EQ Rising

 Expressive arts education uses various arts - movement, drawing, painting, sculpting, music, writing, sound, and improvisation - in a supportive setting to facilitate growth and healing.

It is a process of discovering ourselves through any art form that comes from an emotional depth. It is not creating a 'pretty' picture. It is not a dance ready for the stage. It is not a poem written and rewritten to perfection. (It is not a song sung with perfect pitch, but the courage to simply use your voice.)parenthesis mine

We express inner feelings by creating outer forms. Expressive art refers to using the emotional, intuitive aspects of ourselves in various media. To use the arts expressively means going into our inner realms to discover feelings and to express them through visual art, movement, sound, writing or drama.We use the arts to let go, to express and to release. Clients report that the expressive arts have helped them to go beyond their problems to envisioning themselves taking action in the world constructively. Involving oneself intensely with the creative process brings an alignment of mind and body...

From "The Creative Connection" - Natalie Rogers (1993)

The EXPRESSIVE ARTS

encourage PLAY

to open the doors of IMAGINATION

connecting MIND to BOD Y

and SPIRIT to SOUL

accessing BALANCE & INTEGRATION

 The Expressive Arts

Mission Statement

Every person of all ages and abilities has the right to:

1. Explore and interpret his/her creative abilities.

2. Develop trust in herself/himself and in others.

3. Be rewarded for originality rather than for conformity.

4. Choose, think, believe or not believe, act, experiment, construct or not construct.

5. Be free to make mistakes.

6. Be free from external evaluations imposed by others.

7. Have the freedom to be different.

8. Have the freedom to express her/his honest feelings in non-destructive ways to self or others: feelings of anger, aggression, frustration, joy, sorrow.

9. Express himself/herself in all of the expressive arts.

(adapted from A Child’s Right to the Expressive Arts, author unknown)

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on a variety of topics...all with an element of the unusual - stemming from research and experience with left-right brain entrainment, intuition, the benefits of play and using our imagination,  and/or entered into for no other reason than the pure joy of engaging with the Muse.