Prairie Institute of Expressive Arts Therapy

Philosophy

Listen:

In the silence between there is music; In the spaces between there is story.

 

Pay attention:

We are listening each other into being.

Sally Atkins

 

• Therapeutic encounters with expressive arts therapy increases an individual’s

  connection to their aliveness.

 

• A collaboration occurs between the client, the art, and the therapist.

 

• Understanding is experienced not only in the mind, but is discovered in the  body.

 

• Moving from one art modality to another deepens the individual’s learning and

  opens one to increased possibilities for change .

 

• Change flourishes through guided discovery and engagement with the arts.

 

• Our ways of knowing expand through immersion with our senses.

 

• Profound connections are made with the joining of verbal and non-verbal

  processes.

 

• Whatever you can imagine can be.