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Art Wellness Advocates was created by a lawyer and an artist in response to an urgent and rising need to improve well-being and mental health within high-stress, high-burnout professional fields, such as law, healthcare and finance.
WELLNESS
ADVOCATES
JD, MFA, M.Psych (expected 2023)
Recognized as an innovator in a field of art wellness, Sasha Phillips is an attorney, artist, author, teacher, philanthropist and an advocate. Sasha offers her clients expert advice, training and custom-designed programs focused on improving overall wellness, and on reducing incidences of burnout and mental health issues within the professional community.
Sasha's highly specialized skills and unique background allow her to find an individual approach to transforming any workplace into a healthier, stronger and more vibrant community.
Recognized as an innovator in a field of art wellness, Sasha Phillips is an attorney, artist, author, teacher, philanthropist and an advocate. Sasha offers her clients expert advice, training and custom-designed programs focused on improving overall wellness, and on reducing incidences of burnout and mental health issues within the professional community.
Sasha's highly specialized skills and unique background allow her to find an individual approach to transforming any workplace into a healthier, stronger and more vibrant community.
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ABOUT
All the perceived benefits of a professional career - high compensation, respect in the community, and elevated social status - come with significant cost: enormous stress and pressure are consistently driving up rates of mental health issues, addiction and burnout.
Most agree that promoting better mental health education and practices is paramount to creating a healthier, stronger and more resilient professional culture, but the questions are:
where to start?
how to design a program that best fits a busy workplace?
how to avoid the usual stigma attached to mental health issues?
where to start?
how to design a program that best fits a busy workplace?
how to avoid the usual stigma attached to mental health issues?
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OUR GOAL IS TO TRANSFORM PROFESSIONAL WORKPLACE FROM AN UNFORGIVING HIGH-STRESS ENVIRONMENT INTO A HEALTHIER, BETTER INTEGRATED AND MORE SUSTAINABLE CULTURE.
Our methods are simple, effective, and are built on solid scientific foundation.
AWA OFFERS THREE CATEGORIES OF SERVICES:
Training and educational workshops:
Understanding the leading causes for mental health decline, anxiety, burnout and addiction among professionals is key to creating and maintaining effective wellness routines.
Similarly, learning what wellness tools to use, how to build a successful wellness practice--and why it is important--and how to measure progress, is essential for building a sustainable successful professional career.
Knowledge management is central to Art Wellness Advocates' practice--whether it is a video presentation on a particular topic, a speaking engagement geared towards a specific audience, a series of workshops, or a comprehensive seminar on building a culture of well-being on an organizational level.
Similarly, learning what wellness tools to use, how to build a successful wellness practice--and why it is important--and how to measure progress, is essential for building a sustainable successful professional career.
Knowledge management is central to Art Wellness Advocates' practice--whether it is a video presentation on a particular topic, a speaking engagement geared towards a specific audience, a series of workshops, or a comprehensive seminar on building a culture of well-being on an organizational level.
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SERVICES
Program Development for improving individual well-being of professionals
Understanding a problem and learning about available tools to correct it is a solid first step.
For the organizations that wish to keep walking towards establishing, improving and maintaining a sustainable wellness culture, AWA offers innovative guidance and expert advice on assessing organizational wellness needs, on creating, improving or implementing policy and practice, and on measuring results and gathering feedback.
In other words, we learn specific needs of a professional team, develop simple stigma-free tools the team can easily adapt, and teach the team how to grow its own wellness culture.
For the organizations that wish to keep walking towards establishing, improving and maintaining a sustainable wellness culture, AWA offers innovative guidance and expert advice on assessing organizational wellness needs, on creating, improving or implementing policy and practice, and on measuring results and gathering feedback.
In other words, we learn specific needs of a professional team, develop simple stigma-free tools the team can easily adapt, and teach the team how to grow its own wellness culture.
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SERVICES
Community Engagement:
Just like an individual cannot easily thrive in an unhealthy environment, a single organization is not likely to succeed in a struggling community.
Art Wellness Advocates builds a bridge between professionals and the community they call home by identifying and engaging resources for collaboration, creating networking opportunities, and growing professional bonds.
Matching professional organizations with charitable causes which allow them to maintain a significant positive footprint within their communities, and to benefit internally, is front and center with the AWA's not-for-profit projects.
Art Wellness Advocates builds a bridge between professionals and the community they call home by identifying and engaging resources for collaboration, creating networking opportunities, and growing professional bonds.
Matching professional organizations with charitable causes which allow them to maintain a significant positive footprint within their communities, and to benefit internally, is front and center with the AWA's not-for-profit projects.
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SERVICES
We will contact you within 24 hours to discuss your needs and the best ways to meet them.
LEARN WHAT ART WELLNESS ADVOCATES CAN DO FOR YOU
Individuality. Expertise. Experience.
Individuality. Expertise. Experience.
Unique experience and expertise across several relevant disciplines
A perfect marriage of art, "big law" practice and psychology.
Individualized approach to our clients' organizational and individual needs
We learn you specific needs and deliver expert, stigma-free, sustainable solutions, while maintaining the highest levels of professionalism and integrity
Integrated systematic process which leads to stronger professional networks
By working together across many disciplines, including large and small law firms, courthouses, hospitals, law schools, professional associations, financial institutions, lawyer assistance programs, artists, musicians, and mental health professionals, AWA doesn't just address individual symptoms, it creates an integrated wellness network, which bolsters individual results.
Reliable and structured interaction
AWA first-hand experience with the high-paced professional environment translates into a service that is delivered on-time and is precisely on-point.
Accessible stigma-free tools
Art Wellness Advocates used art and creative engagement to make people feel and function better. Simple art supplies and methods are easily accessible, and artmaking certainly does not have the same stigma as some other mental health improvement tools. Our clients build networks and improve well-being through art and music, while benefiting their communities, and getting a greater sense of meaning in their lives.
Art for Wellness Program has been a tremendous success in the U.S. offices of Reed Smith, LLP and includes art - based programming for firm employees in an effort to promote mental, emotional and physical benefits of art.
Art for Wellness Program in U.S.-based offices of a AM Law 100 firm
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To commemorate May as the Mental Health Awareness month, Art Wellness Advocates joined forces with the IP Inns of Court, and Allegheny County Bar Association's Arts and Culture Committee, to put together an art-for-wellness exhibit of artwork created by local judges, lawyers, law students and professional staff, as well as a themed presentation by a three-member panel on the dangers of working in a high-stress environment and on benefits of art.
Wellbeing IP for the Soul
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Art Wellness programming for professionals developed from a series of interactive community art wellness events designed, developed and implemented by Art Wellness Advocates over the years. These projects included cultural art classes which started as an effort to ease national tensions and evolved into wellness workshops designed to strengthen the local community through arts and culture.
Make Art. Feel Better.
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