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Explore transitions, highlight barriers, and clarify supports with a metaphorical bridge drawing.
Explore spiritual beliefs and their impact on accepting and adjusting to loss.
Externalize complex feelings into a tangible clay form, which can then be explored and processed.
Explore sitting with sorrow and reactions to distressing grief emotions.
Explore different phases of life–rebirth, growth, endings, transitions–using a seasonal metaphor.
Express and process emotions that are difficult to verbalize by embracing abstract art.
Open up creative possibilities by creating something new from a background of color to promote mindfulness.
Engage in the creative act of painting a candle while honoring and remembering loved ones.
Foster emotional integration and relieve stress using a method of creating abstract art.
Represent a memory using the metaphor of a silhouette to express grief or loss.
Create a physical container to hold emotions, items, and memories of a loved one.
Creating Masks to Explore Grief, Trauma, and the Inner/Outer Self
This tactile approach of marbling colors while molding clay provides a non-verbal way to process emotions and release physical tension.
Create tangible keepsakes for families with legacy handprints to honor connections.
Preserve bonds and create legacy art with a plaster mold handcast.
Create a symbolic container to hold what feels too heavy to carry alone.
Preserve connection with legacy fingerprint cards.
Explore loss-oriented stressors and restoration-oriented glimmers to work through the oscillation of emotions in grief.
Listening to music while drawing can create a relaxed environment to express feelings and reduce stress.
Promote regulation and relaxation through visualizing box breathing.
Explore emotions and internal states by drawing a garden to present the inner world.
Reduce stress and promote relaxation through this repetitive and meditative creative process.
Promote self-reflection, autonomy, and grounding through the process of choosing, cutting, and arranging images that offer comfort.
Explore mindful awareness and emotional regulation through the process of creating marks with both hands at the same time to engage cross-hemisphere activity in the brain.
Express grief and connection to loved ones by painting with symbolic stones.
Examine how thoughts arise and change and how to respond to them with more kindness.