YOUTH CREATIVE ARTS

 

Healing with Energy & Sound

Reiki is a holistic healing approach. It provides children of all ages an opportunity to learn about their true selves, their compassionate soul and their natural healing abilities. Reiki is empowering to all. It connects each person to the life force energy and unconditional love that surrounds us. Reiki children are more confident, peaceful and happier in life. It eases children through the stresses of life‘s situations. They learn to trust their abilities and intuition. Reiki guides them to their highest potential.

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Creative Arts

These children, who have a higher than average exposure to art and the media for creating it, possess some qualities that many other children do not have: in addition to their artistic talent, I have observed that they usually read and write better than their peers. My conclusion is that their exposure to art affects other aspects of their learning. This led me to a discussion with Aiko Cuneo, an artist who works with children in public schools, to hash out the benefits of arts education, both in and out of schools.

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​Imagination & Cooperative Thinking

Young children learn by imagining and doing. Have you ever watched your child pick up a stone and pretend it is a zooming car, or hop a Lego across the table as if it were a person or a bunny? Your child is using an object to represent something else while giving it action and motion. But this pretend play is not as simple as it may seem. The process of pretending builds skills in many essential developmental areas

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Intuitive Development

Intuition is your birthright. As children you freely connect to your intuition so naturally that you don’t even know it is intuition. The teen years are tough. It is a time when outside influences and opinions play a major role. Through these courses teens will learn how to navigate the blocks that come up, how to identify power struggles within themselves and others and come out feeling empowered, confident and aware of what is at the core of the conflict. They get to know one another and form a strong support system that they can fall back on when life feels

overwhelming.

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Empathetic Communication Conscious Play

Pretend, socio-dramatic play has been found by brain research to be the most beneficial play for children, as it develops executive functions and flexibility in thinking and social interactions. Big construction, exploratory and adventurous play help children to develop all their senses more fully. Young children today are being deprived of opportunities of such healthy play in many ways—with increasing screen time replacing play, toys and equipment which do not encourage open ended imaginative play and the under-appreciation of play as the natural method of learning in young children in early childhood education programmes in some countries.