Encourage Expressions/ Voicing out

Music and arts provide a non-threatening way for individual to express thoughts, feelings and person- ality. The creative product can also act as a container for emotions, helping individuals to externalize specific emotions.

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Promote Insight, Facilitate Self Awareness and Self Understanding

During the creative process, medium chosen and ways of interaction vocalize the opinions and values of the creator. Hence, interacting and exchanging opinions with others in a group setting facilitiates better understanding of self, situations and others resulting in transformed perspective.

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Enhance Problem Solving skills

Limitations and difficulties encountered in the creative process facilitating growth in problem solving skills, recognizing existing skills,developing and applying new skills are the key components of ac- cepting and coping with reality.

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Enhance Social Skills and Create Healthy Boundaries

Interaction within a session facilitate verbal and non verbal group conversation, allowing participants to find his/her place within a community.

The creative process makes boundaries setting either within an individual or in a group visible via art and music activities that require defining and redefining self within a group where individual have to determine where they stand when different opinion arise.

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Empowerment

A clear direction in life begins with knowing ourselves:

• who we are?

• what we want?

• where we are heading to?

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Individuals would be more content and more capable to choose their own paths when their strengths, weaknesses, values, attitudes, behaviors, potentials are identified, ready to embark on the journey ahead.