Certified Expressive Art Facilitator · Atlanta, GA

Expressive Arts Facilitation training in Atlanta.

Expressive Arts Facilitation fits Atlanta practitioners who want to run drawing, painting, and collage groups in community settings — Inman Park studios, Decatur libraries, wellness spaces serving specific cultural communities. This is facilitation for personal development and wellness, not a clinical art therapy degree.

Expressive Arts Facilitation certification training in Atlanta, GA

Atlanta cohort at a glance

Tuition
$6,500

Same tuition in every city

Format
100% in person

In Atlanta, GA

In-person teaching
15 days · 120h

8-hour days, two 4-hour half-days

Personal study
~96h

Between sessions, on average

Cohort size
10 students

Fixed cohort, start to finish

Credential
CEAF

Private certification, not a state license

Download detailed program (PDF)

PDF — modules, hours, faculty notes, and a typical week's schedule.

Your dates in Atlanta

Jun 4 – Oct 3, 2027

Fri–Sun · 9 am–6 pm · 15 teaching days in 5 monthly modules · 10 seats per cohort

  1. Module 1Jun 4–6
  2. Module 2Jul 9–11
  3. Module 3Aug 6–8
  4. Module 4Sep 10–12
  5. Module 5Oct 1–3

Every teaching day runs 9 am to 6 pm, in two four-hour half-days. You receive the Atlanta venue and the full timetable with your enrolment agreement.

Seats

10 students

Enrolment closes

May 14, 2027

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Train where you live

Why Expressive Arts Facilitation in Atlanta?

Graduates run workshops rather than one-to-one sessions — group work in Old Fourth Ward community rooms, schools, and the cultural-community spaces many Atlanta students are already building. Educators in the cohort often fold it into existing programs. The honest limit: this is group facilitation, not clinical work, so if you want to see individuals around mental health, this credential won't take you there.

Atlanta's wellness market has grown faster over the past decade than nearly any other U.S. metro. The city's Black wellness community, in particular, has been building a generation of practitioners and lineage holders whose work is reshaping the national conversation. Our Atlanta cohorts often include nurses, educators, and entrepreneurs in active career transition.

For students of Expressive Arts Facilitation specifically, Atlanta's scene is a particularly good match: fastest-growing wellness market in the southeast. strong, distinct practitioner voices. The local cohort runs in venue partners around Midtown, Old Fourth Ward, Decatur, with public transit and parking accessible from across the metro.

Atlanta students are often 30-50, with strong representation from healthcare (Emory and the metro hospital system are major employers), education, hospitality, and entrepreneurship. The Atlanta cohorts are unusually diverse — recent cohorts have been roughly 40% Black, 40% white, 20% Latina/other — and that diversity shapes the conversations meaningfully. Many of our Atlanta students are actively building wellness businesses serving specific cultural communities.

The modality

What you'll be training in.

For a deeper introduction to Expressive Arts Facilitation as a practice tradition, see the full program page.

Expressive arts facilitation is the practice of supporting other people in using creative process — drawing, painting, collage, sculpture, mixed-media — for wellness, personal growth, and self-knowledge. The facilitator is not a therapist (and the work is not therapy in the clinical sense). The facilitator is more like a thoughtful host: designing prompts, choosing materials, holding the time and the room, and supporting the participant's own process while the meaning stays with its maker.

The work happens in three main formats. Group studios are 90- to 180-minute facilitated sessions for groups of six to twenty participants, working with shared materials around a theme (grief, transition, identity, embodiment, joy). One-on-one expressive arts sessions are 60- to 90-minute private appointments, often part of a longer arc, where the facilitator works with a single participant on more personal material. Themed retreats are multi-day or weeklong intensives, often residential, that braid expressive arts with movement, meditation, or contemplative practice.

The program, day by day

The Expressive Arts Facilitation curriculum in Atlanta: 15 in-person days.

Fifteen days in the studio, from your first brushstroke to groups you lead with ease.

Teaching days
15

days, 7h each

Teaching hours
120h

in the room

Cohort size
10

in your Atlanta cohort

See every day in detail
Certified Expressive Art Facilitator (CEAF) · 15 days · 120 hours
DayTheme
Chapter 1 · Days 1–4The studio
01Making before facilitating
02The facilitator's stance
03Drawing and painting: mark, gesture, color
04Image and word: your first observed facilitation
Chapter 2 · Days 5–8Materials
05Collage and the group studio
06Clay, found objects and three dimensions
07Body mapping and movement
08Writing, voice and story
Chapter 3 · Days 9–12Deep water
09Themed studios: grief and life transitions
10Themed studios: identity and embodiment
11One-on-one: from intake to integration
12Trauma-informed practice
Chapter 4 · Days 13–15Your practice
13Ethics, scope and the sustainable facilitator
14Building your practice
15Showcase and certification

Signature moment of the program

Cohort schedule

When Expressive Arts Facilitation cohorts run in Atlanta.

Atlanta cohorts run year-round with three starts (January, May, September). Summer cohorts adjust slightly for the deep heat (most studio venues are well-air-conditioned). The fall cohort is the strongest by enrollment volume.

The right student

Who this Atlanta cohort is for.

Career-changers, artists, and wellness practitioners who want to facilitate creative process without confusing it with clinical art therapy.

Career outcomes

Where your Atlanta training leads.

  • Open a private expressive arts facilitation practice (CEAF)
  • Lead studios in retreats, wellness centers, and community spaces
  • Specialize in grief, transition, or women's circles
  • Add expressive work to a coaching, yoga, or somatic practice
Tuition

$6,500 for the full 15-day Expressive Arts Facilitation program in Atlanta.

Same tuition whether you study in Atlanta or any of our other U.S. cities. Monthly payment plans without interest. A 25% deposit confirms your spot in the Atlanta cohort.

Tuition and financing details

$6,500

120h of teaching · 15 in-person days

Next step

Become a Certified Expressive Art Facilitator in Atlanta.

Talk with our admissions team about the next Expressive Arts Facilitation cohort starting in Atlanta, GA. Free, online, one hour.