Do you need instructions on creating a dynamic program?
I have developed a variety of themed programs that use both art and journal writing to engage your clientele in a hands-on experience.
Each program can be used to facilitate a 1-2.5 hour program which involves the creative art process and brings each participant unique insights for them to explore further.

You can gather a group and facilitate the program charging whatever you need.

Once you contact me with the workshop you would like to try, the full description and exercises will be sent to you via email. If you have any questions, please call or email me lisa@art-as-therapy.com or call (908) 561-9226.

Remembering Joy – We are celebrating a child’s sense of wonder, but not any child’s – our own Inner Child. Remember the most fun you had as a child! Was it with your cousins, visiting a best friend, family get togethers, or just doing something alone?

My Sacred Place – Where do you go when you need time to think things through or need to relax? Is it your bed? The beach? The woods? The mall? We will capture that place and find out why it is so specia to us so we an visit it again and again in our minds eye.

Life’s Journey – Take a long look at the life you have led up to this point. We will be creating a journal collage of the events that make us who we are beginning from birth through to the present. Once your collage is done you will be journal writing about what you see, how events changed you, and be challenged to what comes next.

Relationships – Take a look at those around you and how they influence you. You will be creating a visual representation of what your relationships look like so that you can dialogue with each one to possibly move some closer or further away and have a visual representation of what your support looks like.

Inside/Outside Me – In this workshop you will be making a mask with the two sides of you: what you show the world and what you keep inside. After making the piece you will journal through dialogues to understand more clearly how you present yourself and what you don’t want to share and why.

What I treasure most – In a box or an envelope, we are going to put all our treasures together so that when we are at our lowest or feeling lost we can look inside and find something places, people, and things that makes us happy. Often when you are at your lowest, you forget what helps you. This is a way to keep it all at your fingertips.

My Family of Origin – This is a look into the family dynamics and how it has made you who you are today. We are born into a title without realizing it and that title stays with us our whole lives. We will be looking at the family as a whole and how we have been influenced by our siblings and parents.

Solving a Current Problem – In this simple exercise you will look at an issue that is causing you to struggle as you try to find a solution that works. This is a method of making you face the problem head-on and dialogue with the feelings that come up and then dialogue while looking for a solutions. When we are in conflict with someone else we have to take a few moments to stand in their shoes to see their point of view.

Transitions – An exercise in looking over the many transitions we make throughout our lives and how to deal with the next one: retirement, a move, change of jobs, relationship or change of attitude. We will recognize the skills and strengths we have as we remind ourselves of how we dealt with the big changes, some we had control over and others that we didn’t.

Passport to Adventure – Looking back at our previous adventures as we traveled, we will see where and who we can travel next. In representing those adventures that are on our bucket list, we will see what is possible and through the journal writing discover how we might set ourselves up to go on those adventures of your dreams.

Me Journal – A simple book that tells about you and how you think, feel, and dream. The book is made up with as many pages as you work through the many parts of yourself. See your strengths and your weaknesses and face them openly. In doing this workshop you will find people who are supportive and let go of those who hold us back.

Understanding those Explosive Emotions – We will take a look at the triggers and the immediate physical reactions that accompany those triggers so that we can calm those emotions before they take over. We use the hands as a representation to recognize the emotions stirred by an event or words that strike us.

My Future Cubed – Using the magazine images or phrases you will work through all that comes ahead for you. By creating a small box on which you will use each of the sides to let your Dreams and Hopes for your futures soar putting images that tell your story without words. You will finish by exploring what you have selected to speak for you.

Music in my Soul – For this workshop you will be taking your most favorite music and letting it flow through you to discover what emotions are tickled through the rhythm, beat, and words. How does it make you feel, why, and what images come up when you listen?

To receive the instructions you will need to send $110 and I will send you all the information you need to facilitate a great program.
Venmo- Zelle (lisa@art-as-therapy.com)
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