When does an Art Therapy session start?
I heard the Spanish psychiatrist Fernando Colina in an interview say that a therapy starts like this: “Hello Miguel, how are you today? How can I help you?” I thought it was beautiful. This reminded me of the first workshop for children that I did and that was a long time ago, I directed it together with two friends. It was an art workshop (theater, painting, sculpture, etc.), the funny thing is that when the first day arrived we were very excited, but nothing of what we were supposed to do worked, it was a total disaster. Being just the beginning, because each day that passed was worse than the other, the classrooms were total chaos, the desperation and frustration that we felt was immense, at one point we thought that it would be the first and the last workshop for children that we would work. After two weeks, one day on the bus, I thought that I did not want to stress myself anymore and I decided to arrive and let things flow and let the children do what they wanted without forcin