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Art + Wellness

Enjoy a creative evening in the Gallery Studio with a focus on improving mental health.

Cambridge Art Galleries is proud to celebrate its commitment to art and health. Through creative programming, Art + Wellness workshops foster belonging, combats social isolation, and demonstrates the transformative power of art in supporting well-being. In each Art + Wellness session, we welcome a different wellness practitioner, counsellor, or art therapist who guides participants through a series of activities and exercises to focus on mental health, well-being, and connection.

This month we are pleased to welcome back Ali Burke for a wellness-inspired interactive art based activity called 'Mapping our Nervous System.' In this interactive and arts-based workshop, participants will be guided to explore and create a visual map of their own unique nervous system.  Grounded in the idea that each of our nervous systems naturally has different states, the workshops will offer participants both education about how these states are commonly understood, as well as an opportunity to create a piece of art illustrating their own relationship to and experience of these states. The themes of awareness building, self-compassion, and agency will be central as we explore what brings us a sense of safety in our nervous systems. 

About the Instructor: Ali Burke is a Registered Social Worker and Psychotherapist with over 14 years experience, she currently has a private practice in Cambridge, Ontario. Her work is grounded in the theories of Narrative Therapy, which sees people as having many skills, competencies, beliefs, values, commitments and abilities that will assist them to change their relationship with problems in their lives. She integrates mindfulness, cognitive behavioural therapy, and emotion focused therapy into her work. 

This series is part of the larger Art + Wellness Project, made possible by the generous support of the Community Fund, the Marion Woeller Community Arts Fund, The Anonymous Fund, and the Keith and Winifred Shantz Fund for the Arts, held by the Waterloo Region Community Foundation.

Presented by CAGE:

Accessibility
If you require an accessibility accommodation for this program or event, please tell us how we can meet your needs as soon as possible so arrangements can be organized. If you require a sign language interpreter, please let us know at least two-weeks (10 working weekdays) before the program date. 
  
If you are attending a registered program with a support person, please add your support worker as a guest when you sign up. 

COST: Free

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