For You
You don't need to be an artist!
We have art programs for any adult who wants to try or who enjoys engaging in art-making, art-looking, and art-listening activities no matter their experience nor training in the Arts. We frequently support people who are going through major life changes, retirees, senior adults, those who want to exercise their brain, and individuals who want to explore and write their legacy story.
Everyone is a creator
The clinical and creative professionals of Resilia designed and tested hundreds of experiences in the creative therapies for you that include techniques like writing, music, sculpture, masterpiece exploration, painting, legacy telling, and so much more! But don’t worry! You do not need to be an artist to participate. Even though the physical world has limits, the imagination does not. Consider this excerpt from Rick Rubin’s new book: The Creative Act,
“Everyone Is a Creator. Those who do not engage in the traditional arts might be wary of calling themselves artists. They might perceive creativity as something extraordinary or beyond their capabilities. A calling for the special few who are born with these gifts. Fortunately, this is not the case. Creativity is not a rare ability. It is not difficult to access. Creativity is a fundamental aspect of being human. It’s our birthright. And it’s for all of us (The Creative Act, pg. 1).”
Legacy Chronicles
Explore and record the ordinary and extraordinary of your life while exercising your brain. Define your legacy through fifty chronicles of memory-sparking activities, exploratory questions, guided responses, and your self-portrait. Create a tangible piece of beauty transformed from the humility and greatness of your life story. Start with the kit that includes the DIY display album, and upgrade with a 20-minute autobiography video so you can share it with others so they can treasure you forever.
Masterpiece Art Cards
Exercise your brain by exploring masterpiece paintings and sculptures from museums around the world. Do it on your own or with a friend or family member. Determine if it’s art or not art. Learn interesting facts and art mysteries. Be guided through creative questions of reflection and reasoning that activate the five brain abilities: Attention, Memory, Executive Functioning (planning, sequencing, problem-solving), Language, and Visual Perception.
Legacy Chronicle Album
The Legacy Chronicles Album helps capture personal stories and turn them into a tangible, personalized album to share for generations. The kit comes with all the tools, instructions, and helpful prompts needed to create and document a person’s life and legacy. The Legacy Chronicle Album is a product designed to assist you in exploring the ordinary and extraordinary of life. Everyone Has a Legacy. Create something beautiful from the humility and greatness of a person’s life story.
Products And Services For You
Have Questions? We’re Here To Answer
What kind of therapy does Resilia do?
Resilia provides products, activities, consults and trainings of therapeutic arts and creative expression interventions that improve the health and well-being of people living with life-limiting illnesses. Licensed art therapists and social gerontologists are the clinicians that designed and tested all the products of Resilia. It is not required for users to be artists or clinicians.
What is Creative Therapies?
Creative Therapies is a health discipline that incorporates various mediums of visual, performing, and literary art to intervene, elevate, and/or support the healing of a person's physical, psychological, emotional, and cognitive impairments. Creative Therapies is frequently a compliment to talk therapy and originates in the psychotherapy health realms. Creative Therapies has evolved and divided to define specific objectives, techniques and results in specific mediums such as Creative Expression Therapy, Visual Art Therapy, Dance Therapy, and Music Therapy.
How can art improve the quality of life of someone living with cancer?
Therapeutic arts interventions offer people living with a life-limiting cancer a relaxing escape against the backdrop of treatment anxiety and fear for the future. A person does not have to be an artist, or even like art to benefit. The only requirement is an open mind. Resilia focuses on artmaking and legacy telling interventions for people living with cancer.
What products and services does Resilia have for independent adults to use and how does it help them?
Resilia designs, sells, and facilitates products that improve health and well-being of people like you who are living with life-limiting illnesses like Alzheimer's Disease, dementia, an organ disease, or cancer. The products for you mean that you can follow the directions and complete the creative tasks independently, without the assistance of a family member, caregiver, or other assisting person. Our products and services will help you explore concepts, express emotions, alleviate pain, communicate your ideas and stories, and decrease depression and anxiety.
