• Helping group members realise they are not alone in experiences such as loneliness, grief, traumatic life events, difficult family relationships, depression, anxiety, the challenges of caring for a family member or negotiating difficult work situations.
• Recognising how these experiences can impact on our day to day lives, the group can support with changing more fixed patterns of behaviour such as self-isolation, withdrawal from social activities, loss of confidence and holding on to possessions/hoarding.
• Allowing for more uncomfortable and confusing feelings to be explored through art making, where verbal expression may feel difficult or unclear.
• Sharing examples of different perspectives and approaches to challenges faced, building new narratives.
• Recovering self-confidence through providing mutual support to other group members.
• Instilling hope, creating feelings of optimism through engaging in the group process.
• Exploring and engaging with your own creativity.
• Providing a space in which group members can support each other through the thoughtful sharing of similar and contrasting life experiences. The art medium allows for a fuller and less direct approach to this.

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