Groups & Workshops

Mindfulness Stress Release Program

Mindfulness Stress Release Program teaches you how to practice mindfulness to improve your wellbeing, productivity, and relationships for your personal and professional life. Click to read more.

Mindfulness Based Art Therapy Program

This Mindfulness Stress Release Program combines art therapy exercises. Mindfully create images, collage and drawings (no artistic skill is required). Click to read more.

Essence of Health, Lifestyle Program

The Essence of Health is a comprehensive lifestyle program with the aim to enhance wellbeing and prevent and manage chronic illness for your personal and professional life. Click to read more.

Art Therapy Programs

Art therapy uses drawing, painting, clay, collage and sandplay as a means of expressing thoughts, feelings, emotions. Art Therapy is a gentle yet powerful way to process difficult emotions. Click to read more.

Developed for

Workplace, education and community settings

Tailored programs to enhance performance, improve focus and build EQ and resilience.

Mindfulness Stress Release Program

Mindfulness Stress Release Program teaches you how to practice mindfulness to improve your wellbeing, productivity, and relationships for your personal and professional life.

It can assist to reduce stress and increase resilience with simple and practical meditations and reflective tasks. It is delivered with current research evidence and tried and true practice of mindfulness.

Benefits of the course

Reduce stress, anxiety and depressive symptoms
Increase resilience and peace of mind
Enhance cognitive performance e.g. concentration, memory and processing speed
Improve study and work performance
Improve relationships and overall wellbeing

Who is this course for?

The course is suitable for people experiencing stress, anxiety or depression, as well as anyone wanting to improve productivity, relationships and general wellbeing. No previous experience with mindfulness, meditation is required.

Mindfulness Based Art Therapy Program

This Mindfulness Stress Release Program combines art therapy exercises (self expression and self-reflection techniques). Deepen self-reflection and awareness through drawing words, images and feelings to gain better understanding, new perspectives and access inner resources with art therapy (no artistic skill is required).

Who is this course for?

ESSENCE of Health, Lifestyle program

The Essence of Health is a comprehensive lifestyle program with the aim to enhance wellbeing and prevent and manage chronic illness for your personal and professional life.

Developed at Monash University’s medical school by Dr Craig Hassed and supported by research in traditional and complimentary medicine, this program provides practical ways to empower your health in daily life. You will learn about the seven core principles of the ESSENCE model: education, stress management (mindfulness), spirituality, exercise, nutrition, connectedness and environment and practical steps for introducing them into your personal and professional life. You will learn motivation and goal setting strategies to enable you to implement healthy lifestyle changes.

Who is this course for?

The course is suitable for people experiencing health issues, illness or chronic disease, as well as anyone wanting to improve their general wellbeing. No previous experience with mindfulness or meditation is required.

Art Therapy Programs

Art therapy is a form of counselling that uses drawing, painting, clay, collage and sandplay as a means of expressing thoughts, feelings, emotions, and traumas. Art Therapy is a gentle yet powerful way to process difficult emotions.

Recent research in neuroscience has discovered that trauma is not retained in verbal form, and what has not been articulated in words or shaped, cannot be outwardly expressed. Art Therapy, however, works beyond the mind at the emotional level and can give form to trauma through shapes, image and symbols. Great healing arises through expressing your feeling state, and making sense of its meaning and purpose.

What are

The Benefits of Art Therapy?

Art Therapy is a creative process that requires no artistic skill, is suitable from seven years and above, in many life situations, and can be done with individuals or groups. It is beneficial for those who have difficulties finding words to express their circumstances, and for challenging life changes, emotional blocks, conflict, trauma, depression, anxiety and illness or disabilities causing distress for the individual or their family.

Some of the benefits:

Enhances physical, mental and emotional wellbeing
Develops and enhances self-awareness, self-esteem and acceptance
Develop emotion regulation and intelligence
Reduces stress and anxiety
Helps resolve conflicts

Deepens relationship to self, others and the environment
Assists finding a way through transition periods
Assists in the development of an integrated sense of self
Facilitates wholeness and balance

What Clients are saying

About the Programs

I can articulate my thoughts better and have things validated or challenged

Rob

Participant at the Caring Café (therapeutic art program for community members)

I’ve been surprised by how knowledgeable and caring and wise Tania is.

Caroline

Resident at Malon House Supported residential Services (therapeutic art and mindfulness program)

The art therapy program has allowed me to connect with mum in a meaningful way, rather than just sitting silently in her room. We can do projects together and chat. Thank-you Tania, this has been a special gift.

Karen

Resident at Sir Eric Pearce House (therapeutic art program for residents and family members)

My Clients Include

Access Health and Community
Balmoral House Supported Residential Service
Kiah Supported Residential Service
Malon House Supported Residential Service
Monash University, Clayton, Caulfield, Peninsula and Parkville
Moreland City Council

Richmond Uniting Church
Sir Eric Pearce House aged care
Star Health Community Services
The caring Café
Finchely Court Supported Residential Service
Hollydale Supported Residential Services