Healing Self-Expression Through Languages & Art | Jessica Sarlandie | Words Off Limits

How being an authority in a native language limits our self-expression in a non-native language.
The importance of being flexible in our language learning journey.
How to combine creative expression and language learning.
The impact of focusing more on the process than on the product in learning and in the creative expression.
Devaluation of creative/linguistic expression that doesn’t fit the parameters stablished by authority.
Judgment of other people’s self-expression.
Art therapy as an outlet to express strong emotions.
How languages can be healing
Being mindful of the relationship we have with the language we learn to see if there is an imbalance.
The reciprocity in the relationship with the language
Identity shifts and expression

[6:22] How positioning yourself as an authority figure as a teacher in your native language impacts how you express yourself in a non-native language.
[13:07] Art therapy as a way to express things without using your mind and heal what comes up.
[14:40] The importance of focusing more on the process than on the product when learning a language.
[16:43] Focusing on the process opens the creative process to everyone an not only the professionals or experts.
[17:38] What is acceptable expression of art forms/languages comes from authority figures outside of ourselves.
[21:41] What happens when we loose the fear of being judged
[26:00] How languages can be healing
[29:47] When we see the language as a person we have a relationship with, we can create a balance and reciprocity in the relationship
[36:05] The identity shift and expression.

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