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Creative and Expressive Arts Certificate

The certificate program features a variety of talented expressive arts educators, therapists and artists, sharing knowledge born of years of practicing their crafts and honing their skills The program includes weekend classes, as well as one summer and one spring immersion at Painted Sky Studio. Content areas include Poetry, Painting, Video Storytelling, Music, Movement, and Drama, as well as Saturday classes on inter-modal expressive arts philosophy and practice, as well as somatic work. New cohorts launch annually in July or October.

Common goals include group support and cohesion, enjoyment, self-expression, insight, building self-esteem, and sharing one’s own unique voice through creative modalities. Students learn the difference between the expressive arts therapist and practitioner roles in terms of emphasis and scope of practice.

This program attracts guidance counsellors, resource and classroom teachers, as well as clergy, artists, community activists and others from a variety of walks of life, who are interested in understanding and utilizing expressive arts.

Graduates of this program can join the Ontario Expressive Arts Therapy Association as practitioners. Students in the certificate can ladder into our Expressive Arts Therapy and Dual Art and Expressive Arts Therapy Diploma programs if they wish to become therapists.

Skills acquired in the program can be utilized in students’ workplaces and personal lives. There is no formal practicum. Students might share the work in schools, classes, shelters, agencies, community centres and friendship centres to name just a few.

For more information about our Creative and Expressive Arts training, contact WHEAT Institute at info@wheatinstitute.com or register here. A copy of our course of study schedule and fee schedule is available upon request.

Application Deadline

There are a limited number of seats available and spots will be reserved as applications are received. 

Individual courses are open for drop-ins! Register for the next certificate cohort beginning July 2026.

You can find more details about our admission requirements and application process on our Student Information page.

Current Fees

There is no GST on any of our fees or tuition. All fees are listed in Canadian (CAD) dollars. Training is tax deductible, see more information here.

Tuition Fees for Expressive Arts Certificate in Manitoba: $9,800.00 CAD 

Canadian and American participants will pay in their home currency (CAD and USD, respectively). Participants from outside Canada and the United States are invited to contact WHEAT as program fees will be adjusted for residents from Category II and III Countries based on the Human Development Index.

  • $100.00 CAD – Non-refundable Registration Fee
  • $100.00 CAD – Non-refundable Supply Fee
  • $50.00 CAD – Graduation fee
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Land Acknowledgement

WHEAT Institute and Painted Sky Studio are located on Treaty Territories and Ancestral Lands of Anishinaabeg, Ininiwak, Anisininewuk, Dakota Oyate, Dene, and Inuit, and on the National Homeland of the Red River Métis.

 

We acknowledge the harms and mistakes of the past and respect the spirit and intent of the Treaties and Treaty Making. We dedicate ourselves to working in partnership with First Nations, Inuit, and Métis people in the spirit of truth, reconciliation, and collaboration.