As a neurodivergent arts therapist, I’m usually exploring new instruments and processes to work with in therapeutic methods.

These holidays, I’ve been exploring methods to make use of AI for example my values, passions and self-care, to see if I can provide you with new therapeutic artwork processes to share inside my observe, career and past.

🎨 My Course of – How I exploit AI in Arts Remedy:

Step 1: To start out, I add prompts of my values/poetry into the AI textual content field (I exploit the ChatBox AI app). For my prompts, I typed in my pursuits and themes that help my wellbeing together with: LEGO, artwork, love, boundaries, crops, autism, ADHD and spaciousness, alongside my wants for therapeutic my coronary heart after a breakup.

Step 2: Select an AI picture fashion – I felt the Modelling clay or Isometric Artwork kinds would swimsuit my therapeutic prompts finest.

Step 3: As soon as AI has conjured up pictures, I rigorously sift via the imagery to search out compositions that talk to my interior expertise someway … perhaps via resonance or noticing what I want to alter within the picture, to have roughly of.

Step 4: I make changes to the AI picture prompts till the ensuing picture feels juuuuust proper – or shut to simply proper. For instance, extra spacious, extra natural shapes, much less cluttered.

Step 5: I place the pictures with my poetry, or prompts, or in a doc/folder/post-it-notes.

Step 6 for additional inquiry: After selecting the AI pictures I most resonated with … I’d recreate one picture with out AI, for instance, with LEGO or clay or one other spherical of poetry.

These are the pictures that got here from my values inquiry.

Above: ‘Storying My AI Values’

Prompts from my values: LEGO, artwork, love, boundaries, crops, autism, ADHD, spaciousness, therapeutic my coronary heart after a breakup.

On this approach, I’m utilizing AI as a device for self-care, understanding and witnessing my wants and values mirrored again to me, in different visible kinds that I might not essentially conjure up myself.

Multi/modality is a key course of in experiencing ideas from totally different views. So from my perspective, utilizing AI as a picture creation device, presents unbelievable potentialities for visual-based therapies, no matter inventive talent degree or confidence.

🎨Moral issues in utilizing AI in Arts Remedy:

I perceive that AI imagery is usually a controversial subject amongst artists by way of our mental property rights … I’m an artist too, so I worth my inventive neighborhood.

Nevertheless, having simply accomplished a Masters in Therapeutic Arts Analysis, I’ve come to know the worth of open scholarship and constructing on concepts from others.

I worth collective therapeutic and widening entry to arts-based therapies with individuals who want time to lean into hands-on artwork, attributable to sensory/physcial/mental disabilities and private preferences.