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Wednesday, March 10, 2004

 
2:28 PM: [#] [0]

i've been "meh" about the creative arts therapy workshops so far; they've given me some ideas for artist's way tasks, but are usually too much talking and not enough doing. (i miss pamela!).

today's workshop, for instance, was "therapeutic storytelling," and after the first hour of plodding through the handout which was the same as the overhead which was the same as what she was saying, i thought about leaving, especially when i realized we probably weren't going to actually do anything. but oh! after the initial lecture, she told us some absolutely heartbreaking stories created by and for abused children she's worked with. i was one of the people sniffling and i left with chills. i don't think i could work in an environment like that, especially given how much those kids move around. my heart would break every day and i don't think i'd feel like i was doing enough for them.

my interest in art therapy is to stimulate adults to be creative, and i recognize that many of them have blocks where having a background in art therapy might be useful. working with adults allows me to give them a "gift" of something they should have never lost, but it also seems like a safer distance to deal w/ traumatic events.