Shelley Kavanagh

Facilitated Workshops and Presentations

• ‘No Mud, No Lotus’, Gardiner Museum  (2023)

• Contributing author, DBT-Informed Art Therapy in Practice; Skillful Means in Action. Edited by Susan Clark, Jessica Kingsley Publishers (June 2021)

• Webinar for Boost: Clay Based DBT & Sensorimotor Approaches for Transforming Interpersonal Trauma (2020)

• NYC Expressive Arts Conference: Clay-Based DBT & Sensorimotor Approaches for Transforming Gender-Based Trauma( 2019)

• Trauma Informed Practices and Creative Interventions Training, Moncton, New Brunswick (2018)

• Sheros, Gardiner Museum  (2018)

• Finding Balance in a Topsey Turvey World, Gardiner Museum (2017)

• Firing Silence; Moulding Change, Gardiner Museum (2016)

• Forging New Paths, Gardiner Museum (2015)

• International Conference and Summit on Violence, Abuse and Trauma (IVAT): Children and Youth Inform the Public about the Impacts of Sexual Abuse through Art and Activism. San Diego, CA (2014)

• 160 Girls Exhibit/The Equality Effect, Gardiner Museum (2014)

• The Continuum of Services for Adolescents Who Have Sexually Offended : Promoting Healthy Outcomes Through Innovative Services with Key Note Speaker: John Brier (2013)

• 160 Girls Exhibit, Gardiner Museum (2012)

• Half the Sky Exhibit, Gardiner Museum (2011)

• Stepping Into Connection: Mapping Our Way Home Through the Arts: Ministry of Community & Social Services, Training for Victim Assault Workers (2011)

• Expressive Arts Series: A Mind-body Trauma Intervention / Expand Your Tool Kit - How To Integrate Expressive Arts Into Your Practice/ Using Expressive Arts to Engage Youth Labelled ‘Hard to Serve”: Safeguard Training (2010/11)

• Stepping into Connection: Mapping Our Way Home through the Arts. BOOST (2010)

• Tree of Life Exhibit, Gardiner Museum (2009)

• Migrating From Compassion Fatigue to Compassion Vitality, Caledon Community Services (2009)

• Addressing Youth Victimization through Expressive Arts, Caledon Community Services (2008)

• Hope Street Poets Poetry project with The Canadian League of Poets, Richview Library (2007)

• Building Bridges – Ceramic Project with Adolescent Females Who Have Experienced Sexual Abuse, Gardiner Museum (2006 & 2005)

• Using Expressive Arts with Childhood Victims of Sexual Abuse, Etobicoke Children’s Centre (2004)

• Engaging Hard-to-Serve Youth, Rapport Youth Services (2003)

• Using Expressive Arts and Metaphors as Treatment and Assessment Tools in Working with Children, Adolescents and Mothers Who Have Been Exposed to Woman Abuse, Victim Services of Peel (2002)

• Expressive Arts and Metaphors: Tools to Assess and Treat Children Who Witness Woman Abuse, Safeguards Training (2001)

• Assessment and Treatment of Childhood Sexual Abuse with Children and Youth, Six Nations Child and Family Services (2001)

• Secondary Traumatic Stress: Helping the Helpers, Six Nations Child and Family Services (2001)

• Sharing Without Talking: An Expressive Arts Approach in the Assessment and Treatment of Childhood Sexual Abuse with Children and Youth, Safeguards Training (2000)

• Expressive Arts Therapy: Creativity That Works with Anti-Social Behaviours, Safeguards Training (1999-2000)

• Expressive Arts Strategies as a Primary Tool to Promote Resiliency and Protective Factors with Children and Youth, Six Nations Child and Family Services (2000)