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Healing Arts Workshops

Creative Arts for Healing Grief

 When words are not enough, Creative Arts for Healing Grief is a Therapeutic Art Program to support participants to express grief and voice their bereavement. This method of making art to express grief helps create resilience in people mourning loved ones. The program includes six different workshops.

The six workshops 

include:

Courage Card

 When words are not enough, Creative Arts for Healing Grief is a Therapeutic Art Program to support participants to express grief and voice their bereavement. This method of making art to express grief helps create resilience in people mourning loved ones. The program includes six different workshops.

The six workshops 

include:

Courage Cards

Painting Hands

Mask Making

Artful Stories

Art Journaling

Life Path Project


See Below for Project Explanations


Art experience is not necessary.


For more information about this workshop, contact Susan at srosano754@gmail.com


Expressive Mask Making

This is another Therapeutic Art Project that helps to relieve stress, anxiety and is supportive to grieving people. Decorate a papier-mache mask or a wooden face-shaped mask on the one side to reveal outer feelings, and then decorate the other side to reveal inner feelings. Paint, feathers, beads, old jewelry, and other artful objects are

This is another Therapeutic Art Project that helps to relieve stress, anxiety and is supportive to grieving people. Decorate a papier-mache mask or a wooden face-shaped mask on the one side to reveal outer feelings, and then decorate the other side to reveal inner feelings. Paint, feathers, beads, old jewelry, and other artful objects are used for decoration.


Art experience is not necessary.


To schedule this workshop, contact Susan at srosano754@gmail.com

Therapeutic Art Journaling

Therapeutic Art Journaling

  This class teaches techniques to use in an art journal and get people on their way to using this fantastic tool in everyday life. One more way to help with relieving stress and anxiety and is supportive to grief issues.


Art or journaling experience is not necessary. 


To schedule this workshop, contact Susan at srosano754@gmail.com

Projects Listed under Creative Arts for Healing Grief

Courage Cards

Make inspiring handmade, uplifting cards to refer to when feeling low.

Painting Hands

Tracing your hands to show how you feel before and after loss.

Mask Making

Create a mask that shows how you feel inside and outside.

Artful Stories

Make a short story from your life into an art piece.

Art Journaling

The Life Path Project

Learn techniques for art journaling.

The “Life Path Project ” is used to document the important things that happened in your life.

The Life Path Project

The Life Path Project

Record the path of your life on a poster.

TRAININGS & MORE!

Staff Trainings Online or at Your Facility

Working with Individuals to Create Legacy Projects

High-Quality Expressive Arts Workshops & Classes

Susan teaches your volunteer group in person to create any of the Wisdom in Our Community Projects within the New England States. If there are more than 90 minutes in travel time, there will be an extra travel fee depending upon how far Susan has to travel.  


Schedule a Wisdom in Our Community online or in-person Volunteer & Staff Training

Susan teaches your volunteer group in person to create any of the Wisdom in Our Community Projects within the New England States. If there are more than 90 minutes in travel time, there will be an extra travel fee depending upon how far Susan has to travel.  


Schedule a Wisdom in Our Community online or in-person Volunteer & Staff Training today!


Recommended for Hospice Agencies, Nursing Homes, Assisted Living Facilities, Senior Center Activity Directors, and  Recreation Therapists.

Please email Susan at srosano754@gmail.com 

to schedule a training class 

and discuss fees.

High-Quality Expressive Arts Workshops & Classes

Working with Individuals to Create Legacy Projects

High-Quality Expressive Arts Workshops & Classes

Learn to make Healing Arts.

Therapeutic Art Journaling, Expressive Masks, Doodle Drawing for Self-Expression, and many other Healing Arts Projects to let go of stress and anxiety and create a calm mind. 


Wisdom in Our Community Projects records family history with your group. 


Susan, a Master Teaching Artist and a Creative Aging Artist, teac

Learn to make Healing Arts.

Therapeutic Art Journaling, Expressive Masks, Doodle Drawing for Self-Expression, and many other Healing Arts Projects to let go of stress and anxiety and create a calm mind. 


Wisdom in Our Community Projects records family history with your group. 


Susan, a Master Teaching Artist and a Creative Aging Artist, teaches all types of art classes to your group online or in person.


To schedule a class or workshop and discuss fees, please email Susan at srosano754@gmail.com


Working with Individuals to Create Legacy Projects

Working with Individuals to Create Legacy Projects

Working with Individuals to Create Legacy Projects

Susan works with individuals to create our Wisdom in Our Community Legacy Projects including Family Stories, Family Collages and Life Path Posters.


After an interview with an individual, Susan supports an individual to create a project, or she is available to artfully 'Ghost Write' a person's project for them. 

Please email Susan at srosano754@gmail.com

to discuss fees for individual sessions.

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