A makerspace set up for a children's psychotherapy group teaching emotional regulation, anxiety and safe spaces.
Child's hands creating an art project on paper with colorful crayon or paint strokes, small wooden logs, aluminum foil, a small cup with green pom-poms, a white candle, and a crumpled tissue.
A creative art-therapy project designed by a child in a psycho educational group about building safe spaces and emotional regulation
A person using tweezers to carefully remove small debris from a textured, brown surface.
An example of the items offered and created during a children's psycho educational group session on creating safe spaces
A miniature created during a child's emotional regulation and building safe spaces psycho educational group.

Past Creative Groups

Looking back onMindful Minis
Sep
26

Looking back onMindful Minis

Children's psycho educational group about mindfulness using art-based, play-based, and narrative-based therapy to create miniature safe spaces and help children advocate for their needs.

Creating Calm Through Miniatures

A Mindful Start to the School Year

During the first PA Day of the school year, our group began the day with a calming, creative experience — building miniatures. This hands-on art form, practiced by people of all ages, offers a beautiful way to slow down, focus, and express mindfulness through art.

We started the morning with gentle grounding and mindfulness exercises, followed by a group reflection on sacred and comforting spaces. Participants shared memories of places and objects that bring them peace, then used these inspirations to craft their very own miniature “safe spaces” to take home.

Each child poured care and imagination into their creations — from cozy reading nooks to treasured family spaces. One participant even recreated a favorite corner of their grandmother’s barn! These miniatures now serve as visual reminders of calm and comfort, offering a personal tool to help children find their center whenever they need it.

The result? A morning filled with creativity, connection, and heartfelt stories. Children proudly shared their miniatures with one another — and couldn’t wait to show them off to their families at pick-up!

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Looking back on Name it to Tame it
Sep
13
children's mental health, children's psycho education, mental health, emotional regulation, self-regulation, co-regulation, art therapy, narrative therapy, socialization, socializing

Looking back on Name it to Tame it

In the emotional regulation world, the idea is, if you can name the emotion, you can begin to tame it, or get control over it. Recognizing your emotions and being able to name them are the most important steps (especially for children). In this psycho educational creative group, children came together to use the emotion wheel to understand how many different ways we can feel emotions and how they can present themselves in our bodies. Next, children related experiences to one another about times where they feld different emotions and finally. created a home for a new pet that was filled with items to bring the pet comfort. Each home and item range was unique based on the child creating. The children talked amongst themselves about why their new pet needed each item weaving a beautiful narrative filled with emotion as they worked.

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