Art therapy is the mind-body practice of experiencing, reflecting & healing through creative expression - including visual expression, gesture, sound and words.
This all-levels workshop will will guide you through simple & nurturing ways for everyday wellness-tending based on the neuroscience of art psychotherapy. Come as you are - there no creative skills required, and materials are provided. Upon completion of the community experience, you will receive a digital guidebook of the activities to further integrate the practices you liked into your own wellness rituals.
The first activity will be a gentle check-in with Self while becoming acquainted with new ways of art-making.
We will then collectively wander through the foundations of art psychotherapy through activities you can personalise to your needs in the moment. These activities will offer present-moment support, while providing the building blocks for you to grow with in your own wellness practices.
The community workshop will come to a close with the opportunity to share your experience of the multi-modal journey that we immersed in together - a sweet gesture toward community-centred care, and the nourishment we can receive from holistic social connection.
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As Matilda cultivates a decolonial practice, they would like to acknowledge that creative expression is a foundation woven through all eras & cultures, including on the lands in which we live, and therefore therapeutic art-making is not a new concept. "Art psychotherapy" is the expression of this cultural practice from a Western lens. The event will take place on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people, where we pay our respects to the traditional & ongoing custodians of Country, and offer our deep gratitude for our lives lived on this land. Sovereignty is not ceded and treaty has not been made.
