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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.