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Some of the outcomes of the activities we did in this facilitation session.

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I completed this gratitude tree in a facilitation session lead by my fellow classmates. I found their session to be very reflective. It allowed us to have a safe space, to reflect on what we are grateful for in life.

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This year, I think that I have gained a lot of worthwhile knowledge from this module. I found that Thursday mornings were becoming my favourite because of this module. In my opinion, the knowledge that I have gained from this module will be very valuable to me while in practice. Before this module, I hadn’t a clue what the creative arts in social meant or to be honest even that it occurred in social care. I don’t think that I would be able to practice without creative arts in the future. The creative arts in social care has some a huge impact on the life’s of service users. It enhances their quality of life, can build strong therapeutic relationships with staff, it focuses on gross and fine motor skills which is essential for children and their cognitive development etc. I have gained a lot of knowledge around creative arts interventions too that I hope to bring to my practice while completing my 3rd year placement as part of my portfolio. Overall, I think that this module was a very beneficial and worthwhile one.

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Overall I found that our group facilitation activities to be very beneficial. We looked at our facilitation as a way to practice building therapeutic relationships through the creative arts. We hoped to create a safe space where everyone could relax and talk about anything that was troubling them. I would do these activities again in my practice. I think it would be very beneficial for improving a service users mental health thus enhancing their quality of life.

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Another example of what someone wrote for this activity 

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This is an example of the expected outcome from doing this act. Each person in the group wrote their past, present and future reasonings behind doing this course as shown in the picture. 

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In my opinion each person found this activity to be quite eye opening. It was a great stress reliever as you can see that most people were feeling quite run down and unmotivated about why they are doing this course. I think this activity was quite inspiring and motivational. It reminded us why we are doing this course and what we can achieve in the future

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Our next activity was a past, present, future activity. The aim of this activity was for everyone to write words or draw pictures on how they felt in the about doing social care and why they wanted to do this course in the past, how they were feeling about the course at present and finally how they want their future to looked based on having done this course. 

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This activity allowed everyone to create a piece of work that they found therapeutic to complete. It allowed for a safe space. A place were everyone could talk openly with how they are feeling. 

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The idea behind this activity was to create a therapeutic and meditative space for the students to talk while painting. It was a very relaxing activity 

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Once they have chosen they 8 favourite colours from their favourite to least favourite. it was time to colour. Each number now represents a colour. They had the choice of using markers, paint, water colour paints, pastels etc

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For this activity, we told each student to pick 8 of their favourite colours and put them down on the number line. 

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This activity is called ‘create by numbers”. 

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Setting up for group facilitation on 24th March. 

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My completed “My Life” Collage. In the last part of my collage I included my favourite colour, my favourite place, my best friend and some facts about me. In regard to this process, I found it to be very relaxing and eye opening. I find it hard to express myself sometimes due to anxiety. This process was a very worthwhile one in my opinion. I think if people saw this, they would find it easier to understand me and get to know me. 

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My collage progress: I continued my college by adding my family members and their years of birth. My family are a huge part of my life. Growing up and being raised by and with my family has had a huge impact on my personality, my core values and morals. I also added my hobbies, these include watching movies, crocheting, listening to music and cooking. Including my hobbies into my collage was very important to me, my hobbies are my safe spaces, they allow me to reflect and relax. Hobbies are very important to me, especially in the area of work that I am studying. 

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My collage progress: I started off this college with a picture of myself and used old birthday cards as a way of expressing how I define myself and how others in my family see me. I am a daughter. I am a sister. These labels are a big part of my life 

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The second item I made using clay in today’s class. 

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In Today’s class, we had to create something of our choice using clay. I choose to make a flower shaped ring holder. I found this activity to be very therapeutic. It also focused on fine and gross motor skills, which will be good in the future when facilitating creative arts in social care 

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How I view myself using a mask. Through colours, markings, drawings, I created a mask around how I view myself as a person. I thought this activity was very eye opening 

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This activity allowed for self reflection. This links well with our CORU proficiencies.

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Using my experience of working with service users while on placement we had to draw a service users life through a mask. This is A service user that I worked with drawn through ‘a mask’. It shows their emotions and feelings though the colours and markings 

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Very reflective. This activity allowed me to reflect back on this service users life from every angle. In the future I would use this activity with clients and it may help me pinpoint where they are struggling or striving in their life to help and enhance their quality of life

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Myself and Nicole taking turns creating an image 

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This activity was a great relationship building exercise

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A drawing Nicole drew of me without looking. Very fun and a good ice breaker activity 

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A picture I painted using cling film and paint

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My response to 4 different genres of music 