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Janice Baker

Janice Baker Expressive Arts

Title: The Heart of My Resilience

Reconnect with your intuitive and authentic self through written and visual expression in this expressive watercolor and doodling process using simple supplies. Nurture your self-compassionate inner voice to support your own resilience. Give yourself the gift of time to enhance self-care and wellbeing. Breathe, imagine, create and reflect.

About The Artist
Janice Baker, MA, CTRS, CAGS is a Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist, expressive arts specialist with a Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study (CAGS) in Expressive and Creative Arts, Salve Regina University, RI. Baker established and manages Arts for Healing at Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital, New Haven, CT (2003), raising over $1 million in philanthropic funds to expand the program. Program includes art therapy, music therapy, artists-in-residence who provide bedside interventions and community projects, engaging 12,000 annually. Baker’s work centers on embodied sensory awareness and multi-modal expression to support the resiliency of children with chronic and acute medical and behavioral health needs, their families and caregivers. In addition, Janice Baker Expressive Arts, llc (2015) offers nature-inspired self-expression, mindfulness and poetic storytelling as a wellness and self-care practice that fosters resilience.