Artistic mediation is a practice which consists of supporting creative work and which has the essential objective of promoting social ties.

Stimulating and releasing emotions can have a therapeutic effect.

Artistic mediation can develop the ability to love, respect and value oneself.

It does not require any technical or artistic skills,
It is open to everyone.

Artistic mediations are appropriate for:
– reduce anxiety
– facilitate the connection with others
– promote self-confidence and self-esteem, autonomy, the ability to make choices, imagination, the ability to surpass oneself, etc.

The principle of mediation therefore consists more in regaining self-confidence through monitoring, via a means of expression defined with the therapist, within the framework of an artistic practice workshop.
And unlike art therapy, the objective of mediation lies in the production of an artistic object that can be kept by the patient to reinforce this self-esteem targeted upstream; the purpose of a mediation protocol being to achieve a cathartic effect through this produced object.

The major interest of therapeutic mediation consists in bringing out a concrete materialization of the patient's psychic life in a malleable medium. Throughout the sessions, the Art Therapist listens to the formal and bodily languages that emerge via the chosen mode of artistic expression.

On the patient's side, this re-actualizes sensorimotor and affective experiences that take shape in the productions made in sessions. This formal sensorimotor repertoire corresponds to singular subjective experiences sometimes inscribed in the patient's unconscious, and transcribed during the sessions in sensory and artistic expressions.