Wellbeing art workshops exploring creativity and mortality
Discover an unconventional approach to creative workshops for adults, to help us ponder on our mental health, creativity, and even death.Â
These facilitated art workshops use different themes to explore our assumptions about mental wellbeing and mortality through a mix of writing, drawing, mindfulness, and discussion prompts. By learning creative techniques for self-expression, these workshops ultimately encourage participants to form a greater clarity of their feelings.
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Life Handover workshops
Life Handover is a regular 1-hour online group offering creative inspiration from an artist’s perspective for the practical aspects of end-of-life planning.
Each session focuses on a different topic to explore death admin using creative prompts which may tease out new perspectives, clarify ideas, or galvanise intentions. Life Handover is about recognising the resistance to admin and the deep topic of death, but meeting it with curiosity and play.
Drawing for Mortals workshops
Drawing for Mortals is a thought-provoking series of workshops that delve into our philosophical and emotional relationship with mortality.Â
Guided on a journey of exploration and self-expression using a variety of artistic methods, participants may discover profound insights and an enlightening new outlook on both life and death.
Gratitude workshop
A stand-alone workshop using writing and drawing exercises to reflect on gratitude.
From the little things to the big things in life, this workshop will look at them from a new angle, opening ourselves to a greater appreciation of these moments in our lives.
Peer sessions
Creative Workshops
Peer-led sessions where everyone brings a creative exercise to share.
This is a great opportunity to try new mediums and techniques which can bring a fresh perspective to participant’s usual working practice.
Virtual studio
Online accountability sessions for creative freelancers to help focus the mind and get peer support.
Bring a project or a ‘to do’ list to get cracking on, for when participants need a little extra encouragement for their peers.
Ready to delve into self-exploratory wellbeing art classes?
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I’m Laura Elliott, the multidisciplinary artist and creative facilitator behind Drawesome. I playfully explore the relationship we have with ourselves and what it means to be on this journey we call ‘life’. With a background in illustration, graphic design, comics, and performance, I love combining these elements to create a light-hearted approach to helping people contemplate deep questions and empower them in their own responses and approaches to creativity.
My unique approach injects a playfulness, including gamifying art classes, and balancing humour and compassion, creating artwork and workshops with sensitivity and curiosity.
I also work as an associate artist with Brass Bathtub CIC on the project 100 Ways To Say Goodbye.
Praise for Laura
"Laura is an excellent facilitator creating a safe and friendly environment where difficult thoughts could emerge without judgement."
Drawing for Mortals participant
"Laura has an innate calm and natural way of communicating with touches of humour while holding the space for everyone."
Drawing for Mortals participant
"It was so fun to take part in the 24H challenge […] This focussed time and the support of the group energy was very precious indeed to help birthing new images and comic sequences."
24 Hour Comic Challenge participant
"I've learned a bunch about my [creative] process, have developed some new techniques and a bunch of ideas for what to do next."
24 Hour Comic Challenge participant
"Found the exercises great! Was surprised at how instantly I thought of what to draw, loved this session, will do these exercises again."
Gratitude workshop participant