Expressive Arts Counselling Groups

Program

In order to reach into ourselves and pull to the surface something profound, something new, something meaningful, one must feel safe. In order to achieve that safety, these expressive arts groups are closed groups.
You’ll spend six sessions over 12 weeks exploring your identities with focus on your gender, the cultural expectations placed on you because of your gender, how they work together inside you and how you express that relationship outwards.
In each session we’ll create pieces of art to help express our feelings and emotions surrounding our gender.
Each session we will use a different medium - pencils, paints, clay, markers, collage, fine lining, animation, anything you can think of. Because of the nature of the group, we’re open to suggestions!
“Our art speaks back to us if we take the time to let in those messages.”
At the end of each session there will be space to discuss and explore the pieces we’ve created. We don’t judge or grade anything—just discuss it’s meaning for the artist. You are then encouraged to write these thoughts down in your journals in order to facilitate growth and reflection.
After the course you have the opportunity to collate all your pictures, alongside notes and a written article, and then submit them to be published into a book. Everyone who took part in the sessions receives a free copy of this book. These books are then sold. All proceeds from the sales of these books are donated to women’s and men’s charities in Fuzhou.