Art4Healing® Expressive Art Workshops support emotional healing for people of all ages who are living with stress, grief, fear, and pain. No art experience is needed. Workshops are offered by Tina Kolm, Certified Art4Healing® Facilitator. Expressive art is a tool for self-exploration—a way to give voice to feelings that may not yet have words. In each 2 hour workshop you will create 3 pieces of art in response to prompts designed to help you heal.
Art4Healing® Workshops
Release Stress With Color & Paint
This Art4Healing® workshop uses color to identify and process stress. Participants will use abstract painting on canvas as a tool to express the ups and down in their daily lives.
Express Feelings With Color
You will learn a new way to express yourself creatively with abstract painting on canvas as a way to discover and express feelings that may not yet have words.
Color And Play For The Inner Child
Do ever wish that you could create again like you did as a child without worry about the judgement or rules of others? In this workshop you will explore painting like a child again and experience the basic joy of creative play through colored paint on canvas.
Grief
This Art4Healing® workshop allows participants to deal with emotions surrounding specific stresses when grieving, teaches them methods of looking at their grief, and promotes healing through color and expression.
Caregiver Support
This Art4Healing® workshop is designed for individuals who are continuously giving of themselves to others. You will be encouraged to identify and process compassion fatigue by using color and painting as a vehicle for expression.
Living With Chronic Illness
The purpose of this Art4Healing® workshop is to help participants process their feelings about their journey with illness, using color as a vehicle for expressing their emotions.
Painting From The Soul
This Art4Healing® workshop is designed for those who are interested in revealing their soul through painting. You will be encouraged to reveal the real you by using abstract color on canvas.
My Goals & Hopes
This workshop is designed for people that are interested in experiencing the Art4Healing® method as a way to surface and express hopes and aspirations. You will be encouraged to create abstractly using color and acrylic paint as the vehicles for expression.
Past Presentations
Since 2021 Tina has presented Art4Healing® Workshops as a not-for-profit service nationally and locally over Zoom and in-person. Workshops are available to schools, community programs, churches, libraries, museums, businesses, hospitals, and other venues.
Workshops have been presented at The University of Kansas Hospital (Turning Point), The Church of the Resurrection Downtown and Leawood, Compassion Fix, and other area secular and sacred settings.
Learn more about Tina’s qualifications.
Certification
Art4Healing® is a proven approach that has touched the lives of over 85,000 people in southern California over its 21 year history. Our facilitator, Tina Kolm, is certified through a 9 month, rigourous training.
Testimonials
“I found the Art4Healing® workshop to be thought provoking and enjoyable. It felt good to just drift with my emotions and allow them to pour out onto the canvas. I would recommend this to people of all ages and backgrounds.” — Holly Benson, Ph.D., Therapist
“Tina is an experienced educator. She approaches this class with her inner compassion and her natural ability to connect with people and listen for their needs. The workshop opened up a new side of myself.” — Magda Born, M.S., Reference Librarian
Research Based
The Art4Healing® method has proven benefits. Tina’s credentialing agency, Art & Creativity for Healing, has compiled the studies linked below.
The Mental Health Benefits of Expressive Painting
Giving Grief a Voice Through Expressive Painting
Troubled Youth & The Power of Expressive Painting
Get in Touch
Use the Contact Page on this website for more information or to schedule a workshop for your group or organization.