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What is a Mindful Arts Experience?

It's not about the finished product. It's about the journey, the joy, the sense of freedom, the delight in engaging all the senses and drawing out the 'child' within. It's about going in to your own creative, quiet, still place and responding to the expressions arising with strokes, shapes, colours, images and words. Take home with you, a way of tapping in to that joyful, creative, quiet still place, whenever you choose!

Who can join us at Mindful Arts Experiences?

Anyone who wants to 'still' their mind from 'every-day' overload and tap into that quiet still place, in the present, where the creative and analytical mind is free to imagine and see new worlds and possibilities, of fresh new ways of seeing, being, creating, and contributing.

For Schools, Adults, Corporate, Teacher In-Service and Special Interest Groups)
About the Facilitators:
Heather Gall is a Visual Artist, Children’s Book Illustrator. She also has a nursing background. Heather has worked as a presenter and facilitator with both children and adults.
Janet Hamilton has been an Educator for 25 years and has facilitated adult & children’s workshops. She has trained in Mindfulness and researched how the brain develops, maintains plasticity and responds to positive and negative emotions and situations. Janet is a writer and also has a major of Psychology.

Teacher Evaluation:
95% said that the workshop activities were relevant and motivating
100% said that they would recommend the workshop to other schools
90% said the content met their expectations
Teacher Comments:
I really liked how the facilitators interacted with the children
Excellent strategies to keep the children on task
I like that the children were able to view ‘real’ art work and the insight they got into the artist’s mind

Student Comments:
What a beautiful space to be in!
Art is fun!
You really need to look at a painting to get a picture of it.
It doesn’t matter what other people say. Just have fun. Also use different painting styles.
I loved all of it!