In 3 of our sessions, we were able to get a person come in and raise awareness about therapeutic art and how it positively impacts our health and well-being. We did several sessions like painting rocks, drawing and spray-painting and learned about different styles of therapeutic art.

I think this was really interesting to learn about since recently there has been an increase of mental disorders and the knowledge we learnt about therapeutic art can be applicable towards this issue. Particularly, since the rise of mental disorders i.e. depression, anxiety, insomnia is more frequent in younger generations and is on the pathway to becoming more accepted. (LO6, global issue)

During each session, whilst eating lunch we planned what we would be doing for the current week and tried to make every session diverse and different. For example, one week we would have to draw an idea related to a specific theme, the next week we would do rock-painting or learn about therapeutic art. We also brushed up our knowledge on several art techniques and styles like spray-painting, charcoal and watercolour painting. (LO3, planning)