Why Choose Lefika’s Community Art Counselling Training?
- Learn to use art as a powerful tool for healing and change
- Gain practical skills to facilitate art-based interventions that promote resilience, emotional expression, and wellbeing.
- Help individuals and groups process trauma, grief, anxiety, and other challenges through creative practice.
- Expand your professional toolkit
- Perfect for psychologists, social workers, teachers, community workers, artists, and facilitators who want to integrate therapeutic art into their work.
- Adaptable skills that can be applied in schools, NGOs, healthcare, correctional services, or community organisations.
- Develop both personally and professionally
- This is not just a training, it’s a journey of self-discovery. You will reflect deeply, engage in your own artmaking, and strengthen your emotional resilience.
- Build self-awareness, empathy, and a reflective practice that enriches your personal and professional life.
- Learn from leading experts
- Designed by Dr Hayley Berman, the pioneer in community art counselling.
- Delivered by an experienced team of art and drama therapists, including Rozanne Myburgh and Kamal Naran.
- Gain insights from practitioners who bring both academic knowledge and years of real-world experience in South African and international contexts.
- Join a vibrant community of practice
- Weekly experiential Zoom groups create a safe space for learning, reflection, and connection.
- You’ll be part of a supportive network of like-minded professionals and creatives who continue to collaborate even after training.
- Practical pathway
- Structured into 8 engaging modules plus 60 placement hours with supervision.
- On completion, you will qualify to work as a Community Art Counsellor (short/medium-term group work), a growing and much-needed field.
- Flexible and accessible learning
- 100% online with live reflective groups, making it accessible no matter where you are.
- Learn at your own pace, with rich materials including videos, case studies, assignments, and art activities.
- Investment in your future
- Gain unique skills that set you apart in the workplace, with growing demand for community-based mental health practitioners.
- Opportunity to contribute meaningfully to your community by supporting mental health and resilience through creative engagement.
In short: This training equips you to use creativity to change lives, including your own.
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Dates for 2026
Introduction: 10 February 2026
Module 1: 17 February – 10 March
Module 2: 24 March – 14 April
Module 3: 28 April – 19 May
Module 4: 2 June – 30 June
Module 5: 14 July – 4 August
Module 6: 18 August – 8 September
Module 7: 22 September – 13 October
Module 8: 27 October – 17 November
Closing: 24 November
