Wellness Workshops for Youth

8-Session Art Therapy Workshops Empower Your Child or Teen to Cope and Thrive.

  • Coping with bullies

  • Conversation skills to successfully navigate unstructured social situations

  • Coping with anxiety

Picture your child possessing the social and coping skills they need to confidently power through their day, no matter where they are. Our art therapy wellness workshops offer fun and engaging social skills and emotional coping skills lessons - as well as creative art activities that reinforce learned coping skills. Why are our lessons so clear, memorable, and fun? Because these multi-sensory learning experiences feature playful verbal, visual, and active teaching methods that engage teens’ and kids’ hearts and minds, from toe to head, and outside in. Read on to learn about our offerings, view a schedule of the next round of Wellness Workshops, and discover how to enroll.

Workshop Descriptions

  1. The Anti-Bully Bootcamp: Coping with Bullies
    (separate groups for 2nd-5th graders and middle school students)

    Your child will learn to differentiate between a true bully and everyday nice-kid-teasers, a secret peaceful defense plan for bullies, how to use the power of Freedom of Speech to their advantage, and a three strike escape plan so they don’t have to stand there and take it. By the end of 8 weeks, your child could walk into school upright and confident they will be OK! Sweet, kind children may not know how to ward off bullies independently and the impact on their self-esteem is devastating. That’s where we come in! Over two decades, we’ve been teaching individual clients and Camp Pegasus campers a range of peaceful methods to stand on their own feet, take back power, and shut down bullies.

  2. Social Navigators: Succeeding in Conversation & Unstructured Situations
    (separate groups for middle school and high school students)

    “What do I say? What do I do?” This workshop reveals the secret of handling oft-confusing unstructured situations. In fact, these are social opportunities. Participants learn to bridge this gap in structure by developing conversation skills and a flexible plan to shrink these open ended opportunities down to two manageable social options. Simplification, skill-building, and practicing the nuance of conversation gives participants the confidence they can successfully wade into most social situations Unstructured situations are a trap for many of us. There are unclear rules, schedules, and reduced adult supervision, which can cause anxiety or impulsive behavior that annoy others and get them in trouble. In our Art of Friendship and Camp Pegasus programs, we have taught over a thousand adolescents the conversation skills they need to connect with others and thrive.

  3. The Personal Power Project: From Anxiety to Courage
    (separate groups for 2nd-5th graders & middle school students)

    Your child will learn how their mind and body creates anxiety, why their brain sometimes amplifies it to unhelpful levels, and the coping skills to manage or even shut down unnecessary anxiety. We share relaxation strategies to calm the physical sensations of anxiety and panic, as well as child-friendly methods to quiet anxious thinking. Playful, fun coping strategies help your child discover that they can always get used to new things, and how becoming a “handler” can get them unstuck from refusal and avoidance. Your child doesn’t need a diagnosis of an anxiety disorder to participate. Any child can enroll! For the child who is in therapy for anxiety, this is an emotional/coping educational workshop that shouldn’t replace intensive therapy for major anxiety, but it can beautifully enhance your child’s treatment. Our nation’s youth face a national epidemic of anxiety, and we hope this proactive wellness workshop empowers your child to independently cope with anxiety and be their best self - everywhere they go.

Program Details

Program length: Eight 1-hour sessions

Group size: The program is capped at 6 participants with one therapist-facilitator.

Program facilitators: Art Therapists/Licensed Professional Counselors (LPCs) or Licensed Clinical Social Workers (LCSWs) from this private practice

Program time and location: Check the schedule below for available Wellness Workshops near you.

Fees: $695 for each 8-week Wellness Workshop

Cancellation/refund policy:

If you withdraw from the program with at least 14 days (2 weeks) notice, you will receive a full refund. Tuition is non-refundable if you withdraw from the program with 13 days’ notice or less, with one exception. You will receive a full refund if there is a waiting list for your child’s workshop and we can fill your child’s vacated spot prior to the beginning of that 8-week program. In the event that your child is absent from a class, for any reason, makeup classes and partial refunds are not available.

How to Enroll

1.Contact our Client Care team by phone or email and let us know you are interested:

2. Leave a detailed message for us, including:

  • Your name & number

  • Your child’s name

  • Your child’s age and current grade

  • Your child’s identified gender

  • Which Workshop(s) you are interested in

  • The location and time of the Workshop(s)

3) Our Client Care Representative will reply and let you know if we still have space in the Workshop for your child.

If there is space in the Workshop we will immediately connect you with the appropriate facilitator to reserve our child’s spot and walk you through the enrollment/payment process.

If the Workshop is full, we’ll ask you if you would like to be placed on a waiting list or to attend the Workshop at a different location or the next time it is given.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What are the dates?  I didn’t see the start date on the website.
A: The Workshop will start the week of 10/21 and run weekly for the 8 weeks, ending before the holidays. If the workshop you are interested in is on a Thursday or Friday, it will not be held during Thanksgiving week. Your facilitator will provide you with the specific dates.

Q: Are there resources that kids bring home for parents to review/reinforce the lessons?
A: Workshop participants will learn SEL lessons taught in an engaging and multisensory fashion, anchored by visual aids (‘social-coping posters’). We will invite you and the other parents into the session for the final 10 minutes or so to teach you the social/coping lesson so you can understand and reinforce it on the home front. We encourage you to take a picture of the poster so you can continue to discuss the concept and remind your child to use the strategies between sessions.


Q: Is there homework?
A: YES, but it is not written homework or driven by boring worksheets! Every class ends with a 'homework assignment' to work on between Workshop meetings. We ‘assign’ participants to practice each week's new social or coping skill between meetings. Week after week we add additional coping/social skills into an empowering and confidence-building toolbox.

Q: Is there an assessment that takes place before registration, and if so, what does that look like? 
A: We don't require an assessment to participate in the Wellness Workshops they way we do for therapy services. This is because this is a curriculum-based, time-limited SEL class; in contrast to individual therapy and social skills groups which provide individualized clinical treatment requiring deep knowledge of a child's history, development, strengths, needs, etc.