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"My time at WHEAT provided me with an opportunity to explore my inner self. It helped me release limiting beliefs and discover my authentic self, as well as the abilities I have to support others on their healing journeys. I appreciated that WHEAT met me where I was in an educational sense and helped to elevate me and encourage me in a direction that worked for me."
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Robyn Nerbas, 2024 Art Therapy Diploma Graduate
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WHEAT Institute
WHEAT Institute provides top quality training in the therapeutic use of the arts. Through art and expressive arts therapy certificate and diploma programs, students learn how the universal language of art allows healing, growth and justice to emerge from even the smallest brushstrokes, movements and words.
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Mitchell Saunders
WHEAT Expressive Arts Certificate and Expressive Arts Therapy Diploma graduate
“Expressive Art gives you an ability to explore new horizons you didn’t know were there but have been with you the whole time.”
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Bevan Klassen
WHEAT Art Therapy graduate, Therapist and owner of Deep Focus Art Therapy
“How do you enter a story if you don't have a narrative that you've processed, and can speak with words? That’s when it becomes about art therapy. It is about images and sounds and music, and could go into drama, movement, poetry. It's just so broad, and now we have film and video making. We start by playing because that's where the energy is, and then we can ground it with understanding, learning and sharing.”
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Miriam Duff
WHEAT Expressive Arts Therapy graduate, Psychosocial Oncology Clinician at CancerCare Manitoba, M.Ed.
“The Diploma in Expressive Arts Therapy I undertook at WHEAT Institute opened me up to a new way of knowing. Guided through core training by master teachers, I was able to do my own work first, enrich my personal awareness, then sharpen my skills, and grow as a therapist. Engaging in this training and now in professional practice, I continue to tread an ever-deepening path of wonder and respect for the transformative power of the Expressive Arts as a process for connection, healing and growth.”
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