The Power of Expressive Arts: Make Stuff. Feel Better.
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 (12:00 PM - 1:00 PM) (EDT)
Description
Too often social workers are overworked, overlooked, and underappreciated. The needs of our clients can be demanding, and we give them everything that we can to ensure they can live their best lives. Expressive arts can be an easy way to relax, refuel and recharge. Creative expression can open up perspective, create opportunities for creative problem solving, and tap into thoughts and feelings that have once been unable to be processed. Through this hands-on workshop, participants will have the opportunity to practice simple, creative activities that can be used to spark conversation, discover strengths, and have a visual reminder of the things that they are grateful for. Participants will be able to understand how expressive arts tap into the creative parts of the brain and allow for the externalization of emotions, which increases the ability to communicate inner thoughts and feelings. These simple, creative activities can be applied to work being done with students, staff, and families within the educational settings.
Learning Goal/Objective #1Attendees will participate in expressive art activities and understand how to apply these activities to their personal and professional lives.
Learning Goal/Objective #2Attendees will discover how creative expression can enhance self-care for themselves and the clients they serve.
Learning Goal/Objective #3Attendees will learn how mindfulness and expressive arts can spark different ways of thinking about problems in an individual's life and have safe, creative ways to begin those conversations.
Speaker:
Kimberly DiOrio-Rooney, MSW, LICSW
Kimberly is a licensed, independent clinical social worker in Rhode Island. She is passionate about supporting children and adolescents, recognizing them as some of the most vulnerable individuals. Her mission is to empower people of all ages to express their emotions safely through a blend of clinical and non-clinical modalities. Kimberly integrates expressive arts into her practice, witnessing the profound impact of using art as a therapeutic tool as an effective means of release.
Connection to the National Practice Model 2.0: Practice
Content Level: Beginning
Target Audience: School Social Workers
Refund policy: No refunds will be given if you are unable to attend the live webinar.
Registration Note: Registration for this webinar is a 2-part registration. After you complete your registration, be sure to click the link in your confirmation email to sign up on the TEAMS webinar to receive your join link.
Registration Note: Registration for live webinar events will close 1-hour prior to the event start. No further registrations can be made 1-hour prior to the webinar start time.
Many state licensing boards impose specific limitations on course content, distance education, or other elements of continuing education, even when courses are taken from approved providers. It is your sole responsibility to ensure that the courses taken will meet the requirements for your license.
School Social Work Association of America, 1789, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. School Social Work Association of America maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 7/27/2023-7/27/2026. Social workers completing this course receive 1 CE continuing education credit.
Certificates will be emailed to participants upon successful completion of the webinar and completion of the course evaluation. Participants must stay the entire length of the webinar and complete the evaluation to receive credit. No assignments will be required for this course. System Requirements-- Participants must have a computer and audio to participate in the webinar. Attending by phone is strongly discouraged and may result in not receiving CEs. Accessibility Accommodations are offered upon request. Please reach out to ContactUs@sswaa.org .
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