The document discusses how expressive art therapy can help people cope with stress and trauma by providing an alternative means to express themselves. Expressive arts for children include activities like coloring, doodling, drawing, painting, and collage which can help enter a state of mindfulness and healing. The benefits of expressive arts therapy include awakening imagination and creativity, having a calming effect, and helping people better understand and express their feelings in a non-verbal way. Examples of expressive arts are writing, dancing, music, and visual arts.

1. Express to
Destress
SESSION 3: Music, Arts, and Literary
Creatives for Mental Health

2. Draw your
Feelings

3. Mental health professionals utilize expressive art
therapy to provide an alternative means for people to
talk about themselves and their experiences. Art can be
a medium of expression to aid in one’s coping with
stress and trauma.
Children of all ages may benefit from expressive arts by
entering a state of mindfulness, clarity, and healing.
Expressive arts for children include coloring, doodling,
scribbling, drawing, painting, and collage.

4. ·To learn about expressive arts and its
benefits
Objectives:
·To practice expressive arts as part of
their coping strategies
·To develop their resilience to stress

5. Coloring
Dancing
Writing
Expressive
Arts
Music
refers to any combination of
dance, writing, visual arts,
drama, music or other creative
outlets.
This type of activity has also
been shown to help children –
and adults – deal with negative
situations.This therapy helps an
individual release and express
feelings they may not know
how to let go of otherwise.

6. Benefits of
Expressive Arts
• Expressive arts awaken imagination and creativity to help discover
who he is and how to engage his senses.
• Engaging in expressive art can have a calming effect on the body
and promote a positive outlook towards one's mindset, perception
of surroundings, and emotional well-being.
• Expressive arts therapy can help develop and better understand of
one's feelings. Being angry or hurt is not always easy to describe in
words, but you can put these emotions into a drawing, poem or
dance and make it easy for you and others to understand. It also
creates a starting point for conversation, which can lead to a more
open expression of feelings and thoughts

7. Drawing
Dancing
Writing
Music
Examples of Expressive Arts

8. Gratitude
Journal
EXPRESSIVE WRITING
Diar
y Anger
Noteboo
k

9. Artistic presentation of feeligs
through dancing
EXPRESSIVE DANCING

10. Playing
Instruments
EXPRESSIVE MUSIC
Singing to your
Favorite Songs
Composing
songs

11. Scribbling/
Doodling
Expressive Arts
Sketching
Painting
Coloring

12. Draw your
Feelings

13. How to Draw Your Feelings
+ Painting Emotions

14. How to Draw Emotions
With LINES

16. Thank
You!