Workshop
Transitional Objects & Emotional Transformation

What do we hold onto when we’re between places, people or selves?

This art therapy workshop, facilitated by art therapist Haylie Chang and artist Yu Shuk Pui Bobby, invites participants to explore emotional transformation through the creation and reflection of transitional objects: personal or imagined items that bring a sense of safety while navigating change, memory or displacement.

Together, we will engage in two guided exercises:
– Voice Dialogue Writing – a reflective writing practice that helps participants listen to the inner ‘voices’ or parts of themselves that might be in tension: the scared self, the critical self, the child self, etc.
– Emotional Material Sculpting – a hands-on activity using simple materials (paper, fabric, soft objects, etc.) to give shape to internal feelings. These sculpted forms become symbolic transitional objects; bridges between the inner world and outer expression.

Participants are kindly asked to bring one personal transitional object: something that brings comfort or a sense of grounding, such as a stuffed animal, blanket, stone or any small meaningful item.

The workshop welcomes children, adults and families. No previous art or writing experience is needed; only a willingness to be present and curious. By the end of the session, we hope to arrive at a shared space of collective grounding and healing, where transitional objects carry both memory and possibility.

 

About

Haylie Chang is an art therapist whose practice combines a person-centred approach with art-making to foster emotional expression, self-awareness and personal growth. She believes in the power of creative expression as a pathway to healing. She has supported individuals from diverse backgrounds through life transitions, burnout and personal challenges.

Yu Shuk Pui Bobby is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Hong Kong and Oslo. Using video, text, installation, sculpture and performance she explores bodily autonomy, generational trauma and identity. In recent years, she has worked with different communities in video-making to explore identity construction within various cultural contexts – always with an element of humour and surrealism.

 

Access

This workshop will be spoken in English.

UKS is wheelchair accessible.

Please contact Miriam Wistreich at m.wistreich@uks.no if you require sign language interpretation.

Further information about visiting UKS can be found in our access note here.