Tatawow to MESC’s annual Nehiyawatisiwin Conference. This years conference theme is Kiskisototâmowin - Remembering. MESC’s planning committee was guided by the Circle of Elders to select the conference theme.
Art is a way of knowing. When we engage in art can be the beginning of a journey to explore our beliefs. We may find the reason for pain or depression or identify sources of joy and creative potential. Expressive art-making inevitably reveals our personal stories: including our feelings, thoughts, experiences, values, and cultural nuances. In art therapy, we are given a way to know ourselves through a new process and an opportunity to transform our perspective. The process of art therapy and its potential to help people grow, rehabilitate, and heal also comes from the actual making of the art. Mainly, this will be an experiential learning hour. The participant will be invited to engage in several expressive art activities. Adults tend to think that they have no artistic talent as their previous experiences were in the elementary grades; these may have been good or bad. No skill is required as all activities will be based on a high-sensitivity and low-skill model. Everyone has the ability to be creative through art.
