Colouring can help people focus in the moment, listen deeply, regulate emotions, or disengage from what’s going on around them. Colouring doesn’t require any skill or experience and it provides a gentle sensory experience through hand movement, visual stimulation, and even smell (fellow Crayon sniffers, I see you.)
As a facilitator, providing people with colouring sheets and coloured pencils or pens signals that all brains and energy levels are welcome. In my experience, providing both the materials and the permission for people to break eye contact, put their head down, and focus in their own way has always been fruitful.
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Yumi Sakugawa is a is a second-generation Japanese-Okinawan-American interdisciplinary artist and a light in my life. In addition to giving a constant flow of on point and on time sketches and affirmations on social media, Yumi provides very cool colouring sheets for free on their website. Take a moment to look around Yumi’s whole site while you’re there. You will thank me for introducing you to the Yumiverse!
