Art therapy vs Creative coaching ?

What is art therapy?

The American Art Therapy Association characterizes art therapy as an approach to mental health that utilizes the process of creating art to improve mental, physical, and emotional wellness.

What is creative coaching?

Creativity Coaches are similar to life coaches, but focus more specifically on your creative work. Creativity Coaches help you to develop your artistic and humanistic talents. Creativity Coaches have helped thousands of artists, writers, inventors, entrepreneurs and other creative souls to accomplish their dreams.

What are their differences?

The biggest difference is that a qualified art therapist is trained is psychology as wel as art and uses art therapy to assist patients to deal with and cope with various mental, emotional as wel as physical challenges. This method is comonly used in hospitals, correction facilities and schools.

Creative coaches makes use of art materials like the canvas and paint as a metaphor and method of life coaching. Coaches are trained in life coaching methods and can have various backgrounds in art and life sciences.

What do these two methods have in common and who can it help?

Both methods use art as the focus and method through which the person receiving the session is empowered through self realization. This environment and method assist the individual to express themselves in a non judgemental space where the purpose of art making is not focused on the end product but rather in the act or process of art making. This process brings to light within the participant a deeper understanding of their core beliefs, emotional intelligence and offers methods of coping strategies to deal with difficulties and life challenges or changes.

It offers a visual medium to discover life purpose and to find deeper meaning in current life events.

It can be used as a visionary method to realise how to become a "better you" through goal setting and even help facilitate an attitude modulation to adjust negative self beliefs and to empower core values not previously recognized.

No art skills or training is required for either methods. Both methods help any participant to discover the artist residing within us all. Both methods empowers the individual to recognize latent talent, unexplored possibilities and the creative development automatically happens when we are allowed to freely express yourself in a safe environment with no judgement of what it is you create.

You find your own meaning in your art work and that is the biggest realization that will come through an art therapy or creative coaching session.

Therefore any person can find these methods helpful, enriching and life enhancing.

My name is Gideon Busquét-Craucamp aka Gideonslight. I am a certified Creatively fit Coach, Life Coach and hold certification in Art therapy, counselling, Logotherapy and mindfulness practices. 

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