Creative expression is any process in which a person takes an idea and brings it to life. Using creative expression to articulate feelings and thoughts helps us think critically about the world and communicate using visual communication.
Does this mean that your process of bringing life to an idea is to flip a coin? If that process allows the action to be applied to the concept, yes, that works.
Finding the words to express trauma is a common challenge for trauma survivors. Creative arts therapies can bridge the shattered memory or painful emotion and create a cognitive-linguistic expression of the traumatic experience.
“Creative expression brings the absence of language into the present through art. Art contains all forms of creative expression in its most expansive definition. And creativity can be seen as one of the most potent forces in the world and our lives. Creativity points us to new paths, new ways of seeing and solving, and offers us inspiration from the inside and the outside.
Creative expression is rooted in the capacities for observation, discovery, imagination, and courage. It wakes us up, challenges us, and enriches all of life. Those who dive deeply into a commitment to creative expression make their whole lives a canvas or a blank page onto which their hearts are poured…and our world is made better because of it.”
“The forest is a peculiar organism of unlimited kindness and benevolence that makes no demands for its sustenance and extends the products of its life and activity generously; it affords protection to all beings.”
— Buddhist Sutra
