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Therapy and Creativity with Art

2020-2-TR01-KA105-0949172020Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: TR|PT|RO|MK|RU|IT|ES · Grant: €20,763
Creativity and cultureHealth and wellbeingSocial dialogue

Objectives

Our Reasons for Implementing This Project Art therapy creates an additional opportunity to express inner experiences in artistic ways, rather than just talking about personal experiences. Nor do they have to be perfect works of art or what some people would describe as "good art". Every expression that honestly reveals the inner expressions of individuals participating in art therapy has been valuable to us. Having carried out our project, we aimed to develop individuals' power of expression, to enable them to incorporate different communication skills into their lives, fight negative emotions and thoughts, and replace them with positive moods. We acted with the desire to save the individual from traumatic events and situations by introducing individuals to the therapeutic aspect of art and organizing them by revealing their fears. By conducting our project, we have achieved the following goals, which we also stated in our application: *To teach how to revive and repair the past experiences and memories of our participants through images, *To explain the importance of increasing integration and functionality through the expression of internal conflicts (fears, inadequacies, feelings of worthlessness, anger, guilt and shame, etc.), that is, unconsciously suppressed or divided unacceptable parts, * Helping the participants to gain awareness of their thoughts and to relax by expressing their feelings, *Starting to get rid of negative emotional burdens (without catharsis) and ensuring that catharsis is transferred to the participants, *To contribute to the development of our participants' communication skills through symbolic language, *To enable our participants to explore creativity and the sense of aesthetics as a way of personal change, healing, and development, * Emphasizing the importance of benefiting from art and the creative features of the individual in order to achieve externalization, concretization, and permanent visuality, * To allow non-destructive expression of our participants' impulses, *To explain the therapeutic “coexistence” function to our participants, *To provide our participants with emotional experiences in a corrective context, * Creating images, and symbols, and reaching more individuals with the symbols created, *Disseminating information about Erasmus Plus programs, *To provide opportunities for our participants to develop foreign languages, *To develop cooperation and solidarity with individuals from different cultures and countries, *To support, develop and maintain cultural dialogue. Revealing the creativity that exists within us has been made possible in line with the above-mentioned goals. It is known that most people lead a straight life without even realizing their creative power, and it is very important to see what they can achieve when they reveal their potential. For this reason, we applied methods to achieve the goals we mentioned above while carrying out our activities with our participants.

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