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"I put my heart and soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process"
                                         
                                         Vincent Van Gogh

How nature can be a benefit tool for Art Therapy?

12/4/2019

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Art Therapy vs Eco therapy 
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"Look deep into nature, and then you will know everything better."   Albert Einstein 

What is the difference between Art Therapy and Eco Therapy?

Art Therapy 
(British Association of Art Therapists)
https://www.baat.org/

(Northern Ireland Group Art Therapists) 
http://www.nigat.org/escribes 

Art therapy defined by BAAT;
Art therapy is a form of psychotherapy that uses art media as its primary mode of expression and communication. Within this context, art is not used as diagnostic tool but as a medium to address emotional issues which may be confusing and distressing.

Ecopsycology and ecotherapy association of Ireland 
http://eeai.ie/

​Eco Therapy defined by EEAI
…a union between the ideas of ecopsychology and psychotherapy. Fundamental to ecotherapy is our connection to the natural world and the environment we live within. Ecotherapy uses a range of practices in order to help us connect with nature and ultimately with our ‘inner’ nature. Personal distress can be alleviated by developing the mutual connection between inside and outside. Through learning to care for the natural environment we learn to care for and nurture ourselves. Ecotherapy is about personal healing and healing for the earth


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Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson from atop Rozel Point, April 1970

Land Art 

- What is Land Art?
- Where did it come from?
- Examples of Land Artists; Andy Goldsworthy, Robert Smithson, Richard Shilling etc, 
- What natural materials are used?
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Surrounded Island by Christo and Jeanne Claude, 1983
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Andy Goldsworthy various artworks
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4 Colour Sun Wheel by Richard Shilling
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Holywood Beach 

"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air's salubrity"
Merlin's song by  Ralph Waldo Emerson

​- Reconnecting to the outdoors of nature
- Stimulating our human senses
- Mindfulness 
- How we become one?

Benefits of Nature for Mental Health

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Bacterium in soil links to Happiness -
Mycobacterium vaccae 

Stimulates the brain chemical - Serotonin

Lack of Secrotonin leads to Depression, Anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder and bipolar problems.

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Currently being investigated for improving cognitive function, Crohn's disease and rheumatoid arthritis. 
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Engaging in the community 

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Ravine is a unique nature base social enterprise set in 100 acres of beautiful land, within Knockbracken Healhcare Park in South Belfast
Offers 24 various work experience every year all connecting to nature to young people aged 18 -24 facing mental health challenges.

See facebook page:
www.facebook.com/RavineProject/
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Getting in touch with Nature - Books 

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The Wild Remedy by Emma Mitchell
PictureThe Stick Books - Loads of things you can make or do with a stick Jo Schofield and Fiona Danks
This book is packed with activities to do with various sizes of sticks you can use, with dead sticks gathered from the ground and green sticks cut from living trees. Sticks are part of the natural world. We don't realise how versatile a stick is, providing food and shelter for birds and animals, so always collect them with care. 

- Combining other simple materials with sticks
- Stick can be used as a creative tool ie. drawing in mud, paintbrush, charcoal etc.  

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Make Stick Characters 

Materials used:
Clay
Branches
String
Sunflower seeds
Broken sticks

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Clay Animal

Materials used:
​Clay 
Straw
Stick
Leaves




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Picture Frame

Materials used:
Various flowers 
leaves 
String
Twigs
Straw
Creeper stems 



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Make stick and Paper Lanterns
​Materials: Stick, Masking Tape, Coloured Tissue Paper, PVA glue
Object Relation
“the quality of our current relationship with the natural world is deeply influenced by whether our internalized natural objects are primarily positive and nurturing or threatening and toxic.” (Clinebell, H. 1996, p.29)

Printmaking - leaving a trace of nature 

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Workshop facilitated by Fionnuala O'Neill - 13th March 2019

"Reversal may change or distort one's original composition, intentionally or untentionally." (Dean, M.L. 2016a, p.28)

- Found objects from nature
- Natural impressions
- Postive and negative space 
- Reflective  Process; reversal
- Benefits of Printmaking 

Capturing Lough Neagh in Time 

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Photographs- views from The Battery Harbour, Ardboe 

Photographing to capture the sunset ia like in time.

Each morning is a new day, a fresh start, beginning of new adventures. 

Inspired by Solange and Sara workshop. 
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​Dean, M. L. (2016a). Printmaking: Reflective and Receptive Impressions in the Therapeutic Process. In D. Gussak & M. Rosal [Eds.]. The Wiley Handbook of Art Therapy. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell
Clinebell, Howard. Ecotherapy: Healing Ourselves, Healing the Earth,  New York: Haworth Press, 1996.
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