Purpose
Trident House International, LLC developed the Making Art With The Pieces™ project as an approach to assist individuals, children, and families build core coping and resiliency skills, empowering them with tools to respond to life’s challenges in a healthy manner.
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Background
- Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are stressful and traumatic experiences and are strongly related to a wide range of health problems, including substance abuse, throughout the lifespan.
- Over time, and often during adolescence, the child adopts negative coping mechanisms, such as substance use.
Program Description
Workshops are built around two key components. First, facilitated group education around 10 core skills recommended by the American Psychological Association (APA) for developing resilience. Second, the introduction of art as a meditative coping tool.
Trident uses this approach with children and adults at risk or suffering from behavioral health challenges, as a means to enhance their resiliency skills and inoculate them against future unhealthy behaviors. Competency is defined by developing skills around Connectedness, Empathy, Routine, Imagination, Positivity, Self-Love, Goals, Perspective, Self-Discovery, and Change. #ZenTen
Program Details
Each Session is designed to engage up to 30 participants in a group discussion to develop key competency skills. Participants will be coached on the relax, breath, draw, and reflect as elements of the meditative art process. Sessions include:
- Discussion of resilience competencies
- Education on skill & artform
- Group discussion
- Individualized action plans
- Workshop evaluation
- Follow-up evaluation
- Completion of a tangle
Outcomes
- We’ve seen a significant increase in meaningful recovery coach engagement with their members and clients.
- Post-event surveys have shown increases in measures of resilience.