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Expressive Arts Therapy Interventions for relieving emotional and physical suffering in cancer patients By Dr. Peter Mai

08:30 - 12:00 Monday, 23rd September, 2019

Kinnear Centre 301

Workshops

This workshop will include a lecture, case presentations, and an experiential part to provide an overview of the most useful application of expressive arts interventions for patients with cancer. Clinical case presentations will show the art products of patients and review their experience and consequences with the creative process and its effect on a physical, emotional and spiritual level. Participants will be introduced to the topics of “intermodal transfer”, “autonomy control” and “triangulation,” basic paradigms of the expressive art therapy process. During the workshop participants have the opportunity to participate in experiential exercises and to be introduced to different expressive arts modalities in order to initiate their own dialogue between life experience and creative expression and will explain how to apply the creative process interventions. If time allows we will reflect about an international art therapy project with cancer patients whereby collecting stories and art products of patients who have experienced the benefits of using the creative process and to create an international Healing Arts Exhibition. Learning objectives: 1.    How to facilitate some useful art interventions as a specific indication during acute stages of illness, as a supporting tool during the rehabilitation process and how to support and foster meaning during the final stage of illness. 2.    How specific art therapy interventions could meet the special needs of cancer patients in this context by reducing anxiety and emotional stress, enabling perception and facilitating expression of emotions, promoting inner strength and sense of purpose, to strengthen and support autonomy and establishing new life perspectives. 3. By participating in the self-experiential module, attendees will reconnect to their own innate creative potential on a physical, emotional, cognitive and spiritual level and understand the therapeutic potential of the transforming abilities of creative therapies and how to apply them to their patients. 4.    Participants will as well learn how to use and facilitate some specific expressive art therapy tools for their own self-care and psychohygenic use whilst working with patients and experience an innovative stress management tool.