|
About
Creative Art Therapy
Creative Art Therapy
is a therapy service provided by trained, qualified, experienced and professional
art therapist and expert in creativity. This service uses the most powerful
aspect of human mind and creativity to help participants in exploring,
discoverying, searching and uncover inner creative self through the art
as connection in depth. It is also an integration of arts, psychology and
creativity that strengthen our mind and body for wellness and health.
Overview of UniqArts
Creative Art Therapies (UCAT)
UniqArts Creative
Art Therapies (UCAT) are based on theories and practice of creativity,
art therapy and positive psychology as modalities through therapeutic use
of art in a safe and supportive transitional space for nurturing the mind
for a holistic wellness and healthcare. Indeed, research has collected
evidence that art therapy is an effective alternative psychotherapy and
has the capacity to heal our mind and body. In addition, research has also
shown positive response for positive psychology.
-
The integration of creativity,
art therapy and positive psychology is proven to be useful for individual
growth, strength development, wellness, team building, talent search, virtues,
strength, inner resources, creative active lifestyles, mind-body nurturing
and all areas of human potential..
-
The programme is implemented
through many creative, innovative and therapeutic use of art, creativity-juice
programme, animated sequences, comical storytelling, and guided visualization
or imagery. Since 1995, UniqArts Creative Art Therapies have been
running for many corporate events, retreat, staff benefit program,
team building exercise, talent search, creative thinking, wellness, healing
and recovery.
Some
Key Benefits:
To facilitate
individual or group in search of their talents, virtues, happiness, strength,
energies, resources and positive lifestyle.
Nurture
your mind and body through the use of art.
Safe and
subtle approach as a transitional object for inner self discovery
Help to
expand our creative inner self and inner resources
Improve
and increase team works and team building
Expressions
through use of non-verbal language
Creative
expressions of feelings, emotions and experiences
Positive
therapeutic process of art therapy
For
Who: For adult and children. It can be done in a group or individual.
Creative
Art Therapy program from UniqArts:
-
Corporate
Retreat and Team Building: To help company staff to build their team
work and bonding. To engage into creative making, breaking away left brain
function and allows right brain to be actively engaged for joy, happiness,
fun and creative self.
-
Creative
Talents Development: For children and teenagers to engage into searching
of inner hidden talents, creative self and inner strength. In addition,
to explore and discover their talents and strength into real life application
and future career development.
-
Couple
Art Therapy: To use creative arts as therapy to discover each other
strengths and how to build inner bond for couples. Couple Art Therapy could
be used for existing and to be partners to gain insights and understanding
of each other.
-
Family
Art Therapy: To help engaging family members into creativity, right
brain projects and bonding development. This therapy is useful for family
to spend quality time for joint participation and therapeutic activities.
-
Digital
Art Therapy: To facilitate therapeutic process through the use of digital
technologies and platform. This therapy is recommended for individuals
or group who preferred to deal with computer-based technology. Digital
Art Therapy would covers digital art creation, animation and products.
-
Creative
Art Counselling Therapy: For children, adult, and family. To help individuals
or group that in need of right brain based counselling and coaching to
reflect, explore and discover their issues and finding solutions to resolve
them in creative art therapy.
-
Mental
Health Treatment: Creative Art Therapy is available for school, hospitals
and institutions in need of complimentary treatment through use of
art in therapy for resolving or containing mental health issues such as
anxiety, depression, fear, anger management, behavioral, social phobia,
self-esteem, personality disorders, etc.
-
Creative
Art Therapy Lecture: To organize short courses and lectures about creative
art therapy based on our expertise and practical experiences.
About
Art Therapist and Creativity Expert:
-
Mr.
Lee Thiam Seng (Paul) is a Singapore born artist, art therapist, and
consultant. Mr. Lee holds a Master in Arts - Art Therapy with LASALLE
College of the Arts and a Bachelor Degree with Royal Melbourne Institute
of Technologies (RMIT). He is also trained in fine arts from Nanyang Academy
of Fine Arts (NAFA). Mr. Lee is the founder, director and trainer of UniqArts
and Technologies.
-
Mr. Lee
has facilitated many creative and art projects for therapeutic and developmental
for children and adult. He has experiences in running individual and group
art therapy treatment for pupils at Association for Persons with Special
Needs (APSN), women with breast cancer at KK Women's and Children's
Hospital (KKH), psychotic patients at Changi General Hospital
(CGH) Psychiatric Ward, older adults (geriatric) at Kwong Wai Shiu Hospital's
(KWSH) Day Rehabilitative Center and Geriatric Day Hospital (GDH) at CGH.
Mr. Lee conducted a research at KKH with Institutional Review Board (IRB)
approval for his Master thesis: "Art Therapy as a
Modality of Healing in Stages - For Women with Breast Cancer."
-
Furthermore,
Mr. Lee led many UniqArts Creative Therapies and some of the corporate
clients are Chevro, Cherie Hearts Kindergarten, Faber Castell, National
Library Board, Singapore Police Force, Singapore Prison, Schools, Feiyue,
PCF, SBS Transit, NTUC, OAG, TOUCH Community, United Square, Unilever,
etc.
-
Mr. Lee
is currently running his own private practice of art therapy by integrating
it into art education, creative workshop, retreat, and available for contract
consultant works for school, hospitals, corporate retreat program and institutions
in need of art therapy services.
Creative Art Therapy Testimonials:
"I truly
enjoyed myself, especially with the availability of various different medium
of art. Paul was excellent in sharing his knowledge and experiences. Thank
you Paul (Suzanah)."
"Good!
Therapeutic and healing of unfinished business in the past (Jasmine)."
"Relaxed,
able to express myself unconsciously and finding out something about myself
(Margaret)."
"Intriguing.
I got to know myself better; my inner strength. I enjoy the session very
much. I wish it could be longer. I would recommend this program to
others (Joana)."
"Very
experiential and interesting. Hope to get such therapeutic workshops in
future (Mrs Cheong)."
"Very
insightful, therapeutic and calming. Learnt a lot of new things and interpretation
(Juliana)."
"It was
fun. Allowed me to recall schooldays - that was the last time I touched
paint and brush. I enjoyed expressing myself in spite of the amateurish
strokes. I enjoyed even more Paul's interpretations of the use of colors,
space, symbols, type of material and how much of it is unconscious, especially
those aspect that tell our past. His insight is deep... Thanks a million!
Thoroughly enjoyable and therapeutic, useful, applicable session! (Sally)."
"Very
therapeutic. It's has been a very long time since I touched paint (Siti
Farina)."
"Impressed
with the insights of the trainer (Mr. Ng)."
"I enjoyed
the session - quite therapeutic, enjoyed the process and quite proud of
my art piece. Realised that anyone can use art therapy, need not be an
'arty' person (Mrs. Goh)."
Contact
us for your needs now |