The MIECAT Institute: Accredited Courses
in Therapeutic Arts Practice
Applications for the Masters (February 2026) intake are now open.
Begin your application by booking a Selection & Admissions Workshop.
Masters in Therapeutic Arts Practice
Experiencing and relational presence; embodied awareness; engaging with materials; emerging inquiry; patterns of emotional experiencing; refining therapeutic companioning skills, working relationally, attending to process, workplace practice 1 and workplace practice 2.
Professional Doctorate in Therapeutic Arts Practice
Art-making together; Art-making-together;Together making art; Together-making art; Making together-art; Arts-inquiry; Arts-based research; Artistic research.
Public
Programs
The MIECAT Institute acknowledges the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia.
We pay our respects to Elders past and present.
We celebrate and value people of all backgrounds, genders, sexualities, cultures, bodies and abilities.
The essence of the work undertaken by The MIECAT Institute is based on the understandings that developed through the multi-arts research collaboration in 1992 instigated by Warren Lett with Jan Allen, Jean Rumbold and Andrew Morrish.
On 15 December, 1998, MIECAT Inc. was formally established as a not-for-profit Incorporated Institution under the Associations Incorporation Act of 1981 and is currently endorsed by the Australian Taxation Office as an income tax exempt charitable entity (charitable institution).
We have a range of academic staff members with diverse arts backgrounds and interests from different sectors working at MIECAT alongside a number of very experienced sessional teaching staff. In addition, we have a dedicated Practicum Coordinator and Public Programs Coordinator.
The Student Experience
The MIECAT Institute is committed to training practitioners working in a variety of contexts including health, community development, education and arts therapy, to understand and represent multi-arts and experiential ways of being in their professional and personal lives. Find out what our students are saying.
Jo’s experience
Practising artist and educator, Jo speaks of how the MIECAT Masters shows up in her everyday work.
