Sponsored by Arts Equity Collective
2.0 Ohio CSWMFT Board CEUs offered

Cost: FREE
Presenter: Rachael DuBose, M.S. Ed., LPCC-S, CCTP

Discover how creative expression can be used to promote mental health awareness, reduce stigma, and support healing within diverse communities. This interactive training introduces behavioral and mental health professionals to arts-based approaches that can deepen engagement, elevate underheard voices, and create more meaningful opportunities for connection, reflection, and advocacy.

Through visual art, spoken word, movement, discussion, case examples, neuroscience-informed insights, and hands-on experiential exercises, participants will explore how creative modalities can be integrated into behavioral health, community, and educational settings. Attendees will leave with practical tools and strategies that can be adapted to support individuals, groups, and communities in thoughtful, culturally responsive ways.​

This training aligns with Arts Equity Collective’s broader community work through the Survivor’s Ball, a signature event that uses art, storytelling, and collective remembrance to honor lived experience while shifting dominant narratives around survival and strength. Learn more at https://www.artsequitycollective.org/

What to Expect

• Interactive Creative Exercises – Participate in guided arts-based activities that demonstrate how creative expression can support reflection, connection, and healing.​
• Discussion and Case Examples – Explore examples of how art can be used in behavioral health and community settings to foster engagement and reduce stigma.​
• Neuroscience-Informed Insights – Learn more about the relationship between creativity, emotional regulation, healing, and resilience.​
• Practical Strategies for Professional Use – Leave with ideas and tools that can be adapted for use in clinical, advocacy, educational, or community-facing work.​
• Supportive and Thought-Provoking Dialogue – Engage in meaningful conversation about how creative approaches can expand the way we promote mental health awareness and support diverse communities.

Who Should Attend?

• Behavioral health professionals
  
• Mental health professionals
  
• Social workers
  
• Counselors
  
• Peer supporters
  
• Case managers
  
• Community health workers
  
• Prevention specialists
  
• Educators and school-based support staff
  
• Advocates and nonprofit professionals
  
• Anyone interested in creative, healing-centered approaches to mental health awareness and stigma reduction

We are limiting this event to a smaller group of up to 40 attendees to allow individualized support and questions when needed.

Please contact MoPoetry Phillips  at 1mopoetry@gmail.com  for any additional questions.