Profitable Inventive Arts Remedy Collaborations – Half 3

In the present day I’m wrapping up a sequence on profitable arts remedy collaborations (one thing that was fairly new to me!)

Try Half 1 of the sequence right here and Half 2 right here.

I’m going to proceed sharing themes and experiences from the 8-week Therapeutic Arts Program I facilitated for a highschool autistic assist classroom right here in Pennsylvania.

As I discussed in my final submit, I had the chance to collaborate and co-treat with painters, fiber artists, yoga instructors, theatre instructors, and artistic writers.

Previous to session planning, I met with the autistic assist instructor, and he or she gave me a number of themes and ideas that she and her college students had been engaged on within the classroom.

From that checklist, I got here up with a theme for every week’s hour and a half lengthy session and collaborated with the teacher for that week to give you our arts experiences.

Listed below are the themes and humanities experiences we got here up with for the second half of this system:

Week 5 & 7 – Turning into Adults
Theme – Grownup dwelling and taking up grownup duties
Visitor Arts Teacher – Inventive Writing & Theatre Teacher
Arts Experiences:

• Theatre Workout routines/Icebreakers
• Accordion Poetry – We break up the scholars into three teams and every selected a theme phrase that resonated with their issues over the transition from highschool into grownup dwelling. Group 1 wrote the primary line of poetry on a paper folded like an accordion. They handed the paper to Group 2, who wrote the following line primarily based on the road from Group 1. They then handed the paper to Group 3, who wrote a line primarily based solely on the road prior, written by Group 2. The paper continued across the group till we had an entire web page of poetry. I then took every of the poems and turned it right into a track written in a style that was a favourite of the scholars (nation, blues, and hip hop).
• Lyric Evaluation and Tune Dialogue/Comparability of two songs which have totally different approaches to getting older and transferring into a brand new part of life: “Burdened Out” by Twenty One Pilots and “Unwritten” by Natasha Bedingfield.

Week 6 – Leisure
Theme – Leisure
Visitor Arts Teacher – Yoga Instructor
Arts Experiences:

• Drumming Group Spherical & Test In
• Yoga with theme of transferring into maturity
• Progressive Muscle Leisure & Guided Imagery

Week 8 – Empowerment/Self-Esteem
Theme – Empowerment, Self-Esteem
Visitor Arts Teacher – Musician & Music Educator
Arts Experiences:

• Cups Rhythm Recreation to Blues Brothers Songs
• “What I Am” by Will.I.Am – We sang the track and college students considered a optimistic phrase to explain themselves. College students then reduce out phrases, letters and footage from magazines and created paintings round that phrase.

And that sums up our 8-week Therapeutic Arts Program! It was an unimaginable alternative to stretch my creativity muscle mass.

I’m now two weeks into the Fall program on the identical highschool and I’m positive I’ll be again on the weblog to share extra concepts from this program quickly.

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