A Turanga Public Library event welcomes all and invites families raising neurodiverse children with a range of abilities to join in at my Colour Me Happy exhibition and workshops. The below images are screenshots from events as marketed on the Christchurch City Council website.

Artistic aim

Provide children and youth with disability with a voice and choice of roles and messages for society. As this project expands beyond the walls of the Turanga Public Library, disabled youth and children connect to the wider community. As they become involved, they share their learning and personal action plans, involving the people around them in the steps they decide to take towards their goals. This will include the students' whanau and teachers.

Colour Me Happy Workshops 

The workshop was constructed to help enable and empower diverse communities to increase their wellbeing through mindful practice. The PERMA evidence-based model (Seligman, 2018) is used throughout this workshop for participants to actively engage in wellbeing practice. Participants use creativity and fun to dig deeper into their personal wellbeing and enhance it. 

• Activities that participants do include; 

• Creating space to understand what brings feelings of positivity 

• Asking the reader to dive into what brings them meaning

• Planning goals... and more

More info on the workshops and participants' feedback  here. 

Please contact me if you are interested in a future workshop.

Justice got lots of ideas and help, including an offer to mentor her, from participants. She comments that she learnt about herself and will take her learning to her community and to help future generations coming through.