Friday, July 10, 2015

Workplace Mental Health - Group Taichi and Art Therapy

Workplace Mental HealthThrough Group Taichi with Art Therapy


UniqArts offers an integrated approach for mind and physical wellbeing.  This approach takes the gentle form of exercise using Taichi movement and creative group art therapy for mind body wellness. This is a program that promote healthy workplace, personal and group therapy. It is for company to take care of their workforce mental health and build a strong and supportive team. Health Promotion Board in Singapore urge and support companies for workplace health.

What is Taichi and Why Taichi

"Taichi" is a gentle form of exercise that focus on meditated movements, breathing and with a set of simple to complex movements. It has proven Taichi exercise helps to ease many pains of aging, prevent many health problems or illness and it is for all ages. Doing Taichi as a group enhances the therapeutic effect and strengthen bonding at the same time. Companies may choose to focus on Taichi for mind and body wellness.

What is Group Art Therapy

By using the group art therapy, your workforce will be enjoying the therapeutic process of art and gain a new insight about themselves, peers and workplace. Team bonding and teamwork are reinforced to build a resilient,  productive, optimistic, strong and competitive workforce. Group Art Therapy is a mental health and wellness for workplace, companies and group. Group Art Therapy aims to provide a safe and creative space for the group to relax and express themselves. It will be facilitated by trained, experienced and qualified art therapist.

Program Objectives

To engage group doing gentle and healthy exercise using Taichi movement. To focus on breathing, relaxation and mindfulness through Taichi excerise. To provide an open platform and safe space for creative expression as a group. To facilitate therapeutic process through group work in a relaxed and fun environment through art and creative activities. To engage members into bonding with resilient as a team. To improve mental wellness by using art as therapy. To provide option for individual to book additional art therapy session. To develop team bonding through creative process and art. To let group members appreciate and get to know each others from new perspectives.To empower team creative thinking and team problem solving.  To allow individuals in search of their creative talents and promote personal growth, development and rejuvenation  from this program.

Creative Process

Our workshop will facilitate group activities through Taichi movements and Group Art Therapy. This program is designed in stages for positive experiences, relaxation and mental wellness. Our qualified and experienced trainer will guide the entire process to allows members to gain awareness of themselves, peers and workplace. They will be able to proceed to next level by understanding each other strength through creative works. Members tasks are to be assigned creatively and productively. Once they are ready, members to start to do creative art together. Team members are gain insights about their own individual creative talents, strength and how their contribution to the team.

We provide debrief at the end of the group art therapy for members to reflect and learn from this event. Members to get feedback from each other and explore how this process could be useful to their work place. To provide exceptional and inspirational experience, we incorporate creativity and art jamming and art therapy into the process. The process can strengthen a team and create new bonding.

Proven Methodologies

We adopted proven methodologies and process for mind body wellness, individual and group bonding, therapeutic and strengthen resilience and creative problem solving skill:
Creativity-Juice:
Creativity-Juice program is introduced throughout the group and team art activities and event to facilitate members creative thinking, creative problem-solving and team spirit. A focus on balancing strategy, flexibility and resourcefulness.
Art Jamming Retreat:
The program is actively use of aesthetic, visual, images, and art-related projects to allow right brain function of members for rejuvenation, relaxation and retreat. Jamming might be through a combination of art, music, movement, mindfulness, meditation or the like depending on the appropriateness.
Creative Art Therapy:
The therapeutic process of using creativity and art is facilitated in order to engage members into rejuvenation, relaxation and recharge from this program. At the end of the program, trainer will do debrief about team bonding and provide insights to help members understand how they can benefit from this program.

By Professional Therapist Trainer


Our group art therapy is by Mr. Paul Lee, who is a qualifed, experienced and trained rtist, art therapist, and consultant. He is the founder of UniqArts and Technologies. Mr. Lee holds a Master in Arts (Art Therapy) with LaSalle College of the Arts and A Bachelor degree with Royal Melbourne Institute of Technologies (RMIT). He is also trained in fine arts from Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA). Mr. Lee has facilitated many creative art projects for therapeutic and developmental. Mr. Lee is the author of the popular Drawing is Easy books series and creator of several innovative program such as Creativity-Juice, ChinesExplorer, Animation is Easy, Creative Art Therapies, OnlineArtclass, and many others.

Mr. Lee led many creative art projects, art therapy, retreat and workshops for schools, hospitals and corporations. They include Chevro, Cherie Hearts Kindergarten, Faber-Castell, Health Promotion Board, National Library Board, Singapore Police Force, Singapore Prison, Singapore Traffic Police, Hwa Chong Junior College, Primary schools, Association for Persons with Special Needs (APSN), KK Women's and Children's Hospital, PCF Foundation, Changi General Hospital, Kwong Wai Shiu Hospital, Feiyue Community, PCF, SBS Transit, NTUC, OAG, Johnson & Johnson, DFS, TOUCH Community, United Square, Unilever, Ministry of Home Affair, Housing Development Board, etc. He has also experiences in running individual and group art therapy treatment for pupils at schools and hospitals.


Contact us at 6344-1670 or email: uniqarts@yahoo.com or uniqarts@gmail.com for your needs now

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