Creative Expression
Expressing yourself creatively offers good health and healing
There are so many different approaches to mental and physical healing. Writing and the arts offer many choices for you to express yourself. By releasing your emotions through some form of medium, you can improve your health.
Our team created a Creative Expression program that has been done in many settings over the years. Creative expression offers participants creative, innovative learning providing the opportunity to express feelings and learn new techniques to stimulate intellectual responses through art, writing and movement. This affords the opportunity to enrich lives through learned techniques.
James Pennebaker, Ph D., is a professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin.
He has earned honors and received grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Mental Health. Dr. Pennebaker has been a wonderful resource for our writing programming.
We have referred his book “Writing to Heal: A guided journal for recovering from trauma & emotional upheaval” during programs and workshops. This book offers an introduction to writing, health and healing along with some exercises that are applicable to a general audience.
In a Psychology Today article http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/write-yourself-well/201208/expressive-writing Expressive Writing Published on August 15, 2012 by John F. Evans, Ed.D, it is stated that Expressive Writing is the cornerstone of wellness and writing connections. Under the “ Become Your Own Researcher” section, you can view “The Pennebaker Writing Prompt.”
Sharon Cecil, RN and Marlene Will, Ed D. will be offering Creative Expression presentations and workshops that:
- provide information that lessens the fears and misconceptions about health issues
- teach concrete ways to deal with and manage health related fears
- apply skills in communication
- offer an outreach of support services
- create opportunities for clinical experiences for students in the allied health field.
We Survive’s Creative Expression uses artistic methods, especially writing. This can lead to lower healthcare costs and increase productivity. It helps you find yourself as an individual and connects you to the bigger picture. Writing provides insights, brings things together, shows relationships and wholeness instead of separations.
You can schedule a consultation to see how Creative Expression can help you heal by contacting:
Sharon Cecil
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Sharon McKean
Marlene Will
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