A process of storying healing.

‘Altered books’ are a great starting point for utilising creativity in the therapeutic space, providing a joyful and disruptive experience that offers a progressive process for co-creation and self-knowledge. Inspired by the Dada movement and New Materialism, the practice of altering found objects for self-expression and meaning making can be extended to the therapeutic encounter in productive ways.

Merging personal expression with synergies and the words on the page, ‘Altered books’ invite experiences that are born of resonances and memories; becoming art pieces made by changing the role and appearance of existing books into vessels for new and unexpected ideas. Experience adopting a variety of simple techniques, such as covering, folding, painting, or collage, to create and explore a process of self-discovery that is ‘bound’, using the live moment to transform and respond to the page and its evocative power.

*Inspiring, insightful and thought provoking workshop*

*Since doing the course, I have regularly been doing this practice of altering a book myself, and I find it very therapeutic, just to centre and play - surprising things emerge!*

Essential materials: An unwanted book (you can buy a book that you are happy to re-purpose at a flea market/second-hand store/charity shop or from a community book-swap). Pens, pencils, oil pastels, markers, glue stick (or tape), magazine/newspaper cut-outs.

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