Working with our imagination and engaging with creative processes activates parts of the brain that brings greater connection to our emotional states, memories, and our embodied, sensory experience.
This can be anything from paying attention to the metaphors in our language, to forming sculptures with objects, or creating characters and stories over a number of sessions. The creativity that is brought into a session is always in response to an aspect of the work that the client is wanting to explore. When we explore or express our personal material in this way, our discoveries become significantly more memorable and this supports the speed of our therapeutic process.
Creative rituals also play a part in the Arts Therapies. Ritual offers us a threshold to cross, providing a marker for a before and an after. Whether a ritual is small and momentary or planned and more involved it can feel hugely profound for us as they hold strong personal meaning, and acknowledge a transformation that is marked in an embodied way.
