Duncan Ross is an art facilitator and helped the children create their exhibition.
Lots of brightly painted boxes, some resembling nature, joy and playfulness.
His approach was to focus more on the process of making the art than worrying too much about the end result.
“I gave them one colour at a time, and they had to wait until that colour dried before coming back next week and putting another colour on top.
“It teaches patience and that you don’t get the result you want straight away”.
“I’d also try to mix things up like, you have to share the resources, or you have to work in small groups, or you have to work in big groups and they had to then negotiate those kinds of challenges.”
Ross said the mixing of personalities coupled with those different ways of working, meant they could learn how to cooperate and make concessions.
He said these were big lessons for the kids in building resilience.