Inspire Community Outreach presents: Get Your Art On! A Facilitator’s guide to Art for Wellness programming. Learn to use art programming to create an inclusive and creative space for children and youth to express themselves.
This guide is for educators, facilitators, and those of us working alongside the amazing youth in our community.
Art for Wellness programming is art instruction designed to promote an inclusive space, to allow for self-discovery, self-reflection, increased confidence and exploration of personal creativity. This guide is meant as a tool for facilitators to support youth in learning how to cope with the stress and challenges of life.
This guide can be used to promote mental wellness and inclusivity using documented and practiced techniques. It illustrates the historical and modern links between artistic expression and mental health wellness. It provides strategies for creating inclusive “art is for everyone” approaches with adaptations on how to run courses both in person and online. It is a facilitation guide for launching and evaluating new art programs in multiple contexts including schools & daycares and community based groups such as Scouts, Girl Guides, camp programming, group therapy etc.
What is included?
- 60 page Facilitation Guide (hole punched)
- 22 lesson plans to choose from when creating your program.
- Printable PDF instructions to provide to participants.
See below for table of contents sample.
Available for purchase on Amazon.
