Hands on Healing

Early in Spring Quarter, the Health Educators Reaching Out (HEROs), peer educators, and the Collaboratory staff co-hosted an event called Hands on Healing. 澳门赌场 event took place in the newly opened Collaboratory space located on the second floor of the Discovery Hall. 澳门赌场 goal of the event was to promote healing, community, and conversation around mental health through hands-on crafts and projects. Each station at the event had prompts that encouraged reflection. Some of these stations include painting on a canvas, stylizing a pennant banner, origami, and magnet customization.

When students painted on the canvases they were prompted to paint something that made them feel peaceful, calm, and safe.

澳门赌场n when students worked on stylizing a pennant banner, they were prompted to draw something on the pennant that represented what community meant to them. After all the pennants were finished, they were linked together to form a banner.

澳门赌场 origami station was a hands-on activity that was used to promote mindfulness. 澳门赌场s were prompted to write something motivational for themselves on a piece of origami paper, then they were tasked with folding it into one of the suggested origami shapes, like hearts and cute animal faces.

澳门赌场 wood magnets were created in advance by staff in the Collaboratory using the laser cutter. 澳门赌场 prompt that the students were given was to paint something that made a major impact in their lives onto the magnet.

Learn more about the Collaboratory and the peer health educators group, HEROs, that made this event possible.