Teaches as an Art Therapy Educator, most recently at the Saint Mary of the Woods College
Austin, Texas Area
- Current
-
- Art Therapy Educator and Coordinator: Creatas Center at Creatas Center
- Coordinator at Creatas Center for Creativity
- Secretary~Parliamentarian at INACS - Institute for Neuroscience And Consciousness Study
- Past
-
- Coordinator of the Creative Arts Therapy Group at The Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital, Towson, Maryland
- Education
-
- The Maryland Institute College of Art
- Recommended
-
1 person has recommended Roberta - Connections
-
33
connections
- Industry
- Health, Wellness and Fitness
- Websites
Roberta Shoemaker-Beal’s Summary
After 30 years of art therapy, clinical work, mostly in psychiatric centers, we are coalescing many "nuggets" from this work to produce more easily comprehensible understandings of the process of creative artmaking with a "different intention" art for personal growth, and even, perhaps, for healing.
Currently we are focusing on creativity research using the Quatrune Brain Theory to support whole-brain education, that includes the arts, especially to find the golden key to open the creative pathways for every mystery learner, whom we suspect may be pre-verbal learners.
Roberta Shoemaker-Beal’s Specialties:
creativity assessment, conflict resolution, traditional art psychotherapy, creative negotiations and creativity consulting: find your vision, find your voice, find your verve !
Roberta Shoemaker-Beal’s Experience
-
Art Therapy Educator and Coordinator: Creatas Center
Creatas Center
(Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)
January 2000 — Present (10 years )
Nuggets from 30 years of art therapy clinical work, research and education brings forth effective theory for art therapy practice: including the Life Arts Review Process's visual~verbal history taking process, an interactive approach to assess life long creative development. The Basic Visual Constructs, this progressive understanding of visual human development presents a foundation for successful human development, expression of Self and accurate art therapy assessment for effective therapeutic interventions employing the creative expressive arts, as therapy. The Creative Loop Process offers a core creativity dynamic for an evolutionary four-stage mind map, of the often overlooked visual centers as central to whole-brain education. Visual~verbal “information gathering” effectively assesses any consult's puzzling conditions, with The Wholistic Art Therapy Drawing Series, the WhATS? and the CREATAS Series, a 7 step progressive series of visual~verbal assessments.
-
Coordinator
Creatas Center for Creativity
(Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)
January 2000 — Present (10 years )
At the CREATAS Center, we are building a center for creatvity that will continue to "spread the word" about art therapy and the effectiveness of its benefits. Here we use the creativity dynamics appraoch as a wholistic and whole brain approach to traditional art therapy theory, applications for practice research and art therapy education.
Contact Creatas@aol.com for more information. -
Secretary~Parliamentarian
INACS - Institute for Neuroscience And Consciousness Study
(Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)
1990 — Present (19 years )
-
Coordinator of the Creative Arts Therapy Group
The Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital, Towson, Maryland
(Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)
1969 — 1982 (13 years )
Developed the Creative Arts Therapy Program, supervised the satff of art and dance therapists and conducted research projects.
Roberta Shoemaker-Beal’s Education
-
The Maryland Institute College of Art
MFA, ATR-BC , art, psychology, anthropology , 1963 — 1973
- Activities and Societies:
- One of 5 founders of the Maryland Art Therapy Association.
May be first master's degree thesis with art therapy as focus. Studied with Dr. Leon Winslow, in the lineage of Dr. Viktor Lowenfeld, father of art education in America, after escaping from Holocaust Germany, and student of margaret Meade, Leonora Forestel
Additional Information
Roberta Shoemaker-Beal’s Websites:
Roberta Shoemaker-Beal’s Interests:
evolution of consciousness, creativity, and wellness.
Roberta Shoemaker-Beal’s Groups:
-
Art Therapy Alliance
Roberta Shoemaker-Beal’s Honors:
Out Standing Young Women in America, 1970,
Honorary Doctorate of Theology, IIIHS
Presidency of professional and educational groups.
Nominated: Who's Who in America
Roberta Shoemaker-Beal’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- consulting offers
- new ventures
- job inquiries
- expertise requests
- business deals
- reference requests
- getting back in touch
