ABSTRACT

Most of the arts have a practical means of scoring the movement of performance. Creative therapy aims to bring forth a session that is well formed and whole. The execution of therapeutic creativity requires knowing when to introduce something, when to move on to the next thing, when to move from one act to another and, most important, when to end a session and send the clients back to their daily life. In the area of ethnicity and culture, therapists typically did not bother to experience how other cultures perform their ways of healing and transformative engagement. Instead, academic interpretations of diversity were offered, most of which were derived from the privileged discourse of sociological stereotyping and categorization. The history of therapy has mirrored the history of clients: both have grown accustomed to sitting still, contemplating their meaning. Both need to take a stand and act, not feigned action or any mindless action.