Making Light
with Noula
A new vodcast where creativity, humour and healing meet.
Join Noula as she talks with creatives - comedians, painters, sculptors, musicians, dancers - exploring their creative process and how this has shaped the way they make sense of their life. And what it means to find their truth through laughter or pain and how this has transformed into making light - the ability to see life more clearly.
"This exploration has come about as I continue to explore the concept of expanded fields of healing to remind us of the many different ways we can become - and become whole. See you there!"
xx Noula


Making Light Ep 1 - Kit Green
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How Questions Are Made
A new blog where practice, creativity and psychology meet.
Over the years of sitting with people in therapeutic and creative spaces, I have begun to notice something that continues to intrigue me.
The most meaningful moments rarely arrive as answers.
More often they arrive as questions.
Not the questions we construct through analysis or theory, but the ones that appear quietly after an experience has settled. Sometimes hours later. Sometimes the next day. Sometimes much longer.
A silence, it feels, accesses something.
Silence does not necessarily produce anything in particular, but it makes space. And in that space many things can emerge feelings, images, memories, and sometimes a question.
Often the body senses something before the mind understands it.
And then, later, a question arrives. These reflections are drawn from lived moments in therapeutic and creative spaces, exploring how experience gradually becomes inquiry.
This way of approaching questions has appeared in different forms across time.
The ancient philosopher Socrates believed that wisdom begins not with answers but with the right question. Through dialogue he invited people to discover that genuine understanding often begins when certainty loosens and curiosity takes its place.Its not about being smart because you know the answer or about being right, because you are better than another, its more like following the path of Socrates who said 'I know on things and that is that I know nothing".
In the healing temples devoted to Asclepius, those seeking healing would sleep within the sanctuary and share the dreams that came to them. These dreams were not rushed into explanation. They were received as encounters whose meaning might reveal itself over time.
Much later, the depth psychologist James Hillman suggested that the soul does not primarily seek answers. Instead, it responds to images, questions, and experiences that keep our relationship with life alive.
The reflections that follow come from moments like that.
Moments where something small happens and often easily overlooked during a workshop, a conversation, or a creative process.
The story is simply the doorway.
The reflection is where the experience begins to settle.
And somewhere along the way, a question arrives.
Not a question we ask life.
But perhaps a question life is asking of us.
These are stories about those moments.

Additional Resources
Dare to Imagine - Healing
Enjoy this selection of resources from In-depth Books to Free Podcasts and Videos, in which Noula shares her understanding, insights and creative practice.

Read:
You are. That Is. Creative.
In this work, Noula asks us to consider our own creativity capacity and its valuable contribution to our life. Supported by stories from her psychotherapy/coaching and art teaching practice, she takes you on a journey of self-awareness to help uncover the way you do things and the way you make things – whether it’s the making of art or a decision. In just five short steps Noula helps you come to know things about yourself that really matter when it comes to better understanding your innate creative process.
Psychotherapist, Author, Artist
Watch:
Discover more about the expressive arts & healing.
Expressive Arts, Trauma & Healing
Noula Diamantopoulos guides us with Art Therapies | Colour In Your Life


Noula Diamantopoulos guides us with Art Therapies | Colour In Your Life

Costa Georgiadis tries a creative exercise to help with his mental wellbeing | Space 22

Nate Byrne tries a creative exercise to help manage his mental wellbeing | Space 22

Can a creative art exercise help manage Celia Pacquola's anxiety? | Space 22
Hear: Beautiful Words

All Things Therapy
Podcast with
Kristy Green, Fat Moon and Noula Diamantopoulos.

Awe
in Trauma
Creativity to Liberty, A Little Choas to Rediscover the Self.
Podcast with Dr. Mark Grixti and Noula.

Dare to
Imagine
Art, Well-being & Mental Health. Podcast with These Lads Are Mental & Noula.



