Creative arts can play an important role for cult survivors in surviving, transcending and healing from their past realities. Flow – an empowering state of mind-body integration and skilful, intuitive action while engaged in a challenging yet enjoyable task (Csikszentmihalyi, 1997) – may be an important mechanism in arts therapies and may be especially impactful as an experience for cult survivors. Research reporting on arts therapies for cult survivors, Flow in cult survivors and Flow in arts therapies is currently severely lacking. This study reports on a multimodal creative psychological therapy, Arts for the Blues, piloted as a workshop with a small group of cult survivors. Results obtained from three participants show that they experienced Flow in their creative activities and increased attainment in a self-selected personal goal. Interviews with two participants reveal important considerations for working with cult survivors, the healing power of the arts, the attainment of Flow states in the process, and the impact of the Arts for the Blues approach. This study is the first of its kind to trial art therapies with ex cult-members, or to document participants’ views on Flow states during an arts therapy approach. Although limited by a small sample size, further research is warranted.

创意艺术对于邪教幸存者在其过去现实的生存，超越和康复中可以发挥重要作用。流–在完成具有挑战性但又令人愉快的任务时，使身心整合和熟练，直观的动作增强能力的状态（Csikszentmihalyi，1997年）–在艺术疗法中可能是重要的机制，并且对于邪教幸存者而言可能会特别有意义。目前严重缺乏针对邪教幸存者的艺术疗法，邪教幸存者的潮流和艺术疗法的潮流的研究报告。这项研究报告了一种多模式创造性心理疗法“蓝调艺术”，是与一小批邪教幸存者一起作为讲习班试行的。从三名参与者获得的结果表明，他们在创意活动中体验了Flow，并在自我选择的个人目标中实现了更高的成就。与两位参与者的访谈揭示了与邪教幸存者合作的重要考虑因素，艺术的治愈能力，流程中流程状态的获得，以及“蓝调艺术”方法的影响。这项研究是同类研究中首个与前成员一起试用艺术疗法，或记录参与者在艺术疗法方法中对Flow状态的看法的研究。尽管受样本量的限制，但仍需进一步研究。