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.
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 [email protected].
Promotes expression of thoughts and feelings
Relieves stress
Improves communication skills
Increases problem solving skills
Increases coping skills
Reduces feelings of anxiety and depression
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:
Active or retired, and their families
Promotes self-awareness and emotional processing
Divorce, military deployment, sibling separation due to life-threatening illness, hospitalization
Techniques for dealing with loss
Coping mechanisms for managing stress
Assistance overcoming depressed and anxious feelings
Kaylin Warden joined the Monthaven Arts and Cultural Center staff in 2024 as External Affairs Coordinator. In this post, she organizes special off-site events and manages the organization’s external communications. She also works with the development department by updating the MACC’s customer relations database, and she assists the executive director in setting up exhibitions. Above all else, Kaylin is passionate about the arts. It comes as no surprise, then, that she is now pursuing a master’s degree in art history. When she’s not at the MACC, you can find her reading her favorite books (especially ones dealing with maritime mysteries), cooking, gardening, playing with her cat and two dogs, and cheering for the Nashville Predators.