More than 50%* of college students feel lonely, increasing their anxiety while undermining their health, wellbeing, and academic success. But simple, engaging creativity workshops can make a big difference.
Become a Campus UnLonely member today to access easy-to-use program toolkits that include evidence-based workshop curricula, facilitation training, and evaluation support that serves your campus wellness goals.
Campus UnLonely is an arts-based public health program using workshops in coloring, writing, movement, music, storytelling and film to help students connect. Each workshop has three components:
Why? Helps participants practice empathy and build positive personal and professional relationships
Guided by best practices in public health program development, we work to ensure our workshops are effective, scalable, and sustainable. We do this by collecting survey data, keeping workshops simple and affordable, and using an online facilitator platform for wide-scale distribution and uptake.
Tested across 50+ campuses, these one-hour workshops integrate mindfulness and coloring to stimulate rich conversations and authentic engagement.
Through creative self-expression, the program helps nurture peer-to-peer communication, which Campus Life experts increasingly view as essential for students navigating the complexities of the college experience. No visual arts skills needed.
“I liked getting to make art that represented parts of myself. I feel like color and abstract drawings help me to express things I cannot express in words.” - Student Colors & Connection participant
• Three one-hour workshops, which can be delivered as standalone programs or as a series
• Components:
• Mindfulness
• Music listening
• Sound and rhythm play
• Conversations
• No music skills needed
“My favorite part was playing around…and laughing a little!”
Student, Montclair State University, New Jersey
• Three one-hour workshops, which can be delivered as standalone programs or as a series
• Components:
• Mindfulness
• Free-writing
• Conversations
• No creative writing skills needed
“This was therapeutic and much needed.”
Student, West Shore Community College, Michigan
• One-hour workshop
• Components:
• Mindfulness
• Short film screening
•Conversations
No special skills needed
“I learned that it’s ok to feel lonely…there is a community for you out there; you just have to find it.”
Film Screening Participant, University of Vermont
• Three one-hour workshops, which can be delivered as standalone programs or as a series
• Components:
• Mindfulness
• Expressive movement
• Conversations
• No exercise or dance ability needed
“Everything fit together very well. I felt very good at the end.”
Student, Texas Christian University
Learn more about Campus UnLonely membership options, including specific programs that are available, pricing, and benefits to your school.
Register for our information session.
Complete our 1-minute interest form to take the first step towards accessing our Campus UnLonely online portal.
Members have access to a full scripted curriculum and facilitator guide, plus our Project UnLonely Films screening toolkit.
After reviewing your interest form responses, we’ll reach out to you to talk about how to bring Campus UnLonely to your school.
The Foundation for Art & Healing develops innovative programs that ignite the power of creativity, the imagination, and the arts to improve health and well-being in individuals and communities. Our evidence-informed approaches are based upon the science of creativity, and have demonstrated that the arts are transformational in engaging our hearts and our minds, elevating empathy, compassion, and connection to oneself and others.
Creative expression has the power to improve well-being by helping us understand ourselves, shifting perspectives, and reinforcing positive behaviors. Physiologically, making art has dramatic effects on our bodies: reducing blood pressure, bolstering our immune system, improving brain cognition, and fighting inflammation.
Footnotes
2 – see Psychosomatic Medicine and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
3 – see WHO and Arts & Health
4 – see Psychology in the Schools, Child Development, and Archives of pediatrics & adolescent medicine
