Creative Journal Expressive Arts (CJEA) is a method and body of work created and taught by Lucia Capacchione, Ph.D. This method involves writing and drawing with the dominant and non-dominant hands to tap into the creative unconscious. With this work we integrate both hemispheres of the brain using words from language centers in the left brain but drawing content and tone from the emotional, intuitive right brain. The right hemisphere enables us to find creative solutions to current challenges, access breakthrough thinking, discover hidden talents, release blocked energy and more.
As a trained facilitator and supervisor of this work, Beverly finds that her coachees can tap into their inner wisdom using this CJEA method to shake them loose a bit and to be able to look at things in a different way. She helps her clients pull wisdom and insight from the right brain through the corpus callosum and match them up to words, thereby making the invisible visible and the unconscious conscious. The silence is heard. This method also puts the heart first with the mind being the servant of the heart.
There is no right or wrong way to do this work, no good or bad, no judgment. Absolutely no artistic talent is required. This is not art for art sake but art for expression.
Self awareness, personal growth, finding balance, setting and achieving goals, making commitments to oneself and discovering new levels of our unique selves are outcomes that can be gleaned from using the CJEA method of writing and drawing.
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Visioning® is another very important and effective tool in the CJEA body of work. Visioning® is a process for creating the life you truly want. It is a method for finding the dream that lives in your heart and translating it into the world of three dimensions. Visioning® can be described as practical dreaming.
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| With this method, you apply the creative process in daily life by finding your inner vision, actually designing your life through photo collage and journal writing, and then letting the vision happen in the outer world. You make dreams come true by applying imagination and spiritual inner guidance to the "real world."
Visioning® offers a practical blueprint and the steps that any designer uses for turning desire into design and then into a final product. In this case, the "product" is your life.
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| Lucia Capacchione, Ph.D., A.T.R., R.E.A.T. is a world renowned art therapist, best-selling author, and trainer in Expressive Arts Therapy and Visioning®. |
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CJEA Information
Lucia Capacchione originated:
• The Creative Journal Method, blending writing with drawing
• Healing through writing and drawing with the non-dominant hand
• The Visioning® process of life design through collage and journaling
• Inner Child/Inner Family healing through the expressive arts
Training
Facilitated by Marsha Gamel-Nelson, Ph.D., at the Headquarters for CJEA Training in Mission, TX at El Rocio Retreat Center.
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