The Willow Arts Therapy and Healing Arts Project at the Centre for Trauma Studies, by Sigrid Countess von Galen

The Willow Arts Therapy and Healing Arts Project,

by Sigrid Countess von Galen

The Willow is often praised for its healing capacity. In this project we chose it as a symbol for moving in the creative nurturing flow of the elements to deal with and heal from whatever sorrows and pain makes a heart heavy. The willow's swaying living soothing energy and its comforting shelter is even alive, when we are working with its branches in our hands. We are forming and creating something new within its limits by stretching, twisting, intertwining and using it as a bond between parts but we also bend it only as far as it allows us to. The branches transform into a new object that lives on with all our emotions and thoughts in it. There is a thought: We better focus on something life-affirming and good, when we shape the branches. Never underestimate the power of truth in what we do, and of sincerity, as when we pass on our finished product to a friend, it will go a long way not just in our memory of it but also in our and the friend's heart.


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