Journeying Alongside Each Other
BY Nicky Shaw, BA, PGDIP Clinical Art Therapy
Freiburg, Germany
As an art therapist in self isolation working with a workload that has tripled in lock-down, it was so important to do art therapy myself. I joined a group of 6 art therapists online and once a week we would create work together. This connection to others in our field, journeying alongside each other helped to keep me grounded. Very grateful. The group of peer art therapists was a collective from the European Federation of Art Therapists. The group was formed by members wishing to process through Covid-19.
With my own children, to keep home life a little grounded and stable we take walks in the forest, we collected sticks and made a gratitude mobile. Every string and thread on the middle branch we attached together is about how much we love and miss the person that string represented. My girls are 2 and 5 years old, and they loved doing this creative activity together.
