First slide in the presentation: Image is a white background filled with various black and grey ink marks, comic and written symbols, and a few painted elements. The title of the presentation is enclosed within inky, scribbled ovals: “Graphic Medicine + Art Therapy” The text below reads: “NorCATA Summer 2021; Erin Partridge, PhD, ATR-BC; @2littlewings”
Today I facilitated a CE course with Northern California Chapter of the American Art Therapy Association.
As we went through a lot of information we also engaged in some comic making ourselves. I’ll share the prompts and my responses below:
Prompt: On a small piece of paper, create a speech, thought, exclamation, or other comic bubble to represent how you are right now.
Prompt: Create a four panel comic with the following four ideas:
I “feel”
I “sense” (see/hear/touch/smell/taste)
I experience
I “know”
Prompt: “When you imagine speaking the origin of the field, what kind of mouth speaks the words? Do you use words, or is it better expressed in line/shape/color? Create a mouth, speaking YOUR origin story entry into your professional field.”
Prompt: Create an image showing two characters having a non-verbal conversation. You are invited to use any media.
Prompt: What would you do next, if you were the therapist?
(In response to two panels from Phillipa Perry’s work. Perry, P. (2010). Couch fiction: A graphic tale of psychotherapy. Palgrave Macmillan.)
Prompt: Create a two-panel comic using ANYTHING but pencil, pen or ink
Prompt: On a small piece of paper, create a speech, thought, exclamation, or other comic bubble to represent how you are right now.