ABSTRACT

Integrating creative processes within therapeutic encounters encourages us to be in contact on many levels and layers. Creativity may bring us into contact with our inner world and knowings, with the intersubjective space we share with others and with the world around us. This creative contact calls us into action, experimentation, imagination, risk taking, embodiment, and it cultivates our ability to be responsive. Three creative arts therapists write expressively into a hybrid online/in person workshop they facilitated during PCE2021. While witnessed by online observers, the workshop invited in-person participants to use movement, visual art-making, creative writing, and enactment to reflexively explore and experiment with their own dynamic ‘contact boundary’. This personal inquiry was then opened to an experience of how others in the group may make contact and place boundaries in different ways and places. The authors thread creative narration alongside descriptions of theories informing their choice of various processes. This article invites the reader into the workshop experience aiming to facilitate vicarious exploration of each reader’s own contact boundary in relation to self and others, and open consideration of movement as a sometimes confronting but often rewarding therapeutic mode.

摘要

在治疗遭遇中整合创造性过程鼓励我们在许多层面和层次上保持联系。创造力可以让我们接触到我们的内心世界和知识，接触到我们与他人以及我们周围的世界共享的主体间空间。这种创造性的接触召唤我们采取行动、实验、想象、冒险、体现，并培养我们的反应能力。三位创意艺术治疗师在 PCE2021 期间主持的混合在线/面对面研讨会中富有表现力地写作。在在线观察者的见证下，研讨会邀请了现场参与者使用动作、视觉艺术制作、创意写作和表演来反思性地探索和试验他们自己的动态“接触边界”。然后，这个个人询问开始了，以体验小组中的其他人如何以不同的方式和地点进行接触和设置界限。作者将创造性的叙述与理论的描述结合在一起，为他们选择各种过程提供信息。本文邀请读者参与工作坊体验，旨在促进每位读者自己与他人的接触边界的替代探索，并开放地将运动视为一种有时对抗但往往有益的治疗模式。