The Creative Healing Project (CHP),
a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, was founded by Paul and Matt
Brenner in San Francisco in September of 2003. The father and
son team used their professional backgrounds in education, arts
and hospice care as well as personal experiences with the arts
as tools for healing and transformation to create a unique,
volunteer-based, healing arts program.
Our
Mission
The Creative Healing Project
uses art to transform and connect children, youth and adults
experiencing isolation and loss due to illness, trauma and other
life changing events. Art is used as an empowering process to
develop each person’s potential for healing, wholeness and
communication.
Core Values
The arts have intrinsic
value and creativity provides unlimited opportunities for
joy.
The arts can be made
accessible to every individual regardless of health status,
mental capacity, age, ethnicity, or artistic ability.
The arts can be used as
tools to empower and transform individuals who are
experiencing loss or trauma.
Sharing art and the
art-making process can be used to reduce isolation, increase
communication and improve the quality of an individual’s
life.
Our
Partnerships
The Creative Healing
Project recognizes that there are a finite resources
available and maximizes those resources by working
interdependently with existing providers to offer services
to clients.
The Creative Healing
Project programs are designed to provide a stand alone arts
program or to enhance existing programs within a variety of
agency settings.
The Project makes its
services and Project mentors, training model, and program
materials available to existing providers to ensure that
their clients have access to a top quality healing arts
program.
Our
Methodology
Each participant in the
Project is given an array of art materials for creating
artwork and journaling.
Each participant is
provided with activities specifically designed to encourage
self reflection and communication.
Each participant is
provided with written materials so that the creative process
can be self-facilitated.
Trained volunteers
(Project Mentors) provide encouragement, direction, and
support to program participants.
Staff from each partner
agency are provided with training in the process and
materials used by the Creative Healing Project in order to
ensure client access to the Project.
Our
Mentors
Our Project mentors
are trained volunteers from the community who give of their time
and care to support the project in a variety of roles and
activities.
Our
Mission
The Creative Healing Project
looks forward to the day when all people experiencing illness,
loss or trauma are able to use the arts to realize their
potential to transform their lives.
