Emotional Ocean is a structured therapeutic arts programme that helps children and young people make sense of their feelings through a simple and accessible metaphor: emotions are like ocean waves. They rise, grow, peak, and eventually pass.

Across six sessions, children explore this idea through playful art-making, sensory materials, gentle psychoeducation, and reflective activities. The repeated ocean theme creates a familiar and safe structure, helping children and young people notice how emotions build and settle while experimenting with calm ways to “ride the waves".

The programme is informed by art psychotherapy and designed to support emotional expression, confidence, and gentle regulation skills. Participants are encouraged to play, make choices, reflect at their own pace, and discover creative ways to understand their inner experiences.

Emotional Ocean has been delivered in Broadheath Primary School and in a community setting in partnership with Trafford Hongkongers CIC, supported by The National Lottery Community Fund.

Potential partners, schools, and community organisations are warmly invited to email us if they would like to receive an evaluation report or explore future delivery opportunities.

Colours of Vessels is a structured therapeutic arts programme that supports participants to explore self-care, emotional capacity, and containment through the metaphor of flowers and vessels.

The vessel represents what holds us, while the flower reflects what needs care, nourishment, and space to grow. Through this gentle metaphor, participants are invited to reflect on what they carry, what supports them, and what may help them continue caring for themselves and others in a more sustainable way.

Across the sessions, participants use colour, shape, water-based materials, and simple art-making processes to explore themes of care, capacity, boundaries, and replenishment. The structure offers a safe and accessible way to think about emotional wellbeing without requiring participants to share more than feels comfortable.

The programme is informed by art psychotherapy and designed to support emotional reflection, self-understanding, and psychological containment. Participants are encouraged to make choices, notice their own needs, and use creativity as a way to reconnect with themselves.

Colours of Vessels has been piloted as a one-off workshop with SEN teaching assistants and is being developed for carers and young carers through partnership and co-design opportunities.

Potential partners, schools, carers’ organisations, and community groups are warmly invited to email us if they would like to explore future delivery opportunities or learn more about the development of this programme.

River of Change is a structured therapeutic arts programme that supports participants to explore transition, identity, memory, adaptation, and belonging through the metaphor of a river.

The river represents movement, change, and the experience of travelling between places, relationships, and parts of ourselves. Through this metaphor, participants are invited to reflect on where they have come from, what they carry with them, what helps them stay afloat, and how they are finding their own sense of direction and belonging.

Across six sessions, participants use image-making, collage, sensory materials, vessels, maps, words, and shared artwork to explore personal and collective experiences of change. The repeated river theme offers a gentle and accessible structure, allowing participants to engage with complex experiences without needing to explain everything directly in words.

The programme is informed by art psychotherapy and designed to support emotional expression, meaning-making, connection, and psychological containment. Participants are encouraged to make choices, reflect at their own pace, and use creativity as a way to explore the in-between spaces of migration, settlement, and identity.

River of Change is currently being piloted in partnership with Trafford Hongkongers CIC with Hongkongers settling in the UK. The programme became fully booked on the same day it was listed on Eventbrite, showing strong community interest and a clear need for creative spaces exploring transition and belonging.

Potential partners, community organisations, and funders are warmly invited to email us if they would like to learn more about the programme, request future evaluation findings, or explore delivery opportunities with immigrant and culturally diverse communities.