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Books on Art Therapy and Creative Growth
SoulCollage:
An Intuitive Collage Process for Individuals and Groups
by Seena Frost
Have you ever taken a collage workshop? What are you waiting for?! Let your inner child come out and play. You don't need any artistic ability. Just scissors and glue and a bunch of pretty pictures you pull out of magazines. Then you add some meditative processes and suddenly you see your artwork in a whole new light: they're a form of guidance, a visual dream, your mind's personal symbology made real. That's fun by itself but then you can use these techniques to create a visual toolbox —a tarot deck, if you will—of personal symbolic imagery that you can use for guidance and insight again and again.
The Art of Dreaming:
A Creativity Toolbox for Dreamwork
by Jill Mellick
I took a class with Jill Mellick at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology that was awfully fun. We made dream mandalas, clay sculptures, haiku poetry and so much more. This book presents more than 50 ways to explore your dreams using all the expressive arts. It’s a way of loosening up and accessing insights that might not come any other way. Bring it to your dream group and play together! It’s a great way to get to know each other.
The Artist's Way:
A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
by Julia Cameron and Mark Bryan
Even though I didn't quite make it all the way through this 12-week program aimed at recovering your creativity I got so much out of it I always think of the choice as a turning point in developing my current point of view. I recommend morning pages and artist's dates. Whenever I do them I feel my artistic horizons open up and solutions to problems I've been hammering away at just pop into view.
Sark's New Creative Companion:
Ways to Free Your Creative Spirit
by Sark
I love Sark! I read the original version of this book and it’s still one of my very favorites. Words of inspiration, great stories, exercises and tons of fun. Handwritten and drawn in Sark’s effervescent childlike style, she inspired me to loosen up as an artist and be myself.