A free professional development session from Dreamachine, focusing on example classroom activities to promote wellbeing.

In this webinar, artist and creative practitioner, and Dreamachine school resources writer, Shermaine Slocombe will demonstrate some of her activities from the Health & Wellbeing set of Dreamachine lesson plans in conversation with 2018 Global Teacher Prize winner and Artists in Residence founder Andria Zafirakou.

What do you see when you close your eyes? What does the sound of your beating heart look like, or the joy of a hug? In this session, you will create a constructed landscape of feelings and emotions. This activity is designed to enable your students to look and listen, and share their thoughts, ideas and feelings through mark-making as a visual language. Their marks will symbolically carry the essence of meaning and make their thinking visible. It can be used to introduce abstraction, expression and kaleidoscopic patterns.

This event is a live-streamed webinar and attendees won’t have cameras on, so you can tune in and relax with a cuppa wherever you are. You will be able to interact using the chat or ask a question using the Q&A function.

This session will be live-streamed on Zoom. Closed captions will be available.

More about this series of events

The Dreamachine School CPD Series is a collection of live webinars and resources supporting teacher wellness through connection and creativity.

Further events in this live webinar series include:

• Dreamachine: School Leadership and Teacher Wellness Tues 10th May 4.30pm – 5.15pm
• Dreamachine: Teacher Wellness Panel Discussion on Tuesday 24th May 4.30pm – 5.15pm

About Dreamachine

Developed by A New Direction, Dreamachine Schools is a major programme in partnership with the British Science Association and UNICEF UK, commissioned as part of UNBOXED: Creativity in the UK - a once-in-a-lifetime celebration of creativity taking place across England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and online from March to October 2022. The learning programme fuses science with arts for pupils and teachers to explore the power of the human mind and brain and the big questions of perception and consciousness - our sense of self, how we see the world and how we connect with others.

Visit schools.dreamachine.world for 30 accredited and quality assured free resources across Global Citizenship, The World Around Us, Health and Wellbeing, Personal Development, The Power of the Brain, and Perception and Illusion.

About Shermaine Slocombe

Shermaine is an interdisciplinary artist and educator who is passionate about the transformative power of the arts and the importance of creativity in education. She has worked in the education sector for over 20 years, devising, producing, and delivering authentic artistic experiences and immersive projects for both Primary and Secondary. For many years she has been choreographing and visualising the breath and creating kaleidoscopic landscapes with the potential to inspire physical movement. @shemyslocs

About A New Direction

A New Direction is an award-winning non-profit organisation working to enhance the capacity and agency of children and young people in London to own their creativity, shape culture, and achieve their creative potential. Find out more: www.anewdirection.org.uk