Sensory awareness in Expressive Arts: low skill, high sensitivity

In Expressive Arts, there's a foundational principle called low-skill, high-sensitivity. In a session, the creative process is guided by your senses — not by artistic skill.

Low skill

Low skill means you don't need any artistic training or talent. The creative activities offered in a session are accessible to everyone, regardless of background or experience. What matters is not what you produce, but how you engage with the process.

High Sensitivity

High sensitivity is about tuning in to your body and senses. In a session, you are invited to explore art materials, movements, textures, and sounds — noticing their qualities and building a sensory relationship with them.

Rather than performing or working toward a predefined idea, you approach the process with curiosity, openness, and a willingness to explore. From a space of presence and receptivity, you follow your relationship with the materials and your guiding creative impulses as the process unfolds.

This requires paying close attention to your experience: noticing what you feel, where you are being guided, what the moment needs, and responding to that.

In other words, the skill is in the sensing, not the making. And this sensitivity is what you are helped to develop in an Expressive Arts session.

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