| Introduction to CJEA |
Who is Lucia Capacchione’s Creative Journal Expressive Arts (CJEA) for?
- If you can hold a crayon, you can do this work.
- All ages, from toddlers to seniors.
- All populations, regardless of your zip code or community.
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| CJEA – Overview |
Lucia Capacchione’s Creative Journal Expressive Arts Method (CJEA) uses a drugless prescriptive approach, with processes tailored to the needs of individuals and groups. Dr. Capacchione’s time-tested methods offer empowering tools for healing and realizing one’s true heart’s desire. The CJEA Method is accessible to people of all ages, as presented in Dr. Capacchione’s 23 books (translated into 20 languages).
The CJEA Method, originated by Dr. Lucia Capacchione, is a comprehensive set of tools for any process of healing, creativity, and life Visioning®. The Method consists of five distinct components, each with its own unique characteristics and benefits:
CJEA Method Components:
- The Creative Journal Method (1976)
- Whole-Brain Two-Handed Method (1976)
- Inner Child Reparenting Method (1976)
- Body-Mind Healing-Arts Method (1980)
- Visioning® Method (1994)
CJEA Method Signature Benefits:
- Process emotions through creative expression
- Feel, express, identify and accept emotions
- Identify and tame the Inner Critic
- Cultivate self-acceptance and worthiness
- Identify needs
- Communicate and advocate for one’s own needs
- Develop elegant boundary-setting skills
- Discover and embrace one’s subpersonalities with Voice Dialogue
- Experience the Inner Child in the body, emotions, imagination, and spiritual self
- Reparent the Inner Child through a Nurturing and a Protective Parent within
- Heal and cultivate relationships
- Become aware of feelings stored in the body through movement and art
- Heal the body-mind through the arts, movement, and inner dialogue
- Access inner guidance through messages in spontaneous art and dreams
- Find inner wisdom guides through symbols and images
- Discover deeper meaning in life
- Make more conscious choices and life decisions
- Find one’s heart’s desire
- Re-vision various aspects of life
- Unlock innate creativity
- Express creativity in the world
- Create a healthier, happier, more creative and satisfying life
| CJEA – Method Component Descriptions |
The Creative Journal Method (1976)
This unique approach to journal-keeping is the foundation of all CJEA components. The Creative Journal Method offers original prompts characterized by integrated writing, drawing, and collage. The practitioner facilitates clients with CJEA tools to:
- Process feelings, thoughts, perceptions, experiences, physical sensations, nocturnal dreams, inner wisdom, relationships, aspirations, and goals
- Learn the visual language of feelings through doodling, scribbling, drawing, and collage-making
- Access the nonlinear, emotional, intuitive centers of the right brain with art
- Allowing one’s non-verbal right brain to “speak” through writing with the nondominant hand
- Overcome self-criticism, fear, and anxiety
- Find and love oneself through a regular practice of Creative Journaling
- Get to know and care for one’s Inner Child
- Learn to tame the Inner Critic and dissolve creative blocks
- Heal and cultivate relationships
- Explore and interpret nocturnal dreams through art and writing
- Find guidance from inner wisdom for more conscious life decisions
- Clarify goals and remove barriers
- Make dreams come true
Sourcebooks for the The Creative Journal Method (1976):
The principles of this method are discussed and applied in the following books by Dr. Lucia Capacchione:
Putting Your Talent to Work (Out of Print)
The Creative Journal
The Power of Your Other Hand
Recovery of Your Inner Child
The Creative Journal for Children
The Creative Journal for Teens
The Creative Journal for Parents
The Art of Emotional Healing (Living with Feeling, hardback)
Visioning®
Drawing Your Stress Away
Hello, This is Your Body Talking
The Talent Workbook
The Inner Child Play Book
Life Skills Workbook for Teens
The Well-Being Journal (Out of Print)
Lighten Up Your Body, Lighten Up Your Life (Out of Print)
The Picture of Health (Out of Print)
Creating a Joyful Birth Experience (Out of Print)
Inner Child Reparenting Method (1976)
This component focuses on Dr. Capacchione’s highly-acclaimed original approach to self Reparenting and Inner Family healing. The practitioner facilitates clients with tools to:
- Identify and experience the Inner Child (In the body, emotions, creativity, and spirituality) through writing, drawing, sculpture, mask-making, movement, and Voice Dialogue.
- Get to know one’s Inner Family
- Cultivate a Nurturing Parent Within, who listens to and cares for the Inner Child’s needs
- Strengthen a Protective Parent Within, who provides safety and security for the Inner Child through boundaries and limit-setting
- Identify, name, and manage one’s own negative self-talk of the Critical Parent Within
- Heal wounds of childhood and beyond through creative self-reparenting processes
- Develop a balanced and fulfilling life by expressing the Playful, Creative, Spiritual Child Within
- Apply CJEA Inner Family principles in health, relationships, and life choices
Source Books for Inner Child Reparenting Method (1976):
The principles of this method are discussed in the following books by Dr. Lucia Capacchione and applied in all of her books:
- Recovery of Your Inner Child
- The Creative Journal
- The Power of Your Other Hand
- The Inner Child Play Book
- Drawing Your Stress Away
- Hello, This Is Your Body Talking
- The Art of Emotional Healing
Body-Mind Healing-Arts Method (1980)
This component consists of practices for listening to the body, releasing emotions, uncovering inner wisdom, and taking specific actions for healing. The practitioner facilitates clients with tools to:
- Communicate with and learn from body signals through art, writing, sculpture, and movement.
- Release tension and stored emotions
- Destress by allowing music to flow through the body via spontaneous movement
- Relax by integrating music and art through “dancing on paper”
- Uncover emotions buried in the body through Body Mapping
- Let the body speak its truth in written dialogues between both hands
- Discover inner wisdom and guidance hidden in pain, illness, and discomfort
- Create a Picture of Health through “visual affirmations” with art
- Centering emotionally and physically through mandala-making
- Create self-empowerment through building a support system
Source Books for Body-Mind Healing-Arts Method (1980):
The principles of this method are discussed and applied in the following books by Dr. Lucia Capacchione:
- The Creative Journal
- The Power of Your Other Hand
- Drawing Your Stress Away
- Hello, This Is Your Body Talking The Power of Your Other Hand
- The Art of Emotional Healing (Living with Feeling, hardback)
- The Well-Being Journal (out of print)
- The Picture of Health (out of print)
- Lighten Up Your Body, Lighten Up Your Life (out of print)
- Creating a Joyful Birth Experience
Visioning® Method (1994)
This component features creative strategies for manifesting one’s heart’s desire in any aspect of life. The practitioner facilitates clients with tools to:
- Identify and manifest your heart’s desire through a unique creative process
- Discover one’s true heart’s desire through focused meditation
- Create a collage Vision Board of desired outcomes and experiences
- Uncover deeper meaning hidden in the Vision Board images through journaling, Voice Dialogue, and movement
- Dialogue with one’s “future self” through written dialogues with both hands
- Embody one’s “future self” through movement and Voice Dialogue
Source Books for Visioning® Method (1994):
The principles of this method are discussed and applied in the following books by Dr. Lucia Capacchione:
- Visioning
- Putting Your Talent to Work
- The Talent Workbook
- Talent2Work
- Life Skills Workbook for Teens
Click here to see the complete PDF Overview of Lucia Capacchione’s CJEA