#experientialtherapies

Where Values Meet Practice – Inside the Supervision Studio

Where Values Meet Practice – Inside the Supervision Studio The calling and the dissonance People who choose the helping professions often describe feeling a “calling”, and experience their work itself as an art. We can be particularly empathetic, sensitive and … Read More

Dr Carla van Laar Creative & Experiential Therapy, Creative Mental Health, Creative Supervision

Creativity, Improvisation, and the Art of Meeting Life

“The Ability to Improvise Is the Ability to Live” What if creativity is not a luxury, but a life skill? A new neuroscience study on jazz improvisation offers something rare: a way of watching creativity unfold in real time. Researchers … Read More

Out of the Light and Into the Shadows: Exploring Spaces Not Yet Defined

“Stepping into the light,” is a well-known metaphor, suggesting that clarity is only found through illumination. In creative and experiential therapies, and in life, shadows possess their own kind of wisdom. … Read More

Supervision Studio – an online safe creative space for allied health practitioners

If you are in the mood to reflect in good company on the year gone by, perhaps consciously letting some things go, and embracing an intention for the coming year, please join us for this creative and reflective, supportive sharing space. … Read More

Inverloch Pop-Up ART CO – the evidence of participation

Image: A young visitor admiring artist Martha Breninger’s “Ocean Goddess” soft sculpture. We created a driftwood shrine for her, and many visitors to the ARTCO created soft colourful pom-poms to adorn the shrine and make a commitment to the Ocean … Read More

Dr Carla van Laar – advocating for Creative and Experiential Therapists

Advocacy for Creative and Experiential Therapies   Part of my role as Convenor of PACFA’s College of Creative and Experiential Therapies (CCET),is a pivotal job in actively shaping the landscape of mental health and wellbeing within Australia’s service system and … Read More