A set of workshops which
aim to increase everyday mindful awareness through creative use of art
materials. These workshops offer participants the opportunity to connect with
who they are ‘right now’ and how they see themselves in terms of their
community. By the end of the workshops
people will have explored how they can connect within their community and how
they can use it as a resource in helping to manage their long term health conditions.
The term “art” is used in
its widest meaning, this could include creative writing, mixed media, video,
photography etc the approach is person centred which means that it is the
person who decides how best to express themselves, whilst having full support
of the facilitator. The first few weeks
of the workshops are about introducing art materials and having the opportunity
to experiment with them until the person finds what works best for them. Therefore there is no need to have any
artistic experience as this is about creative freedom of personal
exploration.
Key features:
Development of compassionate understanding, mindfulness in everyday
action and artistic exploration.
Hi all, this is Stacie Scott from Creative Reflections. This
initiative is about building confidence and a sense of connectedness through
creative arts. The approach involves
both therapeutic & mindfulness techniques.
Each workshop also involves relaxation exercises and so far we have been
testing out which relaxations suit the group best.
Today's workshop was telling a story through mixed media and
some very honest & creative pieces were born. One exercise was creating an altered book
where the individual takes an old or unused book and changes how it looks
either through changing its shape, painting on its pages or building up mixed
media images over each page so that the original story is gone or looks
completely different.
People in the group have reported that they are having fun
and learning new ways of using art which helps with their confidence.
This initiative did not need participants to have any
previous artistic experience as it is mainly about discovering personal self
expression so previous workshops have been about building up experience of
artistic approaches and testing out different methods like drawing, using
watercolour/ acrylic/ oil paint, developing different mixed media methods and
using clay. Both clay and drawing are reported to be the most beneficial so far
and the paint workshop could have carried on as people were lost in the moment
really enjoying bringing their art alive!
The group look forward to updating through the blog again
soon, perhaps one of the individuals themselves can share their experience with
you next time.
Stacie Scott
CreativeReflections
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