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COPE: Creative Outlet Positive Energy

with Dawnita Smith

  • Ended
  • 150 US dollars
  • The Nest Collaborative

What to expect...

3 Day Wellness Workshop on Trauma, Loss, & Stress COPE is a research-based educational wellness program that defines trauma, loss, and stress and their impact on the mind, body, and spirit. This program shares effective ways to cope through self-care practices. This is a 3-day workshop, each session is 3 hrs long, and includes a presentation & hands-on art making experience. Day 1 Trauma, Mind, & Journaling • Self-Care Assessment • What is Art Therapy? • Trauma • Trauma Response • Intergenerational Trauma • Conscious • Triggers • Grounding • Care of the Mind & Personal Goals • Mindfulness • Post traumatic growth Day 2 Loss, Body, & Paper Making • Loss • Stages of Grief • Addiction • Unhealthy vs. Healthy Ways of Coping • Negative vs. Positive Consequences of Coping • Care of the Body & Personal Goals • Creating Balance • Resilience • Healthy Boundaries Day 3 Stress, Spirit, & Found Object Plaque • Stress • Allostatic Load • Limiting Beliefs vs. Healthy Mindset • Unhealthy vs. Healthy Relationships • Care of the Spirit & Personal Goals • Creativity & Self-Care • Forgiveness • Thriving • Recovery & Your Story • References • Self-Care Plan The COPE program offers a variety of creative ways to encourage care of the whole self by providing a time to connect, a time to learn, and a time to play, in a place where strengths and abilities are about the individual. Being an artist is not required. The concepts learned through COPE become tools not only for a crisis, but to work through past experiences, cope with everyday stressors, and build resiliency to withstand future challenges. Read more: https://creativeoutletpositiveenergy.com/ More About Dawnita: https://creativeoutletpositiveenergy.com/our-story


Contact Details

  • 629 Court Street, West Reading, PA, USA


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