Branches of Service
Our Mommies Hands offers service to the community through storytelling, using the powers of reflective art, and creative writing sharing our unique life experiences. We are a direct service provider, extending ourselves to various youth communities (middle and high school age), adults, and professionals who service youth. We also offer training opportunities through professional development, team building, retreats, and conference breakout sessions.
Reflective Art-Using our creativity as a mirror into our past, offering opportunities for celebration, change, and consciousness.
Creative Writing-Using The Hands Project (THP), our four tier writer's workshop asks its participants to identify, reflect on, and become responsible for learning how their pasts impact their present and future. Each workshop branch is full of moving parts that are joined together to create a mosaic of stories, revealing the combination of emotion and experience that creates the human condition.
The culmination of the workshop will depend on the branch of service you choose. Identify a branch of service below, that best meets your particular need, and that best matches your curriculum and community. Contact us directly to customize a package specifically designed for your middle and high school youth, high-risk youth communities, company retreats, survivors of domestic violence, Girl or Boy Scout Troops-12 and up), and all transitional communities.
Reflective Art-Using our creativity as a mirror into our past, offering opportunities for celebration, change, and consciousness.
Creative Writing-Using The Hands Project (THP), our four tier writer's workshop asks its participants to identify, reflect on, and become responsible for learning how their pasts impact their present and future. Each workshop branch is full of moving parts that are joined together to create a mosaic of stories, revealing the combination of emotion and experience that creates the human condition.
The culmination of the workshop will depend on the branch of service you choose. Identify a branch of service below, that best meets your particular need, and that best matches your curriculum and community. Contact us directly to customize a package specifically designed for your middle and high school youth, high-risk youth communities, company retreats, survivors of domestic violence, Girl or Boy Scout Troops-12 and up), and all transitional communities.
Dialogue Box (Oral Storytelling)-Service Branch One
Dialogue Box (DB) offers a platform for rich dialogue, whereby participants are given a multitude of theme based conversation, that promote wellness, reflection, and compassion through the power of storytelling. Participants will recognize and share the themes of their stories, to celebrate the connections and differences in their narratives. We look forward to serving your community!
Artist-Shelley Buonaiuto ("Dialogue" 2003)-New Mexico Capitol Art Collection
Artist-Shelley Buonaiuto ("Dialogue" 2003)-New Mexico Capitol Art Collection
Workshop Through Art (Reflective Art Storytelling)-Service Branch Two
Workshop Through Art (WTA) pairs theme specific art based activities with workshop course content, to offer an alternative means of expression and communication through the language and power of art. Each activity will include the use of carefully selected materials accompanied by guided instruction, which will culminate in an art piece. We customize our art-based activities to support pre-existing, long and short term program curricula, and the current emotional climate of the communities we service. We look forward to serving your community!
Writer's Workshop(Storytelling through Creative Writing)-Service Branch Three
Our writer's workshop supports our participants in remembering the significant people who've shaped their lives by feeling them, writing about them, sharing them, and putting their impact on their lives into written perspective. Reality will reveal itself through reflection and the writing process, for each person according to the individual's own experience, interpretation, and understanding of how these people have impacted their present lives. Participants are supported on this journey through modeling, dialogue, the use of writing prompts, music, and video clips, delivered through a group-based curriculum. The culmination of work will take shape through narrative, memoir, letter, or poem, which will collectively capture the written documentation of the impressions that have been left behind by their significant primary socializers(namely mother and father figures). We look forward to serving your community!
