Hi,

Samantha sherer, an expressive arts therapist and a certified member of
the OACCPP is going to give us a lecture and hands on exercise with arts
therapy on Sunday 11th of February. Please attend the session and also
tell others to attend. Below is her introduction to the program.

See you all,

Rama
----------------------

You are invited to learn more about Expressive Arts Therapy. I will be
giving a free introductory seminar on Feb 4, from 4-5;30 pm. We'll
have a brief discussion and you'll have an opportunity to try out
some art structures for yourself.

Expressive Art Therapy (EAT) is arts-based psychotherapy not art
classes. It uses five modalities of art; visual, movement, drama, music
and poetry, as a means of self-discovery. No previous art experience is
necessary or expected.

The EAT groups I facilitate are fun, arts-based structured exercises
designed to help you learn more about yourself. Since we are used to
telling our stories in logical, chronological order each time we tell
our story with the same outcome and no more idea how to go ahead than
before we told our story. It's like you've created a rut in
your brain. So you might end up feeling stuck, helpless, disappointed,
stressed out, frustrated, sad�you may also struggle with putting
your story `out there' in conventional ways. Using the arts to
remove yourself from the focus of attention may allow you new ways of
communicating which may in turn lead to increased confidence.

In EAT groups we "play" around your story so that you jump the
rut and see it from a new perspective. By doing artwork, like writing a
fictional story and painting images from it, playing music that mimics
the tone, acting out the roles of each of its characters�we
"play" with the image. You can see it from many angles and you
jump that rut.

We also process new awareness in discussion time to help you connect the
dots of your experience to help develop new insight and give you some
direction on how to proceed. Please join me at the meetup to learn
more.

Samantha Sherer


Samantha Sherer is an Expressive Arts Therapist, an ISIS graduate and a
certified member of the Ontario Association of Consultants, Counselors,
Psychometrists and Psychotherapists (OACCPP) She offers group or 1-on-1
Arts-Based Psychotherapy to youth and adults.




[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]