Creative Wellness in the Workplace
Create Art with your Team.
A healthy working environment is one in which there is not only an absence of harmful conditions but an abundance of health-promoting ones.
~World Health Organization
Many corporations and businesses today are seeking ways to reduce workplace stresses, and to provide preventative health care training and education. Businesses are finding that the arts evoke responses and create outcomes that are very different from traditional training and personal development programs. The arts require us to communicate and make meaning in new non verbal ways. Each workshop includes hands-on art experiences to provide participants with the opportunity to use alternative approaches to communicating ideas and problem solving.
Our sessions can be designed to focus on the following objectives:
Working Together
Creating Collaboratively promotes :
Team bonding and Team building,
Enhanced communication
Creative problem solving
Working Spaces
Creating Art at work enables you to :
Embellish your workplace environment,
Provide a platform for new ways to interact
Develop creativity in the workplace
Workplace Wellness
Creating helps you to :
Access solutions for stress management
Promote employee wellness
Build self regulation and resilience
Why is Art Making good for my team ?
You will fully engage all the senses
You will engage in a hands on task that helps to suspend busy thoughts
You will discover non verbal ways to interact with your co workers
You will make collaborative decisions
You will negotiate space
You will be able to see yourself as part of something bigger
You will strengthen relationships within the team
You will learn a new relaxation technique for use after today
You will activate your creative force
You will find that this process improves your focus
You will find that this enables you to find a still calm centre
You will create a tangible piece of artwork
You will enjoy it!
Creative Wellness Opportunities for your team wherever they are.
Building Community
The shared experience of meeting together in a zoom “classroom” offers people the opportunity to come together in a shared virtual space and for that time period, to be part of something bigger, such as their working community. Sessions, where everyone joins a zoom meeting at a scheduled time, offer a powerful way to create engagement when people are working remotely. People can see each other on the screen, which provides a virtual sense of community, when they are actually alone.
Wellness and Inclusion
This in itself offers a wellness opportunity as it helps people to move away from the seclusion of working in isolation at home to a sense of inclusion of working together in a virtual group. Seeing each other on a screen in a group enables people to see faces and sense the presence of teammates who are for that hour, a shared learning community.
Creativity
Making art together can be a powerful wellness experience for people and in a real live setting people derive a great sense of fun and joy in creating alongside each other, sharing ideas and approaches and frequently become inspired by seeing their teammates creative work as well as their own. There is opportunity to dialogue along the way which greatly enhances the whole sense of community and the creative experience. In my own experience with many groups, this can definitely be replicated on the zoom platform but does require visual and verbal participation by group members.
Live Expert
The presence of a live facilitator offers the support of an expert who is interacting with individuals by virtue of being able to visibly and verbally engage with each person throughout the session. The teaching and learning feedback loop is activated as the workshop leader is able to see and communicate with each participant on the screen and to then pace delivery of the material in response to the needs of individuals and to receive the feedback needed to keep the material dynamic and appropriate to the group. This can take place through both live chat as well as the teachers ability to witness and read the needs of each participant throughout the session.
Time for Wellness
By opting to participate in a Live Wellness session, individuals are giving themselves the gift of dedicated time for their own wellness/ learning/ growth. By ensuring that they have the space and materials with which to begin they can fully participate and benefit from the experience.
Live Expert
The presence of a live facilitator offers the support of an expert who is interacting with individuals by virtue of being able to visibly and verbally engage with each person throughout the session. The teaching and learning feedback loop is activated as the workshop leader is able to see and communicate with each participant on the screen and to then pace delivery of the material in response to the needs of individuals and to receive the feedback needed to keep the material dynamic and appropriate to the group. This can take place through both live chat as well as the teachers ability to witness and read the needs of each participant throughout the session.