Unlimited Creativity

Welcome to Unlimited Creativity
Do you feel you have a really good work-life balance? Do your relate to the words"I feel overwhelmed", "I have no time for me", "I'd love to do that but...?" Are you so caught up in the "busyness" of day to day survival that you have forgotten who your really are and what you really want to do? Do you long for more creativity and playfulness in your life?
Denise Dillon Bolland is the founder of Unlimited Creativity. Her passion is using the creative arts to heal the soul. Denise loves empowering people to unleash their creativity and tap into their inner wisdom.

By using transformative mindfulness techniques and the creative arts Denise enables people to define their dreams and live life abundantly.


About
About Denise
Denise Dillon Bolland is a possibility thinker, a successful business woman, artist, art therapist, published author, social commentator, community development consultant and workshop facilitator.

Professional Experience
Denise brings to her business many years of experience gained working in creativity for community and government organisations. By attending regular professional development seminars, forums and workshops in the areas of business, wellbeing, psychology, public speaking, creative arts, social justice, and spirituality she has keeps up to date with the latest research and trends.

Denise loves empowering people to live up to their full potential and advocating for people who feel their stories are not being heard.

Community Project Award
In 2007, 2008, 2009 Denise was presented with the “Most Innovative Community Project by an Individual” Award by the Australian Institute of Welfare and Community Workers (AIWCW).

Denise works from a community development, strength based, social justice, phenomenological framework taking whatever tools that are appropriate to use with a particular client or group.

Creating safe spaces where people can gather, share stories and leave feeling invigorated and inspired is her special joy.

Art Awards
Since graduating from QUT (Brisbane) majoring in visual arts Denise has exhibited her artwork around Australia and has been awarded prizes for her art and sculpture.

For the past 9 years a 12 piece series of dolls called “Meet the Family” has been displayed at the Wesley Hospital, Brisbane.

Denise receives interstate and overseas commissions.

Qualifications
Denise Bolland's academic qualifications include:

• Associate Diploma of Visual Arts
• Diploma in Community Work
• Graduate Diploma and
  Masters Degree in Experiential and Creative Arts Therapy.
• Currently a PhD candidate at Griffith University School of Human Services and Social Work.
• Her thesis involves researching the issues of older homeless indigenous and non indigenous older women, using art as a starting point for conversations about the journey from hopelessness to hope.

Memberships

• Zonta Club of Brisbane South
• National Speakers Association of Australia
• Brisbane Business Swap

Speaker
Topics on which Denise has spoken:

• Nurturing the heart – using art for healing
• Using your imagination to create your future
• You’re never too old to dream the impossible dream
• It’s all about attitude – what attitude will you chose today?
• Resilience – the journey from hopeless to hope
• The value of playfulness for self care
• What do you value? It may be different from what you think.

Workshops
Painting from the Inside Out


The Value of Playfulness for Self Care
3 or 6 hour workshop for organisations about creating a healthy life/ work balance

Facilitator Denise Dillon Bolland

This workshop is for stressed, time poor workers who want to create a healthier life/ work balance

Playing is a form of self nourishment. Playing is not something you do. It is rather an attitude you create at any time and in any place. Learn how to make “playfulness” a daily habit.

Playfulness and laughter come with numerous physical and mental health benefits. Both trigger a host of healthy changes in your brain and body. Both are particularly powerful anecdotes to depression and anxiety. Mutual laughter and play brings people together and is an essential component of strong, healthy relationships. By making a conscious effort to incorporate more humour and play into your daily interactions, you can improve the quality of, as well as your connections with co-workers, family members, and friends.

During this experiential workshop you will redefine what play means to you and create your personal “ways of playing” list. You will recognise things you already enjoy and discover other playful activities to incorporate into your life.

Using the Creative Arts with Clients
for counsellors and health care workers

Facilitators Denise Dillon Bolland and content expert if required

This workshop provides a safe place for a day of personal time to reconnect with your inner self, recharge your batteries, to network with other workers and to gather new ideas. This workshop also offers the opportunity to become more familiar with using the creative arts in therapeutic relationships.

Participants will explore the use of diverse modes of expression such as painting, drawing, story telling, writing, music and movement and will access a deeper understanding of how to apply these processes in their professional life. Themes currently being explored in the workplace or with clients can be incorporated into this workshop. No art experience is necessary to gain meaningful insights.

Relevant to people working in the disability, aged care, mental health, youth, community services, child care and juvenile justice sector. All materials supplied. A Certificate of Attendance and handouts given.

Artist
Denise is an artist, art therapist and counsellor.

While deconstructing and reconstructing junk and precious objects magic happens. Stories appear – stories of hope, dreams, love, and loss, unique and yet similar to those of many other people.

Denise Dillon Bolland is a practicing mixed media artist who uses different techniques, materials and ideas to revisit and reconstruct her many life adventures – the good, the bad and the unexpected. She uses different combinations of painting, collage, pattern making, screen printing, assemblage, photography, text and found objects in her 3D pieces. Denise has been making things all of her life. At the age of 10 she started her first business designing and selling dolls clothes to the children in the neighbourhood. Many other creative businesses have followed.

View Denise's art and blog at
www.denisedillonbolland.com

Denise's work evolves in two ways. It either starts with a theme that leads to a certain object or with an object/s that leads to a theme. The process starts when a large number of specifically collected objects are placed randomly on the floor. Suddenly a certain object or a number of similar objects become meaningful and these are placed in another cleared space. By keeping her options open to unexpected possibilities the magic happens and the pieces take on a meaning of their own. The colours, the size of the work, and the background emerge later.

Denise is a people watcher and a story teller. She is inspired by the people she meets, the rich, and the poor and the stories they tell. Common themes emerge in these stories including hopefulness, hopelessness, survival and resilience. She tells her stories in a quirky, joyful way to celebrate her journey from lost hope to a life full of possibilities. At times it takes courage for her to be open and vulnerable but she has found that her stories resonate with others, validates their experiences, and gives them permission to speak their truth. She finds the process of making words visual and art narrative to be very liberating and a dynamic form of artistic expression. Her art practice is her soul food and her commitment is to use her art to tell stories that touch the heart and give a voice to people who are not heard.

Counselling
During the many years of facilitating workshops and following artistic pursuits Denise Dillon Bolland has developed a special interest in using creative arts as a tool for healing of self and others.

Denise has a Graduate Diploma in Experiential and Creative Art Therapy (2003) and a Masters in Counselling (2005) specialising in art therapy.

Counselling sessions are 1.5 hours long and are available at Annerley.

Professional Development
Denise keeps her practice updated by attending workshops facilitated by leading local and international Doctors and therapists. She had the opportunity to participate in yearly professional development workshops with the late Michael White, Australia’s leading narrative therapist.

Denise uses creative visualisation, journaling, art and movement as tools to companion the client on the journey of self discovery. No art experience is necessary to access deep meaning.