Description

A bodyfocused traumainformed art therapy that will appeal to art therapists somatic experiencing practitioners bodyworkers artists and mental health professionals

While art therapy traditionally focuses on therapeutic imagemaking and the cognitive or symbolic interpretation Cornelia Elbrecht instructs listeners how to facilitate the bodyfocused approach of guided drawing Clients draw with both hands and eyes closed as they focus on their felt sense Physical pain tension and emotions are expressed without words through bilateral scribbles Clients then with an almost massagelike approach find movements that soothe their pain discharge inner tension and emotions and repair boundary breaches Archetypal shapes allow therapists to safely structure the experience in a nonverbal way Sensorimotor art therapy is a unique and selfempowering application of somatic experiencingit is both bodyfocused and traumainformed in approachand assists clients who have experienced complex traumatic events to actively respond to overwhelming experiences until they feel less helpless and overwhelmed and are then able to repair their memories of the past Elbrecht provides listeners with the context of bodyfocused traumainformed art therapy and walks them through the thinking behind and process of guided drawing