Participants who engage themselves in creative writing are encouraged to share their experience with other participants.
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All objectives can be achieved in at least one month of weekly sessions.
Group activity making portrait shadows of self. This can self-validate and give a sense of belonging and cohesion with group. Requires a steady hand and some concentration and one-to-one attention.
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The aim of visiting a theatre is to familiarize our user base with the theatre. Theatre encourages active thinking and relaxation and provides an excellent opportunity for participants to expand their social networks.
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These goals will be achieved after multiple sessions.
Reminiscence therapy involves the discussion of past activities, events and experiences with another person or a group.
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*These objectives will be achieved after one or multiple sessions.
The main idea of the activity is to sing in a group, with one of the participants or a volunteer playing the guitar.
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The objectives are likely to be achieved after approximately 15 sessions.
This activity enables an individual to create a puppet and think about the character. It is suitable for use within an individual or group drama therapy session. The activity could be adjusted for other professionals, or client groups. It would need to be supervised by a person that understands the nature of the activity and can safely assess and contain the emotional, psychological and physical needs of the particular client group.
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*This activity will take more than one session.
Active participation in a theatre production, throughout the creative process. Participants familiarize themselves with communication, marionette design, animation, storytelling techniques, basics of directing and scenography, photography and presentation.
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*These will be achieved after multiple sessions.
Fresh flowers can be kept for years with their color intact by pressing them, which flattens the flowers as they dry. Pressed flowers have long been used as decorative additions to cards and other projects as well as framed on their own.
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By choosing appropriate literary texts (poetry, shorter prose texts) and reading them (individually or aloud in a group) the participants experience the “power of the written word”, how you can express yourself through writing, and they try to understand the message of some texts
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All objectives are to be achieved in the long term./p>
To make coil pots with clay (normal or air-drying).
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* These objectives can be achieved after multiple sessions.
The activity consists of reading selected excerpts from Plato’s dialogues and discussing their meaning. This leads to an engaged conversation among participants about the presented topic. In addition, the participants usually relate the discussed text to their personal experiences.
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All objectives are to be achieved in the long term./p>
Horticulture and gardening activities provide opportunities for engagement with the natural environment and enable nurturing feelings to thrive through watching something grow and develop; thus having a direct connection with spirituality and culture.
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* Please note that number 5 is an objective that can be achieved in the long term.
The main idea of the activity is to understand the wide range of what music means – not just singing, but also learn about music theory, listen to different music genres and get to know them.
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*All objectives are likely to be achieved in the long term./p>
Making a picture in strips.
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The basic idea is that the participants learn to knit, crochet, sew by hand and sewing machine, tailor and repair clothes, drawing on T-shirts etc... with the aim for active leisure time in general.
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*These objectives will be achieved after a number of sessions./p>
In this exercise, each person discovers, in a randomly pattern they create, personal symbols whose qualities they compare to their own personalities. This exercise is a projective technique through which a person is able to see more clearly some of the basic beliefs that they hold about themselves.
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The main idea of the activity is to be creative and improve hand skills.
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*All objectives are likely to be achieved (to some extent) after a finished project./p>
A fun game to get players comfortable with each other and working together. Interactive actions and movement game which is fun and enjoyable. It can be used as a warm up to other creative drama or physical activities.
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In order to expand social networks and encourage social integration, we organize the following activities: visiting museums, art galleries, going to the cinema, theatre and concerts. Sometimes we offer also the possibility of visiting opera, ballet and classical music performances. These activities take place once or twice a month, depending on the possibilities, needs and wishes of our participants.
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Using key theme and other words – create a group action, mime or movement /sounds to help guide others to guess the theme. This activity provides a useful technique for generating physical ideas around a theme through use of drama and motion. Can be used to warm up for other drama activity.
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Amniotic therapy (AT) is a sensorial integration therapy for different conditions. Therapeutical interactions are non-verbal and similar to mother-foetus interactions in amniotic fluid. It can be delivered one to one or in group. The group consists of the same number of patients and amniotic therapists, thus allowing an initial one-to-one relationship. Each participant is immersed in warm water.
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*All objectives are to be achieved in the long term or after multiple sessions.
Offer guided imagery (visualization) to help individuals better manage the stresses and anxieties in their lives. This involves the verbal delivery of a script describing a relaxing scene with background music in a calm environment. Can be offered as an individual or group activity, as a one-off or regular session.
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Amniotic therapy (AT) is a sensorial integration therapy for different conditions. Therapeutical interactions are non-verbal and similar to mother-foetus interactions in amniotic fluid. It can be delivered to autistic clients in a one to one therapist/client relationship. Each participant is immersed in warm water.
The goals of activity are to:
*All objectives are to be achieved in the long term or after multiple sessions.
A group activity involving a variety of objects and a parachute to enable engagement with music, objects and others in the group. It is suitable for use within drama therapy, music therapy or other therapeutic session. It can be used as a warm up activity.
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To create a wellness toolbox to contain coping mechanisms.
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Co-assisting a person in producing a timeline.
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To create a wellness toolbox to contain coping mechanisms.
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Favourite sing-along songs for older people – songs from the war years, the 60s and 70s; for children – favourite songs.
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* Long term objectives can be achieved over multiple sessions./p>
To create a wellness toolbox to contain coping mechanisms.
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Collaboratively working with the service user and their carer/family members to source and play music to them which is meaningful and valuable.
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These objectives can be achieved in one or multiple sessions./p>
To create a wellness toolbox to contain coping mechanisms.
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This is an activity that enables an individual to create a simple picture. It is suitable for use within an individual or group session. In this example the group has dementia, but the activity can easily be adjusted for other clients groups. It is assumed that it will be facilitated or supervised by a suitably qualified person who can assess the needs of the group and already has an established method of working.
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To create a wellness toolbox to contain coping mechanisms. Once shaken, the individual can use the time of the glitter settling to practice breathing techniques for anxiety or relaxation.
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This is an activity that enables an individual to create a hand print. It is suitable for use within an individual or in a group session. It is assumed that the activity will be facilitated by an appropriately trained professional such as a drama therapist or art therapist who already has an established method of working.
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To create a wellness toolbox to contain coping mechanisms.
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People who have experienced different forms of abuse can sometimes be confronted by flashbacks or intense intrusive memories of what happened, to the point that they feel as if they are re-living the abuse all over again.
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To create a wellness toolbox to contain coping mechanisms.
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Making scented festive woodland pot-pourri - using fragrant mixture of leaves, spices and pine cones. This activity may be more age appropriate to older population as reminiscent of childhood and use of scented decorations. But can be used with most age groups.
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To create a wellness toolbox to contain coping mechanisms.
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Produce a personalized record of a conversation to increase understanding. Comic strip conversations can help people to understand concepts that they find difficult. People draw as they talk and use these drawings to learn about different social situations.
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To create a wellness toolbox to contain coping mechanisms.
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The creative activity aims to promote enjoyment and self-confidence by learning to use simple clay techniques to create a tile. The facilitator gathers and prepares the materials, and assesses the group/individual’s abilities. The facilitator may need to risk assess equipment, such as cutters and small pieces of equipment etc.
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To create a wellness toolbox to contain coping mechanisms.
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The Bag of Feelings can help in the assessment of children's and adolescents' feelings. However it can be adapted to be used with adults, especially those who may benefit from visual /pictorial aids.
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This activity involves enabling individuals to role play as a character and identify with themes in a story. This activity could be used after a warm up activity. It is suitable for use within an individual or group drama therapy session. It is assumed that it will be used or supervised by a drama therapist who already has an established method of working.
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*This activity will take more than one session.
This session has to do with a conscious body activation and expressing feelings through the body to the rhythm of the music. A series of games will be developed in order to develop certain functions (memory, coordination, ability to express and be in contact with other people...).
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This is basically a fun group version of “Rock, Paper, Scissors” using verbal and non-verbal actions and skills in place of a rock, paper or scissors. This game can be used as a warm up to a group activity / session to aid group cohesion.
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This session has to do with the interaction between the components of the group through the game, the music and the movements, creating a music work between them.
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To go out walking as a group with an organized route plan.
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In this session verbal expressions will be developed through the combination of words (poems, rhythms, sayings, jingles, tongue twisters, texts of songs). The graphic representation of the music will allow the expression of those feelings and the promotion of the creativity.
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This activity could provide a useful technique for generating physical actions and movement. It can be used to warm up for other drama activities.
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Dancing is one of the oldest forms of therapy, musical intervention and artistic expression for human beings. We start with some basic techniques for stretching and warming up as preparation for dancing activities.
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This activity involves selecting videos that enable individuals or groups to reconnect with memories of the past. This activity could be used to introduce a group activity or drama therapy session or at the end of a session to bring it to a close. If you are working with a group that has reduced mobility such as clients with dementia, it could help to allow 30 minutes before and after each session during which clients can be individually supported to join the group. Having something to watch during this time works especially well.
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This session has to do with an activation of the body consciously and the expression of feelings through the movement of the body to the rhythm of the music. In the activities proposed, we try to join all those creative processes of the artistic education: dance, music and art. This activity develops a better body awareness and reaction times improve and motor skills increase. It develops a sense of self-control and self-confidence related to the body and participants show emotional expressions of satisfaction.
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There Is Only One Liar is a group observational task that can be used as warm up to other social interaction activities. It is a fun group-dynamics game from Augusto Boal.
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The participants perform choreography to a well-known song. This will allow them to develop certain functions (memory, coordination, mobility, balance, and the ability to express themselves on their own and by interacting with others).
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* These objectives will be achieved after multiple sessions.
This exercise aims to develop spontaneous self-expression and awareness of the non-verbal aspects of communication.
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In this session a musical work will be represented through body percussion and following the structure set in a music gram. The participants will have to coordinate the music with the beats of their hands, chest, legs and feet. In this activity we explore various motor options that our body offers us. To move according to the tempo and rhythm of the music, benefits the psychomotor capabilities.
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* These objectives will be achieved in the long term or after multiple sessions.
This is an activity that enables an individual to role play as a character and identify with themes in a story. The activity could be developed over several sessions or could form a small part of a single session. It is suitable for use with a group. This activity should be facilitated or supervised by a drama therapist or other suitably trained professionals who already have an established method of working. This example describes using the activity with people who have dementia.
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This session begins with the improvisation of instrumental activities that encourages the skills the participants used to have, but which have never been shown for different reasons. Music can and should be prepared for all the participants.
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* These objectives will be achieved in the long term or after multiple sessions.
Talk Show Expert- a fun exercise to help participants to play roles, create actions and use mime. This exercise can be used as a warm up to other creative drama activities.
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This session uses the melodies of known songs, popular in the lifetime of the participants with whom we will perform the therapy; playing recordings that will make them practice a series of activities.
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* These objectives will be achieved in the long term or after multiple sessions.
This is a sensory activity that enables an individual to engage with themes in a story. It is suitable for use within an individual or group drama therapy session. It is assumed that this activity will be used or supervised by a drama therapist or another suitably trained professional who already has an established method of working.
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In this session participants will perform songs or known music pieces. With this activity of performing songs which are or have been significant in our lives, we take strength, especially when we sing in a group.
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* These objectives are expected to be achieved in the long term, after multiple sessions.
A movement exercise to increase awareness of others when moving in a space. The exercise involve using props to aid creation of a story of motion and movement. This activity provides a useful technique for generating physical actions and movement. The activity can be used to warm up for other dance activities; it can be useful for dance or physical theatre, or for discovering movement ideas.
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Musical improvisations allow us to explore, communicate ourselves, enjoy, laugh and contribute to the development, reinforcement or maintenance of certain functions (attention, memory, coordination). The creation of a climate of games and fun will favour a good mood.
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* These objectives to be achieved in the long term or after multiple sessions.
This activity uses verbal and non-verbal communication. The object of the activity is to improvise and use creative actions in a scene. During the process participants will take turns in the position of standing, sitting or bending. This game can be used as a warm up to a group activity or session to aid group cohesiveness.
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In this session the difficulty of the activities is increased, entailing more cognitive activity in order to show how the intellectual activity balances out the negative effects of aging. Some of them help with controlling breathing, others were based on dictations of two and three notes (intervals of third), and others involved in working with vision.
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This is an exercise in self assertion. Two players sit opposite one another and are assigned to either be for, or against, a designated topic. Then at the same time and maintaining eye contact, they talk at one another, without responding to any part of the opponent’s monologue. This exercise can be used as a warm up to other creative drama activities.
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This session will begin with the improvisation of instrumental activities that allowed these skills that participants used to have, but which had never been shown for different reasons. Music can and should be prepared for all the participants.
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When people are distressed, they often forget the techniques that help them cope better with overwhelming negative emotions or intolerable, distressing situations. There are 4 strategies that help in these situations; one of them is called self-soothing. Many people have not learned to self soothe, however they will recognize strategies they already do to feel better. Most of these strategies involve our senses, to make us feel calmer, relaxed or better.
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This session has to do with the following main objective: all people in the group know the musical notes that appear in the most of songs. In this way, we will investigate the types of voices that exist, the mode of producing sounds and the tessitura of each voice. In the activity proposed, each note will be associated with a movement of hands.
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Making scented note paper - using scented sachet of lavender. The tradition of scented notepaper goes back many centuries, often a drop of perfume was used but this stained the paper. It is much better to leave a lavender sachet with the paper for a month. This activity requires patience. This activity may be more age appropriate to older population as reminiscent of childhood and use of scented paper. But can be used with most age groups.
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These artistic activities have as main aim, the strengthening of their self-esteem, at the time of the auto cognition. Because they pay more attention to melodies, they will improve their hearing and the capture of hearing stimulus.
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Making scented festive decorations - using fruits to make pomanders. This activity may be more age appropriate to older population as reminiscent of childhood and use of scented decorations. But can be used with most age groups.
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This session builds on the diaphragmatic breathing completed in Musical Activity- Breathing (1st part)
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This therapy enables individuals to create a 3D model and engage with a related story. It is suitable for use within an individual or group drama therapy session. It is assumed that it will be used or supervised by a drama therapist or other suitably trained professional who already has an established method of working.
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The breathing exercises proposed include two sessions. We are going to improve diaphragmatic breathing and respiratory column pressure.
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Through this activity, patients will be making a house from clay. Throughout this process, the patient can reflect on internal and external safety, what it means and what it feels like. This activity is alsohelpful for establishing and keeping personal boundaries. Patients can use the tactile experiences and transformation of the art materials in to a meaningful object.
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In this session we are going to start with stretching exercises while quiet and relaxed music is played.
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