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Walt’s Waltz Painting Mental Health Workshops
for Adults and Youth
Our vision is to have physical health and mental health viewed through the same lens of compassion and fair-mindedness which contributes to the empowerment and care for all of humanity.
Objectives
Participants will:
Discuss stigma, self-stigma, and explain how they fuel suffering.
Deepen understanding of how stigma and self-stigma negatively affect those living with mental health conditions.
Take their mental health temperature to build solidarity through the reminder that anxiety and depression are on a continuum.
Justify the urgent need to support those with mental health struggles.
Lean about the trait of High Sensitivity that impacts 20% of the population.
Appraise the need for a Mental Health Moonshot.
Review warning signs of Suicide.
Apply painting as a strategy for self-care, a medium for self-expression, and a springboard for discussing mental health conditions.
Course Description
Painting Mental Health Workshop varies according to the audience and time allotted. Below is a list of topics. We ask establishments/schools/etc. what they are looking for and tailor our presentations to meet their needs. The workshop runs between 1 - 2 hours.
Introductions
Norms and Self-Care Tools and Resources
Positive Affirmations - mirror activity
Write descriptors for the term Mental Health
Define stigma, self-stigma, and explain how they fuel suffering
Tabletalk discussions: Myths and Facts Concerning Mental Health
Discuss Risks of Non-Action - open discussion
Mascot Painting and Discovery of the Walt’s Waltz Mascot
Anxiety and Depression Signs and Symptoms
Statistics
Strategies that help discussion
Paint anxiety/depression on half the page - opposite side paint a wellness strategy
Those willing, group sharing/explanation of painting
Suicide Warnings/Risk Factors/Protective Factors/988
Occupation Suicide Rates
What to Say, What Not to Say
Hope with a Mental Health Moonshot
Educate participants about the trait of High Sensitivity
Discuss why it’s import to understand this trait.
Take their mental health temperature to build solidarity through awareness.
Write a list of descriptors of Physical Health compared to Mental Health
Paint a new picture of Mental Health/Wellbeing
Call to Action
Exit Survey
All Participants receive our Self-Care Kit – which includes a 16-count watercolor set with brush, heavy paper, recourses, mirror, mascot pin, and canvas mascot bag/backpack. This is to encourage the use of art as a wellness strategy and self-expression at home.