Ofira Honig, Oihika Chakrabarti, Devika Mehta Kadam, Neta Ram-Vlasov

The research was approved by the academic institute’s ethics committees. Participants were 26 Expressive and Art Therapy students (13 from each country) The research included five stages of semi-structured art guidelines and questions that the researchers sent to the participants.

The workshop, ‘Memories of world lockdown through collage’, will include creating artwork individually as well as participating in a group discussion. It aspires to explore aspects of coping from the interpersonal to the intrapersonal, and to the social level. The collage guided art making parallels the third stage of the art-based intervention model in times of global crises and mass trauma, which has emerged from this research that point to grounded theory from a methodological perspective.

The workshop will be followed by a presentation that discusses the phenomenological evaluation of the art created by research participants and thematic analysis of the inquiry.

The themes and visual phenomena will be discussed within cross-cultural and trauma-informed (Malchiodi, 2020) art therapy perspectives, presenting creative processes that reflect perceptions of self, understanding of roles and world views during lockdown.

“Healing is the return of the memory of wholeness” - Deepak Chopra.

Bibliography

Leykin, D., Krkeljic, L., Rogel, R., Lev, Y., Niv, S., Spanglet, J. & Tal-Margalit, M. (2012). The BASIC Ph model of coping and resiliency: Theory, research and cross-cultural application. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Malchiodi, C.A. (2020). Trauma and expressive arts therapy: Brain, body, and imagination in the healing process. Guilford Press.
McNiff, S. & Barlow, G.C. (2009). Cross-cultural psychotherapy and art. Art Therapy, 26(3), 100-106.
The research collaboration was in English (data was originally analyzed in English).