Activate your deep listening and healing response to what ails through creative pathways. Live well to die well.
Expressive Art Therapist and Registered Dance Movement Therapist, Nandi Szabo, M.A., ADTR, provides individuals and groups an energetic and integrated healing practice using art, movement, music, writing and drama, in a safe environment which focuses on what seeks expression during times of change, transitions and endings, particularly end of life issues. Explore opening to greater wellbeing and a sense of wholeness through the dynamic guided methods of Expressive Arts Therapy, which offers a creative lens for gaining insight, healing and connection with your mental, emotional and spiritual integrity. Most individuals and groups are not taught how to handle high stress, life threatening illness, emotional trauma, spiritual angst, a broken heart, big losses, changes and transitions. Often helpless in the face of these events, we may feel victimized, frightened, frustrated, broken spirited, in distress. When entering the realm of health and wellness, or dying and death, we are faced with a need for which we may or may not be well prepared: to listen deeply to their own truths.
There are many paths to healing
Services Include:
- Facilitate painting of your own or loved ones cardboard casket or pine urn
- Hospice/ palliative care/ bereavement/ caregiver support
- Creative rituals and ceremonies, particularly funerals, wakes and memorials
- Stress management, team building and vision planning in services
- Private practice for individuals
- Hospital and contract work
- Retreats and workshops ( local and international)
“Our job is to participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world” ~ Joseph Campbell
Life is precious. Dying is a mystery.
Using the tools and healing structures of the Expressive Art Therapies I will help facilitate the dance between holding on to life and letting go to the mystery of death.
…offering a creative, safe forum to enhance the quality of time one has left, creating an interplay between anxiety, fear or pain management and the arts…
…Thus embracing the physical, emotional, spiritual, existential and relational dimensions of dying.
…The more creative interaction, the more understanding, healing and support can deepen, and the greater the possibilities for insight, joy and increased self –confidence.
• Can we meet suffering with tenderness, strength and compassion?
• Can we transform society’s view of dying and embrace the meaning of dying well?
• Can we give caregivers a way to be part of the mystery?
What if we ask the dying…
• What is seeking expression?
• What is it you need for fulfillment?
• What is holding you back from transitioning?
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