Ingredient Overview
When using the Arts for the Blues model, all participants in the group are encouraged, without being pressured, to engage in creative activities such as drawing, creative writing and movement.
Typical examples of encouraging active engagement are associated with group activities such as scribbling exercises, hand gestures and postures, creative checking in, simple physical warm ups, and small creative or active homework (such as working with posture, journaling or experimenting with arts to increase vitality and psychological ‘flow’).
It is expected that the therapist will offer more encouragement for active engagement during the first three sessions than during the later phases of the life of the group when participants are more able to do it themselves.
'Encouraging Active Engagement' practitioner videos
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