“Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet.”
-Paul Klee
No artistic experience is necessary, just a desire to engage in the creative process.
Make it (CRATE at home)
I have put together a series of eight art therapy workshops —designed to teach children how to navigate emotions effectively using a mindful, art-based practice.
Each workshop is 1.5 hours in duration.
Sign your child up for all 8 workshops or pick and choose the workshops that best fit your kid’s interest and your schedule.
Focus of the workshops
To tap into your child’s internal knowledge, the stand-alone workshops are:
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To create a well-balanced mind, each lesson includes hands-on activities where the participant learns skills to regulate their emotions
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A broad range of art materials will be available to promote creative exploration designed to foster a growth mindset.
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Self-regulation practices are introduced that align with a child's social and emotional development and cognitive capabilities
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The art-based activities use STEAM components to expand the imagination and provide experiential, teachable moments.
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The coursework teaches children to navigate emotions by creatively exploring and learning more about the connection between their emotions, thoughts, and behaviors.
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Participants create functional art and learn techniques that will help them stay grounded in the present, enabling them to be emotionally competent in the future.
Workshops at a glance
One: Sense of Self
The journey begins with being curious. Participants commence their creative exploration with an introduction to mindfulness and start to build their vocabulary of different emotions.
Two: Just Be
Learning to be in the moment is key to practicing the art of being present. Participants discover how focusing on the five senses can calm the body, and continue building their mindfulness toolkit, to learn how positive self-talk can help in times of distress and discomfort.
Three: Felt Sense
Feel the feels, knowing all feelings are valid. Participants learn emotions are neither good nor bad, simply a signal, building the connection between emotions, physical sensations, and thoughts.
Four: Flip Your Lid
Quieten the storm before you become angry. Participants investigate triggers associated with strong emotions and learn how the fight, flight, or freeze response acts as the body’s built-in alarm system.
Five: Thought Surfer
Navigate negative emotions as you would surf on a wave in the ocean. Participants learn to be aware of automatic thinking patterns and begin to build coping mechanisms by learning to see a negative emotional state as temporary.
Six: Let Go of Control
Acknowledge the good emotions along with the bad. Participants cultivate acceptance by identifying what they can and cannot control, learning to be self-compassionate rather than judgmental.
Seven: Just Breathe
Inhale courage, exhale fear. Participants explore how the power of the breathe can be used to cope in anxious moments.
Eight: Spread Kindness
Start a chain reaction, throw kindness around like confetti. Participants explore kindness as they learn to be flexible perspective-takers who can observe themselves outside the everyday experience, without judgment.
How it works
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Subscribe
Launch your child's journey of creatively exploring their emotions by subscribing to the Make It (CRATE at home) kit delivered to your home every month! Starting from $49.
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Social Skills
Build stronger interpersonal skills by gaining insight into your sense of self.
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Emotional Regulation
Learn techniques to calm the body and mind to regulate your emotions, to reduce impulsive behavior.
Why register?
Social-emotional competence in childhood acts as a building block to support an individual throughout one's life. Art-based interventions and mindful awareness strategies can help build an adaptive emotional regulation response.