With this innovative workbook you can enliven your creativity to reduce stress, manage crisis, and promote trauma recovery. Step-by-step guidelines allow you to create easy-to-do drawings and unique collages. Structured writing prompts inspire further exploration. Prior artmaking or creative writing experience isn’t necessary to benefit from this workbook.
This workbook offers adults and teens the opportunity to:
- tap into personal strengths and values
- work with the uncertainty of life and in the world
- explore a range of emotions
- accept imperfections and vulnerabilities
- rescript self-criticism
- revisualize social connections and supports
- address common humanity and collective trauma
- practice artful ways of mindfulness
- cultivate self-care and resilience
Each of the 24 projects features an educational introduction, examples of artwork and creative writing, questions for reflection, suggested wellbeing strategies, and practical life applications. Art materials include removable images in the workbook, papers and images you find in your environment, and inexpensive markers, oil pastels, and glue sticks.
Written by two experienced, previously published art therapists, this evidence-based workbook integrates strategies from cognitive behavioral (CBT), cognitive processing (CPT), compassion-focused (CFT), acceptance and commitment (ACT), and dialectical behavioral (DBT) therapies; as well as positive psychology and neuroplasticity principles.
