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Topic Tuesday//BOTH FORUMS// Creative expression and our wellbeing! // Tues 28 July 7- 8 30pm AEST featuring Special Guest Artists from the DAX Centre

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Topic Tuesday//BOTH FORUMS// Creative expression and our wellbeing! // Tues 28 July 7- 8 30pm AEST featuring Special Guest Artists from the DAX Centre

We would like to invite members from both Lived Experience and Friends, Family and Carers Forums to join our Topic Tuesday this month!

We are very excited to have two special guest artists from the DAX Centre coming to our Topic Tuesday this month. We will be discussing a range of topics on all things art and creative expression, as well as covering some tips on how we can apply creative expression to our daily lives! ✨

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I'm new here - what is Topic Tuesday?

Topic Tuesday runs from 7pm - 8:30pm AEST monthly. Each month we focus on a different topic, with the session facilitated by a Community Manager or Moderator. Sometimes Topic Tuesday will feature a special guest, who is an expert in the topic.

The first post of the thread (this one) will give you an idea of what the topic is and what will be covered.

How do I get involved?

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Throughout the session, the facilitator will put questions out for you to answer, usually asking for your own experience on the topic. To contribute to the session, just hit the 'reply' button and share your thoughts. No answers are right or wrong and everyone is welcome to get involved.

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RenegadeContributor

Re: Topic Tuesday//BOTH FORUMS// Creative expression and our wellbeing! // Tues 28 July 7- 8 30pm AEST featuring Special Guest Artist from the DAX Cen

Creativity is an action that uses imagination and experimentation to bring into life something new and unique.

Being creative means embodying that element of yourself that doesn’t have the breaks on, isn’t following the rules but is allowing the unpredictable energy of the creative in the body and mind to tumble out into the world.

It requires being in a state that is open, attentive and available to creative energy with a sense of freedom, for anything to come without judgement.

The creative potential within each of us needs to be untethered for it to be given life. When we are listening to our critical mind and judge an idea/act before we’ve tried it out, we can often prevent bringing a creation into existence at all.

So to offer the energetic spirit of creativity within us the freedom to be expressed, there’s an element of acceptance of being in that energy, in that moment with your art, and an element of risk in allowing to tumble out what comes no matter what.

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paintingalldayContributor

Re: Topic Tuesday//BOTH FORUMS// Creative expression and our wellbeing! // Tues 28 July 7- 8 30pm AEST featuring Special Guest Artist from the DAX Cen

Creativity to me is directly linked to expression – in whatever form that comes!

For some people it’s words, written, spoken or sung. For some people its baking, for some it’s the clothes they wear.

And it doesn’t even have to be for anyone, it can simply be an outlet for self-expression, this is true particularly for me, as I find sometimes expressing myself with words doesn’t work.. they don’t seem to convey what it is I’m feeling or trying to communicate.

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Unknown userMember

Re: Topic Tuesday//BOTH FORUMS// Creative expression and our wellbeing! // Tues 28 July 7- 8 30pm AEST featuring Special Guest Artist from the DAX Cen

Welcome to tonight's discussion @Snowie!

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Shaz51Senior Contributor

Re: Topic Tuesday//BOTH FORUMS// Creative expression and our wellbeing! // Tues 28 July 7- 8 30pm AEST featuring Special Guest Artist from the DAX Cen

Hello @Renegade , @paintingallday

ohh welcome @Former-Member

hello @Former-Member , @Snowie

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Judi9877Senior Contributor

Re: Topic Tuesday//BOTH FORUMS// Creative expression and our wellbeing! // Tues 28 July 7- 8 30pm AEST featuring Special Guest Artist from the DAX Cen

Hi @Former-Member . Great question to start off with! For me, being creative means expressing myself in some shape or form by using my imagination to act as a voice to say how I feel or what I'm thinking. That could be through words, colours or textures, such as yarn or cotton. Sometimes even music as in the form of a certain song.

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SnowieSenior Contributor

Re: Topic Tuesday//BOTH FORUMS// Creative expression and our wellbeing! // Tues 28 July 7- 8 30pm AEST featuring Special Guest Artist from the DAX Cen

To me being creative means the ability to express myself through different means

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Unknown userMember

Re: Topic Tuesday//BOTH FORUMS// Creative expression and our wellbeing! // Tues 28 July 7- 8 30pm AEST featuring Special Guest Artists from the DAX Ce

I'm here, hoping to pick up some tips to get me out of this couch potato rut I'm in :face_with_rolling_eyes: Wondering if @Faith-and-Hope, @Zoe7, @outlander and @Bunniekins are here ?

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paintingalldayContributor

Re: Topic Tuesday//BOTH FORUMS// Creative expression and our wellbeing! // Tues 28 July 7- 8 30pm AEST featuring Special Guest Artist from the DAX Cen

@Judi9877 i love that! "using my imagination to act as a voice"

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Unknown userMember

Re: Topic Tuesday//BOTH FORUMS// Creative expression and our wellbeing! // Tues 28 July 7- 8 30pm AEST featuring Special Guest Artist from the DAX Cen

For me creativity is about doing something new, enacting an idea that I’ve thought about but for some reason haven’t done it yet. I really like @Renegade 's idea that being creative is not so much about the end product that you create, rather it’s about the act of doing it freely. I haven't thought of this before!

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Shaz51Senior Contributor

Re: Topic Tuesday//BOTH FORUMS// Creative expression and our wellbeing! // Tues 28 July 7- 8 30pm AEST featuring Special Guest Artist from the DAX Cen

hello @Judi9877

@Faith-and-Hope, @eth , @Former-Member , @Anastasia , @onestepatatime , @Maggie

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