Stories in Expressive Arts: a chat with Silky Hart

March 24th, 2010

Yesterday I had the pleasure of speaking with the lovely, Silky Hart, an Expressive Arts therapist who I've come to know (and adore!) through blogging. You can listen to our chat here by clicking on the link below or right-click (ctrl-click on a Mac) to save to your computer.

Click here to listen.

I was curious about some of the ways you might use Expressive Arts to explore the theme of stories and Silky had some fabulous examples of how it could be utilized, using work such as Playback Theater and the Five Rhythms. As another example of using her work to explore stories, Silky is generously offering a gorgeous, free pdf workbook, "Writing the New Story of Your Life: A story writing playbook to awaken who you really are." Wow, I've taken a look at it, and it's awesome! Definitely a fabulously creative way to play with your stories and work on creating new ones.

Click here to download Silky Hart's "Writing the New Story of Your Life" playbook.

Silky is leading an Expressive Arts and yoga retreat in Costa Rica from April 24 - May 1, 2010. And it sounds simply amazing. You can get all the details and sign up for it here.

You can find Silky online at her website and blog, Expressive Hart and on Twitter, @ExpressiveHart. Thank you again, Silky for sharing your fabulous self, your creative energy, and your gorgeous playbook!

Posted by Leah on March 24th, 2010 in art, creative every day 2010, creativity, goodies, inspiration, interview, move, stories | Permalink | 7 Comments |

7 Responses

Leah, it was truly a delight chatting with you yesterday. I sincerely hope your readers will enjoy this brand new playbook that is hot off the press! It was created with lots of love and from my heart. Thanks again, dear Leah! xoxo

Posted by: Expressive Hart | Mar 24, 2010 at 2:16 pm |

Thanks for doing these talks and sharing with all of us, it’s really interesting to hear these discussions around your theme topics…and generally just learning something new or having some food for thought!

Posted by: linda | Mar 24, 2010 at 2:35 pm |

Thanks for the downloadable book, it’s very cute and fun, I hope I can use it as a play tool soon!

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Thanks for sharing another way to explore and express creativity!

Posted by: Kat | Mar 25, 2010 at 4:25 am |

Another inspiring interview–thank you Leah. And many thanks to Silky for sharing your book and creative ideas.

Posted by: Gina | Mar 25, 2010 at 7:49 pm |