Healing Art Lesson #5: Goli Mahallati

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Welcome to my series: Healing Arts

My desire is to give you the opportunity to experience what it is I mean when I call my work "healing art chaplaincy"

 

Welcome to Lesson 5

 

Feel free to leave any thoughts in the comments below.

Find a quiet place and gather a journal or paper and pencils/pens/colored pencils/markers/crayons

Take a few moments to take some deep breaths and center yourself.

Click here to find some of the psalms as prayers I have added to the blog and read one quietly to yourself or out loud to aid in your centering process.

Now let's begin

View and Reflect:

 How do you personally relate to/connect with this picture?

 What is mysterious about this artwork?

 If this artwork could dance, what song would it dance to?

What inner wisdom are you experiencing TODAY through this piece of art?

Create: 

We move more deeply into the Creativity practice using one of the following options:

Begin to write about a time when you felt like the woman in this piece

or

Create a drawing based on your writing

or

Recreate Mahallati's painting while experiencing the feelings of this piece.