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.
Between the Lines
Monthaven Arts and Cultural Center’s FREE Healing Arts Program, called “Between the Lines,” 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.
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: