A Brick to Our Miseducation

The deeper I engage with Art Therapy, the stronger I feel about its place within advocacy and activism.
So how can I not use it as such?

• Every story we penetrate about who we are - or who we’re told we are - is a brick to the miseducation we’ve received about our ‘role’ and our ’place’.

• Every opportunity of ‘not knowing’ is a new self that can breathe in a system that chokes us into boxes and bottom-lines.

• Every reminder of something we once housed within us is an act of preservation.

• Every moment we slow down and reclaim from the fast-paced structures we’re set in is a chance for regeneration and transformation.

• Every rising sense in our body that we move towards, is a resistance to the numbing fleetness of the everyday.

• Every seeded curiosity about our next step can be a toxic cycle broken.

So how can I not use it as such?

The Role of Rebellion

Imagination plays a significant role in the therapeutic process.

To construct a different way of being means to break away from what may be a corrosive present while daring to move into an expansive vision of our future selves and lives.

It's a process that needs rebellion to be nurtured within us.

A push back against the stories we tell ourselves - sometimes the voices of others - that stifle the transformations we need and are capable of. The therapeutic relationship formed over time creates space for this imagination to breathe.

Your preferred way of being has a chance to be practiced, adjusted, supported and strengthened before you bring it into relationships outside the therapy room.