Michelle Buggy

             

‘Spring Tide’ – An Experiential Art Therapy Journal

- 'Spring Tides' is an Art Therapy Journal that creates an Experiential workbook & Inner processing Diary

The journal offers a format for creative expression, to record ones feelings throughout the week, month & year, for momentary and long term reflection.

Spring Tides creates a visual journal for reflecting your Emotional cycle, in reference to your your relationship with the Moon cycle, earth cycles and your own cyclic nature.

Spring Tide will FEATURING THE ART FROM THE RED TEPEE  (www.theredtepee.com)

The Journal (is composed of 115 pages, in the tradition of ‘We Moon’ and ‘Moon Diary;’ celebrating a woman’s internal relationship with the moon, the earth, their womb, and their personal reflections.

 'Spring Tide' is designed for the user to illustrate their emotional journey throughout the 13 moons of the year.
The journal provides a tool for personal practice to work with ones emotional journey and discover personal symbolism throughout time.
The lay out of the art therapy exercise caters for exploring your emotional experience along with ones:

- menstrual cycle
- menopause
- womb art, with or with out womb
- pregnancy
- working with Seasons & Weather & Astrological signs

Spring Tide is a creative practice for yourself that allow one to express and reflect on ones emotional journey in the moment & over time & relate it to the greater cycles of your world.

'Spring Tides' helps guide your experience into an art images, in a process, representing one’s personal or internal experience.

'Spring Tide' - Art Therapy Journal includes;
-26 color pages of art images – Womb art from women who featured in the Red Tepee (from the 13 panels inside)
- 10 page guide to using the art therapy journal
- 52 pages to express your internal experience in a guided yet flexible art therapy practice
- 26 extra art therapy exercises to complete each Luna month (2 each cycle)
- it is a A5 Spiral bound, PVC cover, Recycled paper
-Featuring black & white images throughout
- Title page

These pages will provide a space to map your emotional process with each week, each lunar cycle and throughout the year...

                 

Spring Tide is a diary to experience
- A Visual Journal of how all the elements of your life come together    
- A Creative Journal for Explore what is moving within … A chance to express what is moving to be expressed …
- Providing a time to honour your inner processing

'Spring Tide' makes a great companion guide with the 'Moon Diary' so you can also track the transitions of the Moon and your daily experience

Ready for Christmas 2014, the perfect gift – delivered to you before December the 10^th 2014.

The funds will be used to get the printing done to launch the 'Spring Tides Art Therapy Journal.'
The funding will pay for 350 copies of the Art Therapy Journal to be printed
(16  double sided color pages, 40 double sided black & white pages ).

After distributing the journals to the Pozible supporters any remaining copies will be available for sale including;
- Red Tepee showings, art therapy workshops, womb journeies run through Informemotion - Bleeding Art Bleeding Heart and through the web sites www.theredtepee.com and www.birthingartbirthingheart.com
The Spring Tide Journal hopes to spread the deeply soulful experience of following ones emotional journey through ones cycles and other cycles that may influence. 

The Art Therapy journal will promote the Red Tepee and create another Birthing Art Birthing Heart - Bleeding Art Bleeding Heart Project all of it's own (www.birthingartbirthingheart.com).

Any greater profits will fund further touring and maintenance of The Red Tepee Community Arts Project (www.theredtepee.com), including further bamboo poles, paint, petrol etc.

I have decided to create the Art Therapy Journal - Spring Tide,
through Pozible Crowd funding so that it can be financial viable to launch and so that I can overcome the risks involved both in the outlay of time and money.
Pozible also offers a forum to reach people who may otherwise not get the chance to 'discover' this journal without a publisher to organise distribution.
For any supporters Please make sure that you include your mailing address so that your copy of 'Spring tides' will get to you in early December with plenty of time before Christmas time.