Healing Arts
Health and Creativity
Expressive Arts
Our experienced healing arts facilitators take an integrated (or intermodal) approach to the arts. They use imagery, storytelling, dance, music, drama, poetry, movement, dreamwork and visual arts to foster human growth, development, and healing.
Creative Healing
Monthaven Arts and Cultural Center’s FREE Healing Arts Program empowers adults, teens and children suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury, and other mental health disorders.
Our healing arts projects foster self-awareness. They also encourage self-talk, emotional processing, thought restructuring, personal goal-setting, social skills, and community building through the creation of visual art in a positive group setting. For more information, contact admin@monthavenarts.org.
expressive arts
Six Key Benefits
Promotes expression of thoughts and feelings
Relieves stress
Improves communication skills
Increases problem solving skills
Increases coping skills
Reduces feelings of anxiety and depression
Healing Arts at the MACC
Our healing arts facilitators currently work with single mothers and their children at Grace Place in Hendersonville, and with the equine therapists at Hope and Healing at Hillenglade in Nashville. The MACC’s healing arts programming provides services for:
Military Service Members
Active or retired, and their families
Self-Exploration
Promotes self-awareness and emotional processing
Separation Due To:
Divorce, military deployment, sibling separation due to life-threatening illness, hospitalization
Grief and Bereavement
Techniques for dealing with loss
Navigating everyday life situations
Coping mechanisms for managing stress
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Assistance overcoming depressed and anxious feelings