Use your creativity to express emotions and relax! Come express yourself in these fun workshops! Our Healthy Minds Director, Mel Kistner is a former art therapist and an artist. She will lead you through some creative exercises to express emotions, foster self-expression and develop resilience. Each workshop will have a different theme and materials focus. This fall we will be doing collage, mixed media and painting. Create your own unique piece to bring home. Art supplies included but feel free to bring your own as well. No art experience required. Just a desire for creative exploration and connection!

You can register for just one or all 3 of the fall workshops.

September 18: Collage- We will be using painted papers, magazines, words and other images to create an expressive collage. Come experiment with paper collage!

October 16: Mixed Media- We will be using a variety of materials including paint, pencils, oil pastels, images, paper, found objects and more to create expressive mixed media art.

November 20th: Painting- We will be learning and experimenting with acrylic painting techniques and art therapy exercises to express feelings, calm and create art.

Relax and paint in community! You will be lead through the steps of painting a bird on a branch and take your painting on canvas home with you! Our Healthy Minds director will lead you through an acrylic painting in a fun, social atmosphere. No painting experience necessary. Come try something new! All supplies provided. Light snacks served.

Workshop will be in the Ehlinger Center Conference Room in Watertown.

Overwhelmed? Stress can impact our physical health, mental health and relationships. It can also increase our risk for disease and lower our immunity. But there is hope! We can calm our bodies and minds and learn new ways to respond to stressors. Want to have more daily peace and be fully engaged in the present?
We will discuss how our brains and bodies respond to stress and learn practical, effective stress management strategies for a healthy mind, body and Spirit. Join this interactive workshop hosted by our Healthy Minds Director, Mel Kistner. Adults and teens 16+ .

Note: This session is at the Ehlinger Center Conference room in Watertown. This is the same content as the  April session at Pabst Farms.