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This is an online event.
2021-22 Wise Webinar Series:
Artmaking for Mindfulness, Release and Purpose
Artmaking for Mindfulness, Release, and Purpose offers service providers and service recipients a time and space to slow down and get creative while learning tools for regulating the nervous system. This workshop draws on a range of evidence-based approaches (mindfulness, somatic therapy, expressive arts therapy [EXA], and polyvagal theory) to engage participants in making art, guided visualization, and breathing exercises for relaxation. These techniques are also a great way to discover interests in the arts and art making for employment service recipients. These tools can be very effective when taught to employees with disabilities for utilization when stressed about a job, and on the job.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn breathing and mindfulness tools to regulate the nervous system while on the job
- Learn about the how the nervous system and the body store stress
- Make art using an EXA process over product approach so you can utilize tools you currently own
- Have fun and feel more relaxed in the discovery and job development processes through the utilization of art as a tool
Dana Dart-McLean
Dana Dart-Mclean is a psychotherapist, artist, and educator based in San Francisco. She offers individual therapy, workshops, and arts coaching for creatives. She has been practicing therapy since 2014, working in a range of settings. She began her therapy work in under-resourced public schools around the Bay Area, providing individual and family counseling as well as therapy groups. She has worked in court-mandated residential substance use treatment as well as provided harm-reduction focused therapy for unhoused people, creating therapy space on the street, in a van, and at drop-in clinics. Her workshops have been staged in a range of settings– from community centers and prisons to museums and universities. Currently, she is working with social service providers and Stanford University. She combines knowledge of the psychology of creativity with nervous system regulation to provide a unique workshop experience in which participants get to express themselves and practice effective tools for relaxation. In her free time, Dana loves to go on walks and take pictures of unofficial street sculptures (i.e. trash) and flowers. Sometimes she uses these photos as inspiration for her paintings. Dana is a huge fan of trying new foods and finding new music to listen to. She is neurodivergent and is heartened by the radical mental health and disability rights movements