CATTY:
Creative Art Therapy
for Trans Youth
Creative Art Therapy for Trans Youth (CATTY) is a program for trans and gender diverse youth 13-17 which provides the opportunity to explore and growth as individuals as well as build values skillsets to navigate the world around us through the format of creative exploration & expression.
In this 10-week program lead by mental health professional with shared lived experience, we will use a variety of artistic mediums to explore various themes in mental health, identity, belonging and community. Participants will have the opportunity to create something each week, reflect on their creations, share their creations with each other, and reflect on the process and the meaning of each other’s creations.
This program is aligned with gender affirming, creative arts-based, and mindfulness based models, and focuses on personal expression, artistic exploration, and meaning making.
Next Cycle: Tuesdays 6-8pm | February 6 to April 9
Registration is limited to 12 participants
Offered via Zoom
Program Overview:
Session #1: Mindfulness and Seeing Meaning with Photography
Session #2: Experience and Connection with Collage
Session #3: Finding our Inner Poet
Session #4: Affirming Words: Self and Community Care
Session #5: Colouring with Emotion
Session #6: Beautiful Destruction
Session #7: Sculpting the Hero’s Journey
Session #8: The Ties that Bind Us
Session #9 & #10: Identity and the Masks We Live In