Application of TAW methodology in Self development TAW creative arts methods used the process of making art to improve participants’ physical, men- tal, and emotional well-being. One of the major differences between our project’s expressive arts methodology and other forms of communication is that most other forms of communication elicit the use of words or language as a means of communication. However, often times, we humans are incapable of expressing ourselves only within this limited range. As reported by the interviewing research feed-backs, the creative process, involved in expressing one’s self artistically, helped TAW participants to resolve personal issues, as well as develop and manage their behaviours and feelings, reduce stress, improve self-esteem and awareness, stay in touch with and understand their emotions through expressing them in a creative process. The creative arts’ activities of the project helped different people achieve different things. Partici- pants’ feed-backs demonstrated that TAW project methodology can be used for counselling by ther- apists, healing treatment, rehabilitation, psychotherapy, for finding new niches of self-employment, and in a more profound sense of the term self-development, it can be used to ‘massage’ one’s inner- self in a way that may provide the individual with a deeper understanding of herself or himself, which in itself already prevents burn-out, as commented by one of the participants in the following testimonies:
