For Love of Wonder
FLOW emerged organically from our shared journeys and transformations. After years of hiding parts of ourselves, adapting to external expectations, and searching endlessly for meaning, we discovered that true healing came from being authentically seen and witnessed. Creativity and play, once perceived as distractions, became essential practices that facilitated deep, embodied transformation in our lives.
Reflections about
ELA holiday programme
We have focused on the sensory and emotional experience of the different arts. We expanded and refined our senses to connect with our intuition, understand our favourite forms of expression, and appreciate our differences.
We have learned to make space for one another, respect each other’s needs, be kind, listen, take turns, and set healthy boundaries. It can be challenging not to be the center of attention sometimes, but it is a true blessing to collaborate, play, and feel included with others. Throughout the week, we have encouraged positive actions toward one another — fostering understanding, tolerance, respect, and kindness.
Some children were challenged to take up more space by leading or performing on stage, while others were challenged to follow, share, or collaborate. The spectrum of personalities among them is wonderfully rich, and learning values through art has been the underlying process. That is why we do a sharing rather than a show — our focus has been on the process and the experience itself.
We have explored so many things:
listening to soundscapes, discovering unconventional objects as instruments, conducting a group, being heard and seen, exploring art history and the emotions within a color palette, collaborating on group paintings and sharing the same space, creating our own expressions through collage and sculpture, nurturing our imagination and allowing ourselves to express what we truly feel in the moment, exploring nature and learning to respect and appreciate it, getting our hands “in the dough,” understanding proportions, practising patience while cooking and sharing ingredients — and realising that we can create something delicious entirely from scratch! How satisfying that was for the children :) We also dared to stand in front of the group and share our vulnerabilities through clowning, connecting deeply with one another.
I truly believe it has been an enriching experience for everyone — for both the children and the adults. It has been especially touching for me to see how art serves as such a powerful medium for connection.
