Art Yoga & Art Therapy For Beginners

1. My Story And Reflections: What the colors are a translucent medium, often resulting in UB innocent and arterial paintings insensitively portray the subject matter. That translucent quality of watercolor lends itself well to paintings that are atmospheric, nostalgic, and even other words lead. The aqueous nature of watercolors accurately captures a sense of timelessness. For this reason, watercolors are an excellent medium for depicting natural scenery, such as landscapes and cityscapes. I love watercolors for florals, animals, and portraits, as you can see in my Instagram account. Compared to other most solid medium acrylic based tools or oils, watercolors appear to be simultaneously reflecting the light and project a sense of fluidity. Hi everyone. I am thousand Kapoor and I have spent the last 20 to 25 years writing and painting and creating to my heart's content. I published bilingual children's storybooks in Indonesia and also did some of the illustrations for it. All through the years when I was experimenting with oils and acrylics and different mediums. I was always on watercolor because that was my first love. When COVID struck, I decided to go back to watercolors and really make something out of it. I started painting. I got a good community on Instagram. I have published tutorials, and I become an instructor for watercolor art-based therapy. By this time in my life. With grown-up kids who are settled in life, I knew I would be happiest giving back to humanity and helping others with what I knew best. Spate of studying followed this time when I started accrediting myself and getting to really learn what I wanted to do and how to help people best. I completed my diploma in special needs for kids, linguistic counselor, the British education center, the cartel. Then I went on to study art based therapy. The foundation course certificate, which would enable me to open my practice as an art based therapist. When the first few students came trickling in, my happiness knew no bounds. And then you, I had found what I wanted to do in my life. I have put together all my knowledge of watercolor medium, as well as started the first two modules of art-based therapy. Also included four classes of mindful art yoga. In this lesson. I hope you go through this slowly and not try to finish it all in one bowl. Because this is where I want you to touch base with who you really are as an artist. I want to encourage all of you to pursue this, if not professionally, personally in your lives. The art yoga is just simple strokes. I aim for you not to be challenged. And to just follow the strokes. Follow me, pause, watch me, and then go back to doing it again. The other modules for art-based therapy will be released in the class, which I hope to finish editing by March 22. I hope to see you in the next lesson where we get started on our art yoga for the day, the xy and see you. 2. Art Yoga With C Strokes: Hi everybody. Welcome back. Welcome to this first class on mindful yoga. We're going to start with a few exercises. But before we do that, let's go through some of the materials you might need. You would need some brushes, inches, try to fix something you have used before with a fine tip and a good big body which holds the amount of water. I am just going to put these in front a few. I have my Chinese liner brushes, I have a mop brush. I have my silicon tips for applying the masking fluid, which you will learn as we go on. These are some of my paints, freshmen K, I love and love and love these beans. I have 24 colors and I use them for most of my projects. But for mindful art, for the practice, yoga sessions, probably you economists use student grade paints and there are so many of them going around and they're all quite good. In some of my past projects, which are also is on Skillshare. I start by testing out my Tyler's bed, making my swatches. And this is probably where I begin my mindfulness journey on deciding my palettes, trying them out. Before we actually go on to the art yoga, which is the strokes. Let's get to know our materials as scholars we want to use, which makes us feel happy at that moment. And on that day, good luck, have fun and be with me through all the lessons. As we go on to this wonderful art you'll graduate and welcome to my class on brush control. This is perhaps an exercise which even a season and professional artist comes back to Diamond again in the carriers. And it gives an artist so much more power over the brush. If practiced regularly. Take your watercolor sheet, 300 GSM preferably. I have taken a Princeton brush number four and I'm going to be drawing oblique lines across two lines which I have made the chaconne truly see. I'm going to use the tip of my brush to create these gentle arcs to practice my stroke, which gives me mastery over strokes which I need to make from bottom to up. Here I'm thickening the stroke. Every different stroke which you make should be practice at least four to five times any color. This exercises designed to hone your wash link skills in the form of single strokes, color, laid down side-by-side, in whatever pattern your first stroke dates. The object is to concentrate on the line you are forming between each stroke. Try not to touch any previous troops, keeping the white lines of unpainted paper unbroken. These white lines in any painting in watercolor as so precious. You can also make several puddles of different colors in your watercolor palette. I have chosen to paint with in color. I going from trend strokes to thicker ones to be able to get a control on my brush and how I want my strokes to be around number four, red savings is actually a good brush. You can see I have my black well wait there, which I use when I'm really doing flowers. Fully load and charge or watercolor brush with paint. Starting from the top or bottom or bottom to top. Decide the thickness of your stroke here. I'm going really thick. I'm laying in the whole body of the brush down. As you can see in the earliest strokes, I try to keep the tip and then lay down slightly. And the last few strokes that is laying the brush down fully. Let's now try to do some C strokes which will help you when you're painting loose flowers. These here I'm just writing sees in a thin. Now I go on to doing my C strokes, which are actually what petals and leaves are all about. Pulling another linear stroke next to the one you paint. Try to be parallel, try to fit it between the two lines. I've changed the colors here just so that you feel more fresh looking at another color while painting difference, eclipse. Now you'll see here it's a dry stroke, which is also something one attempts to get. And you can achieve these dry strokes after a lot of practice. And also, once you know exactly how much paint is on your brush or how much water your brushes capable of holding. Let's continue this in our next lesson. See you there where we do most strokes and more mindful yoga. 3. Mindfulness Techniques : Hi everybody. Welcome to the second part of our mindful art yoga. I am so excited to continue teaching you the various strokes with which you can finally learn to dwell up a brush control. And to also learn how your brushes behave, how the water behaves on certain brushes on a certain papers. I'm leafing through my journal. This is my very, very rough book which I keep next to me. And sometimes when I don't have a particular project in mind and I just want to play. This is where I go to a journal like this is also very important. Some of this app, my seem quite practiced, but really it is after months and months of painting and observing certain images and bringing them onto this paper. As we get slowly started on to the second part, our brush stroke lesson, which I like to call art yoga, mindful art yoga. Get into color board of your choice today you feel like red or blue. It's up to you. I have chosen blue. And we start by a few small sees, the tip of my brush. And now I'm going onto the tip, body tip technique, which is basically what you will really need when you start painting florals and leaves. As you can see, my stroke, is it come out dry? But isn't that an interesting effect? Have wet my brush again and I'm going tip, body tip there again, it's dry. This is a Princeton number four. So it doesn't really hold too much water. So I'm experimenting by putting a bit of water down. Now I'm going to do a C in wet on wet technique. Look at that bleed. Isn't that beautiful? You can experiment by doing wet-on-dry techniques or wet on wet. Use different brushes I suggest to get a feel of how much water your brush holds and what you can do with each brush. Now this is truly wet on wet, I've got a hang of it and I'm loving it. Keep experimenting because that is what will make you reach a goal where you want to really know the paper you're painting on. You want to understand your brush, you want to understand how your pigments flow. In the next class we will practice some inverted seats, which will help you understand how your hand should move the motion of your wrist. Do practice vertices as well as your Cs as well as top inverted, bottom inverted sees. You go. I've used a lovely lime green color to do. These are my brushes basically which I'm using for this exercise. My paper is tetrapod from India, but you can use any paper which is 300 GSM. I really have a passion for collecting different textures of paper. I'm painting on day. You will be surprised that the effects you get. Here. I am just very quickly doing some fun exercise. I don't know what I'm painting. I've just taken a different color. And I can feel this paper is a very rough texture, so it looks like I need brushes with a lot more water and pigment on them. I'm going to try, I'm going to have some fun. If I had given me some roses on this. That's my silver brush. This is my Princeton and I'm making some upward facing sees, downward facing Cs. Let me just focus on the bleed which is happening on the paper. Let me draw your attention to that and I want you to observe the bleeds on your paper. I'm doing Rose, I would probably do a very tight Center, but I'm just flying now with a bit of link. Lovely dry effect coming up. And I'm using more water to fill it in. As I go outwards, my petals become larger, more water, less pigment. I found folks and join me in the next art yoga class where we're going to have some more fun. Bye. 4. Tip-Body-Tip Technique In Art Yoga : Hi everybody. I am Pavan Kapoor, art based therapist residing in Jakarta. This is my third lesson on mindful art, yoga. And I hope you enjoy it as much as I did while making it for you. Everyone is creative in their own way. I believe creative expression can be fun and simple and profoundly healing. So many of us have a strong inner critic switch stop us from creating and expressing ourselves truly. Creating mindful art is so important to increase self-awareness, self-compassion, and self-expression. Mindful helps to embrace our inner critic, tap into our creativity, trust the process, and be in the present moment. Let's start here. I'm just making a few swatches of colors to see what suits me today, what I like, what does my mood like today? What are the colors in which I want to practice my strokes? System 70-year. I'm just putting a swatch of this on my journal. This journal is a book I just keep to play in. No serious aren't good or bad. This is my mindful are using some violet and using it to mixing a way variegated shaded effect. Lots of waters. Play. Practicing South strokes. Before I start my inverted c strokes. Get to know your brush, get to know your paper, how much water it absorbs. Get to know how much water your brush can hold. What are your pigments like? This spot of painting is very important. I wrestled with my inner critic and experienced the healing power of all. I would like to share with you in this mindful yoga technique. Using the tip, body tip technique again, we create our inward disease. Why do we create these different directions of Cs? Later on you will do be doing the upward and the downward. Once this is all to make your wrist flexible in holding the brush and different strokes. The tip, body tip is a very important technique when you are painting florals and Foley age. Because this does help you to have this graceful leave sandbars petals. The size of the brush is important. I'm using a Princeton number four here. And I'm trying to do more of the wet on dry, letting the brush ran out of water and give you those lovely dry strokes. Keep on practicing. Do loads and loads of C corps off dip body. Here I'm doing an upward bend. As you can see, my sees a different because the angle in which I'm holding the brush, the angle in which your paper, you can always move your paper around to get the perfect stroke you want. But I'm just holding it and trying to do this exercise to the best of my ability when holding the paper in the same angle. As you can see my tip body tips and getting more graceful and practicing them again under my green rows, which we painted in the last lesson. I would focus on bringing the tip down first before letting the body of your brush rest on the paper. Then lifting your brush and having it go up into a tip is very important. It's a NAD, gets a skills, so do practice it. I'm moving towards the end of the page now that you can see how the tip, body tip, petals grow larger as they roll out and how the dry brush technique looks just beautiful. This is tough but paper which has a very rough texture. It's a cold press, a 100% cellulose paper. I'm going to be trying to display to you how different brushes give different straw. This is an angular brush which went moved around, gives the most amazing strokes. Here is an overview. Our different directions of C strokes. Going to be starting with the upward strokes. Now, again, we take the tip, you bring the body down flat and bring it back up and lifted. I have only used the Princeton number four, but I urge you to practice this with different thicknesses of brushes and also to practice wet-on-wet as well as wet on dry techniques. Here I'm laying down some water to get the bleed and the wet-on-wet technique. Isn't that just beautiful? Paint, those gorgeous blooms. Now with all these beautiful, better techniques we've learned. Let's move on to learning more about watercolor. Paints, the pigments, the process. Also about art-based therapy, based in the watercolor medium. See you. 5. Mindfull Exercises For Florals: Hi everybody. Welcome back to the fourth lesson on art based yoga. We have a focus on mindful art. Yet we have beautiful art created by, In some very simple techniques as true. All the wires focusing on how we are feeling, what are the colors we're using, how detailed is the project, how loses the project, and how much fun. Basically we're having. How many of our own experiences are coming out on a paper without judging ourselves. Here are some of my paintings which had been painted through my sessions with students, is in which I have done loose watercolor painting, painting large blues of roses and different flowers in different colors, different strokes. As we carry on our fourth session on strokes, Let's focus on having a look at the different sorts of flowers and different techniques we can use to create different florals. In the next slide, you are going to be seeing a technique where we just take the brush and go from center outwards, the reaching up to the skies as if asking furniture to give us liberty and freedom. Let's continue with our blooms. Based on the C strokes we have known to in the last few lessons. Again, have a tight center of Cs, the central Caesar very tight and we go lose wider federals. Wider C strokes, lighter colors as we go outwards. You just need to basically dip your brush in some clean water to come up with lighter shades. On the outside. I'm turning my paper to get comfortable with stems. And here I'm mixing in a second shade, secondary shades. Just bring your Flores to life. I'm putting down some water here to get the bleed because I like vanishing edges of lives. I don't like them to be fairly stiff. Once you leave the water down, the petal vanishes into the background, creating a very watercolor. A magical effect. Isn't that beautiful? The book bu, is lending such a mystical look to the whole bloom. Last router is going to be in a deeper shades and putting in a dark green in the center again to inverted season than us start with my C strokes on the outside. Making the C strokes larger and larger, which means I'm bending the brush mall for the inner petals. You just focus on making, using the tips and on the outer petals, you bend the brush more so that the body of the brush bonds the C stroke. Sorry, that's quite a bit edge of the paper again. But I think you can see how mirroring the outside petals of the flower with my C strokes. This can be quite a political movement. In fact, as you paint these roses again and again in different combinations of primary and secondary colors. You get a feel of relaxation and just a feeling of being so in touch with yourself. I love to help my students reach this phase. When they have a smile on their face, I say, mission accomplished. Let's learn some more about watercolors and the pigments in the next lesson. While we paint, I'm going to be talking to you about pigments of watercolor and how watercolor really works. See you there. Bye. 6. Watercolor Basics Theory : Hi everybody. Welcome to this class on art-based therapy and everything to do with watercolors. And your journey about becoming an art therapist. In watercolor. Water is hard to control. Water is fluid, flows and moves in all different directions. Paints would respond differently. When there's too much water, just enough water, and not enough water. There are so many factors here that can change the outcome of a painting. Let's start by painting these beautiful pink flowers. What I am doing is I am painting wet-on-wet technique whereby I put in some water, the base in the shape of the petal, and then I go in and drop in some darker pigment. This is what makes watercolors so unique. You can get hard edges like you've been expected to be able to, but with watercolors, you can also create really soft blends and bleeds from one color to the next. Pretty amazing, isn't it? Because the transparent qualities, you can't really cover up your mistakes. If you make a wrong stroke and the paint dries, you can't hide it with more paint unless you paint the area really dark. If you keep layering to try covering up a mistake, there is a danger of overworking your painting. Sketch lines I've drawn too dark would show up behind light colors in a watercolor painting, making it tricky if you want to draw or sketch before laying down color. However, it's also this transparency of watercolor paints that creates luminosity in paintings. Some paintings look like they almost glow and can capture the light shining through the thin petals and glowing on surfaces. Hi everybody. I'm furthering couple artist and exciting in Jakarta. I have had several clotting insufficiently Lynn Davis mediums, watercolors. And I have also illustrated my own children's storybooks, which are bilingual groups, Indonesia and English. I am now practicing parapatric art-based therapy. My studio. The simplicity of materials makes it so easy and convenient to paint plein air. All you need to do is have good cotton, paper, brush, speck of paint and of course lots of water. And they, you are ready to go. I have been successful becoming an instructor of watercolor art in various online shadows. I also have an Instagram account. I have my Skillshare classes. I have a studio whereby I teach the painting phase therapy sessions to those who might need it. The next class. And we're going to be telling you more about watercolor. The pigments that forms useful choose colors. And if fixed, we're looking for to look forward to seeing you and having you watch the rest of this lovely painting. By at this point, I would like to introduce you to the idea of us. In meditation corner in your home where you can create your mindful art and do meditation of three. As a form of self K. Often homes have tricky corners that are left empty because nothing ever see it. It's just fill this space correctly. I see these as an opportunity to create your own gaming space or meditate in Cornell, which I find amazing for self-care. I shared some of my favorite tips in another class. And the one thing I think you might love is to fill the space without cluttering up your whole. If you're unsure where to begin in your meditative art practice, or you'd like to be more creative. You could just Google a few pages on self-care ideas and mindful of crops. And start with small things which are related to you. Sitting in this space. Gives you that initiated, gives you that first touch of peace, which enables you to create art which comes from your soul. Now though very balking, Bye of creating mindful art is having a journal. There are some people who love doodling all the time. When it is additional people or a toilet paper. They're always bringing their experiences that inner self out on paper without caring about whether it is good or bad. There are so many challenges on Instagram. On 30 days of mindful aren't enjoying the 30 days or mindful our challenge, or ten days. You could join one of these and really stick to the timeline. It gives you In freedom. It gives you a sense of accomplishment. When you finish these. And somehow the art created during this time is always so precious and so special. And I have all kept them to now and look at them for inspiration. Whenever I feel clogged of blocked. Try it. It might just liking. The most therapeutic part of what I'm doing right now is laying down the water and just dropping the pigments on top and letting them flow. I am not making much in an attempt to really get the big men to flow in a certain order. I'm just dropping it and letting it flow, letting nature take its course and enjoying the results seem to have dropped in too much. So I'm picking it up with the tissue. The best part of wet on wet is laying down the water and dropping the pigment. Here I've used in one primary color, which is my opera, pink and pushing mixed. And the secondary colors, a bit of yellow for the center. All of this is a little brighter than what I wanted. I'm going to reduce the yellow and the rest, the flowers which are going to be painting. So stay with me, paint with me. And let's go on this beautiful journey together. And end up with art. Which when we looked at later with just gonna feel good. You didn't remember the good times we have. Not surely whether it is a beautiful piece of art which is ready to be sore. But the feelings that has evolved a new while you were painting it. Let's listen to some beautiful music as repeat too long and get lost in this world of beauty. Nsf expression. 7. Watercolor Pigments Theory : Hi everybody. Welcome back. As we go along painting pink flowers, I'm going to explain to you about watercolor pigment study. Let's carry on with the project painting and listening to the history of watercolor pigments. As promised. In this class. I'm going to teach you all that I know and have researched for the last 56 years on the natural pigments of watercolors. Synthetic pigments today are made to serve the paint industry, in which producing paints for artists plays a minor role to achieve maximum desirability in paint. Today, pigments are made homogeneous in shape, size, and composition. For example, to increase the covering power of pigment particles sizes are made as small as possible. The smaller the particles, the modal color nuance of the pigment of reduced to its basic human. As an inks that have no texture. Particles that are homogeneous and shape and size also tend not to set up quickly and separate from the binder during storage. This increases the shelf life and therefore the marketability of paint, which reduces its beauty as a color for artists to use. The result is not perfection, but sterility set someone who is a who's who in the arts industry, artists, materials, manufacturers purchase most of the pigment from companies that mass produce them for other uses. A few examples include ultra marine. Cadmium, follow colors. Oddly enough, painters are one of the few artistic groups. It to succumb to economic pressures and use ready-made materials. Even in the applied as such as cookery. It is customary to produce their own stocks and sources. Even though commercially produced alternatives are available. We make our own pigments. On the other hand, just specifications that maintain the best qualities and allow the artist to find them for the old news said, one of the major manufacturers of watercolor paints. You can use watercolors as a campaign or die. Insulin receptor in Greece, especially visual effects. As you become more aware of these possibilities, you will want to experiment, paying attention to the way that picking them smooth and behave when mixed with their favorite binder. Whether it is acrylic, AEG, live, collaging, blue, all gum, arabic. The possibilities are endless and drilling. Research in watercolor. You can make whatever dreams using pure powder mixed with a binder and assaulted. Applying pure ground pigment on a glass family gum. In this Fasciola, adding a few drops of rubbing alcohol, which has some thickness to disperse. The result resembles watercolor from tubes. That results in what kind of things apply to watercolor paper using a paintbrush. Colors have blended on the fairly new colors as well as tints and shades created and mixing new themed with Feed already on the gallons for the back crown for shooting this case, Y two, blues in black. The Jews on the yellow after I'm really yellow and orange colors. Nato when painting reds and browns are hosting, the kind of lens creates rabies Hughes such as the yellows that are blended to orange and brown. Colors can also be mixed to create lens that range from light to dark within a single hue, such as the range of greens for the leaves. To paint the laws and tablecloth, the pilot has been cleaned, increases, pigments and new colors are used. I am now going in with my second layer and deepening the colors of the flowers. This is such a lovely shade. It's a mixture of lilac, opera pink, and all the pinks are lilacs I have in my palette. I hope you're enjoying this painting session. As you listen to all the information I have gathered to give you on watercolor, what you need, the materials and the details of what watercolors actually are all about. So to create gradations of color, new colors are mixed to the colors already on the palette to slightly change the hues. This way all the colors are related to each other because watercolors can be made wet again at anytime in the pan, in the palette and in the painting, the pigments are revocable. This is convenient if certain color families will be needed in the future. It makes sense to leave premixed colors on the palette for future use rather than push them off, as you would with dried acrylic paint. Because the pigments in watercolors can easily wash out with water. It is often not even necessary to wash the brush with soap in-between colors. Switching the paint brushes and water is often enough to rinse the pigments out. Dabbing the brush dry on a paper towel removes any excess pigment from the brush heads. This floral still life is created using a translucent bit naive to. The results in some painting. Sensitively portray the mosquito all the colors I have been transfused. Equality of things that are static and even makes sense left the Apophis nature of watercolors accurately captures a sense of ties talk about for this reason, what did I say? Medium for 15 minutes actually see multi-colored shapes as well as fluids and animals. Your true that by now compared to other most solid medium, such as a clear liquid, watercolors, watercolor does appear to simultaneously. This is similar to send the fluid tube paints are easier to paint and mixed with water because they contain more binder. In contrast, watercolors in pans or had dry cakes of paint that needs to be moistened in order to work. I use a split sell about five minutes before I start painting. So it can do an N watch this class. A lot of painting with water. Continually painting with them as the artist, you in the next lesson to see whether the artists uses watercolors from a fan. Watercolors from a tube, watercolors, which they make themselves a solvent. Usually water is used to dilute the paint. It's evaporates once the paint has dried. Below views of the artist ballot with, while working on this Florida still-life painting. 8. Listening Skills As An Art Based Therapist: Hi everybody, Welcome to a shot crash course on art-based therapy. You go to the vision and mission of what we do and why we do it. You will be encountering an overview of what we do. The vision, mission, the key goals of art-based therapy, which are divided into basically three parts. Your art is your bomb. You do not have to paint for others. Do not judge you out as we go along this course. Just paint for yourself and what pleases you. The best tip which you can take for yourself and for your clients is that you got and make everybody happy or not an avocado. Who needs this course? This course is intended for people who may be thinking about becoming an art therapist. It is an important building block for further training for the part of formal upgradation. It's important for social workers. Also school teachers. This course is valuable for health and social care workers who would like to develop an understanding of art within the different work content. How using that might help the clients. For school teachers, this therapy is an integral part of the curriculum for school to help children with special needs and also for deviant kids who have a difficult time concentrating in class. This course also asked students to pause this session is to make art of their own and to reflect on key questions based on the course content. You don't have to have had previous formal training of art-making. But it is important to your learning to take part and to create at which you are happy with, without judging yourself. Indications that therapy may not be suitable include those with a history of physical violence and adds risk of harm to others if challenged. Referral to a specialist clinic, maybe needed in this case. A history of repeated therapy engagements. Those who have dropped in and dropped out many times may not be suitable for this therapy. The process of therapy and the important generic skills. Therapists, like all psycho therapists and counselors, use some generic skills to work with their clients. Let's have a look at what these skills are. The basic skills for an art-based therapists are activists name summing up, paraphrasing, open questioning. The third is building a therapeutic alliance with the client and thinking reflectively. Let's start with the art of listening. The art of listening. This involves the ability to be fully attentive to what the client says and also for nonverbal communications such as body posture, amount of eye contact, restlessness, etc. The key goes any discrepancy between what was said and how it comes across is also to be noted. Inactive listening. The therapist also pays attention to their nonverbal responses such as body posture, sitting position, etc. Notice there's any motions such as detachment, anxiety, confusion which may arise during the conversation. The art therapist has to be very vigilant. An example of active listening. Joe was a middle-aged man with anxiety and depression. He described his childhood as being unhappy, being the only child of his critical parents. Joe had been attending art therapy for six weeks and had found art-making difficult to engage in. Example of active listening. Jo felt frustrated about what he perceived to be a lack of artistic scale. The art therapist attempts at exploring this difficulty with him had not had much impact. Jo felt defeated. Jews started his sixth session by relating intricate and complicated detail of an incident at wool. He had been told off by a manager for a mistake that was not his. And he was feeling angry and humiliated. Jews experience of art-making had some similarity with being blamed and criticized that work for something out of his control. This also echoed choose childhood experiences of being watched by a critical parent. Joe may have feared the same critical gaze from the art therapist, hence, his lack of eye contact. In this example, active listening happened when the art therapist was able to notice several types of communication. Jews upset at the incident at woke the oval complicated way in which he related the story and his obvious lack of eye contact. The therapist was also able to listen to her own emotional reaction and to notice her fear of getting things strong. Response to Joule. We'll illustrate another important to generic skill, witches, summing up and fairer freezing the client's communication. This is a project whereby the art based therapist needs to practice. Firstly a present expression, and then think about a good experience and share a difficult issue with a person. Could you list what made it helpful? Please press pause while you consider the response. In the project, you need to test your understanding by answering the following questions. Do you use some or all of the things above? You do other things when you listen. On reflection, is there anything you would like to change? Take a moment to ponder, and do feel free to drop me a message. If you feel stuck. 9. Skills Of Reflective Thinking: Hello everybody. Welcome back to part two of module one, in which we shall learn about summing up better phrasing, open questioning, and interpretation skills. The important skills include the ability to sum up, to distill the, a sense of what someone wants to communicate. To paraphrase that are phrase is to rephrase what the person might be saying. Leading woods for summing up and rephrasing. You're saying you mean let me understand this. Summing up and paraphrasing. These two related but different skills are used to check that the therapist's understanding of the client is correct, and also to confirm to the client that the therapist has been listening well, this needs to be simple and sensitive process. Continue with Jews example, when he finished his long and complicated retelling of the work incident, the art therapist said, I just want to make sure that I have understood your experience as this was a complex incidence. To sum up, your manager had informed your colleague about a project deadline, but your colleague had not shared this with you. When the deadline was missed, your colleague was absent and the manager blame do for this failure. You felt badly treated by a colleague and unfairly criticized by a manager. The therapist continued. Since then you have felt angry towards both your colleagues as well as the manager, but have been unable to say anything to them. The incident has made you anxious and you're worried that this may have made a permanent badmouth against you in the company. Doesn't sound right. Jewelry applied. It's not just that. I don't feel I can trust my colleague now. I can't help thinking that he's set me up. I also feel worried about the missing important stuff and getting things wrong. And my self confidence is low. The therapists said this incidence has had a significant impact on your relationship and your professional confidence. I wonder how this is making you feel outside of. This is summing up and fatter phrasing. Jewelry responded positively to this exploratory interpretation and was able to start addressing the link between his childhood experience of feeling constantly criticize and his emotional reaction to the work incident and to art making in general. The folding project is for you to find a friend or a family member willing to help you to do this exercise, asked him to talk to you for five minutes on a subject of fear choice. This does not have to be opposed to matter. It could be a trip to the shops or what food you like. During these five-minutes. Don't interrupt at all and just listen at the end. Try to summarize what they have said. Afterwards. Ask your friend for feedback on the experience. Do make a note of the feedback. And if there are things you have missed, try not to think about what you would say to address these the process of therapy. This spot of the module, we'll introduce the following concepts of building a therapeutic alliance and thinking reflectively. People start therapy expecting a human encounter, not an encounter with a set of theories. Being genuine as a therapist involves seeing the person in the room as a whole human being and not as a collection of problems or diagnosis. Using the skills described in the previous slides will help build a therapeutic alliance between the client and therapist. The therapeutic alliance is built on the quality of trust that the client has towards the therapist. If the stress is strong, the therapy will be a safe place to explore. The quality of trust is full time spent in therapy may will be wasted that as it is unlikely to be an open and honest exchange. If the quality of trust is full, time spent in therapy may well be wasted. As it is unlikely to be an open and honest exchange. It may take a few sessions for the therapeutic alliance to get established. And if after six to eight sessions, this is still lacking. The therapist might need to actively explore issues of trust with the client as well as adopt their own approach to meet the client's needs. Thinking reflectively. This is a very important quality which the art-based therapist needs to have. Being aware of one's own role in the therapeutic relationships and how the client is doing in the process of therapy. For example, a reflective practitioner would notice the strength of the particular reaction to a client in a session. And Joe's example, the art therapists became aware of her anxiety about getting things wrong. All these processes have to develop a reflective approach to practice and to differentiate between personal and clients issues. It also helps to avoid overidentification with clients and making incorrect assumptions about their experiences and feelings. In summary, some generic skills are important in ensuring that the clients engage in therapy and have a positive experience of it. They include active listening, summing up paraphrasing, using open questions, interpreting, building a therapeutic alliance and thinking reflectively. Test your understanding. Here is some project work for you. Imagine a specific lines and a delta or a child who has experienced some kind of issue or trauma, what you would need to do and say to help to build a therapeutic relationship with this person. What wouldn't you want to do? Please make a list of what you would like to do and what you wouldn't want to do to create a therapeutic relationship with this client? How would you use reflective thinking? 10. Overview of The Attachment Theory: Let's study the attachment theory in part one of module two. The attachment theory, initially formulated by John Bowlby in 1969, is increasingly influential within our therapy and many other therapies. Bowlby and colleagues suggested that the style of relationship between an infant and caregiver has lasting impact on childhood development and, and adult life. The Hailey and secure attachment in infancy influences confidence in the security of relationships in general. It also affects the ability and willingness to be intimate and sustained relationships in adulthood. Evidence from neuroscience lends support to Bowlby's theory that the brain scans of infants who have had disrupted early lives, for instance, in Adoption, fostering, etcetera show some underdeveloped neural pathways when compared to those of infants who have had better experiences in their infant days. Those particular pathways. He is talking about the neural pathways. Here are the ones relating to relationships such as empathy, feeling, recognition, etc. Importantly, having a difficult started life in terms of attachment will affect children differently and is not necessarily a predictor of future difficulties. There is also evidence to suggest that the attachment styles developed in childhood are not always fixed for life. That we can learn to feel secure in adult relationships. For example. Having loving secure adult relationships can effectively rewire attachment pathways. This can come from a significant romantic relationship, close friendships, and also an excellent therapeutic relationship. That is good news that the brain can be rewired. A still face experiment with a young infant and mother shows how quickly an infant gets distressed if they are met with seemingly disengaged and unresponsive mothers. We have covered attachment theory in this video. Let's go on to study art-making theories, which is very important for all art-based therapists. Join me in the next video. We'll have evil address at making theories. We have already covered a lot of art-making practices. The last few lessons about watercolor, the pigments, and what makes watercolor therapy so beautiful and effective. In the next lesson, let's go over some more techniques about art-making. See you there. Stay with me. Bye. 11. Art Making Skills : Hello everybody. Welcome to module two, part two about art-making to juries. I believe it's so important to be exposed to different genres or subject matter when you are learning watercolor paintings. So here you have something from food to metal, glass, and so many other subjects all in one class for you. Let's start with module two, which is the main concepts in art making theories. Many psychotherapists aim to help clients develop some awareness of early preconscious issues so that they can understand how these affect them in their whole life. The human brain has two halves. The left side tends to govern intellectual, rational functions. The right side is identified with our emotional and creative capacity. Art-making primarily engages the right side of our brain. It bypasses sophisticated verbal censorship and tendencies to rationalize or repressed emotions. The process is not reductive and unhelpful approach in art therapy would be to try and find a definite answer or key to a trauma in the artworks. In reality, people's lives and emotions are complex and all the many clients discover helpful things about themselves through art-making. This is an iterative process. And iterative process is a procedure that involves repetition of steps to achieve the desired outcome. Clients may need to repeat some themes and images in order to understand the issues better. This process is rarely linear. Sometimes clients become aware of the meaning of an artwork a few sessions after it was made. This image can be deemed diagrammatic as it does not leave much space to explore meaning. Each of its elements has a definite meaning made explicit by the written words on the picture. There is no ambiguity as to what or who is representative. The water, the depressed client, the critical therapist, and the mocking group of friends. Exploration of meaning and emotions would be deemed to be limited. Embodied image. Image in the next slide is one way art-making has not been tightly controlled by the client, which enables issues to surface. Embodied images tend to be painterly and fluid. Cesarean felt that the grip diagrammatic images for an indication of poor engagement in our therapy with embodied images reflected a good depth of process. This image may be deemed embodied. The paint has been allowed to flow freely on the paper and has created some ambiguous shapes and an undefined moods. Is this landscape. If so, is this morning or evening, what mood would this to depict? The image is left open for exploration and interpretation. However, many are therapists work with clients who can only produce images deemed a diagrammatic. And this does not seem to be a reflection of poor engagement. Such clients often talk about the importance and personal significance of their artworks. Recent research indicates that whatever the quality of the artworks and important factor in clients feeling helped is how images are received and valued By the art therapist and other clients. If in a group. This relationship approach to art making is influenced by Attachment Theory C, part one of module two. Art-making can help clients of all ages who have had difficult or disrupted attachment experiences. The security, reliability, and safety of the therapeutic relationship can establish new experiences of emotional intimacy and set fresh expectations for relationships going forward. Sometimes in this process, there is a sense of uplifting early childhood play experiences. The play element of art-making is not superficial or in fertilizing. When he caught thought it was a prerequisite for engaging in therapy. Their artworks, clients can explore their emotions and try out different ways of approaching dilemmas and conflicts. While the art therapist keeps the space safe as an adult world with playing child. Now let's test your understanding of art-making theories based on what you have heard. Initially, using simple art materials like pencils and crayons, make a drawing abstract, figurative. And you can also copy an image with a hand. You do not usually write to it. If you're right-handed user left-hand and vice versa. By doing this, you will engage the side of your brain, which is not used when drawing with your usual hand. Please do press pause while you do your drawing exercise. While drawing, will you aware of thoughts and feelings? How do you feel about your artwork? How did you experience the change in your drawing ability? This spot has introduced some of the main art-making theories. The next bond will address the art therapy triangular space and the processes of joint attention. I hope you stay with me. See you there. Bye. 12. Theory of Joint Attention: Hi everybody. Welcome to module two, fat-free, which is above the other therapy triangular space and the processes of joint attention. In verbal therapy, the interaction is between the therapist and client. The activity is mainly divided between talking and being salad. It can be represented as a 2D ensure interaction from the client to the therapist and from a therapist back to the client. In art therapy, art making introduces a three-dimensional triangular elements. Triangular elements to the therapy and many possibilities for interactions from the client to the art therapist and back from the therapist and the client. From the client to the artwork. From the art therapist to the artwork. Therefore, as an activity are to making enables clients to have choices of how to use the session time and also the therapy space. Clients may choose how much time they spend on art-making. Sometimes someone can become so absorbed that the whole session is spent on the artwork. At other times, clients may wish to be able to talk to the therapist. Clients can decide when they want to be in the room. When they make art. People often choose to sit in a place that reflects the need for closeness, a distance from the therapist. Clients can use the art materials to control the space. One client used to carefully line up all the tall paint bottles. All the client in our therapists can have eye contact and dog images provide a focal point and make it easier to be together. This introduces processes or joint attention, which is a part of child development and involves adult and child pointing and looking together at the object. Joint attention is socially embedded, emerging before language and introduces the capacity to orient to another person's mind. Initiating this process is done by a doubt in child delight and helps infant develop his or her ability to share thoughts and feelings with another person. For instance, seeing a horse or on a walk, a parent May towards it and say to the young child, look, look, look at the horse, clip clop, clop. Child may respond also by pointing in copying the papers sounds of the horses rules. Even if not having mastered the sound. For the recent research has indicated that joint attention during art plays a significant part in enabling the people that information. Elements in the therapy process, particularly when working in groups. As previously mentioned, when he caught thought that the playfulness was essentially and engaging well in therapy, which is true for children and adults alike. Test your understanding. An eight-year-old boy has emotional problems and has difficulties in relating to other children and adults. In class. He becomes quickly frustrated and often has angry outbursts when he shouts at everybody. Good. You describe how the art therapy triangular space and processes of joint attention might be particularly helpful for this child. Please press pause while you consider your response. Children express the stress in many different ways. One of these being angry outburst. This young boy could be experiencing a school environment and other people as too demanding. His emotional problems we're making feeling insecure and lacking in self-esteem. Any event experienced as pressure or potential failure might trigger an angry outburst. The art therapy triangular space can give this boy a sense of control. He can decide how much he wishes to engage with our therapist or if he prefers focusing on art-making. There is also no exception that is output should meet any specific standards as this is not an atlas, he will not feel judged or criticized. These two factors will diffuse the protection For angry outbursts. That triangular space could help this boy, he'd comma and accepted as he hits, but he feels safe enough. You may be able to address his emotional problems. This could improve his behavior in the classroom. Furthermore, he may represent a lot of dispensers in his artworks, although he may at first be unable or unwilling to acknowledge these, a good therapists would use for assessors of joint attention, looking together the images and discussing these in the purpose. For instance, instead of asking the boy if he is sad, the other therapists may say something like, I wanted it the cat and the opportunity it had. What she was saying while looking at this, being able to boil, to start opening up above his own feelings as he described these two, the cat. One, Dan, you've just completed module two. Module. We will introduce the main approaches to art therapy practice. Look forward to seeing you in the next class. Bye.