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“To preserve the spirit of childhood within oneself throughout life … means preserving curiosity to know things, the pleasure of understanding, the desire to communicate.”

— Bruno Munari

Art Workshops in Schools

School Enquiries

What Schools Can Expect

Creative, emotionally attuned art experiences for educational settings:

I offer artist-led workshops in primary and secondary schools that support emotional expression, regulation, and connection through art. These sessions are shaped by over 15 years of working with children in schools and community settings, alongside ongoing training in psychotherapy and trauma-informed practice.

Art is used as a process rather than a task — offering children and young people space to explore feelings, identity, and belonging in ways that feel natural, respectful, and developmentally appropriate.

❋ Experience-Led Practice

The workshops are informed by long-term experience working in schools, with a strong understanding of group dynamics, developmental needs, and the emotional realities of classroom life.

❋ Art as a Supportive Medium

Creative materials and processes are used to support expression and regulation. Children are invited to work with colour, texture, movement, and simple prompts — allowing feelings to be explored without pressure to explain or perform.

❋ Playful, Open Exploration

Imagination and play are welcomed as meaningful ways of learning and self-expression. Sessions allow room for curiosity, experimentation, and moments of ease within a clear and held structure.

❋ Child-led

Workshops are adaptable and responsive to the needs of the group. Participation is invitational, not directive, with careful attention to safety, consent, and individual comfort.

One-to-one / Small groups Support

Creative, emotionally attuned art experiences for educational settings:

I offer artist-led workshops in primary and secondary schools that support emotional expression, regulation, and connection through art.

These sessions are shaped by over 15 years of working with children in schools and community settings, alongside ongoing training in psychotherapy and trauma-informed practice.

Art is used as a process rather than a task — offering children and young people space to explore feelings, identity, and belonging in ways that feel natural, respectful, and developmentally appropriate.

These sessions are designed to support children and young people who may benefit from more focused, emotionally attuned creative work.

This approach may be particularly supportive for students who:

  • Struggle to express feelings verbally

  • Experience overwhelm, anxiety, or emotional intensity

  • Are navigating change, loss, or transition

  • Appear withdrawn or unsure how to engage

  • Respond well to hands-on, sensory, or movement-based exploration

Artistic Residencies

Imagination, play, and shared creative experience

Alongside targeted support, I also design and facilitate wider creative projects that bring live arts into the school environment.

These projects focus on:

  • Enhancing imagination as a resource for learning and wellbeing

  • Creating space for play, curiosity, and creative risk-taking

  • Supporting connection, expression, and shared experience across groups

  • Enriching school culture through collaborative, process-led art-making

Whole-school and class-based projects invite children to engage creatively together — strengthening a sense of belonging, agency, and joy, while embedding creativity as a meaningful part of school life rather than an add-on.

“If I listen I forget, if I see I remember, if I do I understand.”

— Bruno Munari

Experience in Schools & Collaborations:

My entry into psychotherapy grew from many years of teaching and creative facilitation, with a focus on the social and emotional role of art in educational settings. I work extensively in primary and secondary schools, supporting emotional expression and group connection through child-led, art-based sessions.

Schools and organisations include:

  • Scoil Chaitríona Junior, Renmore — Artist in Residence since 2012

  • Scoil Chaitríona Senior, Renmore — Facilitating art for emotional wellbeing since 2016

  • Holy Trinity Primary School, Mervue

  • St. Joseph’s Special School, Galway

  • Claddagh National School

  • Coláiste Naomh Eoin, Inishmaan (Aran Islands)

  • Gort Community School

  • St. Joseph’s Patrician College (The Bish)

  • Kilneeneen National School, Co. Galway

  • Scoil Náisiúnta Naomh Breandán, Annaghdown

  • Merlin Woods Primary School

  • Scoil Iósaif Naofa, Oranmore

Workshop partnerships include:

  • Baboró International Arts Festival for Children

  • ESCI - Galway Education Centre

  • RTÉ and St. Joseph’s Special School (2023) — cyanotype workshop with children with disabilities

  • Creative Schools

  • Creative Clusters

  • TAP+ (Teacher Artist Partnership+)

  • BLAST (Bringing Live Arts to Students and Teachers)

  • Cruinniú na nÓg

  • Samhail Collective — Spéirscéalta: Stories of the Air for Baboró (2022)

  • Provision Summer Camps at Scoil Chaitríona (2023–2024-2025)

  • "It made me feel like we can do anything!"

    a little artist

  • "It made me feel I could be myself."

    another little artist

  • "It was fun to create, and it looks fun too!"

    another young creator

  • "I love how we all used our imagination, because our class is so artistic."

    one more little artist commenting

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