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, music and dance 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 (International) conduct interventions in low-and middle-income countries where people experience humanitarian conditions, meaning that their health, safety and well-being are threatened. We intervene in a variety of contexts, for example to help victims of natural disasters, people forcibly displaced as a result of conflict, children facing serious illness or socially marginalized communities.
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, …)
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Our Projects
We work in partnership with local organizations around the world and with a global network of accredited creative arts therapists who hold a university master’s degree and are registered with a professional association to foster continuous learning and development, stay on the cutting edge of professionalism and ensure best practice for the vulnerable people in their care.
Creating & measuring
Impact
Our full evaluation process includes : a comprehensive needs assessment filled in by the partner organisation to tailor the art therapy programs to the specific situation of each mission and adopt it culturally, establish the mission objectives, outputs and outcomes, digital pre and post questionnaires, attendance logs, individual feedbacks from the caregivers and direct beneficiaries, pictures and videos of the patients to give evidence through written testimonies and visual creations of the insight, transformation, relief and renewed wellbeing they experienced, case studies written by the art therapists, interview of the partner organisation at the end of the mission, and a final rport including the above deails. When appropriate and feasible, a one-year-after assessment of the participants’s wellbeing is performed.
