Art & Wellbeing Workshop for Adults & Children in Sydney

An intergenerational creative practice for community connection

Project overview

This art & wellbeing workshop was delivered in Sydney for members of the Ukrainian community, bringing together adults and children in a shared creative experience.

Designed as an intergenerational space, the session supported gentle connection across ages — creating a calm environment where participants could slow down, make together, and experience art as a form of presence and belonging.

Project details

  • Location: Sydney, New South Wales

  • Year: 2023

  • Context: Community-based workshop

  • Format: In-person group workshop

  • Audience: Adults and children (intergenerational)

  • Focus: mindful art practice, family-friendly creativity, community connection

Concept & intention

The workshop was developed to be inclusive across ages, supporting both adult participants and children without rushing or separating the experience into “adult” and “kids” activities.

Using Anna Mykhalchuk’s Samchykivka-inspired approach — a nature-based folk painting practice rooted in rhythm, colour, and symbolic form — participants were guided through a slow, attentive process that allowed for:

  • individual expression at every skill level

  • shared moments of making across generations

  • a calm structure that supported focus and ease

Rather than aiming for perfect results, the workshop centred on creative presence — noticing colour, movement, and detail while making together.

Intergenerational community context

Working across generations changes the energy of a workshop: it becomes not only a creative session, but a shared community moment.

Children bring spontaneity and play; adults bring steadiness and care.
Together, this creates a space where connection happens naturally — through colour, rhythm, and the simple act of making side by side.

For diaspora communities, intergenerational creative practice can also support cultural continuity in a gentle, living way — without formal instruction or pressure.

Reflection

The Sydney workshop demonstrated how mindful art practice can support family-friendly connection while still holding depth and calm.

By painting with nature-inspired forms and working slowly with rhythm and colour, participants experienced a collective moment of presence — strengthening connection across ages and within community.

This project forms part of Anna Mykhalchuk’s broader Art & Wellbeing Workshops practice, showing how the approach adapts naturally to intergenerational settings.

This workshop is part of Anna Mykhalchuk’s broader Art & Wellbeing Workshops practice.

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