Creative Therapy
Child-free time for creativity and sharing your experiences in a safe environment…
“Creating artwork allows your mind to be in a safe place while it contemplates the tougher issues you are dealing with.” ― George E. Miller
Shine’s Creative Therapy Course is a 12 week course, which runs for two hours, once a week. It covers a wide range of arts and coping strategies, giving the mums a mindfulness toolbox that enables them to better cope with their anxiety and depression.
We fund a creche, which runs alongside the course, meaning mothers can leave their babies in safe, qualified hands, while turning their attention to themselves for these two precious hours.
Local artists join us to run a variety of workshops, including crafts such as: felting, origami, printmaking, slow-stitching, green sketching, batik work, mandala painting, journalling and collage, crochet, poetry and mosaics.
We know from experience how effective creative therapy can be for people who are struggling, and it provides a vital distraction and calming tool for when mothers are feeling anxious or low. Each session, mums leave with something truly beautiful that they can feel proud to have created. Attending our sessions, mothers boost their confidence, share their worries and experiences with other mothers going through the same thing, and get some much-needed ‘me’ time, along with a hot cup of tea and someone to talk to.
We run courses in Cirencester, Dursley and Swindon, three times a year. Please find details of the course timings and locations below, and get in touch if you would like to know more, register for a course, or refer a mother to our services.
Cirencester: Baptist Church
Chesterton Lane
GL7 1YE
Free Parking
Mondays: 12:30-2:30pm
Cirencester: Baptist Church
Chesterton Lane
GL7 1YE
Free Parking
Fridays: 12:30-2:30pm
Swindon: Old Town
Christchurch Community Centre,
Cricklade St, SN1 3HB
Free limited on-site parking; bus links nearby.
Thursdays: 12:30-2:30pm
Swindon: North Swindon
Abbeymeads Church, 4 Elstree Way,
SN25 4YX
Free parking; bus links close by.
Monday: 12-2pm
Dursley: Kingshill House
Kingshill House Art Centre, Kingshill Lane GL11 4BZ
Free Parking
Tuesdays: 10:30am -12:30pm
Swindon: West Swindon
Toothill Community Centre,Dunwich Dr,
SN5 8DH
Free parking
Friday: 12-2pm
Meet some of our artists
All our artists work in the community, all of them are women, most of them are mothers and some of them have been through the Shine course themselves in the past, ensuring this is a really safe, protective and understanding environment…
“Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.”
Some of our recent work…
