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The course takes a multidisciplinary approach to art and art psychology, introducing participants to different ways of understanding and teaching arts, dealing with the students’ creative process and taking the best of the positive impact of art-related activities on our wellbeing. It is based on a broad understanding of art and creativity across the lifespan and will draw on work in several disciplinary areas such as neuropsychology, pedagogy and sociology, to consider creativity at different ages and in different contexts and specifically to consider the artistic phenomenon as a combination of perspectives and situations (artist, viewer, artwork). This course also allowed the school to discover the positive impact of art related activities on our emotional well being and help engage their pupils in the psychology of art and its therapeutic qualities.
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As a result of this project, the whole school community took part in a Wellness month and set up a Wellness & Creativity Exhibition (open to the public) to showcase pupils work and the new methodologies and activities taught by the school's teachers. In the long term, the focus on improving the school's visual art programme will further allow opportunities for the development of a richer vocabulary of our pupils, through more meaningful and creative art lessons where one can create a space for the pupils to express themselves more fully and develop the ability to articulate how their own art and the art of others connects with their own emotions and feelings. "As we had identified an increased level of anxiety in many of our pupils, the course was extremely beneficial as it focused on a combination of creative, cognitive and emotional elements to make the learning process more accessible and give children the skills to maintain their attention and motivation throughout the creative process. The course provided us with ample opportunity to learn new skills to support our children's emotional needs."