Working with educators.

CRATE facilitates art therapy workshops for your classroom or extracurricular program.

I work with schools and community programs to bring age-appropriate and curriculum-informed art therapy workshops to enhance the emotional well-being of the next generation. 

Explore the curriculum options below.

Alternatively, to suit your schedule and school curriculum requirements, I am happy to create a customized program that fits your organization’s needs. Feel free to contact me to discuss how CRATE can best support your students.

  • Learn to build a Kindness Cannon to spread your personalized ideas representing kindness using the design structure of a Confetti Popper.

  • Download the Calm Catcher, a fun, hands-on activity, designed to cultivate the state of calm.

  • Access the downloadable Spread Kindness Curriculum to share with your students.

Curriculum options

  • Stand-alone workshop

    Book 1 or up to 8 stand-alone workshops designed to teach children how to navigate emotions effectively using mindful, art-based practice.

  • 5-day extended series

    Explore one of the stand-alone workshops in greater depth by connecting for 1.5 hour sessions each day for 5 days.

Stand-alone workshops

Sense of Self

The journey begins with being curious. Kids commence their creative exploration with an introduction to mindfulness and start to build their vocabulary of different emotions.

Just Be

Learning to be in the moment is key to the art of being present. Kids discover how focusing on the five senses can calm the body, and learn how positive self-talk can help in times of distress and discomfort.  

Felt Sense

Feel the feels, knowing all feelings are valid. Kids learn emotions are neither good nor bad, simply a signal, building the connection between emotions, physical sensations, and thoughts.

 

Flip Your Lid

Quieten the storm before you become angry. Kids investigate triggers associated with strong emotions and learn how the fight, flight, or freeze response acts as the body’s built-in alarm system.

Thought Surfer

Navigate negative emotions as you would surf on a wave in the ocean. Kids learn to build coping mechanisms by learning to see a negative emotional state as temporary.

 

Let Go of Control

Acknowledge the good emotions along with the bad. Kids cultivate acceptance by identifying what they can and cannot control, learning to be self-compassionate rather than judgmental.

Just Breathe

Inhale courage, exhale fear. Kids explore how the power of the breath can be used to cope with anxious moments.

 

Spread Kindness

Start a chain reaction, throw kindness around like confetti. Kids explore kindness as they learn to observe themselves without judgment.

5-day extended series example: Felt Sense

  • Participants craft an art piece to visually capture basic emotions, and learn a mindful self-regulation tool to ground themselves during times of stress.

  • Children start to learn how feelings manifest in the body as physical sensations. As part of the workshop, kids learn art-based techniques to self-soothe.

  • Children learn to draw a connection between the intensity of emotion and the volume of a sound. Kids learn an auditory self-regulation tactic to help when anger bubbles to the surface.

  • Art creation serves as a tool for kids to examine their emotions through the sense of smell. Kids will also create art that stimulates the olfactory system, to learn how the sense of smell can act as a means to calm their bodies.

  • Through art creation, kids discover ways the power of the breath can help one calm their body, in times of stress.