Art and Guided Drawing Therapy

This course is delving into Art Therapy and Guided Drawing techniques that you can use with your clients or just for yourself. The course has two parts.

The first part of the course talks about the generic and commonly used Art Therapy. Where you need to provide the client with an exercise, supervise them, and help them interpret their artwork. Please remember that to engage in Art Therapy you and/or your clients don't need to be artistically skilled or trained. The art created during such a process is the representation of life, emotions, thoughts, and situations. Should not be judged or criticized..

In Part 1, I provide you with a variety of examples of exercises for generic Art Therapy, and in Part 2 I talk about Guided Drawing. Guided Drawing is done with eyes closed and by holding 1 crayon in each hand or painting with paints on your bare hands. I present you with different shapes and exercises to use during the treatment. SOme for calming down, some for releasing pent-up energy, and for boundary creation. Lastly, we talk about storing the art work and more practical details when it comes to both approaches.

In this lecture, we discuss the basics of Art Therapy.

In this lecture, we talk about the distinctions between Art Therapy and Guided Drawing. We also discuss practicalities when it comes to conducting Art and Guided Drawing sessions with clients.

In this lecture, we discuss an exercise where you need to draw your family doing something. This will allow you to look at your family relations from a different perspective.

In this lecture, we talk about the type of exercise where you need to draw your emotions. I discuss ways in which you can interpret colors, shapes, and structures to better understand yourself or your client.

In this exercise, you will be drawing your higher power. It can be a representation of your God, beliefs, or a figure that you believe in and draw your energy from. It can be the Functional Adult in you!

This video talks about using cartoon images to express inner dialogues and emotions.

In this exercise, You will be drawing what forgiveness means to you.

In this exercise, you will be drawing a house from the outside that represents what your family was showing to others. The second part of this exercise asks you to draw the house from the inside to show what was really going on.

This exercise asks you to think of important events in your life and put them on paper in the form of a line or a road. You will need to figure out a rough time line of events.

In this exercise, you will imagine that you commissioned a portrait of yourself and you will be showing it in an exhibition to your friends and family. You will roughly outline what you would like your portrait to look like. You will choose 3 people from the audience to speak about you and your success and how much of a good person you are. Last part of the exercise asks you if you want to make any adjustments to the portrait if you were the only one seeing it.

This exercise focuses on helping with low self-esteem and poor body image. It asks you to outline the silhouette of your body and fill it with positive things, thoughts, and emotions.

This exercise makes you think about your childhood and what you were lacking at that time. Perhaps things that you would still like to get.

This type of exercise allows you to put your plans and expectations when it comes to recovery in perspective. You are asked to show your current situation, the solutions and plans that you will implement, and the result that you are expecting.

This exercise will help you understand what it means for you to be getting older and what emotions and thoughts pop up because of it.

These exercises help you or your clients to move past the pain of having to deal with a long-term illness. They ask you to draw your disease and emotions surrounding it and your road to recovery from it.

This set of exercises helps you to understand your addiction and look at it from a broader spectrum. Those exercises help you see the destruction that your addiction caused, what's your plan for the future and what can help you during this process.

This exercise asks you what methods you use to take yourself away from the gravity of your problems. E.g. minimizing, externalizing, compartmentalizing, avoiding, rationalizing, intelectualizing your issues.

Those exercises help you to analyse and work with your triggers by putting them on the paper.

Those exercises will help you to work with couples by allowing your clients to work together and learn cooperation.

This exercise can give you a glimpse into your and your client's view of the world and their current situation in life.

Mandalas can be a calming addition to Art Therapy. You can provide Mandals to your clients in between exercises if they seem overwhelmed and want to take an emotional break.

These exercises are designed to move past grief after losing a significant person in life. They help you build a post-mortem connection with the deceased and incorporate their memories of them into your current life in a positive way.

Those are exercises that you can youse if you or your clients are having some sexual problems such as Vaginismus, Erectile Dysfunction, Premature Ejaculation, low libido issues or feeling some insecurity about your genitals.