Awaken and Nurture Your Resilience: The Role of Expressive and Creative Arts in Self-Care

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In your role as empathetic warriors, witnesses, the holders of others’ grief and pain, leaders and teachers you need to always be self-aware, to know the time for self-care as a daily routine or when it’s time for critical care, knowing when it’s time to reach in and when to reach out. The suffering of the soul is to be expected and we need to acknowledge it.

For Indigenous people we have been using art as therapy since time immemorial. Music, art, dance, and song have always been an intrinsic part of our communal culture.
Art will touch all parts of our physical, emotional, mental and spiritual well-being. It helps us to be grounded and present. It helps us to express and externalize emotion, release tension and stress. It helps to organize and create perspective and it will help to reconnect with spirit.

If we are to survive in this world, if we are to seek wisdom in the navigation of the complexities of life, we need to be able to call on the one that Created us, the one that gave us the gifts to travel through this world, and the gifts that can be found in the core of our own being.

Art decreases stress, increases creativity, increases imagination, and increases self-esteem and will open up a door to new possibilities.

Together we will immerse ourselves in Expressive and Creative arts as self-care, ongoing healing and a way to reflect our own identity.

We will examine Art Therapy as emergency self-care, when we have allowed stress to build up or have stored it and it blocks our ability to fully participate.

Course will ONLY be taught in person at VST .

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