Easyminds Talk

Meet Sammy, the parrot Zoom art therapist

即使面对疫情，Erin Partridge博士也一直通过zoom来进行她的艺术疗愈课程教学，以及工作室的疗愈项目。连她的疗愈小助手Sammy小鹦鹉，也都觉得远程的课程是专门给它设计的，所以在日常的远程疗愈过程中，它都会“积极的”参与。 

在我们与Partirdge博士的连线中，你可以时常听到Sammy和Griffin立体环绕声的插播，这让整个采访变得更加生动有趣。

“它们很乐意参与我的疗愈过程，甚至经常在合适的时候，给出”oh，或者“Are you ok”的回应。我的学生和参与工作室疗愈课程的人都非常喜欢它们。

在Partridge博士看来，艺术疗愈可以为参加的人提供一个阶段性的空间，在这个空间里，很多事物和可能性可以同时存在。同时，艺术疗愈会让体验的人进入一种流畅的状态，一种投入和专注的状态，在这样的状态下，一开始你也许不知道自己画的或者拼贴的图形或者画面意味着什么，但是在艺术疗愈分享与思考的过程中，那些模糊的意识或者意象就会逐渐变得清晰。

在今天的播客中，Partridge会跟我们分享更多的关于艺术疗愈的意义，科技给当代艺术疗愈带来的更多可能性。让我们一起来听听吧。

Dr Erin Partridge keeps her art therapy class and workshops going through web cameras due to the COVID-19 pandemic along with her special helper.
"Sammy is the larger parrot and she thinks Zoom has been invented just for her," Partidge tells Shanghai Daily. "She likes to meet all my students."
When Partridge talks about art and art therapy, her eyes sparkle her mood elevates and the inspiration spreads.
"For art therapy, we talk about going into the state of flow.
We go into this state of flow where the clock kind of drops away.
And we're just absorbed in the process of making.
"I've seen that happen even in a big group, where there's lots of activity and lots of people talking at first. At a certain point. All the chatter stops. All in here is pencil moving on paper and charcoal and someone with scissors. And all you hear are the sounds of art making."
Her typical day starts as she grabs her stand-up paddle boarder before the sun is up.
"There's something about watching the sunrise, watching that transition between dark and light that is just good for me as a person.
"As an art therapist I love metaphor, so those transitional spaces, like seeing and being somewhere where both things can be true, that what's therapy does."
Partridge, a certified art-therapist based in the United States, shares her views on how art therapy can be breaded by technology and some handy exercises that people can apply to engage with art on a normal day.

In therapy, a simple doodle can be the key

欢迎收听,我是本期主持Elise.

本期节目，我们邀请到来自美国的Erin Partridge 博士与我们分享她和艺术疗愈的故事。作为认证注册的专业疗愈师，Erin拥有丰富理论,实践和教学经验。她自己的艺术疗愈工作室 "Wings to Fly"通过各种艺术媒介，帮助人们面对情绪问题， 缓解焦虑，同时还通过艺术疗愈的课程激发人们的创意和灵感。

 她的一天通常不会从挤地铁通勤开始，而是会在太阳升起之前，带上她的立式单桨冲浪，投身自然，同时去感受黑夜与白天、月亮与太阳的交替时光。

我们会在节目里一直听见叽叽喳喳的声音，那来自她的“特别助理”—— 一只高级灰的鹦鹉Sammy，一只丛林绿的小鹦鹉Griffin，她还有一只可爱、憨厚的金毛犬Carina，它们总能给参与的人带来意想不到的感受。

Hello everyone, you are listening to Easyminds talk podcast, I am your host Elise.

In each episode, we will bring you an interview with influential people from around the world to share their perspectives on emotions, wellbeing and the sense of fulfilment and happiness, as well as ways to relieve stress and anxiety felt by many in our fast-mowing modern world. 

Today, we have a coversation with Dr Erin Patridge. She's a board certified art therapist based in the United States. She also teaches at universtiy and works in the community, pediatric, forensic and geriatric settings. Let's welcome Dr Patridge.

英格拉将带领我们学习用巧克力和咖啡作画。让思维获得多维感官刺激。

本专栏通过与全世界知名艺术疗愈师、心理治疗师、艺术家、创意心理指导等人士的对话，为现代人寻求在艺术美学与创意中了解自己、对话内心、启发创智、减压放松的方式与可能性。本专栏有中文和英文对谈，欢迎大家一起讨论。

Finding your inner peace in art

英格拉约翰逊是来自欧洲的知名艺术家、艺术疗愈师，她将告诉我们日常可以用什么样的颜色、搭配小技巧为心情缓压，为创意插上翅膀。

This week, Johansson is still with us, sharing her exploration of the healing power of art, the theoretical basis and simple daily exercises that require no artistic knowledge.

Finding meaning of life through mindfulness

这期节目我们有幸连线到了Eric Maisel博士, 他是美国著名的心理健康专家, 擅长研究心理,创造力与人生幸福的主题。他在这些领域有超过50本著作, 其中包括畅销书《禅意十秒》《找到内心的艺术家》《反思抑郁》《梵高蓝调》等，被誉为全美全才心理学家。

Author of more than 50 books on creativity, mental health and critical psychology, Eric Maisel is quite an expert in this field. Although retired, Maisel still gets up at 5am and works 8 hours straight every day to keep his creativity flowing.

“There is no retirement for a creative person, because that’s one of the ways we make meaning,” Maisel, who’s also blogged for Psychology Today and runs writing workshops across the world, told us.

He is at the forefront of the movement to rethink mental health and has been devoted to helping people create meaning and seize opportunity in life.

“Even the greatest artists only have some masterpieces and a lot of ordinary work. We have to get a very clear picture that mistakes and messes and failures and disappointments, and all of that is coming. That’s a mature, creative position.”

His most recent books include “Redesign Your Mind,” “The Power of Daily Practice,” “Unleashing the Artist Within” and “Why Smart People Hurt.”