Have you ever experienced being so immersed in a creative activity that you’ve lost track of time? This happens because creative activities such as art making, crafting, and gardening ease us into a state of mindfulness by enhancing our capacity for focus, concentration, inner peace, and calm. Regularly spending time in a mindful state has been shown to reduce stress and anxiety, help us sleep better and promote a general sense of wellbeing. Alas, despite our best intentions, many of us struggle to prioritize time for our own self-care.
This program, comprised of a 1-hour Zoom workshop on Jan 12, followed by a series of newsletters, explores the benefits of Creative Mindfulness and offers tips and activities to help participants make it a regular self-care habit.
Whether you are new to Creative Mindfulness or would like a refresher and some ideas to keep your practice going at home, this workshop is for you! The workshop is open to clients, caregivers, and providers. No ‘art experience’ is required.
Participants will need to provide their own, simple supplies to do the newsletter activities on their own:
- A Sharpie (or similar) ultra fine point marker
- Some sort of coloring tool: Markers, colored pencils, or a simple watercolor set such as the 8-color set by Prang available on Amazon and where most art supplies are sold
- Assorted paper such as printer paper, drawing paper and/or inexpensive watercolor paper
- Glue stick, scissors, pencil, and ruler
- Access to a computer printer for some of the emailed materials
- Suggest supplies list
- Additionally, be on the lookout around your home for the following: interesting holiday cards and papers, magazine pages that catch your eye, stickers, new or old photographs, glitter glue, and other basic crafting supplies. Please don’t buy any of these items, we’ll use what is available to us! We’ll talk more about this during the Zoom session.
About the Facilitator: A metastatic cancer survivor since 2011, Karen Arsenault has found the creative process invaluable in navigating the fear and uncertainty of the cancer journey. Through the many expressive arts workshops she has participated in, Karen developed a passion for watercolors and now gives back by developing and facilitating her own Creative Mindfulness workshops and donating her art in several forms to The Healing Garden.
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Fostering Wellbeing Through Creative Mindfulness
January 12, 2024
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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