Welcome to Crayons and Stuff
for Arts Therapy and Creative Consulting Services
Doing stuff differently using creative arts
We're excited to meet you. Please come and explore. Choose your starting point below.
Creative Consulting Services
Who is this for?
Organisations and workplaces wanting to do their workstuff differently, and
Individuals seeking mentoring and professional development.
Ask now about our processes of creative inquiry for workplaces, including not for profit, government, and corporate settings.
Expressive Arts and Somatic Therapies
Who is this for?
Individuals and groups seeking therapeutic services
You may want help to decide if arts therapy and/or somatic therapy is right for you or to know what you can access using your NDIS funded plan. You may be looking for group services such as our Arts Therapy workshops. You may want to access our services from anywhere online, at one of our partner schools, or via our studio in Cowes.
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up." Pablo Picasso
New - Open Studio
Text & Tile
Immerse yourself in creative play
2 hours on Thursdays, up to 4 people
New and experienced artists welcome
Access a range of creative possibilities through a mix of prompts and invitations and open studio play. From dollmaking to garden prints to book-making and redacted poetry, let's engage together in different art forms with a spirit of hands-on exploration and play. No art experience necessary.
More About Crayons and Stuff
Expressive Arts and Somatic Therapies
Creative Consulting Sevices
At Crayons and Stuff, we value and seek to give space to the creations, voices, and perspectives of people with lived experiences of systemic oppression, trauma, and significant live distress. This includes but is not limited to people with formal diagnoses and other interactions with the mental health system. We know that other personal experiences, such as racism, sexual/gender identity, family violence, and poverty, can also contribute a lot to our understanding of trauma and mental health.
Our Founder and Director, Dr. Alisoun Neville is a qualified arts therapist, to which she brings almost 20 years of experience working in health and community services more broadly. She loves working multi-modally, across all types of materials, and has a passion for poetry and fiction as forms of therapeutic expression. She also has a strong understanding of embodied approaches, and is in her final year of training in Somatic Experiencing (c).
Alisoun draws on her own lived experience of psychosocial disability, as a therapist and in public forums. For example, because our own stories and experiences matter, she has shared her story to student therapists to illustrate that trauma is created within a social context, and that the impacts of trauma may look the same as any of the diagnoses used in the medical model.
You may also be interested in our Crayons and Stuff Consulting and Training Services. This branch of the practice uses our traditional consulting and facilitation skills to support the Crayons and Stuff vision, with the capacity to draw on our specialist training and creative toolkit for "doing workstuff differently using creative arts".
REMINDER - Crayons and Stuff is now located in Cowes.
As Crayons and Stuff has moved with Alisoun to Phillip Island, Sally has taken over the Melbourne practice, which includes the established partnerships with Eve Studio, Doveton College, and our practice roommates Jaya Narayan and Ruby Stevens.
This is business as usual for existing Preston participants. New referrals for in-person and group support can be directed to Sally, Jaya, or Ruby directly.
Sally can be contacted via sallydalton@gmail.com