ArtReach in Sarajevo, 2000

In 2000, The ArtReach Sarajevo Project sent a volunteer team of art teachers, school counselors, and art therapists from the USA and Europe to implement phase one of a five year program for Bosnian children.

The team spent the first week in Sarajevo training and working with forty-seven local teachers and public health professionals to teach the benefits and techniques of expressive art therapy in a classroom setting.

During the process, the teachers were guided through their own emotions and fears as they learned to help children express their emotions through the arts.

In the second week,  the teachers made use of their new-found skills as children were brought into the classroom. The ArtReach team, together with the local teachers, saw remarkable improvement in the children's psychological state during the course of a single week.

[Production of this video was provided as a gift from Sirius Images, Tucker, GA.]

Full-length program [4 min. 37 sec.]