Vlinder Expressive Arts Therapy in Gold Coast, Queensland | Mental health service

Vlinder Expressive Arts Therapy

Locality: Gold Coast, Queensland

Phone: +61 432 539 881

Address: 2 Sunset Avenue 4216 Gold Coast, QLD, Australia

Website: http://vlinderexpressiveartstherapy.com

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23.01.2022 We are super excited to be running The Gecko Gang workshop over the school holiday for children 6 to 9 years of age. We will be creating self-soothing Geckos and painting an image that explores safety and the feeling of comfort. Please book online as we have limited spots! If your children are older, check out our teenager holiday workshop Inspired Impressions. See everyone soon for some therapeutic fun

15.01.2022 Holiday time coming up again. Here is the fun teen workshop we have on offer. We love teens and can't wait to share this fun day with your special young people. Booking link and more details below. https://vlinderexpressiveartstherapy.as.me/InspiredImpressi

10.01.2022 RESILIENCE (part 2) This week at the Kindy we continued looking at resilience, furthering our exploration of what do we do with a problem, and the lesson’s we can find hidden within one. FUN FACT: Resilience can be observed through seeking an opportunity from a problem. It is imperative to help a child explore solutions to a problem, we can do this by adjusting the learning context rather than supplying the solution. Through positive encouragement such as, keep trying, do...n’t give up, persistence is promoted. Through this increase in effort, self-worth and confidence builds. INFORMATION TO CONSIDER: Letting children know that their ideas and efforts are valued, will reinforce their persistence when faced with a challenge. The more strength and resilience that a child develops, the more apparent ‘opportunity spotting’ can occurs. This week we gained inspiration from the book What do you do with a Problem? by Kobi Yamada, exploring how we can change our perspective of a problem and by doing such, opportunities for something positive can rise. This week we used fabric and vegetable dye with cotton buds and pipettes to create drop paintings. The way we framed this activity promoted problem solving, decision making, boundaries, challenging perspective, and accepting unpredictability. One of the most magical parts of this activity was watching the children drop colours on top of each other and seeing how they magically dispersed and mixed, they were in awe! We also love how no two fabric creations are the same. What are some hidden opportunities you have found through confronting a problem in a different manner or lens?

01.01.2022 Most amazingly beautiful work happening in the studio on Friday mornings. Thank you Lisa Sherratt for facilitating these classes. Still room for anyone wanting to try their hand at watercolour. Lisa’s superpower is to take out the struggle and inject loads of fun...with art and in life.

01.01.2022 RESILIENCE This week at the Kindy we transitioned from sensory processing to important developmental topics, first up is building resilience. FUN FACT: Improving children’s resilience at a young age helps them to deal with adversities they experience, not only in childhood but beyond. Resilience is the foundation for developing healthy skills and habits which include coping skills and healthy thinking.... INFORMATION TO CONSIDER: Children that show high resilience are able to manage stress better, bounce back from their falls, and understand their self-worth to build strength in pushing forward. It is important to realize that resilience can fluctuate and change over time, it is formed, and not predetermined. Educators can support children in challenging tasks without taking over the task for a desired outcome, allow mistakes to happen! This week we gained inspiration from the book After the Fall by Dan Santat, exploring the concept of perseverance, persistence, inner strength, and determination based on the tail of Humpty Dumpty. This week we drew Humpty Dumpty and rebuilt his wall out of various sized strips of paper. We topped this activity off with giving the children the option to select one coloured feather and one ‘natural’ feather, to represent what Humpty Dumpty became (not giving away the ending for you). This activity really focused on imagination, decision making, fine motor skills, and facing challenges head on. One of the most magical parts of this activity was seeing children be open to Humpty Dumpty’s narrative changing, this change in outcome completely gave new light to the story and the lesson it portrayed. Is there a time you have fallen and through getting back up and trying again, a great learning was learnt?