{"id":1364,"date":"2010-03-25T01:20:36","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T01:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2010-03-25T01:20:58","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T01:20:58","slug":"expressing-feelings-through-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/?p=1364","title":{"rendered":"Expressing feelings through art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1365\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"Painting with love\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/img_0967-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Painting with love\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/img_0967-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/img_0967-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/img_0967.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>On Monday the volunteers went back to Letaba school, taking with them paints, crayons, party packs, with an assortment of plastic musical instruments and some bottles of bubbles.There were approximateley 15 children who appeared pleased\u00a0 to see us again and quickly joined in the activities.\u00a0 Their enthusiasm apparent as we had no more paper to draw and paint on! Swtching however to the younger children showing them how to blow bubbles and play with the musical toys was fun and sad atthe same time, knowing that we would not be coming back this trip to do these creative activties with them. This seems such a small step at present , but brings such joy that is all worth while.<\/p>\n<p>The objective of the work with the children is to enable them to express themselves using art as the medium, giving freedom of expression without limitations.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1366 alignnone\" title=\"painting and expressing feelings\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/img_0953-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"painting and expressing feelings\" width=\"358\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/img_0953-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/img_0953-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/img_0953.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 358px) 100vw, 358px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Although we are not therapists, we\u00a0 base our work on a recognised therapy, Art therapy.<\/p>\n<p>For many years, art therapy has been recognised as a way of helping people cope with mental illness.\u00a0 Many health professionals think it may:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Encourage you to express your emotions, which could help improve your relationship with others<\/li>\n<li>Encourage you to be creative and self confident<\/li>\n<li>Help control anxiety, depression and low self esteem<\/li>\n<li>Help take your mind off pain or discomfort<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Our aim with the children as we have mentioned above is to help them express themselves freely<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1367\" title=\"Everyones art together\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/img_10022-1024x311.jpg\" alt=\"Everyones art together\" width=\"704\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/img_10022-1024x311.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/img_10022-300x91.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/img_10022.jpg 1392w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 704px) 100vw, 704px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We work with children expressing themselves freely through art and learning about feelings and expressions, allowing communication to grow between themselves, the teachers, and our volunteers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1364"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1371,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions\/1371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}