(PhD candidate, Lesley University), directed the art therapy program at Bowling Green State University in Ohio from 1986 to 1997. After leaving BGSU he became the director of the Graduate Art Therapy Program at the Naropa University in Boulder Colorado. Since 1981 he has both practiced and taught art therapy in various academic and clinical settings.
KEYNOTE
Michael Franklin, MA, ATR-BC
© 2008-2010 The Buckeye Art Therapy Association
29th Annual
Buckeye Art Therapy Association Symposium
September 24 & 25, 2010
The Making of Mindfulness through Art
Michael has lectured nationally and internationally, offering a wide range of research contributions to the field in the areas of aesthetics, self esteem, AIDs iconography, interpretive strategies, contemplative approaches to art therapy and community based art therapy.
His current work as an artist and researcher focuses on the relationship between art therapy and social engagement, yoga philosophy, and meditation.
Friday Keynote Lecture:
Reflections on Social Neuroscience, Meditation,
and Art Based Approaches to Empathy
1. Participants will be able to distinguish between intrapersonal attunement and interpersonal attunement as it relates to mindfulness and other meditation practices.
2. Participants will be able to name 3 skill-sets needed in order to cultivate visual empathy responses.
3. Participants will be able to name 3 basic elements of mindfulness meditation practice as they relate to clinical practice and art practice.
Saturday Workshop:
Developing Compassion Through Empathic Art Responses
