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Integrating Artistic Modalities into Appreciative Resilience: Creativity as a Reflective and Strength-Building Tool for Both Participants and Facilitator

April 2026
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ABSTRACT

This arts based inquiry examines Appreciative Resilience through the creation of pastel panels, revealing embodied, symbolic, and spiritual dimensions not accessible through conceptual analysis alone. The creative process generated insights into hope, despair, forgiveness, the Core, and spirituality, informing trauma aware, presence based facilitation and expanding methodological possibilities for resilience practice.

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Author: Dale Gruchy

Dale Gruchy is a Nova Scotia-based facilitator and consultant specializing in Appreciative Resilience, trauma aware practice, and arts based inquiry. Having completed Appreciative Inquiry Facilitation (2017), she has delivered Appreciative Resilience workshops since 2018. She completed Appreciative Inquiry Coaching training in 2026.

Contact: dalegruchy@gmail.com

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