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Each course is designed to give you simple, achievable ways to create calm, engaging environments where children can regulate, connect and think deeply.

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Nature Art

Explore simple, achievable ways to offer art using natural materials.

Materials that support children to regulate, slow down and engage deeply through sensory-rich, open-ended experiences.

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Loose Parts

Confidently offer rich, open-ended play that honours the capable child.

Learn how to offer materials in a way that encourage curiosity, creativity and deeper engagement.

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Therapeutic Art

Use art as a tool for regulation, emotional expression and connection.

Move beyond craft to meaningful, process-driven experiences you can confidently bring into your everyday practice.

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Nature Art

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Children and adults gathered around a white cloth, participating in an outdoor earthy and creative activity with natural objects and paint.

A focused training to help you confidently bring meaningful art experiences into your everyday practice.

Simple, achievable ways to support regulation, creativity and deep engagement through natural materials.

$75 • 12 month access

What you’ll learn

Approaches that encourage slowing down, curiosity and deeper engagement 

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How to design simple, achievable provocations that invite exploration and play 

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How to use natural materials to create meaningful, open-ended art experiences 

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Ways to set up environments that support calm, focused, creative time

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$75 • 12 month access

Loose Parts

Confidently offer rich, open-ended play that honours the capable child.

A focused training designed to help you create meaningful, engaging experiences using loose parts.

$75 • 12 month access

What you’ll learn

How to support deeper exploration through play and engage alongside children as they play

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How to confidently introduce and use loose parts in your setting in intentional, achievable ways

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Ways to create open-ended play experiences that invite curiosity and engagement

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The theory of schema in loose parts and how this can deepen your understanding of children’s play

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$75 • 12 month access

This is for you if…

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You want to offer more meaningful, open ended play

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You’re looking for practical ideas that are achievable in your setting

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You want to support children’s regulation, behaviour and engagement

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You want innovative ways to offer play materials 

Therapeutic Art

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Child using a foam brush to paint on a colorful, watercolor-style art canvas with jars of paint nearby.

Use art as a tool to support regulation, emotional expression and connection.

A focused training to help you confidently bring meaningful, process-driven art experiences into your everyday practice.

$75 • 12 month access

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What you’ll learn

How environment and materials shape a child’s experience

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How adult responses to art can affect developmental potential

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How creative processes support regulation and development

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How to see art differently in early learning spaces

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How creative process supports social and emotional learning 

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$75 • 12 month access

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In therapeutic work, we don’t ask children to explain their art - we watch the process. How they move, repeat, press into materials, and return tells us what words can’t.

These actions are the nervous system at work, with art holding what the body is processing. When art becomes outcome-focused, creativity narrows. When it becomes process-based, regulation, curiosity, and development deepen.

This course will help you see art differently and understand how your environment and responses can support or limit children’s regulation, expression, and learning. When we hold art with this awareness, it becomes more than an activity. It becomes a tool for connection and development.

The Deeper Work of Creative Process

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Created by Expressive Arts’ Therapist Mel Wangmann

Mel is the founder of Ipsarty, a Creative Care Collective, and a Registered Arts Psychotherapist. Mel supports educators to understand the therapeutic power of art, play, and environment in supporting emotional well-being. Mel’s course offers practical ways to strengthen regulation, connection, and emotional well-being - grounded in evidence and real-world practice.

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$125 • 12 month access

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Looking for the complete collection?

Access the full Creative Ways Collective training collection in one complete bundle.

Designed for early childhood educators wanting to create calm, engaging and meaningful learning environments, this collection brings together Nature Art, Loose Parts and Therapeutic Art to support regulation, creativity, behaviour and deep engagement through practical, achievable approaches.

With lifetime access to all three trainings, you can learn at your own pace and revisit the content anytime.

$220 • 12 month access