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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

Unknown userMember10 July 2020, 10:43 am AEST

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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Unknown userMember28 July 2020, 7:38 pm AEST

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 there @Mariposa 😊 Welcome to tonight's discussion!

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RenegadeContributor28 July 2020, 7:38 pm AEST

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

@Former-Member creativity does seem to have the effect of putting us in a 'zone' that is relaxing.

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paintingalldayContributor28 July 2020, 7:38 pm AEST

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

I see allowing time for creative expression, separate from my professional art practice, as an important part of my mental health management strategy.

I have a professional studio art practice, so I approach the art I make there with a certain degree of discipline, I have objectives, deadlines and requirements I need to fulfil. But I also make sure that I allow time for art-making purely for the joy of it. Having no outcome in mind, I pick up whatever materials I feel drawn to (sometimes at home this is scraps of paper and a pen, or sitting outside I’ll pick up leaves from the garden and will tear them up and arrange them like a nature-collage!), and allow myself complete free rein to play and explore.

It’s almost meditative, but a bit more playful! Haha

Sometimes it’s not, sometimes I really need to get something out.. I feel it sitting inside, and I get the biggest piece of paper or board or whatever I can find and some paint and make big, full body movements, no judgements, no restrictions, doesn’t matter if I get messy

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Shaz51Senior Contributor28 July 2020, 7:38 pm AEST

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

@Former-Member, @Renegade , @paintingallday

it is sooo nice to go out and stop here and there taking photos for the morning or the day

even when we are at home , i go in the garden and take photos

my husband who has Bi polar 2 and other diagnosis has made 4 photo books so far with his photos

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MaggieSenior Contributor28 July 2020, 7:40 pm AEST

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 everyone. For me being creative, is finding light in darkness, like mental illness darkness.

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RenegadeContributor28 July 2020, 7:41 pm AEST

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

@Maggie, yeah it really helps to pull the curtains back and clear the head

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Unknown userMember28 July 2020, 7:41 pm AEST

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

Think I could only do that, free flow dance, alone in private, like praying. Guess stretching in the morning is a way of moving the the body the way it needs to.

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MaggieSenior Contributor28 July 2020, 7:42 pm AEST

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

@Renegade yes, it sure does.

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outlanderSenior Contributor28 July 2020, 7:43 pm AEST

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 @Mariposa

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RenegadeContributor28 July 2020, 7:43 pm AEST

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

@Former-Member funny you should mention praying, since it really does have a spiritual and meditative quality to being with yourself in that way

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