MIECAT in Fitzroy, Victoria | Education
MIECAT
Locality: Fitzroy, Victoria
Phone: +61 3 9486 9081
Address: 15-17 Victoria Street 3065 Fitzroy, VIC, Australia
Website: https://miecat.edu.au/information-sessions-blank
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25.01.2022 A wonderful opportunity!... Repost Creative Victoria: The Creative Workers in Schools program will place 150 Victorian creatives, working across all disciplines, to mentor students in local schools. https://bit.ly/37lrlFz
24.01.2022 For our creatives, our videographers, our visual story tellers... this one is for you... Film your day, share your story.
23.01.2022 "For me, MIECAT is like a big long hug. The space offered is safe, transparent and available to all. MIECAT allows me to connect and immerse into my values, and be who I need to be within each moment. As I continue to travel through my MIECAT experience with curiosity, I know my process will form an outcome unique to me." Thanks to Isabella for sharing her reflections and images capturing her explorations at Miecat. Our intake process for 2021 is now open, offering immers...ive workshops so you can experience first hand the way we work at Miecat. Sign up via our website: https://miecat.edu.au/information-sessions-blank/
22.01.2022 To our wonderful MIECAT creatives, here is your chance to create AND support the incredible VanGo Puppet Appeal. Post your pictures and tag us here before you pop them in the post!
22.01.2022 Jessie is a MIECAT trained arts therapist, teacher at MIECAT, and artist. This is a wonderful video from Jessie and The Dax about Jessie's arts practice. @Jessiebdart and @daxcentre on Instagram #studiodaxonline We are also fortunate to have Jessie teaching our Engaging with Materials unit this weekend (the third unit of our Masters in Therapeutic Arts Practice). A perfectly aligned subject for Jessie, as you will see!
21.01.2022 Congratulations to Kerri Weymouth on this inspiring project, produced as part of her Masters practicum...
21.01.2022 What I love about Miecat is the sense of community, and the safe, open learning environment lecturers and other students create. The opportunity to learn new approaches and build skills through emergent processes, and personal lived experiencing provides an insightful and engaging tool for discovery! I have been challenged, overjoyed, frustrated, concerned, tired, fulfilled, and supported each experience providing valuable new knowings. 2020 has been a year of challenges... including transitioning to online learning, Zoom classes and Microsoft Teams. With so much uncertainty, now more than ever, we need to connect with one another, and there is no better place to do that than Miecat online or in person. Thanks to Elaine Camlin for sharing her reflections and images capturing her explorations at Miecat. Our intake process for 2021 is now open, offering immersive workshops so you can experience first hand the way we work at Miecat. Sign up via our website: https://miecat.edu.au/information-sessions-blank/
20.01.2022 Congratulations to our lovely student Sarah who is doing her practicum at ONJ as part of her final year in the MIECAT Masters in Therapeutic Arts Practice. What a wonderful project!
19.01.2022 Brilliant work by our Professional Doctorate candidate Em Hodges . We agree that the therapeutic space and place is really important and contributes to how we companion. This has certainly been raised into awareness in our teaching now that we are currently working remotely. Rich learning ahead for our unit 3 - engaging with materials - students, who will take time to consider this also. Wishing Emerge - Women and Children's Support Network all the best. The work you do in our community is invaluable. Thank you.
18.01.2022 Some much needed inspiration and joy...
17.01.2022 I knew I was in the right place as soon as I went to the information workshop. Over the three years, the balance of academic rigour and experiential learning was just right for me. All of the staff were so supportive. They come with a wealth of experience and you could tell that through their compassionate mentorship. Quite often the changes we make in our lives feel miniscule and not at all ground breaking in the moment, however, it seems that each small step we take on an ...authentic path of our own making, leads us closer to who we want to be. Looking back on this depiction of me with the red umbrella, this may have been a point that illustrated less need for protection, and more faith and confidence in the MIECAT procedures and how they held my intention of self discovery. Thanks to MIECAT graduate, Jo Roszkowski, for sharing her reflections and images. Our intake process for 2021 is now open, offering immersive workshops so you can experience first hand the way we work at MIECAT starting next week! Sign up via our website: https://miecat.edu.au/information-sessions-blank/
17.01.2022 The information workshop was like nothing Id done before. The session was so well run and the exercises I participated in were engaging and intriguing (they very quickly tapped into parts of my lived experience that I didnt have words for), I was hooked. One of the things I loved the most about my time at MIECAT was how much it challenged me. Or rather, what I gained from being challenged in this way. Always from a place of safety and trust, the course work challenged me ...to explore and understand deeper parts of my own lived experience in new and different ways. In turn, I learnt to hold space for others, as together, we sought to make better sense of their lived experience. I found this work to be incredibly rewarding. It demanded my presence and intuition as much as the methodology that I was learning. From these challenges, came immense personal growth, confidence in a new skill set and new ways of being in the world. MIECAT has a wonderful way of centring each students personal experience at the heart of their own learning. My advice to new or prospective students would be to do your very best to keep an open mind and trust in the processes that you are learning. They can be challenging, but they can lead to some incredible discoveries. Thanks to MIECAT graduate, Sarah Sivaraman, for sharing her reflections and video. Our intake process for 2021 is now open, offering immersive workshops so you can experience first hand the way we work at MIECAT. Sign up via our website: https://miecat.edu.au/information-sessions-blank/
16.01.2022 Supremely talented Miecat graduate and teacher, Anna Paddick is releasing her first album, Everything I Know. This beautiful clip features another gifted Miecat teacher, Kevin Jeynes. Congratulations Anna! We cant wait to hear it!
15.01.2022 within and between m i e c a t a c e i m new knowings... ever in becoming syllables and letters tumble about tendrilling into new knowings within and between movement, prose and colours my voice is becoming seen heard within my widening communities of practice co companioned by our overlapping constellations of miecat we shape and are shaped by our relational ways of being within the world gently now . . . . . . take c o u r a g e my he(art) . Jae, 2020, m i e c a t a c e i m, words + movements. . Thanks to second year MIECAT student, Jae, for sharing her words and images. . Our intake process for 2021 is now open, offering immersive workshops so you can experience first hand the way we work at MIECAT starting next week! Sign up via our website: https://miecat.edu.au/information-sessions-blank/
15.01.2022 "For me studying at MIECAT was like learning to swim. I often felt vulnerable and out of my depth amongst the sea of new people, big feelings and vast embodied experiences. But all our teachers were experienced, compassionate life guards along the way, providing direction, support and encouragement. During the final streak of my Masters project, my supervisor made me a tin foil gold star. A hard earned representation and acknowledgement of my experience of working through A... report exploring the practise of combining therapeutic arts procedures with birth companion whilst becoming a mother myself. That gold star is framed and hanging in my home, as a reminder of how incredibly capable I am and how we most often have the ability to stretch and expand ourselves in ways we didn't think were possible until we are doing it. Key words that come to mind to describe my experience at MIECAT are: supportive, individualised, flexible, expansive, relational, humour, friendships, inspirational and safe." Thanks to MIECAT graduate, Bec Wisby, for sharing her reflections and images. Our intake process for 2021 is now open, offering immersive workshops so you can experience first hand the way we work at MIECAT. Sign up via our website: https://miecat.edu.au/information-sessions-blank/
15.01.2022 LAST CHANCE! If you’re curious about MIECAT and contemplating enrolment, now’s the time to register for an experiential Information & Selection workshop... The final few Information & Selection workshops will be run in January. To book, email Bea: [email protected]... ...or sign up via the link below: https://miecat.edu.au/information-sessions-blank/ We look forward to meeting you! #experience #miecat #signup
14.01.2022 Good morning everyone and welcome to Day 3 of Engaging with Materials for our 'intensive group' of students. We are still on-line but that doesn't stop us from developing an amazingly creative, rich learning space for this subject! Students spent Day 1 mindfully collecting materials, creating their making / studio spaces, identifying a creative nook, locating an object (which will be altered over the Days to come), visiting the arts (online), considering their reflexivity (...what they bring of themselves) and creating little self-care kits. The work has been incredible and our online learning spaces after Day 2 are buzzing. Thanks to Brigitte Weber who has kindly agreed to us sharing part of her collecting materials with you -"home-made fingerpaint in vegemite jars... contains sugar-edible". Love the Aussie touch of the Vegemite jars Brigitte Weber! Keep up the great work Unit 3 intensive students. You are awesome!
14.01.2022 The Venny is a wonderful early intervention and prevention organisation based in Kensington and is in close proximity to the Kensington high-rise public housing estate, and the 9 towers that have been placed in hard lockdown for the last 5 days. MIECAT teacher Danni, and MIECAT graduate Ciara are part of the team who are currently running online programs for kids in need, and is also sending care packages to families in the towers with art materials for kids. "Thank you so m...uch to those of you have sent donations to The Venny Inc over the past few days!!! The immediate response and offers of support that have been received has been amazing. Since the lockdown started the Venny team has been working with lots of other organisations. We negotiated access to the towers last night and were able to get some emergency food aid to families. We are working to respond to what is being requested from the kids and communities in the towers. This week, online play will re-commence on Tuesday and we are organising art and activity packs to go out to the children. This will be an opportunity for the youth in local communities to connect to the Playworkers at The Venny and more importantly, to each other. From all of The Venny staff - we thank you! Please see the link below if you can spare anything at all. And to all the families in lockdown in the Melbourne flats, we are with you all the way." Ciara, July 6, 2020. https://thevenny.org.au/donate-2/ If you would like to donate to The Venny and their wonderful work, please click on the link.
13.01.2022 Prior to studying at MIECAT I was a practising artist. The introductory session at MIECAT reminded me of my previous degree, in its experiential and practical nature. I was excited by the prospect of learning in this way hands on. This was the most amazing part of my time at MIECAT after every subject, I felt I had really been immersed in learning and practice. During the Masters, I completed practicum at an arts based disability day service. The Postgrad and Masters ins...tilled me with real confidence in my ability as a therapeutic practitioner. Thanks to MIECAT graduate, Emma Smith, for sharing her reflections and images. Our intake process for 2021 is now open, offering immersive workshops so you can experience first hand the way we work at MIECAT. Sign up via our website: https://miecat.edu.au/information-sessions-blank/
12.01.2022 Another wonderful MIECAT practicum student doing incredible work! Congratulations Jodie on supporting young people at Headspace Narre Warren through your Arts Project - it looks amazing. "Welcoming all young people (12-25) to get involved!! To enjoy art-making while exploring what mental health means for you or your lived experience of mental health. No need to be 'good at art', more about what comes from art-making for you. I hope that this process brings a little joy, refl...ection or some new knowings, even helping just a little during this uncertain time. The large mural will be revealed as a representation from our young people, a 'Collection of Solidarity' and understanding, opening up conversation and support around mental health." Jodie (Third year student, Masters in Therapeutic Arts Practice) https://www.facebook.com/hsnarrewarren/posts/1704890409665518
12.01.2022 Really proud of our Masters graduate Karryne Hearn. A lovely collaboration Karryne. https://carlavanlaar.com/cultural-collaboration-reconcili/
11.01.2022 Sign and share! Join the campaign to change legislation Arts Therapist = Mental Health Practitioner ... Led by Dr Carla van Laar who completed her Professional Doctorate at MIECAT.
11.01.2022 Miecat was like a container and my story unfolded inside of it like a long poem until it spilled over into the practicum context. There were many beautiful moments and quite a few messy ones. During my years of studying I have discovered a lot about my self that I can use in relation to my self, others and my environment. Trust in the creative process is the most important aspect and openness to lifelong learning. I now experience life in it self as an intrinsically therap...eutic creative process and when I listen carefully I am fully immersed in its flow. Thanks to MIECAT graduate, Silvia Maschek, for sharing her reflections and images. Our intake process for 2021 is now open, offering immersive workshops so you can experience first hand the way we work at MIECAT. Sign up via our website: https://miecat.edu.au/information-sessions-blank/
10.01.2022 Expressive Therapies Summit introduce their first online summit!... http://www.cvent.com//event-summary-dc36db3df55c400da47072
10.01.2022 Have your say in shaping the MIECAT Public Program! _ WHAT IS IT? The MIECAT Public Program aims to foster communities of creative inquiry and support best practice in the field of therapeutic arts by providing relevant, responsive and accessible professional development. These opportunities of engagement are independent of, yet complementary to, the Masters and Professional Doctorate Programs.... It is informed by MIECAT’s values of relationality, multimodality and emergence. _ Your responses to these questions help us make this as engaging a program as possible Thank you in advance! https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/telluswhatyouwant _ Feel free to start the conversation here. Brainstorm. Get creative! #miecat #publicprograms #arttherapy #experientialeducation #whatdoyouneed?
09.01.2022 I am in my final year at MIECAT and it is the most fulfilling, enriching training I have ever undertaken. Every interaction with MIECAT is personal and professional growth. The skills I have gained and had time to process and practice, have made my work feel like second nature and given me confidence. Currently, I am on placement with a secondary school, and even with working from home humps, I am in my best space. Thanks to Sabina Kuljuh for sharing her reflections and i...mages capturing her explorations at Miecat. Our intake process for 2021 is now open, offering immersive workshops so you can experience first hand the way we work at Miecat. Sign up via our website: https://miecat.edu.au/information-sessions-blank/
09.01.2022 Fill in the survey and share to change legislation: PROFESSIONAL ARTS THERAPIST = MENTAL HEALTH PRACTITIONER Campaign led by Dr Carla van Laar. ... Repost... PROFESSIONAL ARTS THERAPIST = MENTAL HEALTH PRACTITIONER IMPORTANT UPDATE VICTORIAN AThRs: Good morning friends! For everyone who is supporting our campaign, here is your job for today! This survey is EXTREMELY important!!! Please everyone make 100% sure you fill it in and help advocate for the value of Arts Therapy as VERY important in Australia's mental health care landscape. ****Make sure you state very clearly that you want PROFESSIONAL ARTS THERAPISTS recognised as MENTAL HEALTH PRACTITIONERS in the 2014 Victorian Mental Health Act**** This survey WILL be highly influential and we must ensure Arts Therapy has a strong voice in this Royal Commission. The findings of this survey will help to inform the shape of Victoria's future Mental Health system. If we want things like medicare provider numbers, we MUST be represented in this survey. Have a great day! Thank you!!!!!
09.01.2022 A FREE webinar today from ISTSS, "Trauma from an Intersectional Perspective" Register now and set the alarm to tune in at 2:30 Saturday morning!
09.01.2022 WINDOW THEATRE by Nikkita Goncalves "Unfortunately due to COVID 19 restrictions, I could not attend my placement: an acute aged-care facility, for some time. In response to limitations and understanding that the residents could not easily leave the lodge, receiving fewer visitors, and no entertainment or volunteers could enter the facility, the mood was low. After receiving some inspiration from various sources (news stories, YouTube videos) of kind, creative individuals try...ing to connect with loved ones in nursing homes, I devised my plan. I wanted to bring some joy to the individuals I have grown so fond of, I hoped to brighten their day, even if it was for 5 minutes. Admittedly I was nervous to perform at first, doubting this would be received the way I intended it to be, but it has seemed to be a hit with the residents and nurses. So far I have created 3 window works, each having a different flavour, using spontaneous dancing, music that is familiar to their demographic, and some interesting costumes. During these anxious and lonely times, I wanted my audience to know they are not forgotten or alone, that respite in these challenging times is necessary and joy cultivates connection, even through a window." . Thanks to final year MIECAT student, Nikkita Goncalves @nikkitagoncalves for sharing her reflections and video. Song: Pink Sunrise by The Great North Sound Society. . Our intake process for 2021 is now open, offering immersive Information & Selection workshops, so you can experience first hand the way we work at MIECAT. To book, email admin direct at [email protected] or sign up via our website: https://miecat.edu.au/information-sessions-blank/
09.01.2022 Hello! If you have made inquiries about our Masters in Therapeutic Arts Practice for 2021, expect to hear from us early next week with details about October dates for experiential workshops. Well also be sending you links to some rich resources for you to immerse in, so you can be well informed about what we offer and whether youd like to know more. Stay tuned . If you are yet to inquire and are curious, contact Bea, our friendly office manager, and shell add you to our contact list so we can keep you up to date. Email [email protected]
09.01.2022 "I had no idea that this would become such a rich and personal journey for me, and while it has had some incredible challenges, it has opened me up to greater understanding of the human experience." Thanks to first year student, Melinda Rodnight for sharing her reflections and images capturing her explorations at Miecat this year. Our intake process for 2021 is now open, offering immersive workshops so you can experience first hand the way we work at Miecat. Sign up via our website (link in bio).
08.01.2022 MAKING SENSE, THE ARTEFACT podcasts via link below. Thanks to final year student, Sharyn Latham, for her 2020 story... . How is it that a student who has, in the past, been unable to trust her spoken voice to actually speak when she needed it to, not only comes to form sound recordings for MIECAT, but also records her voice for all to hear, as an autoethnographic storyteller. Such ideas once would have seemed unfathomable to me, but we all have a COVID yarn to tell. My 2020... MIECAT story emerged in mythical form, revealing itself among the vapour of crowns whilst lost in the forest of expectations. I suddenly needed to find new ways to connect. There was exploration through spaces devoid of face-to-face contact and grounding through shared experiences. Depthing of connection seemed to occur through sound and the offering of Inter-subjective responses as sound. These acoustic offerings serve to validate experiencing and have now become an important part of my on-line companioning practice along with other encounterings. The hope is that others who come across this artefact may gain some insight to the 2020 experience of contributors, as well as an offering of processes, procedures and values available through The MIECAT Form of Inquiry. https://miecat.edu.au/facility-i/making-sense-the-artefact/ . Words and images by Sharyn Latham, 2020. - If you’re curious about MIECAT and contemplating enrolment, time’s running out to register for an experiential Information & Selection workshop. Information & Selection workshop dates for December below. To book, email: [email protected] Fri Dec 11, 10-11.30am Sat Dec 12, 9-10.30am Mon Dec 14, 2-3.30pm Tues Dec 15, 2-3.30pm Wed Dec 16, 10-11.30am Thur Dec 17, 3-4.30pm Fri Dec 18, 10-11.30am #miecat #2020stories
08.01.2022 The MIECAT Institute provided me with an alternate way of being/thinking as a therapeutic practitioner that was significantly different to my saturated experiences of being a mentally ill human within the psychiatric system. As I delved further into the therapeutic procedures at MIECAT, my own self changed with these learning experiences and the considered space that they provide. I am a person who lives with mental illness and I think its important that I work as an art th...erapist and have a voice in this space. The MIECAT Institute has provided me with the tools to make space for others voices and experiences in a way that allows me a different view/lens to what our experiencing means. I am truly grateful for the learning, community and space for meaning making that The MIECAT Institute provides its students. Thanks to MIECAT graduate, Lucy Hotchin @embrace.this.space, for sharing her reflections and images. Our intake process for 2021 is now open, offering immersive workshops so you can experience first hand the way we work at MIECAT. Sign up via our website: https://miecat.edu.au/information-sessions-blank/
08.01.2022 The Embodiment Conference 2020: Online and offering free access to world-class teachers... https://theembodimentconference.org
08.01.2022 MAKING ART IN PRISON and other conspiracies of hope Experiential storytelling and reflective arts based workshop with Cara Munro ... Thursday 3rd December 7-9pm (Melbourne time) via Zoom Register via: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Caramunro Join Arts Therapist, Nurse and writer, Cara Munro, as she reads a short story based on her Creative Arts Program behind the walls of Victoria's only Maximum Security Prison for Women. She shares reflections of what she knew then and what she is coming to know about working with imprisoned people in Australia. As she shares, you are invited to use art materials to respond to themes and record artfully, ideas that emerge for you. There will be a time of sharing reflections at the end of the session where you will have the opportunity to reflect and listen to the reflections of others. The presentation is suitable for adults. To learn more about Cara, visit: www.oldcityarts.com.au #miecat #publicprograms #storiesfromthefield
07.01.2022 Over the years at MIECAT I felt such support and connection with the facilitators who sat beside us. Every one of them had a sense or a word, gesture or song that sat with me, and each intensive I felt a little closer, more open and present to what was emerging. Thanks to MIECAT graduate, Leeza Stratford, for sharing her reflections and images. Our intake process for 2021 is now open, offering immersive workshops so you can experience first hand the way we work at MIECA...T. Sign up via our website: https://miecat.edu.au/information-sessions-blank/
06.01.2022 Here we go MIECAT community - part 2! Thanks Cathy Malchiodi . See you on the screen :)
06.01.2022 Some inspiration from artist Darren John, for a new week of imagining, making, playing...
06.01.2022 In tribute to our much loved MIECAT student... DEBORAH JOY CAVAYE 24.7.67 - 1.12.20 (written by good friend and classmate, Karin McCormack)...Continue reading
06.01.2022 Working within a hospital environment during the year of Covid was quite a surreal experience; I wondered how I could support people through this time of isolation, not only through Covid but through the experience of Cancer. And soon the Connecting Through Patterns of Nature emerged. Slow, repetitive movements of the hands while felting the Merino roving wool became a practice of wellness for participants of the project. This project brought about connection and creative p...urpose for those who participated and gives a sense of hope in the permanence of the nature themed installation for viewers. . Thanks to final year student, Sarah Foley @sarahfoleyart for sharing her 2020 reflections and images. If you’re curious about MIECAT and contemplating enrolment, time’s running out to register for an experiential Information & Selection workshop. Information & Selection workshop dates below. To book, email: [email protected] Wed Dec 16, 10-11.30am Thur Dec 17, 3-4.30pm Fri Dec 18, 10-11.30am #miecat #2020stories
04.01.2022 The Australasian Dance Movement Therapy Research Grants 2020 are now open. The Foundation is offering a grant of up to $3,000 in 2020. Applications are welcome from students or practitioners in the field of dance therapy, or from joint applicants, combining a researcher with a dance movement therapist. Arts Therapists/Therapeutic Arts Practioners are welcome to apply. Give them a call to start the ball rolling and discuss any proposals.
03.01.2022 I switched studies from counselling to MIECAT after hearing about how high quality the learning experience was there. I was hooked after experiencing the information session and knew it was for me. MIECAT really helped me enhance and deepen my therapeutic skills through its experiential, multimodal and relational learning approach. I’ve been able to use elements of what I learned at MIECAT in all my roles to date. I love so much about MIECAT: the experiential nature of lea...rning; the ability to have open discussions, collaborate and engage in art-making; getting to be taught by and learn alongside incredible practitioners who really do practice what they preach; and lastly, learning a meaningful, effective and embodied approach to creative arts therapy. . Thanks to MIECAT graduate, Angela Zheng @angelajzheng for sharing her reflections and images. . Our intake process for 2021 is now open, offering immersive Information & Selection workshops, so you can experience first hand the way we work at MIECAT. To book, email admin direct at [email protected] or sign up via our website: https://miecat.edu.au/information-sessions-blank/
03.01.2022 Free online event: Trauma Skills Summit. Join 24 premier teachers in the field to explore the latest breakthroughs in healing from trauma... https://product.soundstrue.com/trauma-skills-sum/register/
02.01.2022 A little reminder - not long now until this (no charge) 5-day summit! https://www.embodiedpsychologysummit.com
02.01.2022 This intriguing image by Lisa Borella features in our August edition of Miecat Stories, a monthly collection of the latest happenings at Miecat and in our community. To subscribe visit our website contact page via the link in our bio.
01.01.2022 Sorry for the late notice in discovering this event - the first Online Academic Writing Conference! "Blurring the Lines: Academic, Professional, and Popular Writing." Looks like a perfect line-up for MIECAT staff and students. It begins today, 7th July. Registration is 8 am in Israel (which is 3pm AEST - please double check your time zone) with many great events going into our evening. It is a free event. Credit goes to Prof. Helen Sword (https://www.helensword.com) for bringing this event into our awareness via her newsletter! https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/events//program-app/program
01.01.2022 Our online classes sometimes end with a silent disco, and the students love it! Heres another chance to get down... Repost from NGV: Spend Friday Night in tonight with a live DJ set by SojuGang from the NGV to your lounge room. ... Tune into our Facebook page or website at 7pm fortnightly through August for DJ sets by Lucrecia Quintanilla, Bertie and more. #NGVEveryDay
