Community Service Project in Support of Art Therapy Programming

Welcome

Twist Out Cancer Service Project is a psychoeducational and interactive series within TOC’s Twistshop program. It offers creative arts-based groups for children, teens, and adults to share, connect, and heal by exploring their experience of “Love” with their community. As a community, Twist Out Cancer understands the power of healing through connection and artmaking. We created this program to help individuals express themselves without using verbal language.

The project is designed to guide participants through expressive arts directives (any form of self-expression counts! Art, dance, music, baking, sewing, crafting, etc!) that allow them to explore their inner creativity and focus on the love that has resulted from the experiences they share within themselves and their community. Through this experience, individuals will learn about Twist Out Cancer’s mission and create artwork to be publicly displayed at their school, faith community, or another approved location. Participants will design a workshop and/or curate the art show to help educate observers on the benefits of creative arts therapy within the populations that TOC services. The artwork created can then be used to fundraise for Twist Out Cancer programs to help individuals touched by a cancer experience.

 

Goals of The Project & How to Get Involved
  1. Develop a project to support creative arts therapy and social and emotional support for individuals impacted by cancer.
  2. Provide a safe and creative space for participants to explore personal relationships and their experiences of love within relationships, self-love, community love, and/or love as an emotional state. 
  3. Use creative arts therapy/ expressive arts directives and prompts to explore deeper emotional connections and enhance expressive communication, both verbal and non-verbal.
  4. Provide a safe space for reflection, learning, and connection for students, adults, and anyone participating in the Twist Hearts Service Project. 
  5. Build camaraderie, connection, and community through non-clinical creative arts therapy.
  6. Create individual or group artworks that can be exhibited at a school or gallery and re-produced into wearable items, prints, and gifts on the Twist Out Cancer Store to help fundraise for TOC programs.  

 

Twist Out Cancer Mitzvah Project

Do you have a loved one who is becoming a bar/bat mitzvah and is interested in volunteering with Twist Out Cancer? We are excited to launch the Twist Out Cancer Mitzvah Project that integrates the Jewish Values of Tikkun Olam ( repairing the world) and Bikkur Cholim ( caring for the sick).

Interested?

How to get involved

If you or a student you know would be interested in participating in the Twist Out Cancer Service Project, please email Twistshop Director, Jacqueline Carmody, at jacqueline@twistoutcancer.org 

  • Schedule an introduction call to connect and walk through the guide and scope of the project. 
  • Complete the onboarding Zoom call with the TOC team and preview the service project curriculum/toolkit. 
  • Participants will have access to TOC resources and a TOC staff member who can help develop and troubleshoot the project.