Draw A Bridge
Explore transitions, highlight barriers, and clarify supports with a metaphorical bridge drawing.
Art therapy interventions for Adults population
What Comes After?
Explore spiritual beliefs and their impact on accepting and adjusting to loss.
Sitting with Sorrow
Explore sitting with sorrow and reactions to distressing grief emotions.
Seasons Of Being
Explore different phases of life–rebirth, growth, endings, transitions–using a seasonal metaphor.
Scratch Paper with Abstract Anything
Express and process emotions that are difficult to verbalize by embracing abstract art.
Reverse Coloring/Drawing
Open up creative possibilities by creating something new from a background of color to promote mindfulness.
Painting Candles
Engage in the creative act of painting a candle while honoring and remembering loved ones.
Neurographica Drawing
Foster emotional integration and relieve stress using a method of creating abstract art.
Mini Canvas Silhouette
Represent a memory using the metaphor of a silhouette to express grief or loss.
Memory Box
Create a physical container to hold emotions, items, and memories of a loved one.
Mask-Making
Creating Masks to Explore Grief, Trauma, and the Inner/Outer Self
Marblilizing the Clay
This tactile approach of marbling colors while molding clay provides a non-verbal way to process emotions and release physical tension.
Legacy Handprint
Create tangible keepsakes for families with legacy handprints to honor connections.
Handcast
Preserve bonds and create legacy art with a plaster mold handcast.
Grief Container
Create a symbolic container to hold what feels too heavy to carry alone.
Fingerprint Legacy Cards
Preserve connection with legacy fingerprint cards.
Dual Process Grief Integration
Explore loss-oriented stressors and restoration-oriented glimmers to work through the oscillation of emotions in grief.
Drawing/Coloring to Music
Listening to music while drawing can create a relaxed environment to express feelings and reduce stress.
Drawing and Box Breathing
Promote regulation and relaxation through visualizing box breathing.
Draw the Curious Garden
Explore emotions and internal states by drawing a garden to present the inner world.
Creating a Mandala
Reduce stress and promote relaxation through this repetitive and meditative creative process.
Comfort Collage
Promote self-reflection, autonomy, and grounding through the process of choosing, cutting, and arranging images that offer comfort.
Bilateral Drawing
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.
Bereavement Touchstones
Express grief and connection to loved ones by painting with symbolic stones.
Awareness of Thoughts
Examine how thoughts arise and change and how to respond to them with more kindness.