Our PERSON-centered services:
PUBLIC WORKSHOPS & COMMUNITY PROGRAMS
Wise Mind Healing Arts now offers public workshops, as well as ongoing community-based programs for health centers, schools, senior living facilities, and other community organizations. These workshops combine expressive arts (visual art, writing, music, movement, story, etc.) with therapeutic approaches that are integrative, and trauma-informed. Utilizing somatosensory (body/sensing) approaches, mindfulness-based practices, and expressive arts interventions, these sessions help participants to heal emotional wounds, improve mood, deepen self-awareness, improve relationships, and empower participants to harness the healing power of the arts for themselves. Visual arts, music, poetry, sound/rhythm, movement, storytelling, and other art forms are gently explored at the comfort and safety of participants. No previous arts experience is necessary, and client creative interests and disinterests are honored and respected.
PRIVATE EXPRESSIVE ARTS SESSIONS
Private Expressive Arts Sessions are a partnership between the Facilitator and the Client, using creativity and a compassionate self-inquiry process to facilitate wellness, personal growth, trauma recovery, improved mood, stress reduction, and self-discovery. These sessions help clients to deepen self awareness using somatosensory approaches (body/sensing), mindfulness-based practices, arts-based exploration, and intention-setting. Visual arts, music, poetry, sound/rhythm, movement, storytelling, and other expressive art forms are tools that can be gently explored at the comfort and safety each client. No previous arts experience is necessary. Client creative interests and disinterests are honored and respected.
PRIVATE GROUP EVENTS
Wise Mind Healing Arts offers private expressive arts workshops for small groups, women's gatherings, corporate events, and private parties. These workshops integrate the use of visual artmaking, music/sound, rhythm/movement, writing/story, sensory awareness, and mindfulness-based approaches to encourage connection, bring playfulness and joy, and expand self-awareness. No prior arts experience is necessary. If you would like to request a workshop for your group or your organization, please send an inquiry on the Contact page and we will reach out to you. Thank you for your interest!
ARTS FOR WELLNESS PROGRAM CONSULTING
Wise Mind Healing Arts consults with schools, arts centers, and health and wellness organizations interested in creating and implementing innovative, community-based Arts in Health, Arts for Wellness, and Arts for Mindfulness programs for their communities with the aim of fostering joy, connection, self-awareness, as well as emotional and physical wellbeing.
Organizations interested in building arts-based wellness initiatives at their schools, health centers, or other community spaces can contact Wise Mind Healing Arts for consultation to co-create an Action Plan for bringing the healing power of the arts to those you serve.
FREE CONSULTATIONS
Wise Mind Healing Arts offers free 20-30 minute phone consultations to all prospective clients in order to answer any questions you may have about our services, and to ensure that our practice is a good fit for you.
***DISCLAIMER: Wise Mind Healing Arts is not a Mental Health Service, and does not provide crisis mental health services, or the diagnosis and treatment of mental health disorders. Persons seeking treatment for mental health disorders or crisis intervention will be referred as appropriate.***
why we do what we do:
THE ROLE OF ARTS IN HEALTH AND WELLNESS
In 2019 the World Health Organization/Europe released a detailed report on the importance of the arts in health and wellbeing. "This report found evidence from a wide variety of disciplinary approaches and methodologies for the potential value of the arts in contributing to core determinants of health; playing a critical role in health promotion; helping to prevent the onset of mental illness and age-related physical decline; supporting the treatment or management of mental illness, noncommunicable diseases and neurological disorders; and assisting in acute and end-of-life care."*
With this in mind, Wise Mind Healing Arts aims to create Arts in Health and Arts for Wellness initiatives to meet the growing need for wellness, restorative healing, supportive communities, and collective & personal growth.
*Fancourt D, Finn S. What is the evidence on the role of the arts in improving health and well-being? A scoping review. Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe; 2019 (Health Evidence Network (HEN) synthesis report 67).
ALL SERVICES are:
CULTURALLY HUMBLE
Wise Mind Healing Arts is committed to curiosity, lifelong learning and critical self-reflection with respect to race, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, spirituality and how these impact the power dynamics of the provider-client relationship, and the client's lived experience in the world.
HUMANISTIC
The Coach/Client relationship at Wise Mind Healing Arts is built on the assumption that all clients are whole and capable, with deep inner wisdom, and that each has unique inner resources within them useful for creating meaningful change.
HOLISTIC
Sessions at Wise Mind Healing Arts give attention to all aspects of a client's experience - the cognitive, affective, somatic, relational, and behavioral dimensions. They explore the client's thoughts, responses, behaviors, beliefs, values, expectations, assumptions, and psychological patterns that guide how they show up in all aspects of life.
ACCESSIBILity FOR ALL
Wise Mind Healing Arts is committed to making healing accessible to those who need it most. We offer discounted individual and group sessions to historically marginalized communities and military service members. If you identify as BIPOC, LGBTQIA2S+, a Military Service Member, a person formerly incarcerated, a person with a disability, or are a person who is experiencing ongoing financial hardship, please inquire about discounted services.