Expressive Arts Therapy uses various arts - moving, painting, drawing, sculpture, music, writing, sound and improvisation in a supportive setting to facilitate growth and healing. It is a process of discovering ourselves through any art form that comes from an emotional depth.
Drumming is just one of those art forms that I've decided to study at The Therapeutic Drumming Foundation in Nottingham in 3 weeks time. I've just today gained part funding with a further ?1300 to find before October to complete the Diploma. I'm hoping that's going to come through a charitable organisation that helps socially excluded people who have had problems with alcohol, drugs, homelessness and criminality in the past.
I've been in talks with the manager of the treatment center I was in over the past week and any practical work I need for my portfolio/Diploma I can do within the treatment center with graduates only. Hopefully if funds allow next year (and if I complete my Diploma) I will be facilitating these workshops as part of the program within this treatment center with 'raw recruits'!!
To consider where I was this time last year (in treatment at SHARP) and to think that in a year's time I could be working in the very same treatment center, is just astounding to me. I never would of thought I'd be where I am today; chasing funding, having goals, having a purpose in life, giving something back to a community, etc etc. It's just mind blowing some days when I look back to where I was.
Please watch this video as it will give you a really good idea of the type of work I hope to be doing in the future.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDJAkBF_qt8&feature=PlayList&p=70ECD10176F 3AE4A&index=2[/video]]YouTube - Drumming for Wellness
Love and Light
Phil
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Drumming is just one of those art forms that I've decided to study at The Therapeutic Drumming Foundation in Nottingham in 3 weeks time. I've just today gained part funding with a further ?1300 to find before October to complete the Diploma. I'm hoping that's going to come through a charitable organisation that helps socially excluded people who have had problems with alcohol, drugs, homelessness and criminality in the past.
I've been in talks with the manager of the treatment center I was in over the past week and any practical work I need for my portfolio/Diploma I can do within the treatment center with graduates only. Hopefully if funds allow next year (and if I complete my Diploma) I will be facilitating these workshops as part of the program within this treatment center with 'raw recruits'!!
To consider where I was this time last year (in treatment at SHARP) and to think that in a year's time I could be working in the very same treatment center, is just astounding to me. I never would of thought I'd be where I am today; chasing funding, having goals, having a purpose in life, giving something back to a community, etc etc. It's just mind blowing some days when I look back to where I was.
Please watch this video as it will give you a really good idea of the type of work I hope to be doing in the future.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDJAkBF_qt8&feature=PlayList&p=70ECD10176F 3AE4A&index=2[/video]]YouTube - Drumming for Wellness
Love and Light
Phil
xx
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