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Rhythm for Recovery
ArtSpirit's innovative nondenominational Rhythm for Recovery programs feature drumming, shared experience and expression within the group. We bring together individuals from the local community into a circle and introduce rhythm, art and prayer to encourage and celebrate the strengthening and healing that can be derived from creative activity as part of a group. This format is successful in many different settings. The First Annual International Day of Peace Vigil at Riverside Church in 2002 was exhilarating and fun and drew participants from varied backgrounds. Feathers they had collected, yarn, beads and fabric were among the materials they worked with on the project.
The Rhythm for Recovery program can be especially helpful in creating an opportunity for healing . Creative expression can awaken the spark of spirit and the group format creates a safe place for this spark to ignite. An inherent spirituality in the group process helps participants reach heartfelt levels of spiritual communication.
An ongoing series of seasonal art and drumming circles and celebrations at the Transitional Living Community (a residential program of the Brooklyn Bureau of Community Services for homeless women with mental illness) focused on themes such as giving and receiving, gratitude and planting seeds of change. An adapted version of this program was used at Lenox Hill Neighborhood House with Alzheimers patients.
Our 2002 Rhythm for Recovery program was supported and enhanced by a generous grant from the Kalliopeia Foundation.
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