Group Art Therapy Program
SPRING 2025
Many Moons provides a weekend Group Art Therapy Program twice a year. Every 8-week group cycle is inspired by a new creative theme that is woven into each week’s gathering. This model introduces the use of metaphor & symbolism into the therapeutic process. The theme guides our personal projects, invites peer connection and offers a fresh, creative opportunity to returning group members. Each group will explore how our unique identities, life experiences and interpersonal style builds life-long resiliency.
The theme for our SPRING 2025 cycle is GLOW-IN-THE-DARK. Our natural world offers so many exciting examples of luminous light occurring in a dark environment (fireflies, bioluminescent algae, aurora borealis, lightning). We will delve into these remarkable elements to spark inspiration of how we, too, embody a light within us.
We start each week with a welcoming circle to get to know one another and establish peer cohesion, followed by creative exercises with intentionally selected art materials and guided facilitation. Members are invited to consider metaphorical connections and share personal expressions and insights with peers. Projects and discussion prompts will change each week to foster meaningful introspection and peer affirmation. Individual, weekly art pieces will come together into a single, cohesive work of art to bring home on the final session.
We are offering 7 different groups and each group has 8 spots available. Ages, grades, and genders for each group are subject to change as registrations are received. Our ultimate goal is to create positive, cohesive peer groups and therefore, groups may not align with traditional age/grade/gender categories.
Spring 2025 Dates:
Sunday, March 23rd- Sunday, May 18th, 2025 (8 consecutive Sundays, except 4/20/25.)
Program Details:
Facilitated By:
Stephanie Cimmet, LCPC, ATR-BC & rotation of Many Moons clinicians
Location:
4 Cottage Street
Freeport, ME 04032
Cost:
$90.00/ per session, totaling $720.00 total for the 8-week series.
Deposit:
$270.00 due upon registration,
applied to the final 3 groups (5/04, 5/11 & 5/18)
For more information or to register for the program, contact Stephanie at (207) 504-2664, scimmet@manymoonstherapy.org
At this time, we do not have an online registration option or online payment option. Contacting our office via email, phone or text is the best way to connect with our services.
NIGHT LIGHT: Building self-understanding and self-regulation through creative art-making and sensory-based collaboration.
Grades K- 1st, 9:00am- 9:45am
Grades 2nd-4th, 10:00am- 10:45am
Grades 3rd-5th, 11:00am- 11:45am
Young children are learning to navigate and adjust to the ever-widening world around them; physically, emotionally and socially. They are developing internal capacities, while seeking and leaning on their external resources. This group will invite curiosity into our ever-changing selves through the seemingly magical animals in nature (the angler fish! the glow worm! the scorpion’s exoskeleton!). Through creating imagery with fluorescent materials, we endeavor to inspire experimentation and self-reflection into how our feelings, ideas and memories impact who we are and how we shine.
Group goals include building self-awareness, celebrating positive social behavior, providing a sense of belonging, and inviting safe opportunities to share struggles and challenges.
NEON HEARTS: Enhancing insight into how we soothe, protect and empower ourselves while navigating complex decision making, social boundaries and deep emotional states.
Grades 5th-7th, 12:00pm- 12:45pm
Grades 6th-8th, 1:30pm- 2:15pm
Early adolescence is a time of profound transformation. As young people develop their sense of identity and more sophisticated perspective-taking skills, they must also navigate an increasingly complex social world. This developmental stage can provoke feelings of isolation while living in an evolving physical body. Incorporating photoluminescence into each art project, we will consider how and when we find light in the darkness. As the group builds trust and safety, we will experience how we glow even brighter when embraced by an affirming community.
This group endeavors to uplift and empower one another while coping with this developmental transition. Peer group art-making offers an opportunity to learn and benefit from both observing someone expressing themselves, and receiving acceptance and reassurance when sharing one’s own story.
BEYOND VIOLET: Examining our multidimensional identities and the elements that influence how we recognize and represent ourselves, through the use of symbolic imagery and poetry.
Grades 9th-11th, 2:30pm- 3:15pm
Grades 12th- early adulthood, 3:30pm- 4:30pm *60-minute length
Older adolescents and young adults are embarking on one of life’s most daunting transitions. Group members will be invited to examine themselves through symbolic story-telling. Using mixed media as the creative foundation, group members will creatively visualize the experiences that have provoked and shaped their identity development. Weaving elements of poetry, autobiography and photoluminescent art materials, members will connect with their unique and ever-illuminated selves. As the group builds trust and safety, we will experience how we glow even brighter when embraced by an affirming community.
This group will provide a safe, non-judgmental space for teens to practice authentic self-expression through personal and collective art-making. The intention of this group is to celebrate the transformative nature of "witnessing"—both observing peers expressing themselves through art and being witnessed while sharing one’s own story.
Deposit Policy & Payment Schedule
The cost of the group is $90 per session, totaling $720.00 for the 8-week program (unless otherwise pre-arranged). The group cost is a "bundle-fee", which means families commit to pay for all 8 weeks, even if their child misses a session. A non-refundable deposit of $270.00 is required upon registration to reserve a spot. Once group programming begins, the deposit is applied to the final three groups (11/24, 12/08 & 12/15).
$90.00 will be charged to your card-on-file each Wednesday following the first 5 group sessions. Claims for group sessions will be submitted to your insurance plan as arranged.
We understand that covid is still a significant concern and highly contagious. After offering various accommodations for the last 4 years, we are not longer able to waive/refund due to missing group due to covid-specific illness. We trust that parents/caregivers will keep their child home when sick.