INSPIRING CREATIVITY
is
GIVING CARE

VISITING ARTISTS’ training program engenders outside-of-the-box creative thinking.

A caregiver shapes scattered rose petals into a heart in training class — she understands the assignment!

VISITING ARTISTS’ training program works to transform lives, hearts, and minds, through the creative act.


“Perhaps the mission of a an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves." — Langston Hughes

FOUNDATION

VISITING ARTISTS’ programs and modules are designed to address group as well as individual needs: its foundation is rooted in the 5 basic human senses (in order of human development):

  1. Touch

  2. Taste

  3. Smell

  4. Hearing

  5. Sight

uniquely FOCUSED on the 3 seldom-discussed, yet, most intrinsic and essentially human senses:

  1. Proprioception — the sense of self-movement and body position

  2. Interoception — “contemporarily defined as the sense of the internal state of the body”, research suggests that interoception “may also support first-person perspective taking, a foundational building block for our sense of self” (Association for Psychological Science)

    and

  3. SALIENCE — refers to the heightened ability to notice, prioritize, and emphasize the most significant or striking elements within a multitude of sensory inputs, experiences, and ideas.

centered on 8 aspects of well-being, as enumerated in the CDC’s Quality of Life Program:

  1. Physical well-being

  2. Social well-being

  3. Development and activity

  4. Emotional well-being

  5. Psychological well-being

  6. Life satisfaction

  7. Domain specific satisfaction

  8. Engaging activities and work

grounded on the 5 core social-emotional competencies:

1. Self-Awareness
2. Self-Management
3. Social Awareness
4. Relationship Skills
5. Responsible Decision-Making

"Everything you can imagine is real." — Pablo Picasso