Creativity Calling!
🧠 Manage stress 🪁 maintain well-being 🌈 exercise creative muscles 🏹 resist the mundane ✊
Are you stressed out?
Seeking a bit of emotional reprieve?
Interested in becoming more creative?
This 60-minute free-flow workshop is for you! We draw, do creative writing, listen to music, mindfully reflect, and share ideas in English in order to destress, connect, and have fun.
Creativity should not stop in school! We are creative beings who deserve the space to play. What’s more, creativity reduces stress and anxiety, makes us better problem solvers, and connects us with our feelings and community, exactly what you need amidst the trials and tribulations of day-to-day life.
Why create?
Creative exploration, like reading poems and looking at paintings, ignites the region of the brain associated with being in a restful state. From here, we can create new narratives in a way that connects us with our ideas, thoughts, worries, and desires.
Creating releases endorphins and serotonin (the happy hormones you also get from exercise), which make us feel good and help to form salient memories. This lays solid foundations for life-long learning and positive well-being. But like all muscles, we need to exercise and maintain the brain to perform well. Creativity helps our lovely brain become a super muscle!
Workshop exercises are informed by art therapy and mindfulness practices to be soothing and supportive. This session is intentionally mindful, so we focus on the process of creating, breathing, and being without judgment.
Who’s leading?
Alice is your facilitator. She's a poet, scribbler, trained teacher, and creativity advocate. In this session, Alice introduces different arty examples and then guides you through creative prompts.
** I will email you a PDF on the day of the session. You should have this accessible on a phone, tablet or printed. ** Check your junk folder for emails from creativeteabreaks@gmail.com **
REVIEWS:
Ena (Slovenia): “We have a lot on our minds, worries, jobs, school... and we forget to think about our well being and the state of mind we are in. These sessions helped me to ground myself and think about everything that is going on around me from a different perspective.”
Martina (Slovenia): “Through this time we become a human diary of stories, poems, and nonsensical writing (which is nonetheless creative and beneficial for us).”
Mihajlo (Slovenia): “The sessions are quite therapeutic. I can introspect and create something of my own with words, which is the most powerful way to create things just because we can create something abstract that people can grasp, whether it's a short poem or a piece of narrative or dialogue. Then, discussing these small creative outputs brings some whole new levels to it, and the world around us. The group vibes help with my anxiety about sharing my work, reading aloud, or even speaking sometimes.”
Doriana (France): "It was great. I had fun, plus I feel better."
Lizzy (UK): "That was great!!!"
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**Note: this event is for sale in GBP. The price via PayPal or on the day is 15euro.
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