Creative Exploration

“Through creative exploration, I was able to realise that you don’t have to push feelings away. You can explore into them instead.”

— Client using art to explore feelings she was finding difficult

Creativity for self-understanding

As part of the integrated coaching approach, clients are invited to engage in creative activities to explore themselves and their experience. For example, they might arrive to wellbeing session and share a feeling or experience they have been finding challenging. Either, instead-of or alongside talking about it, they might choose to create a painting, sculpture from clay, drawing, poem or story to delve deeper into it.

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

— Thomas Merton

experiential learning

Within a safe and sacred space, you will be invited to explore what is important to you in relation to your mental health and wellbeing, tuning into your own life experience. We explore that all feelings are ok to feel and many people are relieved to hear this (and some surprised). Although we can know this on an intellectual level, often in our lives we find ourselves denying, resisting or pushing away certain feelings. We don’t want to have them and we want to know how to fix or change them.

Through creative exploration, we explore a different perspective; we invite the feelings in and give them a voice, a place and a time to be heard. This is a way of deeply hearing ourselves and gives an experience of being with a feeling, rather than trying to get rid of it. This experiential learning connects beyond the intellect and we know on a new level that all feelings really are ok. You realise you have everything within you already to be with this feeling, to hold it, strong and resilient as you experience it fully. Doing so can have transformational effects, as you begin to wake up to the utter amazingness of who you truly and already are.