Expressive Arts Therapy

Art making is central to the healing process.

Expressive Arts Sessions provide a space for you to connect with your inner creative spirit and cope with this time of uncertainty.

We start with a breathing meditation. The colors of paint, gel markers, and papers spread across the table in front of us stimulating the creativity deep in our souls. After connecting to our inner selves, we transform the blank pages of our journals into colorful pages.

Through this process we will explore how to ease stress, lower anxiety, check out of the crazy world of today and experience the joy of creativity through the art and process of an art journal practice.

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bonniewinfield@mac.com

There is a Buddhist Koan about a person who is walking along in the mountains and falls down a cliff. She grabs a hold of some tree roots and holds on in fear of death. I told this story to the women in a group I facilitate in the local county jail. The story ends with the person seeing a delicious strawberry and letting go of the roots to eat the strawberry.

This story was about my difficult decision. As I explained to the women in my group, the tree roots represented my professional life at the time. It seemed that I was clinging to it and afraid to let go. The strawberry was, is the women, the work in the jail.

I chose the women and retired from my professional academic career. The women were thrilled especially to know that they are my strawberry. I wonder how many of them have truly been the strawberry in someone’s life?

A colleague listened intently to my story and suggested that the group is now “Bonnie’s Strawberry Patch.”