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About RichardB

I am trained and work as a Creative Arts Therapist specializing in group therapy. I have passionately studied, worked, and taught as a hands-on practitioner of the Creative/Expressive and Healing Arts since 1983 integrating various modalities working in a variety of clinical and non-clinical settings. I currently provide Creative Arts and Counseling services to nonprofit agencies as well as occasionally teaching classes and workshops in communities of faith. I use compassion and acceptance to create an environment that is safe and nurturing for all individuals and groups. In my spare time I engage in research and write articles on a variety of subjects, create: poems, music, abstract artwork, and photograph nature.

Meditation has Long-term Effects on the Brain

Posted on May 8, 2019 by RichardB

According to scientists from Harvard and Boston University, meditation produces enduring changes in emotional processing in the brain according to an article published in November of 2012 in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. Researchers trained people with one of … Continue reading →

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Art used to connect with dementia patients

Posted on May 6, 2019 by RichardB

Something happened when Brant Kingman handed his mother a colored pencil. In the three years since Polly Penney, 87, was diagnosed with dementia, she had lost much of her short-term memory and some of her language. So she would ask … Continue reading →

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emotion

Posted on May 4, 2019 by RichardB

Art is the overflow of emotion into action.  ― Brian Raif

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allow us to realize

Posted on May 3, 2019 by RichardB

“Artists provide the contemporary metaphors that allow us to realize the transcendent, infinite, and abundant nature of being as it is.” Joseph Campbell

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Quiet

Posted on May 3, 2019 by RichardB

Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others. Marian Wright Edelman

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Water 1

Posted on May 2, 2019 by RichardB
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The Artists World 120

Posted on May 1, 2019 by RichardB
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