What are Creative Therapies?
Creative therapies provide additional ways for you to explore and express thoughts and feelings. So instead of talking you might paint a picture of how you feel or write a poem.
The possibilities include:
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Art - drawing, painting, collage, 3D making and clay modelling. -
Writing - letters, lists, poems, prose, dialogues, thought records, journaling. -
Visualisation – using image-work or guided visualisation techniques. -
Sandplay Therapy – this is a particular way of working creatively / symbolically – a variety of objects or miniatures are chosen from a collection and placed in a sand tray to symbolise feelings around a particular issue or theme. (See picture) -
Movement and body awareness – you might physically express your feelings or a part of yourself.
Why work creatively?
Working creatively can help you access your unconscious feelings, patterns and beliefs more easily, and make sense of yourself and your challenges in a uniquely different way.
It is also a powerful way of connecting with a sense of the ‘transpersonal’ - i.e. experiences beyond our own personal identity which encompass wider aspects of humankind, our spiritual selves, the planet and the cosmos.