Gioia–Love “Love” gets batted around quite a bit during the month of February, for obvious reasons.  We thought we would offer a different take on love emerging from research of psychologist Barbara Fredrickson. “Love is not romance. It’s not sexual desire. It’s not even that special bond you feel with family or significant others.”  According to Barbara Fredrickson, whose recent work …

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The Fiber Arts Guild Workshop with Their Altered Books Hello! Happy 2013 and warm winter wishes to everyone! We recently held a lecture with the Potomac Fiber Arts Guild on accessing and increasing creativity and engagement with 50 attendees.  Later 20 of the Guild’s members joined us for an afternoon Altered Books workshop in which we combined journaling, bookmaking, and strategies …

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Rebecca–Good Things Hello!  Warm winter Holiday wishes to everyone!  How is the holiday season going for you?  We often laugh at our dramatically different approaches to the holidays.  Gioia dives right in to creating tons of hand-crafted presents and entertaining with large family get-togethers, but ends up pretty exhausted come January.  Rebecca has a little bit of the “Grinch” in her, and likes to downplay the celebrations, but does enjoy gathering special small gifts …

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Gioia-Gratitude Journal Hello! We are writing you from NYC where we just presented a sold-out workshop on Positive Psychology and the Creative Arts Therapies with psychodramatist Daniel Tomasulo, PhD, TEP, MFA, MAPP at the Expressive Therapies Summit. We had attendees from as far as Ghana, the Netherlands, and Taiwan.  Closer to home, we had someone from the New Jersey Coast whose apartment had been …

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CWW art therapists are Licensed, Registered and Board Certified practicing in the field of art therapy for over 30 years. What Is Art Therapy? Art therapy, at its simplest, is therapy that uses the special healing properties of making art to help people who are struggling feel better, gain more insight into their lives, and make changes that will impact …

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