Walking With: A Celebratory Book Launch
Free • Online
KATI is delighted to invite you to an online book launch event for Walking With: An Emerging Dialogue with Art Therapists in the Cultural Commons, compiled by Tzafi Weinberg and Monica Carpendale. The book is a unique compilation of writings and art from nine geographical and culturally diverse groups of people.
“Walking With” explores the theory and practice of art therapy, cultural differences, ethics in art therapy, the business of art therapy, and Open Studio models. Tzafi Weinberg and Monica Carpendale have created a wonderful space for a diverse gathering of writers and art therapists to explore how art therapy can be a common ground between cultures for communication, connection, and healing.
This book launch event offers attendees a unique opportunity to meet with Monica and Tzafi as they share stories and insights into the creative process.
In her Foreword, Dr. Lynn Kapitan writes:
“The circle of storytellers by the campfire grows larger as more and more people come to rest, reflect, dream, and commit to walk with one another. ‘Listen,’ I hear them say. ‘It is time to learn our history and shape a new story for our future. We all are still growing; there is still so much to learn. Sit beside us in our sharing what it means to do our work within and upon this land.”
“I read their words in each chapter and imagine the world as they see and feel it. I stretch out my arms to them, as if in that gesture I could hold the wide expanse of the horizon that spans a continent, and feel both the bracing cold and the thawing heart together…”
“There is still a need to liberate art therapy from its decontextualized, monocultural orientation. I thank Tzafi, Monica, and all the authors of this text for honouring our multiple ways of knowing and being, and for recovering and moving art therapy forward along Indigenous, decolonial, postcolonial, antiracist, and transnational pathways.”
Join us for a thought-provoking conversation about art therapy and culture. Art therapy has the potential and the power to accept, honour, and validate our differences and diversity, to heal trauma and encourage creativity during these turbulent times.
Monica Carpendale, BFA, DVATI, BCATR, RCAT is the founder and professor emeritus of the Kutenai Art Therapy Institute in Nelson, BC. She has over 35 years of experience in education, art therapy, and supervision. Monica holds a hermeneutic phenomenological approach to relational art therapy supervision. She holds a focus on intersectionality. cultural considerations, and introduces a variety of art and poetry invitations for arts-based supervision. Her underlying focus is strength-based while bringing an environmental awareness to art therapy practice, supervision, and education. She has presented nationally and internationally on art and poetry therapy, supervision and eco art therapy. Monica is the author of five published books and has contributed numerous articles to the CATA Journal. Additionally, Monica has produced three documentary films and invented the Blue Heron Therapy Games.
Tzafi Weinberg studied art therapy at the Kutenai Art Therapy Institute, BC, and Doctorate in Art Therapy at Mount Mary University, Milwaukee. She is knowledgeable in the area of attachment and trauma, specifically with Indigenous children and adolescents. She believes that art therapy can contribute to the reconciliation process with Indigenous people. The creation of art as a personal vehicle of expression, which is common to both Indigenous cultures and the art therapy profession, could be the basis of increasing understanding and building relationships. In her practice Tzafi seeks to understand an individual’s issues within cultural and social contexts, value diverse perspectives, focus on the individual’s strengths, and commit to social justice.