Welcome to Click Happy,
If you were one of the crew that came on Wednesday evening thank you so much and it was lovely to meet you.
If you were one who missed out but are still interested I have tried to include as much as possible what went on to catch you up. Just watch and read the content below and then rock up next week and we will get you brought up to speed.
Get the PDF version of the outline for the talk in a MindMap. Mindmaps are really useful tools to process your thinking and Freeplane is a free software that allows you to do that. (My original file is here - mindmap (to view this file you will need to download freeplane to see)
The Main Points covered were this:
The HeArtivist Program uses art to focus on the following important soft skills.
- Self-Compassion (helps decrease anxiety, depression, self-harm, eating disorders)
- Emotional Fluency (helps to process emotions reinforce self-compassion + empathy)
- Creative Resilience (using art challenges to develop grit and a learning mindset)
Click Happy uses photography to learn the HeArtivist Framework
- Class 1 - overview of the framework
- Class 2 - 5
- 10 minutes of discussion around one of the 7 layers of the Framework
- 10 minutes small group brainstorming on ideas
- 20 minutes of photographing your ideas
- 10 minutes of discussion
- 2 layers per class
- 20 minutes of discussion to wrap up at the end
- Homework
- 6 images per group per session ideally
- excessive, balanced, diminished x 2 layers
- Can be done individually or as a group
- 2 ideas for creative activities for finding the balance for youth
- 6 images per group per session ideally
What do you learn in Click Happy?
- Project-based learning
- Creative problem solving
- Meta-learning - creative grit philosophy learned through learning to demonstrate creative grit and follow-through.
- Shipping ideas even if not perfect (developing a learning mindset and permission to fail faster to ultimately find a working solution).
- Photography support and mentorship training - less experienced paired with more experienced
- Conceptual photography - complex ideas represented in one frame
- Mentorship skills - for working with collegues and youth
- Collaboration and community building - meeting others with similar interests but different skillsets.
- How to use your own superpowers to change a community for the better.
MIND BODY SPIRIT
Click Happy is the Photographic exploration of the Framework to help students understand the concepts and the continuum of balance, however the HeArtivist content is much richer and deeper that it appears on the surface. It is based on the idea of energy and wellness. We are working with this energy in the form of creativity. But it is the same energy that infuses our bodies and gives us life. In Indian cultures it is called "prana", in many Asian - "Qui" or "chi", in Latin - "spiritu", in Maori - "Mauri".
Our project sits very easily within the wellness frameworks of Whare Tapa Wha Model and Fonofale. But we try to teach with a pragmatic twist showing kids that their energy is vital and important and so it is key they understand the forces that can impact it. Also how our communities, and our families, and our culture can either enrich or drain our Mauri. The draining parts tend to pull us out of balance and to the outer edges of the framework. So our job is to help us figure out the techniques and tools we can use to teach our youth to identify when their energy is being drained and how to ground and return their energy to themselves. It is all about wellness hygiene and we can all stand to learn how to do it better in today's often too busy and draining world.
Our focus on wellness is keeping this lifegiving energy running through us and our creations. We study embodied creativity in the HeArtivists. What steps can we take to bring more Mauri and more balance in our lives and our art.
Volunteering at the End of the Course
Our vision is to first work with a core group of adults who would then form mentoring whanau that would work with a group of children from the area. We have a small grant to work with youth in Newtown but if there is an extra group we could consider other suburbs as well or possibly different days. The whanau would have a leader and several supporters. This is a pay it forward - pro bono situation with the grant funding going to pay for equipment, room hire, photographic printing, and misc.
For those that are interested in working with youth at the end of the course, the best way to get the ball rolling is to do the following.
Download this Police Clearance form.
This is the info sheet for that form
Email the completed form to thetrust@themojolution.org with a photograph of the front and back of your ID as well.
Not interested in working with the kids but still want to help?
Brilliant we need help in the following areas
- Grant writing
- Volunteer management
- Event coordination
- Fundraising
- Social Media
- Networking with businesses for sponsorship or to run workshops
- Liaison with Schools to bring the HeArtivist program to the school
- Policy development
- Health and Safety Coordination
Consider becoming a foundation 50 member
Want to take the course but don't have spare time or interest in volunteering...no worries you could consider supporting us financially.
We are looking for 50 people who are willing to support us as foundation 50 members. This crew of awesome humans help us to create a sustainable structure to keep Every Body is a Treasure functioning. This boils down to 50 people donating $20.00 a week which will cover the salaries of the lean team that is spreading the HeArtivist Framework around New Zealand.
If you are interested in becoming a Foundation 50 member please let us know and we will help you to join
... or just visit this link https://themojolution.org/foundation50/
References
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