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Becoming Creative Sharing visual art for wellbeing with children and young people

Location: Online/From home | Start Date: Anytime

Summary:

Becoming Creative is a flexible course to use in your own time at home or anywhere. Over 5 units, the course explores different ways of sharing visual art for wellbeing with children and teenagers. There are varied activity suggestions and ideas to adjust to different age groups.

Content:

Becoming Creative is a flexible course to use in your own time at home or anywhere. Over 5 units, the course explores different ways of sharing visual art for wellbeing with children and teenagers. There are varied activity suggestions and ideas to adjust to different age groups. The course should be suitable for anyone sharing art with children and/or young people to explore how they feel and boost their wellbeing – such as: play leaders counsellors therapists teachers youth leaders childcare providers parents or carers wellbeing practitioners artists Each of the five units takes a particular theme, highlighting how and why it might be important, and setting out varied, practical ideas, as well as presenting three specific activities with example images: Unit 1: Introduction – Art Day By Day Unit 2: Narrative Unit 3: Abstract Unit 4: Wide, Wide World Unit 5: Self & Other Sign up for Becoming Creative at https://medley.live/children  for £20, and you will be sent the course units.