by Lauren Amos | Mar 1, 2017 | Art Therapy Articles
How are you feeling today? We don’t always get the chance to check in with how we are going. Too busy getting on with the job, getting things done, staying focused. Or being stuck in our heads, wonderings about the future, the feelings of other people....
by Lauren Amos | Aug 25, 2016 | Art Therapy Articles
ARTLABS are creative experiments in self-expression, where I show you my process and suggest how you can try it yourself. ARTLABs are written up like laboratory reports because they are EXPERIMENTS. In the creative process no outcome can be guaranteed.There is no...
by Lauren Amos | Aug 22, 2016 | Art Therapy Articles, Instagram
Apparently I am meant to live by my values, if only I knew what they were.What’s a value word? It’s hard to think up on the spot. There are lists of suggested values on the internet. Staid concepts like honesty and harmony. Values most of us share but...
by Lauren Amos | Aug 15, 2016 | Art Therapy Articles, Instagram
Occasionally when I tell people about art therapy I get a sceptical response, “You mean you paint your feelings?”.The answer is, well, yes. After all, don’t we write about our feelings, talk about our feelings, even sing about our feelings (or at least listen to...
by Lauren Amos | Apr 28, 2016 | Art Therapy Articles
I am not allowed to write this. I didn’t get my pen licence in primary school. I grew up in Australia where this was a thing. Most kids in my school were awarded pen licences in Year 3. Each week we applauded a new batch of graduates as they received their...
