A Menu of Stimulating Activities to Choose From
Health improvement and life enhancement thru the arts: "She wheeled her chair over to me to say she felt such a strong need to say how much joy the program brought to her and to the other participants; how valuable it was to know that someone like me cared about old people like them". ~ Anthony Hyatt, Musician
We organize activities around clients' accomplishments in life in an emotionally warm and caring way, engaging clients' cognitive brain-processing areas, using brain science to improve their quality of life; and may include:
Art & Performing Arts <> Autobiography <> Assemblage <> Clay <> Collage <> Coloring <> Dance <> Design <> Exercise (movement) <> Food Tasting <> Fiction <> Filmmaking <> Folk Arts <> Graphic Design <> Journalism <> Literature <> Media Arts <> Mixed Media Art <> Movement <> Museums <> Music (creating) <> Music Appreciation <> Musical Theatre <> Opera <> Oral Journalism <> Photography <> Poetry (writing) <> Pottery <> Printmaking <> Scrapbooks (& photo albums) <> Singing <> Storytelling <> Theatre <> Watercolor <> Viewing short films together followed by discussion <> Visual Arts
1. Writing down one's thoughts, expressing preferences (favorites), getting group concensus ... Language- and visual communication imagery
2. Music, meditation, sharing feelings, favorites ... Intra-and-inter-personal, musical-, hearing- and visual communication imagery
3. Mood in one's mind ... drawing the imagination ... Kinesthetic, spacial-, visual- and spiritual communication imagery
4. Self-expression thru sculpture, drawing, painting, coloring ... Spacial-, visual- and kinesthetic communication imagery
5. Self-expression thru movement (and movement therapy), massage, and dance ... Kinesthetic-, visual-, and musical imagery communication
6. Words/poetry imagery and stories ... Linguistic-, intra-and-inter-personal communication imagery
7. Food for thought ... Linguistic-, kinesthetic-, intra/inter-personal communication imagery
8. Theme event ... Intra-and-interpersonal relationships, spatial-, visual-, kinesthetic-, musical-, linguistic-, and visual modes of communication imagery
9. Photography and scrapbooking ... Linguistic-, visual-, intra-and-interpersonal relationships, kinesthetic- and spacial modes of communication imagery, discussion
10. Food tasting ... Tasting-sensory communication imagery
11. Psychic (intuitive) communication imagery ... Extra-sensory (intuitive nonverbal-, direct- or remote psychic reading-, healing- and communication imagery
12. Spiritual communication imagery ... Comforting visits by religious authorities corresponding to client belief system.
Our methodology structures left-brain and right-brain functioning into corresponding cognitive activities. Peak cognitive performance uses both.
LEFT Logical/rational | BRAIN Reminiscence |
Arithmetic | Puzzles |
Reading | Story boards |
Sequential | Food, recipes |
Concrete reality | Orientation, names, nouns |
RIGHT | BRAIN |
Visual | Paints, color, form |
Reactive skills | Body, movement |
Emotional | Photographs |
Creative/artistic | Sculpture, 3-D work |
Playful | Being in the moment |