Dismantling previous beliefs: Reflecting on our understanding of the field and our own parts.
Collage of change: Reframing our experiences to bring forth inward and outward transformation.
Amanda Gee (Lower Sackville, NS)
This June the CATA/ACAT board of directors came together in person for the first time since 2019. While we meet regularly virtually, in our large monthly meetings and in small working groups, it was wonderful to be together in person, to connect on a more personal level, to get to know each other outside of the zoom box, to team build and to get a lot of work done.
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Sarah Gysin (Ottawa, ON)
It is as important now as it ever was to incorporate active moments of pause in our practice. Moments where we are intentionally questioning, reflecting, wondering: why do we do what we do? Who are we impacting in our practices? How do we ensure that we continue to operate from a place of support over perpetuation of harm?
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Featuring artwork by Ingeborg P. Bodzioch (Steinkjer, Norway), Lourdes Rossell de Almeida (Oakville, ON), Dillon Lewchuk (Sooke, BC), Taylor Bourassa (Ottawa, ON), Svetlana Pepin (Winnipeg, MB), Sarvatmika Rajeev (Chennai, India), and Irit Epstein (Toronto, ON).
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Deniz Naji (Montreal, QC)
I was a daughter and a sister to a lost father and a brother. I reflected upon the impact that grief was having on my life as a member of Persian diaspora: a settler who was becoming an art therapist on the unceded lands of Tiohtià:ke, the traditional territory of the Kanien’kehá:ka nation.
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Marie-Eve Caron (Sherbroooke, QC), Karen Alvarez Madero (Granby, QC), & Caroline Beauregard (Montréal, QC)
En effet, comment parler de l’indicible et donner une forme à l’inimaginable? Ces élèves, qui sont dans un pays inconnu et qui ne maîtrisent pas nécessairement la langue de scolarisation, ont besoin de s’exprimer sans se sentir menacés.
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Art Therapy Conversations
This issue, Envisage editor Sarah Gysin sits down with Dr. Jessica Woolhiser Stallings, award-winning researcher, clinician, art therapist, and leading expert in the application of art therapy with individuals with autism spectrum disorders, to discuss her recent publication, her work, and her practice.
Taylor Bourassa (Ottawa, ON)
Envisage reviewer Taylor Bourassa presents an engaging and thoughtful review of art therapist Jessica Woolhiser Stallings’ recent book, Special Interests in Art Therapy with Autistic People: A Neurodiversity-Positive Approach to Empower and Engage Participants.
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Bethanne Frazer (Philadelphia, PA)
Perhaps what may have made this experience particularly meaningful for me is my professional identity as an art therapist. My writing is an autoethnographic account of what it was like to draw in the lab from my perspective and identity as an artist and art therapist.
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Marilyn Hahn (Surrey, BC)
We’ve all been cautiously poking our noses out of COVID quarantine but scared to touch one another, scared to get together, scared to share scissors and shy glances in case we catch It and die. But I hear, Save us with art making. Please!
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Kayla Chambers (Tkaronto, ON)
Envisage reviewer Kayla Chambers contributes in-depth reflection and review of The Arts of Indigenous Health and Well-Being, edited by Nancy Van Styvendale, J.D. McDougall, Robert Alexander Innes, and Robert Henry.
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Nature’s Way
Taylor Bourassa (Ottawa, ON)
Sipping cocoa, knitting scarves, listening to jazz and Christmas music we occupy ourselves with distractions and comforts from the cold. But not Jeremiah and his family. They know that with the first snow fall they don't have much time to prepare for the spring. They also know that the first snow fall in Ottawa, doesn't last.
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Abby Bohun (Brandon, MB)
I created a digital art show of my images to spread awareness, to share space for people going through anxiety, and to provide some insight for people who may be unfamiliar with the experiences of anxiety.
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Raven Wilkins (Brantford, ON)
We speak about how the branches find ways to grow around obstacles they meet, a symbol of resiliency. I invite participants to reflect on their time in the treatment program and create a visual response to this using the Banyan tree as inspiration if they feel a connection to it.
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Impressions of our impact: A look into our collective and continued growth as we head into the new year.
Witnessing and repairing: Shared stories of healing through the rebuilding of community and connection.
Amanda Gee (Lower Sackville, NS)
I have spent winter trying to stay warm, and healthy. And learning new skills. It always feels good to learn something new in the colder months when I just want to be home, on the couch, cozy under a blanket, but still wanting to be creative.
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Sarah Gysin (Ottawa, ON)
Throughout this issue, our contributors share the value that engaging in personal reflection and individual art practices has in illuminating new ways of understanding and processing our experiences, both personal and professional.
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Art Therapy Conversations
Rebecca Montgomery (Vancouver, BC)
This interview with registered psychotherapist Stephanie Wu was overflowing with deep chats, Stephanie is a kind person with considerate awareness both of themselves and the world around them. They have experience working in social services, community clinics, drop-in spaces and shelters as a counselor, art therapist, facilitator and advocate.
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Shae Anthony (Vancouver, BC)
Hello, my name is Shae. I am speaking to you as an Irish and Six Nations Delaware woman trespassing on unceded xwməθkwəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱ wú7mesh + Selílwitulh lands, with thoughts that I have for settler art therapists who wish to be strong allies to Indigenous peoples.
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Featuring artwork by Dillon Lewchuk (Sooke, BC), Sherry Lynn (Grimsby, ON), Sarvatmika Rajeev (Chennai, India), and Jasmyne Smith (Hamilton, ON).
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