Creative mental health forum 2025

Co-facilitating with Melinda Jane

How might we bring ourselves into meaningful relationships with other bodies, both human and non-human, using embodiment, reciprocity and expressive play?

Using creative printmaking as our primary modality, the invitation will be to explore connection, kinship and reciprocal relationships, with place, with materials and with others.

Together we will consider inquiry questions such as; 

What am I noticing, here in this intersubjective space? 

How am I engaged relationally with these other bodies- both human and other-than-human?

• What do I bring? 
• What am I receiving? 
• How might I gently invite a practice of decolonisation into my therapeutic work?

Trusting embodied knowing as our guide we will engage the creative process. Working collaboratively alongside others we are invited to explore opportunities of playful experimentation and noticing the nature of reciprocity. 

There will be space for quiet and shared reflection

You are invited to bring a journal if that feels supportive.

Image: Melinda Jane in her studio.

About Melinda Jane

Melinda is a multi-disciplinary artist, creative arts therapist, educator and writer.

Her own art practice explores the connection to place and the intersubjective space between us and the other-than-human world. She weaves aspects of archetypal psychology, attachment theory and eco-centric considerations through her chosen modalities. 

In private practice Melinda works creatively with children and young people bringing many years of experience as a trauma-informed educator, along with her deep values of connection to the earth, a growing wisdom of somatic experiencing and the importance of play, to her therapeutic companioning with others.

Melinda is currently working on a personal arts-based research project exploring attachment wounding, legacy trauma and the nature of emotional wellbeing that underpins rewilding attachment theory.

Practice name: Melinda Jane Art Therapy   

www.melindajanearttherapy.com.au

Artist website: www.melindajaneartist.com.au