The Good Enough Studio: Art Therapy Through the Prism of Space, Matter, and Action by Orbach Nona

Author:Orbach, Nona [Orbach, Nona ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-12-05T16:00:00+00:00

What Material Am I Now? – A Phenomenological Tool

“What material am I now?” is a valuable question and tool that I often practice with students, therapists, supervisees, and clients in our first session. It is based on an intuitive choice of material or object which, only later, through the process, will reveal its many unfolded meanings and why it was chosen. Working with this question tool bypasses art knowledge and criticism and, very naturally, uses the right-brain, non-linguistic hemisphere. It is a universal intuitive point of view that works well in our multi-cultural society, as I have observed where I have worked, in Israel, Italy, and Japan.

How does it work?

The participants get an email two weeks before our first meeting, in which they are requested to find and bring with them something concrete, material, an object that portrays them at that time of their life. They are asked to choose instinctively, not knowing why, but just feeling it is the right material. The choice is made from the felt sense [45] and might be intriguing. Examples of such items that were brought in are: wet dough, milk, earth with a rooted plant, a red string, a tin spoon, a stone from Mom’s garden, autumn leaves, a key…

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