I’ve been doodling a lot lately. Not in a gaze-off-into-the-distance kind of way but as an activity with intrinsic merit and no aim or outcome – a novelty in my task/deadline-oriented world. This is seemingly at odds with the rationale for doodling that I recently submitted as part my art therapy practitioner qualification: 

Although it may seem like messy child’s play, doodling (or scribbling) is a valuable and effective tool for tapping into our subconscious, leading to work that ca...