Art Therapy Exercise - Exploring Emotional Needs
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- In this video I will show you an art therapy exercise which you can do at home with only crayons and paper. Through drawing and writing, we will explore emotional needs: what they are and how to meet them.
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Here are the example questions you can use in the writing exercise:
Part 1
What is your name?
Where have you come from?
Why have you come here?
What have you come to tell me?
Is there anything important I should know about you?
Part 2
What do you need?
What do you want?
What would make you feel happier?
What don’t you want?
Do you feel like you need to give up something to get what you want?
How might you go about meeting that need?
Is there a part of you where this need feels met?
Jasmine, I am an art therapist and I facilitate a wonderful online art therapy group (4 years strong!). I just used this process this morning with the group and it was FANTASTIC!! Thanks!!!
So happy to hear this, glad that you had a a great experience with your group using this process!
How can I progress in becoming an art therapist?
I began dabbling in art therapy at home to manage anxiety and stress. Without books, I just looked for videos to guide me. This is very significant and enlightening. Thank you so much!
I had an unexpected result from this exercise, i even made a surprised snort after understanding what i wrote. I got kinda scolded by my drawing that i'm worrying too much and disturbing my heart (who is also the drawing), and that the heart is a "he", and that he feels quite okay under all the pressure i have in my life right now, because he is made to withstand. I was told that i'm annoying him and should laze around and look at the sceneries. This was kinda funny and weird, but my mood for sure had improved
that was so powerful!!! The way it was framed just takes your mind out of its usual confines. I am almost seeing some wisdom in my writing that I didn't know I had😂
Thanks for this exercise, it made me realize that I am actually not doing as good as I thought I was. Literally started bawling my eyes out when I had a conversation with my circle.
Thank you for sharing your resources and knowledge, but what I appreciated the most was that you shared YOUR PERSONAL thoughts, feelings and emotions with us. As horrible as it is looking vulnerable sharing your experiences and emotions , it helps me to realise that most of us, (if not all of us) have a reason to do this type of exercise.
I’m really hoping to do your exercises and I am sending you warm love and gratitude.
I can’t believe how intense and full of hurt my emotional circle was. Thanks for your video - I am going to keep working through things. Please keep them coming.
Oh my! Just did this. It exploded out of me. Wish I could show you.... Thank you so much.
MORE PLEASE!!!!
hi! thank you for this video, this technique actually managed to stop me from overplanning & perfectionism, which is an achievement, and Some Stuff started moving. Thanks!
I'm brazilian art therapist and discovered your video and i'm loving. sure i'll see all that you posted. congratulations and thank you so much for your pretty work.
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Thank you for this … it led to a childhood memory and a conversation with my inner child. I am grateful for your talent and intuition.
I enjoy layering the new drawing on top of the old one, kind of like rewriting a story. So in this case, I would take the drawing of the bubble and continue that blue over and outside the black line until it looked more like a freeform shape, and really emphasise that bright light in the centre, expand it, even off the edge of the page! Really let myself empower myself to let that part shine as that's what the feeling seems like it wants to do... just another perspective!
Thanks for sharing. Just starting my journey as an Art Therapist and councilor.
Thank you, there’s so much warmth radiating from you ❤
Thank you , have a teen-age client with depression , I think this would be a great activity
I want to try some creative things in my therapy and saw this. I tried it now, quite emotional. I may try this tomorrow with one of my clients. Nicely explained, especially as you showed your example. 💚🧡💙
Thanks for sharing. I too enjoy creative/self-expressive exercises. There is so much we can learn about ourselves using some creativity. Kindly, Craig.
Thank you so much for sharing your techniques, they are juist exactly what I didn’t know I needed! such an amazing, intuitive way to connect to our subconscious, our emotions and feelings and bypassing the urge to constantly analyse. You are beautiful as well ❤️
Hi, I am an ABT practitioner too, thank you so much, this is a beautiful activity and i will certainly incorporate this one for reflections for self and clients. All the best to you
Hi arthi .where are u from .
I had a past life come up. Interesting. Thank you. The issues have to do with things in my life that is holding me back.
That's very interesting to hear- I'm glad that you were able to see and understand that part of yourself.
This was so profound and beautiful, thank you!
Wonderful experience - I was just going to watch and take some notes but felt compelled right away to try it and pause as I went. It was well explained and a useful exercise, thank you.
Thankyou for your share, its easy to follow, and the video music is gentle, I felt comfortable when following yr painting. At last I successfully drew my painting and noticed my inner thought. The questions were wise and good, and the answers gave me sweet instructions. Thankyou again...
Hello, Thank you for your great video. At the finish, wouldn't the most important question be ' What is the black line? So you knew what needed to be removed and how to (safely) remove it? -or would that be considered going too deep too fast?
Thank you this is really helpful process. I revisit it often with good results🌷🌸🍓
Immediately put a lot of things into perspective and calmed me down. Thank you.
I love the piano music you chose- wendy
A fun and deeply enlightening experience that I really enjoyed♡ thank you
thank you for share your inner world good luck ;)
It is a very good art therapy exercise..thanks, i would like to see much more.
I like this. It's very usefull. . I can do this with my children at home. Thank you
I've just heard if this therapy recently and I'm very interested to learn more about it and hopefully gain some healing from this but trying similar practices...I don't "get" any information from my body...I feel like I'm the only one experiencing this...I never hear of anyone else having the same issue. I appreciate any suggestions!
Thanks a lot dear for this exercise 🐠
Wow so happy I came across this!
Thank you so much for this enlightening video.
This turned out to be a wonderful exercise
Wonderful exercise. Thank you❤
Thank you for this wonderful practice
Hi! I am in my final year of Gad school for my LMHC with a focus in art therapy. Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC). I am curious about the quotation statement about not focusing on "good quality art". How do you address this as a facilitator when clients hit you with, "I can't do ar,. I am not an artist". That divide between expressive and fine art is chasm for some folks.
Something about it not being art for others to see, but art for them to feel? 🤔
Have you found any good resources since?
Some ideas of mine: With people who really are afraid, Zentangle is brilliantly designed to make drawing accessible. These exercises provide confidence and are also meditative. There are plenty art therapy exercises where you just scribble like a small child. It feels ridiculous but it takes the pressure off. Nobody can expect to scribble a masterpiece. Arranging pre cut, coloured shapes on a page is great because you can play around with the design before you commit to gluing it down. Again it's good for confidence. Daubing colour onto paper any old way and cutting shapes out of it is another way to free up the artistic process.
Did you intentionally draw the angel on the left of the circle or was it intuitive? Same question for the small boy with the blue cape and the people crowed on the right side of the drawing.
Thank you ! That was great
You are great. Thank you!
thankyou so much for this video !
Thank you! 🌷
Excellent.
thank you I enjoyed the exercise
Do you do any live art therapy classes
Thank you ❤️
what a great way and a sweet idea
Wonderful exercise!
Hello:) Thank you for sharing such a beautiful video. :) I would love to know where you went to school and whether you received a degree specific to art therapy, if you're open to sharing about that. I am still exploring career options, and do want to include creativity and connection with people in whatever path I walk down. :)
Bless you!
Fantastic keep going !!!!!!!
Thank you so much for sharing this
Loved this !!
Thank you for this :)
Wow !!!👍
Well done x
Grazie ♥️
Good!!!
Well explained
Do you offer any zoom sessions?
fantastic
What if the client is not as expressive. And they won't get as good of a healing release?
Thank u for making this
Helping clean Therapy is been good do it on UA-cam only person working challenge change person
Do you teach i would want to learn this art
thanks
thankyou i find you video help me alot.
Thank you for the video! I have a question. Does it matter if I draw a sphere with colours inside or actual objects and imaginary places?
Hello, I am Mustafa from Egypt. I want to communicate with you to cooperate to spread the field in the Arab world
please talk laughter :c
Are those crayons?
Oil pastel
You are terriffic, if you could project your voice without settling in your throat it would help students not drift away. It sounds like your going to fall asleep or your bored.
Thank you for the feedback!
It sounds like you're very calm and grounded to me. I really like how restful your voice is!
Thanks for this exercise, it made me realize that I am actually not doing as good as I thought I was. Literally started bawling my eyes out when I had a conversation with my circle.