By Misch Beck | Adult Program Facilitator
This summer we focused on a collaboration with a local non-profit called BALE. Our participants from our HAICU (Healing Arts Imaginative Care Unit) group spent time finishing and choosing art that they wanted to hang in an art show in BALE's space. The art show opened July 12th and will be hanging in the gallery space through November.
Every summer we spend several lovely days in the garden's of my co-facilitator Susan's home. Time is spent connecting with whichever plants call to us and writing, drawing or painting around that experience.
Also, part of our garden time was spent working on our grounding pages. We use the middle page of our journals or sketchbook, trace our hands and then decorate the page. On the page/pages underneath our hands we create a collage (along with words and phrases) that represent all the things that ground us). The purpose of this is if we get nervous or have high anxiety we can place our hands on the page and focus on the things that ground us. This is a great tool to shift us out of a tough place and help us feel grounded again.
By Misch Beck | Healing Arts for Adults Facilitator
By Misch Beck | Healing Arts for Adults Facilitator
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