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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: Creative approach to mental health & well-being
What strengths, creativity, and possibilities already exist, and how can we bring them forward? Discover the Expressive Arts approach — a holistic, resource-oriented practice using creativity and the body to support wellbeing.
Mar 24 min read
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
Practical tools for regulating the nervous system and releasing stress
Techniques I use in my sessions with my clients for calming and stabilising agitated states, reducing stress response and creating grounding
Jul 4, 20243 min read
Phenomenological approach in Expressive Arts: uncovering the (in)visible
What is this lived experience like? Meeting the process and the art work.
Mar 1, 20244 min read
Power of imagination
Imagination helps us to step away from "what is" to envision "what could be". Through imagination, we leave taken-for-granted fixed reality
Feb 28, 20242 min read
Within the frame
In life and work, we encounter frames all the time. Maybe it's your daily routine, setting boundaries with friends, or planning a project.
Feb 27, 20242 min read
Sensory awareness in Expressive Arts: low skill, high sensitivity
The low skill, high sensitivity approach invites you to engage with creative materials through curiosity, sensory awareness, and imagination — rather than artistic ability. This opens a space where the body, emotions, and inner experience can be heard and expressed.
Feb 26, 20241 min read
Whispers within: Accessing intuition through expressive arts
Discover your authentic self through expressive arts. Explore imagination, peel away limitations, and integrate newfound insights into daily
Jan 29, 20243 min read
How art and creative process impact us
My reflections about art, the power of creative process, and the changes it evokes.
Sep 3, 20236 min read
Intuitive painting: Connecting with yourself
Article explores intuitive painting process, a state of creative flow in a journey of self-discovery. Insights from Giora Carmi's book.
Aug 30, 20236 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.
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