Article: A Ten-Step Art-Based Program to Mitigate Exhaustion among Students and Teachers — What Would Our Ancestors Say?
The 10-step program consists of five meetings, as two steps are combined in each session. It is a flexible program that can be embedded into the curriculum in many ways.
There is robust evidence that the arts can be used to support mental health and well-being. However, there has been little exploration of the history of these types of activities. This article discusses the variation of a 10-step art-based program for exhausted students and patients, adjusted to fit the needs of students and teachers in higher academic programs today in part of the ARTHEWE project. The article also constructs a bridge between past and present, by conducting a historical literature review. By doing this, the writers of the article, Eva Bojner Horwitz and David Thyrén bring to light knowledge that our ancestors held about the signs and signals that we today could interpret as indicators of stress.
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