WHAT IS THE RELEVANCE OF AMARTIS CREATIVE ART-THERAPY TRAINING? For its direct beneficiaries, trainees with ability or skill to work in mental health fields, education, social help, or art-therapy, this training will: .develop and refine personal potentials for creativity and artistic expression, listening,therapeutical accompaniment and intuition. provide tools like: .artistic tools: from different disciplines, (examples: sculpture and do-it-yourself, masks, creative movement, painting etc) .playing activities (exemple, writing games, circle games) .reflection tools (theorical concepts and practises analyses) .therapeutic methods .community tools (psycho-social & educational) How? By self and group experimentation by the trainees of the process of psychological transformation through creation with successive artistic practices (theatre, visual art, dancing etc) completed and nourished by group reflexion/sharing times, plus conceptual and methodology transmission. The training sessions alternate with periods of several months of necessary integration (integration of processes of transformation and practical acquisitions, this generally in everyday life as well as in the context of professional activity during the exercice.) These people will acquire little by little evolutive artistic tools, complementary and adaptable to their own practice, and to a simple and sensitive method of therapeutical accompaniment. This will progressively and also rapidly be applicable when taking on subjects in difficulty or psychological suffering (children or adults). FOR ALL THESE BENEFICIARIES, DIRECT AND INDIRECT, THE PRACTICE OF ART-THERAPY FAVOURS: (NB indirect beneficiaries describe for instance children taken on by trainees and, often, under certain conditions some members of their family ) .a path to trauma resilience by the process of expression, creation and psychological transformation put into creative action. .the resolution of behavourial difficulties, and the adaptation of the person. .the opening out of the person as a being who could become the creator and responsible of his/her own life process. .the positive transformation of violent family or group patterns, failure patterns, etc. .the reenforcement or revitalisation of family or social links. .the enlargement of community or individual artistic and cultural capacities. top of page |