Open Studio Art Therapy Group
Share and Receive Support Alongside Peers
Purpose
To promote personal growth and emotional well-being by providing a safe, supportive environment for group members to explore life’s challenges through creative expression. By engaging with different therapeutic themes each week, client’s will have opportunities to reflect, connect and gain insights while building resilience and self-awareness. The open studio format will also allow them to explore different mediums, letting them find what resonates best with their emotions and artistic style. Each week group leaders will introduce a therapeutic theme that prompts reflection and creation. Themes may include connection to others, gratitude, identity, loss and inner critic.
- Participant Details – Open to emerging through middle adulthood (18-35+), with individuals exploring life transitions, relationships and friendships, communication, identity, role responsibilities, or any other emerging topics. Participants should be open to artistic exploration of these themes and have a desire to work in a communal environment.
- Date & Time – Meets Thursdays in the Art Room at 1850 Oak, Northfield, 6 – 7pm (Weekly)
- Framework – Group will begin with a check-in. Group leaders will propose a weekly topic with discussion questions to be used as artmaking prompts. Clients will be given space to work with whatever art medium they are drawn to. While artmaking, clients will have the space to discuss the weekly themes, any events in their life they want to process, and any other topic that may arise. The group will come together to share their artwork and process/debrief as a collective on the weekly themes.
- Facilitator – Hannah Kaplan & Cortney Behmer
To learn more about this group, please speak with your Josselyn therapist.
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