Creative Art therapies are various form of wellness through use of creative visual means that focus on positive mind, strength, healthy lifestyle, personal growth, personal development, and wellness. They are designed to connecting our creative brain through the use art and promote proactive, multi-level and multi-dimensional platform for wellness and development. 

Objectives of Creative Art Therapies

To use art as therapy or in therapy to empower, enrich and enhance participants mind and body wellness

To help in search of creative self, inner self, inner resources, team energy, team dynamic and bonding

To use arts and creativity as developmental, educational, couple, family, siblings, and enhanced personality and quality of life

To use art therapy as main core psychological treatment for psychological issues such as anger, inappropriate behaviours, depression, anxiety, fear, withdrawal, school bully, cyber bully, stress, trauma, distress, etc.

To use art therapy with mindfulness and meditation for therapeutic experience, spiritual journey and help in any healing or recovery from any illness

To connect to authentic, creative and truthful self to build our mind and body health and wellness. 

To discover and in search of our strength, talents, creativity and inner resources in order to help us cope with life challenges. 

To develop team collaboration, team building and interpersonal bonding

To maximize our full potential through personal growth, awareness, transformation, reflection and insights.

To improve the quality of life

Expression through appropriate use of art is one of the oldest, popular and proven form of therapies. This form of healing could be witnessed in the visual images created in the cave walls by human being. The result is significant and important for human to communicate, to express, to record, and to heal from psychological wounds or traumas. In the modern days, many people, adult and children, have been using this form of therapy to balance their life, to improve quality of life, to heighten their awareness, to express their thoughts, to bond, to strengthen team, to find ideas, to find strength, to resolve conflict or mental disorders, to heal mind and body.
 

Creative Art Therapies are subtle, safe and effective therapies to express, resolve and relieve from all kinds of pressure or stress from life. At the healing capacity, Creative Art Therapies are possible to allow troubled mind to recover, heal or find creative ways to tend our psychological wounds and trauma.

 

Creative Art Therapies connect inner feelings and emotions and allow manifestation of our authentic feelings and emotions without the limit of language. Art as therapy or in therapy could be experienced during and after the process of art making. In art therapy, no background in art is required and it is suitable for all age group. 

Creative Art Therapies are developed through art therapy and actively engage the creativity part of the self to build inner resources and in search of creative ways to sooth any unresolved issues, inner conflict and any potential struggles. They are based on theories, concept, research and practice of creativity, art therapy and 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. 

• The integration of creativity-juice, arts, 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.
• Creative Art Therapies are based on PhW = P(positivity) H(Happiness) W (Welnness).

• All age group: Adult and children with minimum age of 5
• Team Building Retreat for Companies or Corporations
• Family, Couple or peers bonding development
• Wellness Retreat

• Background in art and creativity is not required
• Open mind about creativity and visual

To fully benefit from Creative Art Therapies, an open mind and active engagement in art are essential

Growth and Personal Development: Creative art therapies can be designed to help children or adult for personal therapy, growth and positive self development:

Enjoy the wellness therapy by connecting to our inner self in a creative manner

No pressure to perform because it is not about performance and making artworks for exhibitions

Participants could choose to share their artworks when they are ready and feeling safe to do so

Non-judgmental approach and focus on human virtues and development

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

Expressions through use of non-verbal language

Behavioral and personality modification for growth, wellness and socially appropriate act

Creative expressions of feelings, emotions and experiences

Team Building: Creative art therapies are effective, fun and great way to bond a team in a creative space. Human  resources are recognized as the most important asset of a company. Developing them with positive drive and creative team will give the company competitive edge and sustain higher growth. 

Psychological Treatment: Creative art therapies can be used to treat stress, anxiety, anger, depression, dementia, growing up struggles, life crisis, and other mental disorders. Our mind influences our body greatly, take care of the mind and the physical health will follow. Creative art therapies are proven to be effective, safe and long term result. They are used for prevention on these illnesses as well.

Dream Therapy: Dream therapy is for those who in need to understand their dreams and how to make remove nightmares and resolve possible conflicts in reality and dreams. 

Couple or Family Bonding Art Therapy: Creative art therapies are recommended for couples or families as creative communication and connection platform to help strengthen family bond, understanding and resolving conflicts.

Healing Treatment: Creative Art therapies are recommended for healing of psychological trauma, wounds and difficult issues. Creative art therapies are capable of tend to our mind and body health. One of the methods is Guided Imagery or Guided Visualization during healing therapy.

Positive Change: Positive therapeutic experience through the use of art in creative art therapies allow the long term change of a person in a positive manner.

There are other form of Creative Art Therapies such as 3-dimensional Art Therapy, Animation Art Therapy, Colour Therapy, Origami Art Therapy, Mindfulness Art Therapy, Creative Xpress Therapy, and the like. Assessment and consultation to be done by the Chief Creative Art Therapist Mr. Paul Lee

• Mr. Lee Thiam Seng (Paul) is an artist, art therapist, and consultant based in Singapore. 
• Paul holds a Master in Arts - Art Therapy with LASALLE College of the Arts and a Bachelor Management Degree with Royal Melbourne Institute of Technologies. He is also trained in fine arts from Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA). 
• Paul 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, Health Promotion Board, 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.
• Mr. Lee is currently member of Advisory Council of Art Therapy Without Borders, Inc. "a 501 (c) 3 non-profit incorporation organized exclusively for charitable, educational, and networking purposes to promote, develop, and support international art therapy initiatives and the work of art therapists worldwide". 

Typical Creative Art Therapy Session: 

• It is recommended for one hour therapy session
• At the beginning of the session, you will be introduced to choice of art supplies and usage
• Followed by guided theme or free expression to do art. This will make up most of the session.
• At the end of the session, you are free to share or express your creation

• $120 per session (1 hour), inclusive of art supplies.
• $480/= per block (8 sessions, 1 hour per session). 
• To be completed within three months from the date of registration, otherwise it will be forfeited.
• $30/= Registration Fee
• $50/= Booking fee
• $205/= One-time Compulsory for new participant for a basic material set (material price is subject to stock availability and subject to change without notice)
• This program is available at site or customized program such as family bonding, team building, and retreat.

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Here are some feedback and comments about our art therapy services.

• "Dear Paul, Thank you for being a wonderful art therapist. Thanks for your humble service and commitment. May you grow in your profession and reach out to many who are in need. With appreciation (Sir Julia)."
• "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)."
• "A relaxed ambience which makes a person calm and distress. (Norzakiah)."
• "It subconsciously surfaced my strength and weaknesses and helped me dealt with my weaknesses in unexpected ways. It surfaced my innermost fears, struggles and even problem with my migrains, creating opportunities for further healing... (Deborah)"

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