This exercise comes from the Creative Assets and Program Content Guide, a collection of 13 creative assets and 50 activities (program content) to build social and emotional learning, mitigate and manage trauma, and promote healing. For this activity, participants create a collaborative doodle drawing working separating and in groups. By encouraging attunement with others, this activity helps participants connect with others in the group and build social support around this common experience.
This exercise comes from the Creative Assets and Program Content Guide, a collection of 13 creative assets and 50 activities (program content) to build social and emotional learning, mitigate and manage trauma, and promote healing. For this activity, participants cultivate an understanding of unity, strength in numbers, an awareness of the power of many, and the ability for a diverse group of individuals to create something beautiful together
This exercise comes from the Creative Assets and Program Content Guide, a collection of 13 creative assets and 50 activities (program content) to build social and emotional learning, mitigate and manage trauma, and promote healing. For this activity, individuals create mandalas using art materials and/or found objects. Creating a sense of order and calm within a sacred, inviolate space, the mandala is considered one of the most effective modalities in treating survivors of sexualized violence.
This exercise comes from the Creative Assets and Program Content Guide, a collection of 13 creative assets and 50 activities (program content) to build social and emotional learning, mitigate and manage trauma, and promote healing. Girls will learn to create a safe space that gives them an opportunity to discuss their emotional feelings in a creative musical atmosphere.
This exercise comes from IMAGEN, the Indigenous Adolescent Girls Empowerment Network, which is a coalition of native-serving organizations that help build girls’ innate talents, and address the multiple challenges they and their families face. Mental health is a key part of IMAGEN’s approach, and here they share one tool that has been used with Native American adolescent girls in the U.S.
This exercise comes from the Creative Assets and Program Content Guide, a collection of 13 creative assets and 50 activities (program content) to build social and emotional learning, mitigate and manage trauma, and promote healing. For this activity, participants take turns to create a physical gesture that looks like one of the trees in the photographs. The rest of the group has to guess which tree they resemble.
This exercise comes from the Creative Assets and Program Content Guide, a collection of 13 creative assets and 50 activities (program content) to build social and emotional learning, mitigate and manage trauma, and promote healing. For this activity, participants will foster connection and enhance their storytelling and expressive abilities.
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Collaborative Doodle
This exercise comes from the Creative Assets and Program Content Guide, a collection of 13 creative assets and 50 activities (program content) to build social and emotional learning, mitigate and manage trauma, and promote healing. For this activity, participants create a collaborative doodle drawing working separating and in groups. By encouraging attunement with others, this activity helps participants connect with others in the group and build social support around this common experience.
Group Danmala
This exercise comes from the Creative Assets and Program Content Guide, a collection of 13 creative assets and 50 activities (program content) to build social and emotional learning, mitigate and manage trauma, and promote healing. For this activity, participants cultivate an understanding of unity, strength in numbers, an awareness of the power of many, and the ability for a diverse group of individuals to create something beautiful together
Mandala Drawing
This exercise comes from the Creative Assets and Program Content Guide, a collection of 13 creative assets and 50 activities (program content) to build social and emotional learning, mitigate and manage trauma, and promote healing. For this activity, individuals create mandalas using art materials and/or found objects. Creating a sense of order and calm within a sacred, inviolate space, the mandala is considered one of the most effective modalities in treating survivors of sexualized violence.
Musical Emotions
This exercise comes from the Creative Assets and Program Content Guide, a collection of 13 creative assets and 50 activities (program content) to build social and emotional learning, mitigate and manage trauma, and promote healing. Girls will learn to create a safe space that gives them an opportunity to discuss their emotional feelings in a creative musical atmosphere.
Self-Worth and Confidence: To Know Oneself
This exercise comes from IMAGEN, the Indigenous Adolescent Girls Empowerment Network, which is a coalition of native-serving organizations that help build girls’ innate talents, and address the multiple challenges they and their families face. Mental health is a key part of IMAGEN’s approach, and here they share one tool that has been used with Native American adolescent girls in the U.S.
Tree Pose
This exercise comes from the Creative Assets and Program Content Guide, a collection of 13 creative assets and 50 activities (program content) to build social and emotional learning, mitigate and manage trauma, and promote healing. For this activity, participants take turns to create a physical gesture that looks like one of the trees in the photographs. The rest of the group has to guess which tree they resemble.
The Wrapper Game
This exercise comes from the Creative Assets and Program Content Guide, a collection of 13 creative assets and 50 activities (program content) to build social and emotional learning, mitigate and manage trauma, and promote healing. For this activity, participants will foster connection and enhance their storytelling and expressive abilities.