RESOURCE LIBRARY
Welcome to the ARTMIND Resource Library—a curated collection of art and mindfulness-based materials designed to support the emotional well-being of at-risk youth. Whether you’re looking for calming exercises, creative inspiration, or tools to navigate tough emotions, this space is here to empower your journey.
Explore resources that blend the power of creative expression, mindfulness practices, and trauma-informed care, all tailored to help build resilience, self-awareness, and emotional strength.
#Art Therapy Resources
A collection of 22 creative exercises designed to encourage original thinking and imagination in teenagers. Activities include timed art competitions, altered magazine photos, and collaborative art contests.
Art therapy can also assist anxiety by improving self esteem, resolving problems, expressing feelings, problem solving and goal setting which aids in working towards improved thinking patterns.
Creating art is a helpful process in understanding and modifying automatic thoughts. Creating art can provide a physical and metaphorical understanding of problems that a client may be struggling with in their life.
A step-by-step therapeutic art activity to help build your resilience. The process will connect you to yourself, help you reflect back on your journey with resilience and empower you to rebuild your life.
#Mindfulness Practices
A scholarly article discussing the implementation and outcomes of mindfulness-based programs tailored for at-risk youth, highlighting benefits such as reduced risky behaviors and improved mental health.
This toolkit provides youth workers with the knowledge
they need to design effective mindfulness-based programs
for youth. It includes best practices, activities, exercises,
and evaluation tools.
Guide them to reflect on positive aspects of life, boost well-being, and foster a positive mindset.
For this worksheet, you simply need to write a letter to yourself where you pretty much tell yourself to be
kinder to yourself, to have more reasonable expectations for yourself, and to love yourself more.
#Resilience Tools & Other Practices
A visual tool designed to help individuals express emotions non-verbally through human-like figures, facilitating discussions about feelings and social interactions.
The toolkit is structured around the RESILIENCE acronym (Remain Positive, Establish Realistic and Achievable Goals, Strategies, Identify, Learn from Experience,Introduce, Enjoy, Needs, Connect, Embrace Change) with activities mapped to each letter.
BOUNCE young training resilience, Resilience Training Tool for Youngsters, Manual. This is one of the three manuals of the BOUNCE package, training and awareness-raising tools in
the early prevention of violent radicalisation for youngsters and their social environment.
Watch this video to visualize the science of resilience and understand how protective factors within a child’s developmental environment can help them build essential skills to cope with adversity.
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