Collaboration with the refugee council on the workshops within the council building.

In additon to the workshops I proposed to carry out , the council asked to to run a series 3 workshops with them at their office in leeds. Before the workshops could start however , they asked me to paint aporx 8ft by 8ft tree on one of the walls in the new floor of office. With the help of a voulenteer of the council we painted the tree on the wall in two afternoon sessions. From there we set up and ran workshops with the clients who came in for dropin sessions and the staff. The aim of the project was to promote community within the building and make it a more friendly and welcoming place. The tree needed to be decorated and on the wall by the time they had there office opening event. The project defiently met the aim as it promoted unity. But also it highlighted for me how vunrable the refugee and asylum seekers are. The turn out was low and after talking to some of the staff , they said that it was one of the biggest challenges they face with getting people in to reseve support. They lack a lot of confidence and so it takes a lot for them to go anyware that is new or unfamilar. Overall however this sereies of wrokshops was fun and good to do, defeinelty helped having that intial work before commensing my own workshop.
 Examples of work and tree below: