Person Centred Creative Arts
I am pleased to announce that I can now offer Person Centred Creative Arts as part of therapy and supervision sessions.
What is PCCA?
Person Centred Creative arts (PCCA) is basically creating art in a person-centred way – creativity that is free from judgement, assessment, or interpretation.
Liesl Silverstone, who founded The Person-Centred Art Therapy Association (and created the APCCA course I followed), believed that art could function as a bridge between the conscious and unconscious and that as facilitators if we place our own interpretation on the client’s image we move away from helping the client to uncover it’s meaning(s).
In PCCA we uphold the person-centred therapy core conditions of empathy, acceptance, and congruence, and also apply those conditions to the creative process, method, expression and finished artwork.
What is a PCCA session like?
Well, that is kind of up to you…
- PCCA might not be something you envisioned trying but it feels right to explore it as part of the therapy process.
- You might come along with a clear issue or feeling that you want to explore creatively, or you might like a prompt or visualisation to help get things going.
- You might want the creative process to take up the entire therapy session(s) or you might feel like dipping into some creativity as and when it feels right for you to do so.
- You might want to create then sit with the hidden meanings in your artwork, or you might want to create, explore meanings, and work on deeper understandings in counselling/therapy.
- You might want to draw, paint, collage, craft, mould, write or even act, dance or move!
There really is no right or wrong way, just know that as a PCCA facilitator I will be there to respect your creative process and meanings, and I will support you with whatever comes from them without judgement or interpretations.
