Space Whale seeks to support wellbeing, build community and weave a new world.
Space Whale works with:
LGBTIQA+ community
People living with disabilities including NDIS participants (self and plan managed)
People living with mental health challenges
Children and young people
Older people (including those living with dementia, and at the end of life)
If you are a like-minded group or organisation and would like to collaborate, please get in touch.
Sometimes talking is not enough. The creative arts can help us give shape and form to our emotions and experiences.
My aim is to hold a gentle and calm space for people to access their experiences using the arts and nature as tools for exploration. I work alongside people to welcome what arises and come into deeper connection and care for the self.
I was born on Wiradjuri Country, I now live and work on Darkinjung Country, Central Coast.
I have a Master’s of Therapeutic Arts Practice from the MIECAT Institute. I have professional registration as a Creative Arts Therapist with ANZACATA, current Working with Children’s Check, National Police Check and NDIS worker check.
Please see below a poem and collage that speak to how I work as an arts therapist.
Liz McCarthy – they/them - AThR
We are side by side
We are weaving the world
Mapping the stars
Connecting constellations
Unravelling spirals
Collecting stories under turtles back
Following song lines back
To the old ways
Gathering in amphitheatres’
For it’s all a stage
All a story
Making meaning
Of lived experience
Facilitating new narratives
Holding space for the unspeakable
The unknowable, the unconscious
To come forth, to take shape
To come into expression
Following trauma trails
Always returning home
To the body
This flesh
This vessel
We feel it here
Though it didn’t start with us
But now we carry a torch for
New narratives
New legacies
New worlds
To be illuminated
