WHAT ARE AMARTI 'S TOOLS?

1. The practice of leading therapeutic artistic expressions in workshops or groups, after establishing their specific framework.

2. The primary theoretical tools for therapeutic guidance (key concepts, ways of evaluation, psychological references)

3. The integration into a longlasting and rich network, for the sharing of experiences, knowledge and support (this goes from the creation or integration into small local networks, to the possible use of our specific internet forum to come)

HOW WILL THESE TOOLS BE TRANSMITTED ?

Through on-site practical training sessions directed to traditional or contemporary artists, educators and health-care workers, in partnership with local structures and/or international organizations (NGOs etc.) · Through the follow-up and continued support (intellectual, moral, or material whenever possible) of the local projects or small-scale initiatives developed after training.

HOW DOES ART-THERAPY WORK?

It will initiate, through creative artistic work conducted within a rigorously specific framework, a profound transformation process, that comes to be symbolically and concretely reflected in the ordinary, daily life of the patients... Apart from differing goals and methodology, the art-therapy workshop, may not appear particularly distinct from other "more casual" creative group work. For example it may be led in the form of puppet show work; or of various visual arts workshops (painting, mosaics, textile art, sculpture, etc); or of drumming ,singing, theater groups, etc