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. For more information, contact [email protected].

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

Find Out More

For more information about our Healing Arts, contact us.