VIEW PARTICIPANTS' ARTWORK AND EXPRESSIVE ARTS MODALITIES
The Building Blocks of Expressive Therapy
Click on these boxes to see participants' artwork during their training sessions.
PERFORMANCE ARTS
Psychodrama, Personal Myths, Voice Dialogue, World-Theater
In Expressive Arts we enact relevant parts of timeless, enduring stories and myths such as the Sumerian myth of Inanna that explores the life-death-rebirth cycle or the Red Shoes that explores addiction and the genuine self. By becoming parts of these stories, we explore through psychodrama the themes that carry potency for the individual or group. We learn how these archetypal motifs connect our personal issues to the larger whole.
We also focus on the discovery of our own stories, key scenarios from our life-drama, and the personal myths that drive our own behavior and interpretations of life. These stories become the raw material for performance art and voice dialogue.
On the global level, we enact ecological, social, and political themes such as the Council of All Beings, and the Voice of the Earth, as well as the current myths of Western culture (as in the myth of unlimited growth), and political and social issues. These explorations honor the diversity, beauty, and histories of earth communities, both human and nonhuman. They focus us more inclusively into the plight of the marginalized and voiceless, and thereby help us consciously connect with the current global crisis.
