Certified Expressive Art Facilitator · Miami, FL

Expressive Arts Facilitation training in Miami.

Wynwood's studio culture makes expressive arts facilitation an easy fit for Miami applicants — often yoga teachers and wellness owners who want to run drawing, painting, and collage sessions for personal-development groups rather than pursue the clinical art degree they neither need nor want.

Expressive Arts Facilitation certification training in Miami, FL

Miami cohort at a glance

Tuition
$6,500

Same tuition in every city

Format
100% in person

In Miami, FL

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 Miami

Jun 18 – Oct 17, 2027

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

  1. Module 1Jun 18–20
  2. Module 2Jul 23–25
  3. Module 3Aug 20–22
  4. Module 4Sep 24–26
  5. Module 5Oct 15–17

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

Seats

10 students

Enrolment closes

May 28, 2027

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Train where you live

Why Expressive Arts Facilitation in Miami?

Certified Expressive Art Facilitators here work with community and wellness groups in Wynwood and Coconut Grove, and increasingly inside the studios graduates already run. Bilingual facilitation opens doors with Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking participants. Be clear-eyed on scope, though: this is facilitation for wellness and personal development, not clinical work, so referrals and honest positioning keep you on the right side of that line.

Miami's wellness culture is genuinely bilingual and pan-American. Practitioners here move between English and Spanish (and often Portuguese), and the modalities they're drawn to often arrive through Latin American as well as North American channels. Our cohorts frequently include healthcare workers and entrepreneurs in active career transition. Note: Florida specifically prohibits non-licensed naturopathy practice; the Holistic Naturopathy program is therefore not offered in Miami.

For students of Expressive Arts Facilitation specifically, Miami's scene is a particularly good match: bilingual en/es practitioner community. The local cohort runs in venue partners around Wynwood, Coconut Grove, Coral Gables, with public transit and parking accessible from across the metro.

Miami applicants are often 30-50, with backgrounds spanning healthcare, hospitality, real estate, and entrepreneurship. Many are bilingual EN/ES (some trilingual with Portuguese) and want to serve a bilingual or trilingual clientele. Several recent cohorts have included nurses transitioning out of Florida hospitals, entrepreneurs from Latin American backgrounds adding holistic credentials to existing wellness businesses, and yoga teachers seeking complementary modalities. Cultural literacy across U.S./LatAm wellness frameworks is a hallmark of the Miami student profile.

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 Miami: 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 Miami 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 Miami.

Miami cohorts run year-round but adjust around hurricane season (late August through October), with September starts buffered for storm contingency. The peak cohort months are January-April when the snowbird wellness market is at its most active. Summer cohorts are smaller but unusually committed.

The right student

Who this Miami 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 Miami 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 Miami.

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

Tuition and financing details

$6,500

120h of teaching · 15 in-person days

Next step

Become a Certified Expressive Art Facilitator in Miami.

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