What is arts therapy?

"The arts therapies are an experiential psychotherapeutic approach utilising creative modalities, including visual art-making, drama, and dance/movement, within a therapeutic relationship with a trained therapist to improve and inform emotional, cognitive, physical and spiritual well-being" (ANZATA)

Approach

Folk n Fable uses the MIECAT form of Inquiry. The core approach is to explore our lived experiences and create actions for change. MIECAT’s co-founder Dr Warren Lett (2011), puts it this way, “our purpose is to explore the ‘what’, the ‘how, and the ‘where’ of meaningfulness in human experiencing: to make sense of our life as it is lived” (p. 9). 

Process

This process invites the inquiry of a significant moment with a registered arts therapist (me) as a companion. The companion considers the inquirer (you) to be the specialist of your own life and therefore does not attempt to solve problems or impose a theory but practices to better understand your experience by listening, questioning, responding, encouraging and sharing. The companion facilitates an arts-based process using various procedures that enable the inquirer to re-experience a meaningful moment. Together, we can find out what matters, what it means and make choices around other possible ways of being in the world.