The Creative Process: Restoring wellbeing in education for students, staff and communities

This capstone project explores the questions:

● Can the creative process restore well-being in education?

● How can schools establish creative practices to support mental health?

● What therapeutic practises are teachers already using that could be supported?

● Is there a way to establish art in schools academically and for well-being?

The intention of this capstone is to engage a discourse about solutions to the mental health crisis and overall lack of well-being in staff, students and communities. The intention is to show how art education can support the learning and teaching experience wholistically: body/physically, emotion/expression, mind/cognitively, spirit/connectedness.

This capstone focuses on designing a creative process that can be used for art curriculum and lesson creating in education. There are resources offered to further the context of art, teaching, and therapy in education, as well as challenging questions, ethical issues, and obstacles. Visual representations with explanations, discussion on lesson planning, assessment outlines, and scenarios are provided for practical consideration.