Yekseny returned last Wednesday to lead our neighbors through another art therapy workshop! This time, we made memory bracelets. These bracelets are intended to help grief a loved one, or even an event. They are special because you can wear it and think of that time or person! We loved connecting with our neighbors for another relaxing evening at TFD!
Before Thanksgiving break, our Program Assistant, Liz, visited PMSA’s Mental Health Club. At this club meeting, the students made clay figures. They used this workshop as art as therapy to help boost self-care before the break! Thank you students and Ms. Gart for showing up, we are grateful for the relationships we have built and continue to move forward with.
Last week, Yeskseny of Leyden Family Services led another workshop on Art Therapy. In this session, the participants were introduced to the idea of showing their personality through collages. Yekseny provided stickers, paper, and magazines, and the participants were free to use them to represent their personalities. We enjoyed community conversation while getting to know each other through art therapy.
Thanks, Yekseny and participants, for an amazing workshop!
The team visited PMSA’s mental health club last week with Dahlia of Liberated Learning to lead a somatics movement with the students! The students were able to learn how to be in tune with their bodies and feel better with breathing and movement. Dahlia lead the students through multiple poses and helped the students learn what their bodies need for a mood boost. Thank you Dahlia for partnering with TFD and PMSA’s Mental Health Club!
We are so grateful for the participants who keep showing up for mental health club.
The first week of November, TFD and Marvin Flavien partnered to start filming all the work we do here in our community. Marvin is from New Jersey and has a passion for creating fun branding videos. We are so excited to see the final project of the busy week we had of programming. For now, see below some BTS of the shoot!
