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A canvas of thoughts
My blog explores sensory, imaginative, and intuitive ways of knowing, how we perceive and inhabit the world
Expressive Arts principles
Discover how Expressive Arts helps you explore yourself and the world through your senses, imagination, and intermodal expression
Mar 19, 20255 min read
Poiesis: finding form for experience in Expressive Arts
Poiesis is a way of knowing that invites us to engage with the world through imagination, intuition, and artistic creation.
Mar 8, 20243 min read
Why adults feel intimidated by making art, and how redefining beauty can change everything
Many adults shy away from making art because they feel intimidated by their idea of beauty. Aesthetic experience is sensory, immediate, and deeply bodily. It moves me, it strikes me, it touches me, it gives me shivers.
Mar 5, 20243 min read
Expressive Arts is an intermodal (Paolo Knill), systemic and resource-oriented approach that integrates simple creative activities with sensory awareness. It combines visual arts, movement, sound, storytelling and creative play to activate multiple senses and modes of imagination — opening new possibilities for meaning-making.
Expressive Arts is practiced across therapy, counseling, community building, cultural action, education and personal development.
For more details: Expressive Arts: Creative approach to mental health & well-being
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