rtTherapy helps to improve the emotional well being of a person. ArtTherapy is a form of psychotherapy. The process of creating or making different forms of art is therapeutic. So, it is "Art as Therapy."
There are simple tools to practice ArtTherapy. The common ones are Mandala, Magazine photo collage, Masks, and Art Journal. Anyone can learn or practice ArtTherapy. There is no minimum educational qualification or drawing skills that a person needs. The client needs to understand the techniques and learn to use colors and other art aids to express themselves.
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Magadalene Jeyarathnam, Director of East West Center for Counselling and Training , speaks about her experience in using Art in therapy. She talks about how the LGBT group expressed themselves through art.
Art Therapy uses art to improve the emotional health of a person. You can draw, paint, dance, and sing to practice Art Therapy. Today's session focused on painting, sketching, and drawing using crayons, oil pastels, magazine photos, glitter glue, stickers, color paper, charts, clay, and color threads. Software Apps like MS-Paint, Polyvore, and 'Flying Colors' by Magic Mouse can also be used.
First, the participants created a Mandala as a warm up for the sessions to follow.
Next, Melba asked the participants to make a Mask. The mask will have an Outer side and Inner side.
The Outer Side of a Participant's Mask
The day ended with Melba asking the participants to maintain an Art Journal. An Art Journal is a notebook where you will paint/create a picture at the end of every day.
East West Centre Director Magdalene Jeyarathnam Miller making her Art Journal
In the video below, Melba Thorn talks about collages. The other art work done by participants are included.
All participants signed a confidentiality agreement.
The second day of the Art Therapy workshop started with a recap and Magdalene told some real life experiences of Art Therapy with her clients. The first exercise the learners did was establishing boundaries without talking.
Two Samples of Maintaining Boundaries as well as doing Team Work!
The next exercise was 'The Sunny Side Up' - bringing humour to any life crisis.
Melba Showing her Sunny Side
The next exercise was Clay Modelling - for stress relief and moulding your thoughts.
Clay Models
The next exercise was 'Coat of Arms' - all your defense mechanisms laid out on the shape of a shield.
Coat of Arms
All participants did the Art Journal at the end of the training session. Lot of learning and lot of fun! Don't miss this Art Therapy workshop :)
