Creative Arts Therapies Pilot Project
For workers and Aboriginal community members
in East Gippsland and Wellington Shires
Delivered by: Michelle Smith (One Tribe Many Hearts) and Alisoun Neville (Crayons and Stuff)
Auspiced by: Ramahyuck District Aboriginal Corporation
Funded by: the East Gippsland Indigenous Family Violence Regional Action Group (IFVRAG)
Arts Therapy Sessions
Michelle Smith (Pallawa) and Alisoun Neville are trained to provide arts therapy for healing in a safe place. Arts therapists use art and mental health skills.
We can offer 5-10 personal arts therapy sessions to support social-emotional wellbeing and self- care.
Where: In person or via Zoom (which might depend on where you live)
Cost: Free. Each person will get a small arts pack.
Places are limited so please contact us asap
You do not need to have art skills and we will support you with the activities. You can use visual art, clay, music, dance, creative writing, natural and found objects, sewing, etc.
Michelle Smith (Anderson)
One Heart Many Tribes
Tier Level ANZACATA Member,
Adv Dip Transpersonal Art Therapy &
Masters of Art Therapy student –
Latrobe University. Registered Nurse Div 1.
Rhythm to Recovery.
I am a Pallawa woman born on Lutruwita (Tasmania). I trained as a Nurse and worked in the Koorie Arts Collective Limited in Melbourne and other health and Aboriginal community jobs. I came to East Gippsland with my partner Kevin Murray and our daughter in 2007. I work part- time at Yoowinna Wurnalung Aboriginal Healing Service. One Heart Many Tribes is opening a new arts studio in Orbost. I'm a dreamer and am committed to cultural regeneration. I enjoy drumming, painting, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture.
Alisoun Neville
Crayons and Stuff
Masters of Therapeutic Arts Practice.
Clinical Member of Psychotherapy and
Counselling Federation of Australia.
PhD (Law & English), BA (Hons).
Student (Y3) in Somatic Experiencing©.
I am an expressive arts therapist, born and raised on Wurrundjeri country, in a family of Irish descent. I worked in policy & advocacy at Djirra and VACCHO while qualifying for my Masters in Therapeutic Arts Practice and am now strengthening my practice through study in Somatic Experiencing©. Crayons and Stuff is the name of my arts therapy practice, which includes my new studio in Milowl/Phillip Island. I believe in the power of our bodies and the creative arts for healing and draw on my own experience of this. I especially love painting, clay, and writing fiction.
