WEBVTT 00:00.392 --> 00:02.208 - Hi Ma'am, I'm Colonel Tate, 00:02.208 --> 00:04.208 and I'm the Commander of the health clinic here. 00:04.208 --> 00:05.708 Welcome to Hawaii. 00:06.601 --> 00:09.400 - It's very encouraging today to see 00:09.400 --> 00:11.720 at Schofield Barracks everything they're doing 00:11.720 --> 00:13.584 to incorporate art therapy, 00:13.584 --> 00:17.751 from the family to volunteer programs, outpatient. 00:19.272 --> 00:23.105 We touched on music therapy and dance therapy. 00:24.216 --> 00:26.514 Education, there were so many areas 00:26.514 --> 00:28.224 that we touched on today. 00:28.224 --> 00:30.512 This is a place that's really doing it right. 00:30.512 --> 00:33.664 This is a place that's really using art therapy 00:33.664 --> 00:36.997 to heal our soldiers and their families. 00:37.456 --> 00:38.666 - I'm Dr. Goldensthery. 00:38.666 --> 00:39.499 - Nice to meet you. 00:39.499 --> 00:40.332 - Thank you so much. 00:40.332 --> 00:42.672 Because art therapy is not arts and crafts. 00:42.672 --> 00:44.129 It's not even someone like me 00:44.129 --> 00:46.520 with a Master's Degree in Art Education. 00:46.520 --> 00:48.937 It's not something I could do. 00:48.937 --> 00:52.354 - All right, so this is my lovely shield. 00:53.146 --> 00:54.760 - So art therapy is where you take 00:54.760 --> 00:56.890 these amazing professionals here 00:56.890 --> 01:00.640 who are therapists, who understand psychology 01:00.960 --> 01:03.136 and they understand how the mind works 01:03.136 --> 01:07.249 and they're using art as helping them with healing. 01:07.249 --> 01:11.416 And we actually see how working through art therapy 01:11.888 --> 01:14.305 actually does heal the brain. 01:14.488 --> 01:15.905 It's astonishing. 01:17.794 --> 01:19.794 Art therapy saves lives. 01:20.324 --> 01:23.077 It can take someone who is contemplating suicide 01:23.077 --> 01:25.867 and turn them right around, and flip it right over. 01:25.867 --> 01:28.564 It can take someone, I heard a soldier today say, 01:28.564 --> 01:32.731 "You know, I was in a hole and this working with clay 01:32.916 --> 01:34.727 "helped me come out of the hole. 01:34.727 --> 01:38.172 "I'm completely healed, I'm not on any medications." 01:38.172 --> 01:42.292 And just to see people tell these testimonies to me, 01:42.292 --> 01:45.015 to say, "It's actually saved my life" 01:45.015 --> 01:47.660 is just a very powerful, powerful tool. 01:47.660 --> 01:50.160 This base is doing everything. 01:50.483 --> 01:52.812 They're also working with the communities. 01:52.812 --> 01:54.182 So, I think that's a part of it 01:54.182 --> 01:55.941 that sometimes gets left out, 01:55.941 --> 01:58.812 is that you can work with an art museum, 01:58.812 --> 02:02.316 they have a fabulous program, working with the art museum. 02:02.316 --> 02:05.860 They can work with community leaders, churches 02:05.860 --> 02:08.193 and this base is doing that. 02:08.765 --> 02:10.988 So, for my initiative, I have three pillars: 02:10.988 --> 02:14.460 Number one, I want to lift up the profession of art therapy. 02:14.460 --> 02:16.972 So, you have people here at Schofield Barracks 02:16.972 --> 02:19.524 who actually are trained art therapists. 02:19.524 --> 02:21.571 Number two, I'd love for more people 02:21.571 --> 02:23.116 to go into the profession. 02:23.116 --> 02:25.435 We're never gonna have enough art therapists. 02:25.435 --> 02:28.749 And third, my desire would just be for more 02:28.749 --> 02:30.483 and more of our military families, 02:30.483 --> 02:32.527 because it's not just the soldier, 02:32.527 --> 02:34.466 it's the entire family that serves, 02:34.466 --> 02:36.924 to know that there is help out there 02:36.924 --> 02:39.051 and art therapy might be the thing 02:39.051 --> 02:40.801 that you need to see.