Children’s Drawing & Art Mindfulness Combo Classes

Our classes are intentionally small and family centred. We truly care about your child’s well being — not only opening up the incredible world of drawing, but also supporting who they are as a young creative individual. We provide a boutique experience with weekly follow up and communication on how your child is progressing. Not only will your child have fun, but each student will receive a high calibre art education, and inadvertently, we find that our students can’t help but want to teach their parents what they have learned:)

Beyond the Lesson and Behind the Scenes:

During our lessons there will be times when students will be encouraged to engage the right hemisphere of their brains in order to ‘get into the art zone’. This quiet and contemplative experience helps students utilize their right brain hemisphere where all the focused creativity takes place. During this independent learning time, the teacher will at times, also be working on her art pieces, in order to model this quiet contemplative process that is so key to learning how to draw. The learning becomes multi-faceted and inspiring for beginner artists.

Please note: This is a mask free class.

The class focus is on learning how to draw realistically, and mindfully. During the class, we gain an understanding of emotional expression, feelings, guided breathing exercises, regulating our ‘soma’ or bodies, through art exercises, while we practice the skill of drawing. Some of the many goals of this class, are to teach students the skill of drawing and how it can regulate our nervous system, build trust including emotional recognition with verbal and non-verbal communication between teachers and students.

Students will be encouraged to see the expressions and reactions on the faces of their peers and teachers. This helps develop social and emotional intelligence and inter-relatedness that is crucial to educational development, cognition and better focus.

To encourage psycho-social development our class is a mask-free class. Students will be asked to unmask upon entry to the studio.

To register: Call/Text Alice at: 403-808-0831 or email: alikisartinmind@gmail.com to book your child’s complimentary, individual assessment and Meet & Greet. During our meeting, you will be shown the program and we can discuss readiness to make sure this is a good fit for your child.

Registration and first month’s payment is needed to reserve your spot as we have limited spaces available. We personally process each registration, therefore a registration form will be sent to you via email, before we meet, or during the meet & greet.

Art Mindfulness & Drawing Combo Summer Camps for Children

The camp focus is on understanding emotional expression, feelings, guided breathing exercises, regulating our ‘soma’ or bodies, through art exercises. Some of the many goals of the week are to teach students to communicate, decode facial expressions, build trust including emotional recognition with verbal and non-verbal communication between teachers and students.

Students will be encouraged to see the expressions and reactions on the faces of their peers and teachers. This helps develop social and emotional intelligence and inter-relatedness that is crucial to educational development.

To encourage psycho-social development our camp is a mask-free camp. Students will be asked to unmask upon entry to the studio.