maureen noble
Salt Lake City,UT
Summary
Experiential Art Teacher/Coach passionately designing and creating, for at risk teens, a rich inner space for excavation, expression, release and transformation. Leading classes, using multiple modalities of art, creativity and imagination, students are able to find meaningful connections and process experiences; which give way to support healing and growth.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Experiential Art Teacher
New Haven RTC
Springville, Utah
04.2015 - Current
- Teaching 75 minute classes three times a week - @ five to twelve girls (between the ages of 14-18) art techniques, creative prompts to support healing and growth
- Creating and designing lesson plans directed to connect with students (where they are at a present moment and where they need to go) for optimum healing
- Offering flexible and creative options, while holding tight boundaries
- Advising and coaching students
- Helping to process art with mindful, attentive and helpful feedback
- Generating family therapy art rec tasks during parent weekend
- Purchasing and maintaining all art supplies
- Providing New Haven and families with detailed student reports
- Work with therapists on devising art based experiences to support students
- Providing staff and therapists art time with students to create and strengthen bonds and also for their own support/growth
- Researching techniques, therapies and experiences to integrate into students' work/therapy
Board Member/Workshop Facilitator
Erika's Lighthouse
Winnetka, IL
03.2008 - 05.2014
- Served as Board Member, raising awareness in families, schools and community regarding adolescent depression
- Served on Walk-a-thon committee for five years generating income through community-based marketing
- Created and facilitated expressive art workshops through the teen board of Erika's Lighthouse
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Mass Communications/Advertising
Virginia Commonwealth University
1984
Skills
- Superior communication skills
- Exceptional problem solver
- Highly creative
- Collaborative
- Natural leader
- Flexibility
- Sensitive/Empathetic
- ADHD/ADD specialist
- Women’s issues
- Art composition
- Self motivated
- Highly intuitive
Accomplishments
- Created and piloted The Courage to Grow program - giving pre-teens knowledge and tools to find their voices through the arts
- Joined Erika's Lighthouse (board member) creating workshops for high school freshman to support and increase coping skills through various modalities of art
- As a mother of a daughter with mental health challenges, developed program, unearthed a myriad of resources, advocated full time and walked the difficult journey of self and familial transformation
- Developed therapeutic approaches to art at New Haven RTC, which began as simple art classes, delving deeper into expressionistic and experimental art forms
Timeline
Experiential Art Teacher
New Haven RTC
04.2015 - Current
Board Member/Workshop Facilitator
Erika's Lighthouse
03.2008 - 05.2014
Bachelor of Arts - Mass Communications/Advertising
Virginia Commonwealth University
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