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🧠  Manage stress 🪁  maintain well-being 🌈  exercise creative muscles 🏹  resist the mundane ✊

• Are you feeling the pressure of studies?
• Looking to meet new people interested in the arts and creativity?
• Seeking a bit of emotional support?

This 90-minute free-flow workshop, is for you!

We draw, do creative writing, listen to music, mindfully reflect, and share ideas in English to destress, connect, and have fun.

Creativity should not stop in school! We are creative beings who deserve the space to play. What’s more, creativity reduces stress and anxiety, makes us better problem solvers, and connects us with our feelings and community, exactly what you need amidst the trials and tribulations of higher education.

Why create?

Creative exploration, like reading poems and looking at paintings, ignites the region of the brain associated with being in a restful state. From here, we can create new narratives that connect us with our ideas, thoughts, worries, and desires.

This session is intentionally mindful, so we focus on the process of creating, breathing, and being without judgment.

Creating releases endorphins and serotonin (the happy hormones you also get from exercise), which makes us feel good. The brain is a muscle and, like any other muscle, needs exercising to perform well. Creativity helps the brain become a super muscle!

Tea Breaks Creativity Sessions are informed by art therapy and mindfulness to be soothing and supportive.

Who’s leading?

Alice is your facilitator. She’s a poet, scribbler, trained teacher, and creativity for adults advocate. Alice introduces different arty examples and then guides you through creative prompts. She aims to help you establish your own creative routine for long-lasting positive impacts, like stress reduction and improved mood.

• Session Dates: April 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th, May 13th, 20th and 27th, and June 3rd and 10th
• Time: 17:00 – 18:30

How to join and invite creativity in?

Apply through this form.

15 people is the maximum per group, so make sure to get in while there’s space.

REVIEWS: REVIEWS: REVIEWS

Ena: “We have a lot on our minds, worries, jobs, school… and we forget to think about our well being and the state of mind we are in. These sessions helped me to ground myself and think about everything that is going on around me from a different perspective.”

Martina: “Through this time we become a human diary of stories, poems, and nonsensical writing (which is nonetheless creative and beneficial for us).”

Mihajlo: “The sessions are quite therapeutic. I can introspect and create something of my own with words, which is the most powerful way to create things just because we can create something abstract that people can grasp, whether it’s a short poem or a piece of narrative or dialogue. Then, discussing these small creative outputs brings some whole new levels to it, and the world around us. The group vibes help with my anxiety about sharing my work, reading aloud, or even speaking sometimes.”

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