First Aid Arts Workshops
First Aid Arts Workshops: These workshops offer training for organizations, adults, and children on how to use the ARTS for emotional self-regulation through First Aid Arts , a science and research based program. You can review the seminar content by clicking the website link above, and email us to schedule group trainings on how to use the ARTS (music, dance, body movement, writing, drawing, etc.) for emotional and mental health!
“We teach people how to use the arts for mental and emotional health”
-First Aid Arts
First Aid arts has been a leader in bringing effective arts-based resources to trauma survivors and those who care for them since 2010. Their trainings and toolkit programs are informed by neurological and psychological research that supports the use of arts-based psychosocial resources to promote resilience and reduce the symptoms of post-traumatic stress. Thus, these trainings equip responders, facilitators, and partners, in the areas of: psychoeducation, working with distress, self-care, multi-modal arts, and group facilitation.
As a First Aid Arts Facilitator, I can offer group trainings for 12 individuals at a time that will teach adults or children to use the arts through body movement, dance, drawing, coloring, music, singing, and journaling along with several other tools as ways to ground themselves and calm their nervous system from stress and trauma triggers.
You do not have to be artistic to learn these tools.
Schedule a Workshop!
To schedule and coordinate a workshop for children or adults (such as teachers, staff, parents), please contact me through email at heartinkartscommunity@gmail.com.
Workshops can be scheduled in the following ways:
A two week (4 days each) 2 hour training
A two and a 1/2 day weekend training (Fri-Sat full days/Sunday 1/2 day)
One 2 hour training once a week, (for 8 weeks)
*There are eight two hour sessions to complete the total training
You will Receive the Following:
You will receive a First Aid Arts Responder Certificate upon completion
You will receive a First Aid Arts Toolkit describing all activities
You will learn 16 different tools to help emotionally regulate your body and nervous system when you are stressed
You will grow in your self-awareness of how to care for yourself and respond instead of react to stress.
You will be Asked:
To commit to all the days, as each session builds onto the next
To pre-pay a FEE of $45 which includes the purchase of your toolkit and cost of snacks provided
If you are able to offer an honorarium for the time of the facilitator, we encourage you to do so. These trainings are not for profit, but the benefit of the community, and to encourage emotional healing in each individual, but any donations will allow me as a facilitator to continue serving in the community and compensate for the time given.