Gretchen M. Miller's Blog

This week, The Creative Clinician’s Corner published this podcast, a conversation with host and art therapist Reina Lombardi and The Art Therapist’s Guide to Social Media author Gretchen Miller about social media tips and considerations for therapists!

Some of the topics discussed:

Social media sharing strategiesPrivacy awareness and content managementWays to create and strengthen a professional digital presence onlineDigital footprint and online legacy considerations

Attention to...

Earlier in this month, a special report was published by Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association that provides protocols art therapists can enact during this time of COVID-19 to support public health psychosocial guidelines informed by the Ebola & SARS epidemic, caring for frontline health workers, & building creative communities online. You can download the report here.

Included in this report, the use of social media and online platforms can be valuable tools to support...

A few years ago, the site brightdrops.com posted this about Albert Einsteins very well known and inspiring quote Creativity is Contagious (a favorite!):

Its funny to think of creativity being contagious, like a virus, but it really does spread from one person to another, just by the act of that second person watching the first be creativeThen find that others start acting the same way, and before long youve got a virtual creative epidemic on your hands. (brightdrops.com, 2016)

I think of...

Contributors to the Art Therapy & Technology Digital Time Capsule had these responses about their current favorite art therapy and technology related activity or resource:

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Applications

FlipaClip Art Rage Pro Create Photo Voice Morfo Zoom

Social Media & Sites Online

Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Blogs Google Website of the American Art Therapy Association

Devices & Communication

Smartphone Tablet Teleconferences Online meetings Closed group chats online

Media Sharing & Content

Photos Cloud...

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Inspired by contributions that are coming in for the Art Therapy & Technology Time Capsule, this week takes a look at what art therapists dislike & enjoy about technology in their 2020 lives:

Dislikes Constant checking of email, social media and its impact on being truly present Lacking mindful use with intention & purpose Frustrating issues with connecting Cyberbullying Trolling Cost Concerns about the impact on mental health, especially for youth Impact on anxiety, depression, suicide? ...

At the beginning of this new year & decade, the idea of creating an art therapy & technology digital time capsule seemed like it would be a fun and collaborative project to invite current art therapists and future art therapists to participate in! This digital time capsule is an opportunity to document our relationship and activities with technology in 2020 as art therapists and re-visit the responses 10 years from now in 2030. As this time capsule project begins to take shape with...

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This guest blog post, Three Benefits of Social Media in Times of Crisis authored by Gretchen M. Miller was recently published by The National Institute for Trauma and Loss in Children (TLC):

Traumatic events that are in the form of natural disasters, such as wildfires, hurricanes, earthquakes or flooding, and human created disasters related to disease outbreak, terrorism, gun violence and other occurrences of mass violence, can have an immense impact on mental health and vulnerability to tra...

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Excited to announce this Philadelphia workshop hosted by Drexel University College of Nursing and Health Professions’ Creative Arts Therapies Department on December 15, 10-4 pm with 5 CEs, including content in ethics— There is still time to register if you are interested in attending this offering in-person or online via Zoom live webcast.

This workshop presents practical content for creative arts therapists to consider for creating and maintaining a strong digital presence through the use o...

This week over on the Creativity in Therapy blog, art therapist Carolyn Mehlomakulu posted Exploring the Stages of the Creative Process – a great read about how the creative process can unfold in art therapy. The post also explores how the creative process and its different stages can continue to be practiced or implemented in everyday life- even when not engaged in art-making.

Social media also has a connection to the creative process and its different stages! Below is an infographic for Cha...

Coming this fall….. Workshops inspired by the The Art Therapist’s Guide to Social Media:

As part of the 2018 Expressive Therapies Summit in New York City, Social Media, The Arts, and Community Engaged Projects (October 12, 7-9 pm) explores the power of the arts and how creative, interactive community based projects using social media can motivate positive change, hope, and well being. Public projects inspired by abandonment art, random acts of kindness, and other creative deeds not only motiv...