Living Arts Therapy & Co-Design

Living Arts Therapy & Co-Design Living Arts Therapy & Co-Design offers peer led art therapy and co-design services within the Mental Need a new logo or web design that won't cost a fortune?

Want to have a custom card designed especially for someone you love? Are you in need of someone to help with your branding and packaging for your new up and coming business? Contact Mahlie. She loves doing things for artists, good people, not for profits and self starters.

Story-drawing. A typical way that First Nations communities across the globe tell stories, connect with country and thei...
26/07/2025

Story-drawing. A typical way that First Nations communities across the globe tell stories, connect with country and their history is through songlines. These can be pieces of music, dances, ritual practices, visual art. This is mindfulness practice of connection and deep listening that is 65.000 years old. It differs from eastern meditation by connecting outward to understand the self, as opposed to withdrawing inward. We are not unaware of the world, we are immersed in it. A different way of practicing “mindfulness” called Dadirri (Ungunmerr-Baumann, 2021). This is my story hearing response to an old Norse songline, Helvegen.

Wominjeka Naarm! Thanks for the chaotic weather, excellent public transport,  good food and the epic art today.  is stil...
17/07/2025

Wominjeka Naarm! Thanks for the chaotic weather, excellent public transport, good food and the epic art today.

is still one of my fav galleries.

Naarm (Melbourne) is land stolen from the Wurundjeri, Woi-wurrung and Bunurong Boon Wurrung peoples of the Kulin Nation. This land was never ceded. Always was, always will be aboriginal land.

The ideology that autistic people cannot communicate their emotions is rooted in western white colonisation. Alexithymia...
13/07/2025

The ideology that autistic people cannot communicate their emotions is rooted in western white colonisation. Alexithymia means “no words for emotions”…. But what if we remove the words as a measure? I’ve never met a person who couldn’t communicate their emotions when given access the vast world of tools. Colour, line, shape, music, movement, taste….. these are all language. People have sat in spaces with me, never using their voice, and I have felt their emotions like waves washing over me, like electricity in my bones. Alexithymia is a condition of the narrow mind, of a culture with restricted tools. I am expressing, can you understand me?
As a synaesthete I have always seen the world in colour. I see words, emotions, sounds, people as colours. Colour is my first language. The first time I saw a Kandinsky painting, heard Joni sing about blue and saw the horse of a different colour I felt like I found someone who understood my language.

Also, when thinking on the expression of joy and peace, my most accurate description is the second picture. The most content creature resting her bones in the winter sunlight at my feel. 🐶😍🥰💤

A little mindfulness exercise, taught to me by my Pop who always reminded me of the importance of where and how we put o...
05/07/2025

A little mindfulness exercise, taught to me by my Pop who always reminded me of the importance of where and how we put our hands and the power they have to say “I am here. Now”.

Saying Yaama! Giinagay! Hello! to a new group of lovely humans in autistic identity art therapy this past weekend. 1 wee...
23/06/2025

Saying Yaama! Giinagay! Hello! to a new group of lovely humans in autistic identity art therapy this past weekend. 1 week done, 11 to go as we look into what it means to be autistic and alive in this ever confusing world.

Happy winter solstice to those in the south. The shortest day and the longest night of the year. On this day this year, ...
21/06/2025

Happy winter solstice to those in the south. The shortest day and the longest night of the year. On this day this year, the sun moves herself into deep reflective emotional cancer and the moon dances with ta**us who brings her steady connection to the earth and deep love of rest to hold us firmly in the sea of memory and feelings. The winter solstice also connects to the rise of Persephone, the child stolen in the spring and dragged into the underworld. During the solstice, Perseophone rises from her pain to embrace the darkness, and becomes the queen of the underworld. She is the spirit that will not die, the child who lived, the feminine spirit embracing the power of her pain. She teaches us we can survive and overcome, that we can find strength in darkness and that we can embrace death knowing it is a transformation that demands rebirth. We celebrate around fires to light persephone’s way to her dark winter throne. In tarot this story is told through cancer’s transition from the chariot card - the great adventurous spirit to the high priestess - the mother of the zodiac. Cancer and the solstice are exalted in the moon, the colours pink and blue, herbs chamomile, jasmine, vanilla (vulnerability and emotionality) and dragon’s blood (deep protection and strength) and crystals such as moonstone, peacock ore and selenite. Happy Winter solstice, persephone, from stolen child to queen of the underworld, may our fires light your way to freedom.

Expressions of interest are now open for the Autistic Identity Art Therapy Group Program. The program is held online wee...
04/05/2025

Expressions of interest are now open for the Autistic Identity Art Therapy Group Program. The program is held online weekly and hopes to explore and celebrate autistic identity, especially for those late or later-in-life diagnosed. It will focus on understanding and responding to sensory needs, boundaries, safety, special interests and un/masking. If you have been diagnosed with autism as an adult and are struggling with accessing euro-affirming support from a lived experience practitioner AND you love expressing yourself visually, take a look at the program. Expressions of Interest will be open during May. Link is in bio via linktree or go to: https://livingartstherapy.com/autism/

Learning how to hand sew with the lovely Nettie from  - their space is so cool! Looking forward to more adventures into ...
15/03/2025

Learning how to hand sew with the lovely Nettie from - their space is so cool! Looking forward to more adventures into seeing and textile.

Watercolour sea creatures this week with  - my finished turtle. If you’re around the Coffs area, definitely sign up, Jul...
14/03/2025

Watercolour sea creatures this week with - my finished turtle. If you’re around the Coffs area, definitely sign up, Jules is a wonderful tutor and mentor!

Address

Redfern, NSW

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Living Arts Therapy & Co-Design posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Practice

Send a message to Living Arts Therapy & Co-Design:

Share