Wellbeing Through Art
Personal Mastery for a New Digital Era. An 8-week journey to help participants map out their lives.
Programme Description
In today’s fast-moving world, many people feel overwhelmed by competing demands struggling to balance career, family, health, and personal dreams. Creative Balance was designed to help participants pause, reflect, and re-center.
The course introduces the Wheel of Life, a visual life management tool used to assess and improve key areas of well-being. But rather than stopping at reflection, Creative Balance invites participants to express each area through guided art projects, blending self-awareness with creativity.
Each week focuses on a different life area, accompanied by inspiration from renowned international artists. Participants learn how creativity can unlock healing, focus, and personal growth and leave with both a renewed sense of direction and a set of personal artworks that tell their life story.
Programme Structure
Week 1: Introduction & Personal Growth – Leonardo da Vinci (Italy)
- Learn the Wheel of Life and explore your personal vision through sketching, inspired by da Vinci’s mastery of observation and creativity.
Week 2: Health & Self-Care – Salvador Dalí (Spain)
- Reflect on your physical and emotional wellbeing while creating a surrealist painting that expresses your inner self-care journey.
Week 3: Relationships – El Anatsui (Ghana)
- Explore personal and social connections by designing a textured, mixed-media collage inspired by Anatsui’s work with repurposed materials.
Week 4: Career & Productivity – Piet Mondrian (Netherlands)
- Focus on structure and balance by creating a grid-based composition that reflects your goals, productivity, and professional rhythm.
Week 5: Finances & Abundance – Yayoi Kusama (Japan)
- Visualise abundance using Kusama’s signature dots and repetition to design a vibrant artwork symbolising your relationship with money and growth.
Week 6: Joy & Recreation – Jean-Michel Basquiat (USA/Haiti)
- Tap into joy and creative freedom through bold colours and expressive mark-making, creating a personal piece full of energy and play.
Week 7: Contribution & Community – Diego Rivera (Mexico) & Ibrahim El-Salahi (Sudan)
- Reflect on your role in the community and create mural segments in collaboration with others, inspired by powerful storytelling through visual art.
Week 8: Environment & Showcase – Hokusai (Japan) & Wang Wei (China)
- Depict your ideal environment using natural forms and flowing detail, and present your final artworks in a celebratory group showcase.
Programme Benefits
- Discover self-expression through the lens of world-renowned artists and cultural creativity
- Reflect deeply on all areas of life using the Wheel of Life as a personal growth framework
- Strengthen emotional awareness, connection, and community through collaborative art
- Explore themes of abundance, purpose, and wellbeing through visual storytelling
- Leave with a personal art collection that captures your life journey and growth