

Conclusion
As my project is coming to an end, I would like to talk a little bit about my main takeaways from my research. First of all, different...


Last Art Group!
On Thursday I had my last art group at BASIS, which was really sad because I had so many more projects that I would have liked to do with...


Fun with Doodles
Today's art group prompt was Intention Word Doodles. I got the idea from from a really cool, super informative art therapy blog called...


Calming Collages
At my art group on Thursday, we made collages. I called this project making "vision boards" because I wanted them to focus on choosing...


Happy Art, Happy Group
This week I had the second meeting of my art group at BASIS, and I chose to do an exercise on happiness. I began the group by having them...


Communities, Art, and Healing
This week BASIS OV was on spring break, so we didn't have an art group meeting. Instead, I spent the week reading a few of my art therapy...


First Art Group
On Thursday I had my first pseudo art therapy group to help high schoolers relax through creating art. I decided that for the first...


Practicing Mindfulness and Art
My off-site advisor leant me a really cool book a couple weeks ago called Spirituality and Art Therapy. It contains chapters written by...


Open Studio Process
In a few weeks I start my first group at BASIS OV for Relaxing With Art, an art making group aimed to provide stress relief to the...


A Brief History of Art Therapy
This week I mostly just researched the history of art therapy. Here's a brief summary of what I learned: Some people argue that the seed...