Through
Art
My approach to the use of art in therapy has evolved as an integration of meditative and artistic experience, with studies of Gestalt, Narrative Therapy, Psychoanalysis, energy therapies, visualization and more.
I threw all the knowledge I had into a meditative mind with a deep interest in development and healing and in time, this deep interest formed all that knowledge into a working method.
The method is very simple to do but subtle. It draws you deep into where your strength comes from. It is playful and effective at the same time. It is also endless. You can use it on and on and go as far as you are willing to go. It is a way to continuously grow, which is to be mentally healthy.
I started using the method, while working with addicted people in jail. I continued using it with many other populations and for different diagnoses, I found that it was always successful. It worked for people with deep trauma and for people who wanted to further their development. Some people changed more and some less, depending on their readiness to change. But all ended up changing and feeling very good about it.
The method both finds the problems and solves them.
Presentations of the method include:
An experiential part
What is development and how it happens
What happens when development is blocked
What needs to be changed
How to bring people to a state in which change can happen
How change happens
Examples of my clients’ artwork that show how problems appears in the art and how clients have changed
Insights that clients have arrived at while using the method.
The whole presentation is done through pictures that I talk about. There are almost no text slides. Many people who saw the presentation told me they were deeply moved, learned things they did not know and thought about using the new knowledge in their work.
The presentation can fit into an in-
I have presented the method in the international conference of creative arts therapies in Tokyo in October 2006.
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