A creative exploration, using a mix of artistic materials to express emotions freely- perfect for everyone craving a slower Sunday.

IMPORTANT: Registration is necessary and done through this link here.

Creative Sundays for Wellbeing series begins with ”The Art of Slowing Down”- a gentle, feel-good session starting with fun theater games to break the ice and help you land into your body and the moment. No theater experience needed (no pressure, no performance).
From there, we ease into creative exploration, using a mix of artistic materials to express emotions freely and intuitively.

Move, play, create, breath
No experience needed
Just show up as you are

What to expect:
Expression of creativity and experimentation freely in a safe and supportive environment
Relaxing and restorative moments and have some fun
Reflect in a creative way on wellbeing
Make new friends and build social connections
This workshop is part of Creative Sunday for Wellbeing- a mini series of creative workshops designed to gently reconnect with play, expression, and curiosity.
Through simple exercises, creative prompts inspired by theater games, and the use of a wide range of artistic materials, participants are invited to explore creativity in an open and supportive space. This is not art therapy and not an art class- there is no pressure to perform, produce, or ”be good” at anything. Instead, the focus is on experimentation, imagination, and personal exploration.
While the sessions are not therapeutic, they might offer moments of reflection, renewed energy, and a fresh perspective on wellbeing through creative practices.

The topics of the workshops are the following:
25.1.2026 The Art of Slowing Down
1.2.2026 Finding your Flow
8.2.2026 Nature as Nurture
15.2.2026 Words for Wellbeing
22.2.2026 Colors, Emotions and Creative Visioning

WHERE:
Valo tila, Lapinlahden Lähde
Lapinlahdenpolku 8
00180 Helsinki
(How to find us: When entering through the café to the gallery hallway, turn left and head up the stairs. Valo tila is through the first door on the right hand side.)

Meet Giulia Lepori
Giulia Lepori is an Italian sociologist whose work lives in the intersection of mental health, art, and creative exploration. During her university years in Turin, she co-founded an artistic laboratory that became a living space for experimentation, dialogue, and collective creation. Over seven years, she worked across multiple artistic languages, curating workshops, exhibitions, courses, and public events. Her path led her to one-year art therapy training grounded in psychodynamic approach, deepening her interest in creativity as a tool for care, expression, and transformation. Giulia has facilitated creative workshops with adults, adolescents, children, and people with disabilities, shaping spaces where art becomes a shared process rather than a finished product. In 2024, she brought her practice to Helsinki, organizing her first creative workshop in collaboration with MIELI Without Borders during Mental Health Art Week.

Organizers

MIELI Without Borders is grassroots, migrant-led organization that is dedicated to destigmatizing and spreading awareness about migrant-mental health through community action.
Check us out –> mieliwithoutborders.fi

MIITTI organizes groups, workshops, courses, and events to support mental health and well-being. Our community loves music, dance, food, conversations, languages, stories, art, movement, culture, and different opinions. We work for equality, diversity, and human commonness, and believe that connection is a key for overcoming prejudice.
Check out MIITTI –> https://lapinlahdenlahde.fi/en/projekti/miitti/, https://www.meetup.com/miitti1/