Art Healing Workshop
A Meeting with the Inner Sea
Sixi Museum x Rainbow Centre x Chu Jiaoyan
Event Review
Caring for children, giving them love and hope - this is the daily practice of the Rainbow Centre for Critically Ill Children. The Rainbow team that embraces children with love is more than worthy of being appreciated back.
On 25th September, a special art healing workshop was held at Sixi Museum. The staff from the Rainbow Centre, who provides palliative care for critically ill children, were relieved of their heavy stress. Accompanied by psychotherapist Chu Jiaoyan, they embarked on a journey into the unconscious.
Relaxing, taking a deep breath and choosing a shell to represent each person’s heart, Jiaoyan led the group to awaken the senses of the body and mind, and step by step into the depths of subconscious mind through meditating and free-writing stories. Childlike and dreamy stories about shells were naturally born on the paper in the unrestrained handwriting.
Various emotions are presented and released on the paper. The process of creating and narrating emotions was a link to the subconscious selves, and these paintings, without intentional techniques or embellishments, bring peace and warmth from the depths.
At the end, under Jiaoyan’s guidance, everyone concluded by telling one sentence to their shells, which represented the tenderness of their hearts.
Through the art healing workshop, Sixi Museum hopes to allow participants to immerse themselves in the power of the self, to follow their true state of being, to satisfy their inner feelings, and to embrace emotional resonance that has nothing to do with their external identities.