Artistic Therapies
Painting and clay modelling can help us explore ways to express human feelings such as
hope, joy, wonder, sorrow, loss, grief, anger, fear
Exploring the Temperaments in Clay Modelling
Using the Heart, Head and Hands we will work with the gestures of the four temperaments, exploring forms to understand each other and ourselves.
Finding Balance between the Polarities When you have a struggle, by finding the polarity between how you think and feel about it, you can find the balance between the two positions. We have 4 or 5 key Soul Quests in life. They keep presenting in different guises, at different times. Find the repeating pattern or belief that squashes you. Ask yourself : What trips you up? blocks you? What are you reacting to? This question can be worked through in clay, paint or crayon drawing. Creative & Logical |
Masculine and Feminine |
Holistic Counselling Holistic Counselling offers you the opportunity to meet your own emotional needs and establish healthy boundaries. It is a safe and client directed counselling process; a combination of verbal expression combined with drawing or modelling processes to deeply explore your feelings of grief, anger, fear or lack of self esteem. You will tap into the body memory to see what behaviours you have developed to protect yourself. Working with this memory you will learn how to develop more skilful responses. You can explore angry reactions with clay: by exploring the anger and finding ways to creatively transform it, you will be able to respond with forethought and effectiveness in your life. Water colour painting is a gentle, flowing way to look at and soothe your pain of something missing in your life. It helps you explore qualities and competencies and visualise your life with renewed enthusiasm. |
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In Artistic Therapies
- There is no wrong way to express your feelings in colour or clay
- You are the only one who knows what your drawings mean
- Trust your initial responses. Trust your intuition.
- Say “I feel…” rather than “I think …” -- say “I feel that my drawing is telling me……”
