ART HOPE The Way To Creative Wellness (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780997507829)

ART HOPE The Way To Creative Wellness is a practical guide for healthful, artful living that explores the healing opportunities of art-making, art-taking, and art-giving. For individuals and communities, it's a common-sense approach that helps people recognize and practice creativity for self-expression and self-care. Creativity is an essential life skill and our most renewable and valuable natural resource. It is the way to wellness, and the way forward, as we co-create a better world.

In her groundbreaking work, the author is an artist who paints a portrait of human creativity. She shares information about health and the expressive arts, inspiring stories, and ways to start doing your creativity. The book introduces the Creative Wellness Model. It is a universal application for everyday creativity that represents the many ways people are creative. The model's nine interconnected themes describe mental, physical, spiritual, environment, community, home, language, sound, and visual aspects. It is an organic concept and idea catcher designed to spark creative interests and expression. Like a pebble tossed into still water, ART HOPE will inspire and move you to create wellness and be the artist-in-residence in your life.