- Criteria for use: When and how
- Cultivate presence and attunement
- Strategies to dispel the fear of art and perfectionism in art
- Establish growth mindset and intention
- Application of current research
- Scope of practice limitations with potential risks
- Creative interventions as diagnostic tools
- Experiential activity: Welcoming Practices
Foster Self-Compassion, Self-Awareness, and Self-Care
- Ethical self-care laws
- S.T.O.P.: Slow down, Take a step back, Observe yourself inside and outside, Proceed mindfully
- Safety mandalas
- Art portfolios as personal narratives
- Hands-on learning
- Warm-up activities: Soft landing practice, sociodrama
- Group cohesive-building activities
- Build rapport through spectrograms, locograms, and more
- Directed vs. spontaneous therapeutic tasks
- Case examples
- Art as mindfulness: breath drawings, mandalas, mindful doodling
- Emotional release through expressive arts
- Artistic self-inquiry, poetry inspiration, and more
- Hands-on activity
- Therapeutic art activities to externalize memories, thoughts, emotions, and sensations
- Verbal and non-verbal processing through visual art
- Trauma-informed art directives
- Projects as safe containers for big emotions
- Experiential opportunity
- Children, teen, adult and gender grief styles
- Gentle grief exploration: Memorial options and grief timelines
- Cultural competence and appropriation
- Creative interventions with children and teens
- Creative therapy with groups, couples, parents, families
- Integrate with ACT, CBT, DBT, and other modalities


