#22 - Art Therapy for Your Mental Health with Davy Yong

Our emotions are also stored non-verbally in our body, and the art process helps expresses ourselves. In this episode, we talk with Davy Yong about the role of art to explore our emotions. As adults, we often easily judge and rationalize art to be something we only do when we are younger. 

Connecting to the process of creating art, offers a gentler way to be open, reflect, wonder, what is being communicated from our inner selves. We also talk about the connection of art with mindfulness, emotional regulation, compassion, Buddhist philosophy, inner child, attachment theory, and transgenerational trauma.

Davy Yong is an artist, educator, and emerging art psychotherapist of Dutch and Chinese-Malaysian heritage, currently living, working, and studying in London, he is already well involved in the field because of his work at the British Association of Art Therapists. He achieved his degree in Fine Art & Design in Education in Rotterdam, The Netherlands followed by a post-bachelor in Psychosocial studies. He specialized in Critical Studies, derived from the Frankfurt School which involves contemporary sociological- and philosophical- movements. Davy has been active as an art teacher and lecturer who has worked with all age groups across different countries.

You can reach out to Davy and follow his work on Instagram @davyyong, his painting that reimagines the lockdown as a Gothic Romance, ‘The Bones of the Dying World’, on @lockdown.residency, on 26th October - 30th November 2020, with online workshops, a panel discussion with arts and health professionals including Davy himself. You can read Davy's blog about Mindfulness, Emotion Regulation, Compassion, Mindfulness-Based Art Therapy here https://linktr.ee/davyyong

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