1. EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY
AN INTERMODAL APPROACH TO TEACHING:
ART, WRITING, MOVEMENT, POETRY, MUSIC, DRAMA, CLAY ETC
3 necessary things to explain the work…

2. What is EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY?
Using imagination and the arts to give VOICE to what wants to be expressed…to create change…to establish a sense of empowerment…use of movement, music, drawing, painting, clay, writing…..allowing what cannot be said in words ot be expressed in art in a continuos process….any creative process we engage in can supply us with messages from parts of ourselves requiring attention and sometimes healing

3. Violet

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9. Involves asking delicate questions.
We encourage our clients to really breathe into the life of their images and to speak from the perspective of the created image, rather than from there own. This means trying to get away from expressions like “the octopus at the bottom wants to move” and instead actually becoming the octopus for a moment and saying “I want to move” and allowing the dialogue to continue from there. EAT in its purest from does not see the art product as being the artist or some extension of them, rather the art has a life of its own and can express itself.
By speaking through the images we create a distance between the client and their thoughts/emotions giving them a sense of safety to express themselves.

18. WRITE A LETTER/POEM FROM AN IMAGE IN ONE DRAWING TO ANOTHER IMAGE IN THE SAME DRAWING OR A DIFFERENT DRAWING
WRITE A RESPONSE IN THE FORM OF A LETTER- IMAGE WRITES TO YOU AND YOU RESPOND TO THE IMAGE
CHOOSE ONE SENTENCE THAT STANDS OUT TO YOU AND UNDERLINE IT
WRITE A STORY/POEM FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF YOUR IMAGE

22. Hatau in class when he cant hear
Hatau in class when he cant hear. The sound system is annoying, hurts his ears.

23. Hatau- feeling about hearing loss

24. Jennifer- missing out on the laughter.

25. Jennifer- friend calling out her name, wishing her hearing loss would go away, being a better listener and also drama class and the phone game.

26. Hatau- dumbest person in the school, cant hear

27. Olivia- not hearing and thinking they were talking about her.

28. Lola- whispering in her bad ear.

29. Olivia asks for help and told she should have been listening form classmates

30. Sam high school transition

31. Sam high school transition

32. Q & A