Lesson 7. Art therapy

Communicative area: discussing, explaining Active vocabulary: depression, therapy

1 Look at the pictures below. What kind of art are they? Describe what you can see in each picture. What do you think the objects in the collage symbolise? How can you interpret the situation in picture 2?

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S.P.I.C. The storyboard of my life, Dolphin Guide, Laura Hollick Robert Castillo

2. a) You are going to read a story about art in people's life. Student 1 read story A. Student 2 read story B (page 267). Were your guesses in ex. 1 right?

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When I was working as a truck driver (could you imagine that I did that?), I was deeply unhappy. I felt the Universe was playing a trick on me. I was sure I had a clear aim to be a leader, guiding people to listen to their heart and follow their dreams. Yet here I was doing the exact opposite! Each day I went to work and cried and com­

plained about how wrong it was, and how completely silly it was for me to be driving this truck. I was suffering from depression and needed serious help to get out of it.

One day I cried so much I could have made an ocean. That was the day I received a vision of myself being peacefully guid­ed through the ocean of tears to a magical place where my dream was waiting for me.

The vision was so real I knew I needed to create something to capture it. So, I created a Soul Art collage with a dolphin guid­ing me (that's me with the crown) through the ocean of tears to a place that felt like home. The following day, after I completed the collage, I brought it to work with me and put it on the dash­board. That collage sat on the dashboard for months.

Every day the collage gave me messages and insights and reminded me of my dream and let me know everything was go­ing to be okay. I stopped crying and instead started getting ideas for what I could do to make my dream come to life.

Now, fast forward to today, I am an award winning artist and a shaman, and I run Soul Art studio, which is a successful business guiding people to create their life and business as an expression of their spirit.

This art saved my life and kept me from falling into a trap of leading a life that was not for me. It gave me the courage to go for my own unique path and make my dreams a reality!

b) Answer the questions about the story.

1. Who is the story told by? 2. What was the person's life like? 3. What difficulties did they have to cope with? 4. What role did art play in their life? 5. How is their professional life connected with art?

c) Prepare to tell your partner your story.

Read the story again carefully thinking of what you are go­ing to say and what words you are going to use. Note down some names and places. Use the questions in ex. 2b to practise retell­ing.

d) Work in pairs. Take turns to retell your stories. What do the

stories have in common?

3. Discuss the questions in pairs.

1. How did art help Laura? Why did Laura have a vision? Why was the collage so important? 2. In what way did art help Robert? Why do you think Robert started drawing? 3. In what way can creating art help people? 4. What is art theraov?

4. © a) Listen to Caroline Delley (Irish Association on Creative Arts Therapists) answering the questions about art therapy. Do you think you need art therapy?

>) Look at the questions from the interview. Can you try and answer them? Listen again and check.

1. What is art therapy? 2. Who is it for? 3. What skills do you need? 4. What is the aim of art therapy?

c) Imagine you are going to explain in your own words what art therapy is to your 7 year-old cousin. Practise in pairs.

5. Imagine you are taking part in an art therapy session. Discuss ~ the questions below.

1. Would you prefer individual or group work? 2. What type of art would you prefer doing? 3. What area would you choose to work on: a) some of the difficulties in your everyday life; b) your character; c) your past; d) your wishes and dreams; e) stress relief; f) depression. Why?

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