Defining CREATIVE ARTS THERAPY
The Red Pencil is an international organization with expertise in creative arts therapy.
Creative arts therapy uses the creative and expressive process of art-making to improve and enhance the psychological and social well-being of individuals of all ages, cultures, and health conditions.
“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for.”
Georgia O’Keeffe
Our Priorities
The Red Pencil (Europe) offers creative arts therapy programmes in Europe focusing on four key areas.
Cancer patients and adolescents in psychiatric care
Programs designed for individuals facing serious illnesses with the goal of providing complementary mental health support throughout and after their medical treatment.
Asylum seekers escaping conflict zones
Programs tailored for individuals facing the risk of social exclusion, with the aim of promoting self-empowerment and resilience.
Vulnerable children and young individuals
Programs directed towards children and young individuals, both within school environments and beyond, with the objective of fostering their overall development and providing support.
Employee wellbeing
Social responsibility partnerships for corporates and organisations, aimed at increasing employees’ well-being and commitment.
Are you active in one of these areas and would you like to work with us?
Our Activities
We offer the following interventions, tailored to the needs of the target audience.
Group art therapy interventions
Arts-based capacity building and training for staff (caregivers, teachers, …)
Discovery workshops
Arts-based workplace well-being programmes
Interested in knowing more about one of the interventions?
Our Projects
Firmly rooted in Belgium, we also have projects in several other European countries – France, Spain, Luxembourg, Romania, Cyprus, Italy and soon in Greece – where we partner with local organizations and creative arts therapists.
Creating & measuring
Impact
We follow the logic model to prepare, implement and evaluate our programmes and generate impact. For each project, we clearly identify the inputs required, the activities we undertake, their outputs, the immediate outcomes that result from the programme and the impact. We measure the changes by collecting quantitative and qualitative data.
Our monitoring, evaluation and learning process provides valuable information for designing effective art therapy programmes and continually improving our work.
We work with art therapy researchers to better understand the process of change in our interventions and measure their effectiveness.
