{"id":329033,"date":"2026-03-14T07:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T07:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/329033\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T07:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T07:48:07","slug":"mental-health-the-art-helping-children-build-confidence-and-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/329033\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental health: The art helping children build confidence and hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Duncan Ross is an art facilitator and helped the children create their exhibition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lots of brightly painted boxes, some resembling nature, joy and playfulness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His approach was to focus more on the process of making the art than worrying too much about the end result. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I gave them one colour at a time, and they had to wait until that colour dried before coming back next week and putting another colour on top. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It teaches patience and that you don&#8217;t get the result you want straight away&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;d also try to mix things up like, you have to share the resources, or you have to work in small groups, or you have to work in big groups and they had to then negotiate those kinds of challenges.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ross said the mixing of personalities coupled with those different ways of working, meant they could learn how to cooperate and make concessions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said these were big lessons for the kids in building resilience. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Duncan Ross is an art facilitator and helped the children create their exhibition. Lots of brightly painted boxes,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[134,554,555,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-329033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}