Chill Skills
We close the Artslink Awesome Arts Festival with something relaxing, and hear from many of our featured artists about their Chill Skills - ways they use to de-stress or find a place of calm. So check out our range of ideas and resources, and build your own Chill Skills
Junior festival goers:
Older festival goers:
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Feeling overwhelmed? Take a look at this film clip which shows a tool to help get stuff done Here
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Check out ‘Stress on the Brain’ - a rap performed by students from New River College, London working with Soapbox Youth Centre. On YouTube Here
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Create some new habits in your life Here
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Check out these free colouring sheets for young adults Here
All festival goers:
Simple sensory activities can be great stress busters. Have a look at ideas Here and Here
Nathan Gearing
Intro to wellbeing
Changing
perspective
Acts of
Creativity 1
Acts of
Creativity 2
Junior festival goers:
Make a poster of your ‘chill skills’. Create a collage or poster with your ‘go to’ people, places and things to do when you need help to stay steady.
Older festival goers:
Create a playlist of music or TV/films or books that help you relax and stay steady. Create a list of your ‘chill skills’, things you can do to relax or get motivated.
Artists' Chill Skills
Walking in the woods, baking, disc golf, building stuff from wood, exercise, meditating, playing guitar - just some of the Chill Skills used by our featured artists. Why not watch their short films and pick up ideas for ways that you can stay calm?
Cabasa
Dimitri
Hamish
Jas
Nathan
Sam
Kerith
Ric
Shanelle
Mason
Ricardo
Spoz
Tess
Therese
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