Boundaries & Belonging: An Arts-Based Approach
Expressive Art Therapies. Facilitation. Higher Education.
Highlighting conversations with experienced facilitators, speaking to the complexity of this arts-based work. Supporting the development of the next generation of a spectrum of therapists trained in therapeutic arts.
As educators, how do we hold space, encourage, inspire, interrupt, redirect, guide, and accompany using creative interventions, all the while meeting the competencies that we inherit, and our employer’s expectations.
Boundaries & Belonging: An Arts-Based Approach
Intro to the Podcast w/Magdalena Karlick
Brief intro to the Boundaries & Belonging Podcast: An Arts Based Approach. What is the podcast about? How was it birthed? Who is being interviewed? And what are we focusing on?
Magdalena V. Karlick, M.A., Phd-c, ATR-BC, LPCC (she/her) is an Art Therapist and educator. Magdalena is the owner of Our Imaginal World an organization that provides individual and group therapy, arts-based supervision, post graduate education, community health consultation for agencies, as well as commissioned art installations. She has been an educator in the Art Therapy, Expressive Arts, and Counseling fields since 2012.
Magdalena has received training in Somatic Experiencing, Sandplay, & Psychodrama, and weaves these understandings of group, symbol and body into her classrooms, work with clients, and supervisees. In her workshops, Magdalena tailors content and experience to meet the needs of the community or organization that has contracted her services. Focuses for her community health offerings include: stress reduction, relationship building, conversation strategies, cultural humility practices, equity and inclusion, and rebuilding group norms. She is a doctoral candidate in the Expressive Arts program at the European Graduate School, focusing on exploring the "Aesthetic Responsibility of the facilitator to the group" through various methods of Arts-Based Research.
Magdalena offers arts-based supervision to Art Therapy interns, and dependently licensed Art Therapists and Counselors who are pursuing independent licensure in New Mexico. As a supervisor she focuses on power dynamics, personal bias, culturally sensitive ethical practice, self-care, and self-regulation.
Magdalena is passionate about social justice, responsibility in leadership, and using the creative process to communicate stories and integrate understanding. She has been involved in multiple cross-cultural global art exchanges and plans to continue to collaborate globally.