Art therapy is the use of expressive and artistic tools and techniques with therapeutic purposes. Artistic activity performed with therapeutic purposes aims at correcting and managing problems, both psychologically and emotionally as well as socially. Its purpose goes beyond the concept of aesthetic effect because the key to Art Therapy is the process that the person uses to get in touch with their inner self, since art is used as a language of non-verbal communication.

The focus of Art Therapy is the creative process and not the final artistic product. Expression and creation is all that matters. The fact of producing a “creative trace” allows the person to access his most hidden and not external elements and gives him the opportunity to enhance his skills, often without realizing it.

The term “Art Therapy Workshop” is commonly used because it is based on a participatory methodology that one learns experientially, in a specific project that requires group work. The definition of the Art Therapy workshop is based on its differentiation from a simple visual workshop, which simply transmits specific techniques, without the term Therapy denoting a place of psychotherapy.

The tools of Art Therapy are visual arts, dance, music, collage, writing, theater and the therapeutic element is the realization that through artistic creation verbal communication, group cohesion, personal expression is promoted. We try to run into the past, understand the present and project the future. Healing through the arts appears as a way of symbolizing through the creation of images. An autonomous space in its physical form, but also a field of personal interior space.