• A consistent practice that supports your well-being and self-care..
• Regular enagagement with the arts, as a means of of both personal exploration and self-reflection.
• More than one arts modality is recommended.

What are some examples?

• 5 minutes of spontaneous movement, followed by a quick visual image.
• quiet your mind, turn inward, focus on breath. Make a quick visual image.
• Find/discover/create a rhythm on a drum that seems to express how you are currently feeling. Repeat it. Do some spontaneous writing.
• Create a spontaneous visual image. Respond to it with your voice. Then write.

Choose something that will work for you. Get creative – the options are limitless. And be realistic about choosing something that you will follow through with in the context of your current life. Make it a priority. Schedule it in and write it in your planner. It can be daily, twice a week, or once a week. Commit, and also allow your practice to change and evolve. It doesn’t always have to be the same. Keep your materials and set-up simple. Make it portable, so that you can do it wherever you are.

Here is some advice from Creative Wisdom: Introductory Online Training in Expressive Arts.

Ask yourself: 

• What has worked well for you so far?
• What has been more challenging?
• What might you like to try more of?
• Which modalities come most naturally for you?
• Which ones do you have resistance to or discomfort with?
• How might you benefit from including a little more of your least favorite modalities?

We encourage you to explore a variety of expressive arts processes and design a practice that works for you, refining and changing it over time to meet your needs. We recommend that your practice include more than one arts modality – visual art (any media), movement, writing, music, rhythm, voice.