Creative Process

My Creative Process

In leading and creating this workshop I took my prior knowledge as an education major and the new skills I learned through CPSA260 about classroom management, lesson planning, facilitating group discussion, and implementing assessment strategies in order to create a workshop that effectively taught and addressed the learning objectives outlined for the Art Therapy workshop. In order to plan lessons for each medium, it was vital to do research on the topics for that week and create engaging activities for each medium that would keep participants interested and encourage student involvement. These lesson plans were created as thoroughly as possible in order to make sure that participants were given enough time to complete each week’s activities and reflect as a class. A large part of this workshop was student participation and group discussion. Using my experience as a student and the resource provided in CPSA260 titled “The Big List of Class Discussion Strategies” (CultofPedagogy.com), I was able to plan into each week engaging discussion questions and activities which prompted participants to be more active students in our class and small group discussions. Through discussions, participants were able to effectively reflect on the artistic mediums we worked with and process the effects that the art had on them. Overall, through thorough lesson planning and discussion, participants were able to stay engaged throughout the semester-long workshop and gain a deeper understanding of the effects of Art Therapy—not only generally—but personally as well.