Fun Fact: March 20 is World Poetry Day. (Yes, I didn’t know this either, until I became Editor of ISSTD News.) United Nations started world poetry day in 1999 to celebrate the shared linguistic traditions of all cultures. They write: “Poetry reaffirms our common humanity by revealing to us that individuals, everywhere in the world, […]
Given that it is World Poetry Day on 21 March, it seems an appropriate time to write about an exciting new venture. A group of ISSTD Members has recently decided to form a group for people interested in writing, reading and listening to poetry. The genesis for this group began some months ago. The International […]
My call out for contributions to this edition of Creative Space was simply the word LOVE. I was thrilled to receive Mindy Jacobson’s Altered Books art. Her images are beautiful and bold (and for our U.S members I deliberately didn’t say bold and beautiful!). Mindy’s art work is a journey of love, of abandonment, of […]
1.Your refugee heartwaits, displaced heartsqueezed into a suitcase,hides under the mattress. Your exiled hands fold,anticipate the momentof escape, salvation to show updown the road. Your foreignfeet take you in that direction,carry away your refugee heart,your exiled hands, your immigranteyes looking for anything familiaron the way to the new place.The fields you walk, ruined. Your wanderer’s […]
Can I inspire you to take care of yourself as therapists and also for your clients by starting and creating a Journey Journal for the times that we are in. I am keeping one with some of my clients and it has proven to be a source of conversations that in some curious way show […]
This month’s contribution to Creative Space is a poem and image authored by Tammy, both a survivor and an ISSTD Student and Emerging Professional (SEP) member. As this poem illustrates, to call on something greater than ourselves has helped Tammy. Her spirituality is a source of strength and courage to live. Noula
Oh, how I love when two become something new, something that did not exist in the one or the other. That’s how it felt this time for me when I read Na’ma’s poem The Critic and immediately one of my sculptures from an exhibition called Breathing Space stepped forward and said, ‘You called on me […]
The Arts chose me at the age of 37 when she compelled me to leave a career as an international tax advisor. I was completing my second degree, this one in law, when the calling came and I dropped out with 1 year to go and started a career in the arts. I still don’t […]
The issues that we delve into as clinicians seep through our being and an alchemical process takes place, with the issues expressed again in a process we call Art. Ruined and Improved In this first piece, Ericha shares with us an expression of that mystical process – symbolic brush marks and colours that invite us […]
How do you take care of yourself as a therapist to prevent burnout and bring the best version of yourself to each therapeutic encounter? Bringing the mind to rest, to pause, to fallow is important. Creating an intentional rest time also allows for new ideas to sprout. We need to fallow. One of the ways […]
