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Getting Started

  • Writer: Pat Welch
    Pat Welch
  • May 20
  • 2 min read

Discover how art therapy, expressive arts, and cultural practices can support your healing journey and explore beginner-friendly resources to begin your self-discovery.


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Movement Toward Healing

I believe that art therapy and any creative therapy can provide the space for the invisible to become visible; promoting healing and thriving in life.  


Throughout 30 years of work my focus has utilized therapeutic culturally relevant creative art therapy, promoting the healing of the traumatic outcomes related to historical and intergenerational trauma primarily within Indigenous adolescents and adults. 


In order to heal and change to a more positive and empowered self view, we must understand the cause of and the original system our belief systems developed. 

Much of traumatic experiences reside in the non-verbal part of the brain. The use of creative art therapy allows the individual to express feelings in a visual and sensory way, allowing for a better understanding of the feeling which allows us to find our own truth. -Pat Welch


Cedar / Miyâhkasikan (Cree) / Giizhik (Ojibwe)

Cedar is one of four sacred medicines recognized in m any Indigenous communities for ceremony, healing, wellness, and restoration of balance.


As healing, wellness and restoration of balance are inherent within the cedar, so to is healing, wellness, and restoration of the balance within our physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual selves.


Utilizing the traditional teaching of the cedar with creative art therapy practices to heal and discover our personal strengths and truths.


Develop your own visual language

Art, sound and movement processes and creative conversation can support personal growth in a unique and profound way that increases self-esteem, core values, neuroplacticity, and sense of identity through meaning-making.

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Explore your cultural identity and empowerment through multi-modal art therapy, using your spiritual gifting and integrity to balance your nervous system. - Emily Taylor


 
 
 

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Land Acknowledgment 

Sitting on Dakota land, we hold deep reverence for the healing and living space  we occupy in the art studios in which we work, and endeavor to bring honor in my service to community. 

 

We acknowledge the Dakota (or Sioux) and the Ojibwa (Anishinabe or Chippewa) people as the traditional residers and caretakers of this land. We recognize that the land was never ceded and  pay deep respect to sovereign Native and Indigenous cultures and communities; and to Elders both past and present. There are no illegal people on stolen land. 

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