, deeper dive into self-care — how can the museum support that?”

—RESEARCH PARTICIPANT

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Dr. Kathryn Snyder is available for speaking engagements, consultation, and workshop facilitation.

Her presentations focus on place-based art therapy practices within early childhood learning and museum settings. She also offers consultations and workshops related to implementing place-based and systems-oriented art therapy for early childhood educators, museum professionals, and other art therapists.

Presentations Include:

Child-focused Art Therapy Practice

  • Paper, Strings, and Things: Found and Unusual Objects for Making Art and Making Connections

  • The Art in Play and The Play in Art: Communication, Therapy, and Child Development

  • Art in Early Intervention

  • Art Therapy and Emergent Literacy

  • Functional Emotional Development and the Relationship in Art Therapy

  • Childhood Anxiety: Pareting, Schooling, and Growing

  • Working with Neurodiversity: New Models and Universal Design in Action

  • Presence and Attunement as Primary Tools in Therapy

Community-based Practice

  • Weaving Therapeutic Place: Art Therapy in Community Settings to Expand Our Reach and Impact

  • Clinical and Community Mental Health Practice

  • Place-Based Art Therapy: Creating Community and Wellbeing

  • Museum-Based Art Therapy: Possibilities and Barriers to Practice Sensory-Motor Based Art Therapy Practice

Art Therapy and Relational Aesthetics

  • Neuroaesthetics: Art, Experience, and the Brain

  • Relational Aesthetics: Cultivating Deeper Understanding of Students in the Art Room

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