Art therapy is a powerful tool to create, heal and thrive. Through these weekly art therapy workshops, you will be introduced to sensorimotor practices which will help you express yourself through painting, nature, clay, movement, music, and meditation. Our facilitator, Bree, will create a safe and nourishing space for you to explore how art therapy feels and how it can support your way of life within community, when you embody your own wisdom and connect as a group

Bree explains her approach as, “using process, ritual and healing, guided and initiated within a powerful community environment that focuses on sustainability, and regenerative deep care to both our inner and outer landscapes and environment.”

Following a successful trial of this program in 2024, and a two term program in 2025, Benalla Art Gallery is excited to continue these workshops on a weekly basis in 2026. We are able to deliver this program thanks to the generous support of the Benalla Art Gallery Foundation and funding from the Scobie & Claire Mackinnon Trust.

You are welcome to attend a one-off session or as many sessions as possible to gain the full benefit of this great experience and the amazing skills of our Art Therapy practitioner, Bree Marchbank.

When: Thursdays during school term from 10.30AM—12.30PM Term 2, 23 April—25 June
Where: Pop-Up Benalla Art Gallery, 75 Bridge Street East, Benalla VIC 3672
Ages: 18+

About the facilitator:
Bree Marchbank has extensive training and experience in community healing and art therapies. Bree holds deep care in unconditional space to allow and support participants to move towards healing trauma, allowing each person’s own perfect rhythm and harmony. Bree promotes expressing, sharing and tending to the deep landscapes that we belong to, and which make us up. Bree offers a trauma informed, inclusive practice and is a qualified Initiatic Art Therapist. Her practice is centred in Transformative Justice, accessibility, self-determination and joy.

Image: Creation from a participant of Art Therapy sessions, showing water colour painting, oil pastel drawings, and pen.

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