Draw Your Feelings Out


Book Description

Talking about feelings can be hard sometimes. Writing can also be hard, because we try too hard to find just the right words. Drawing and art therapy have been used for years as a way to enable kids (and adults) to express their feelings without the limitations of words. This workbook has been designed as a way to explore feelings, in a creative and expressive way, without judgment or a "right or wrong" answer. Each page asks a simple question, and then leaves open space for drawing any feelings or thoughts related to the question. The process of drawing feelings out may provide its own healing, or may reveal some areas where there is a need to explore and seek further help from a qualified professional.




Draw on Your Emotions


Book Description

Draw on Your Emotions is a bestselling resource to help people of all ages express, communicate and deal more effectively with their emotions through drawing. Built around five key themes, each section contains a simple picture exercise with clear objectives, instructions and suggestions for development. The picture activities have been carefully designed to help ease the process of both talking about feelings and exploring life choices, by trying out alternatives safely on paper. This will help to create clarity and new perspectives as a step towards positive action. Offering a broad range of exercises which can be adapted for any ability or age from middle childhood onwards, this unique book explores a range of emotions surrounding a person1s important life experiences, key memories, relationships, best times, worst times and who they are as a person. This is an essential resource for therapists, educators, counsellors and anyone who engages other people in conversations that matter about their relationship to self, others and life in general. This revised and updated second edition also contains a new section on how to use the superbly emotive The Emotion Cards (9781138070981) to facilitate deeper therapeutic conversations.




The Middle Passage


Book Description

Alex Haley's Roots awakened many Americans to the cruelty of slavery. The Middle Passage focuses attention on the torturous journey which brought slaves from Africa to the Americas, allowing readers to bear witness to the sufferings of an entire people.




How Do You Doodle?


Book Description

Meet Otti, Ugga, and Flibb--They like to doodle. They doodle all the time! They doodle when they are mad, they doodle when they are glad, and they doodle when they are sad. They doodle just about anything they want! How Do You Doodle? is a drawing book for kids to help them get in touch with and learn to express their emotions. The book is divided up into different fun doodle activities such as "name your feelings," "what do you feel when," and "how does it feel when" to help readers start thinking about what they experience when they are feeling an emotion. How do You Doodle? can be used alone, or in association with a therapist or parent to help kids better realize and understand their emotional responses to situations, and to help promote better emotional health. A ""Note to Parents"" is included.




Making Comics


Book Description

Presents instructions for aspiring cartoonists on the art form's key techniques, sharing concise and accessible guidelines on such principles as capturing the human condition through words and images in a minimalist style.




Felix After the Rain


Book Description

Felix After the Rain is a beautiful book about depression and the power of friendship.A young man called Felix hides all of his sorrow inside a large black suitcase that he carries with him wherever he goes. One day, a small boy opens the suitcase whilst Felix is sleeping. Felix wakes and the tears that he had been carrying for so long suddenly pour from him. Felix is uplifted, free and his heart is full of joy. Felix embraces the world, and the world embraces him.This book is a wonderful resource for young children to talk about sad feelings and how they might feel better if they confide in another person.




Drawing as a Sacred Activity


Book Description

In the tradition of such successful books on creativity as Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain and The Artist's Way, artist and teacher Heather Williams presents a step-by-step approach to personal development — and artistic satisfaction. Many people — including Heather Williams — were never encouraged to embrace their creative side, and this shutting down of part of their inner life can create conflict. This book is an invitation into each person's creative instincts and is designed to lead gently toward developing both artistic and spiritual qualities. The book is divided into three sections: Pencils & Perception (observing and drawing what you see in the physical world); Crayons & Consciousness (drawing the interior landscape of memories, emotions, dreams, and patterns); and Ink & Intuition (drawing on the intuitive wisdom within yourself). This book is not intended to make everyone a commercial artist, but it will help readers to see and be in their world more fully.




Niko Draws a Feeling


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Niko loves to draw his world: the ring-a-ling of the ice cream truck, the warmth of sun on his face. But no one appreciates his art. Until one day, Niko meets Iris . . . This imaginative and tender story explores the creative process, abstract art, friendship, and the universal desire to feel understood. A Junior Library Guild selection, Charlotte Zolotow Honor Book, Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year, Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Books, Cooperative Children's Book Center Choice, Midwest Connections Pick, NCTE Notable Children's Book in the Language Arts, and New York Public Library Best Book for Kids




Drawing from the Heart


Book Description

A step-by-step program shows readers how to survive any trauma--illness, retirement, violence, death, or divorce--using the author's work in nonverbal imagistic therapy and split-brain research to heal the mind and body during periods of intense anxiety and stress. Original.




A Magical Day with Matisse


Book Description

Set against the backdrop of well-known works by the artist, Henri Matisse, rhyming text tells a story from the artwork.