VISION, MISSION & HISTORY

RECOGNIZED PROFESSIONALS

The Metàfora Art Therapy department is made up of a large team of professionals with extensive clinical and teaching experience as art therapists, along with psychologists, psychoanalysts, social workers, guest artists and professionals from the healthcare world.

SOCIAL COMMITMENT

Metàfora’s social commitment is the cornerstone of our activity. Since its beginning, a multitude of healthcare projects have been carried out by interns of the Master’s in Art Therapy in areas such as education, prisons, mental health, hospitals.

ART AND MULTICULTURALISM

Teachers and students from the five continents, with different professional profiles, meet around the same common axis, art and its therapeutic potential. Our courses, beyond the training aspect, are an enriching meeting point both professionally and personally.

VISION

Metàfora Centre d’Estudis d’Artteràpia is an institution dedicated to publicizing and establishing the practice and training in art therapy all over the world, taking into account the geographical and cultural differences of the student body.

MISSION

Our main objectives are:

Train people so that they can practice as art therapists in any country in the world, offering a high quality education, comparable to that of countries where art therapy is a recognized profession.
Extend a form of therapeutic intervention that:
- Considers the therapeutic relationship as an essential element of change
- Enhances awareness and empowerment of users by expanding their mentalizing capacity
Contribute to a world in which social justice, respect for life, care and attention to others are priorities above other considerations.
Provide a vision of art and psychotherapy as engines of personal and social change.

HISTORY

Metàfora opened in February 2000 in what were previously old industrial buildings from the end of the 19th century. Three years earlier, in 1997, however, we had begun giving art therapy and contemporary art courses and conferences in different locations.

The aim of Metàfora was to establish the training and practice of art therapy in Spain, as well as, in a separate department, to introduce a new way of teaching Contemporary Art in Spain according to Northern European models.

In 1999, Metàfora established a collaboration agreement with the University of Barcelona to initiate a Master’s Degree in Art Therapy similar to those already existing in other countries such as the United Kingdom.

In the year 2000, the Master in Relational Art Therapy began. Ten years later it changed location, this time in collaboration with the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona. As of 2015, the Master is carried out independently.

During these years, art therapy has been establishing itself in Spain and other Spanish-speaking countries, and is currently in the process of expansion.

We currently offer a range of courses in art therapy ranging from introductory courses, postgraduate and masters (taught just in Spanish).

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