Art. Creativity. Origami. Mindfulness. Art Therapy

Art therapy is a psychotherapy service that uses art to increase our psychological well-being, stimulate brain functioning, improve physical wellness and aid in illness recovery. It is scientifically proven with evidence as psychological medicine and must be facilitated by master-level trained art therapist.

How art therapy works

Art therapy engages our mind and body through multiple sensory therapeutic process. Art therapy allows holistic expression for a self discovery, awareness and health improvement. Art therapy improves our immune system. When we heal the mind, we heal the body. 

For who and purpose

• We provide customized art therapy for different people with different needs
• For children or Teenagers: behavioral issues, sudden drop of academic performance, cognitive development issues, emotional issues, depression, anger, anxiety, stress, etc. 
• For Adult: Work life challenges, anxiety, depression, insomnia, unresolved childhood issues, family issues, stress, etc. 
• For Senior adult: loneliness, depression, dementia, self care, stress, grief, etc. 
• For patients, clients or persons to improve their health and for recovery from illnesses, cancer, brain injuries, etc. 
• For individuals as self care and personal therapy. For corporate mental health support for their human resources, team bonding and developing inner strengths.

By master-level art therapist

Our art therapy program is facilitated by master-level trained art therapist Mr. LEE Thiam Seng (Paul) with experience in art therapy since 2009. Full background is available at the Section: About Art Therapist

Assessment, Consultancy  and Diagnosis

The initial session will be for the art therapist to do an assessment and understand the condition, readiness and propose appropriate intervention. It is also for clinical diagnosis and consult the therapist for professional help.

Confidentiality and Privacy

All art therapy sessions are personal, private and confidential by default unless there is a possible harm to yourself or others.  Contact us for any customized art therapy needs.

Art therapy fee

S$300/= for  2 hours, excluding art materials. S$30/= one time registration fee is applicable. 

Expressive art therapy is an art therapy program that focus on creative expression for self discovery, personal care, and mindfulness. Understand the connection between art and psychology; creative art mind and neurology. Explore the therapeutic process of art making and creative mind for personal reflection.

Small Group Size: 

Small group size (up to 8 persons per session) allows individual attention, group interaction and comfortable space. No art background is required.

By master-level art therapist: 

This session will be facilitated by qualified, registered  and experienced art therapist - Mr. Paul Lee, who has a Master of Arts - Art Therapy. He has experience in running art therapy since 2009 in schools, hospitals, institutions and private setting.

*Important note: This short course will not equip you or accredit you to be art therapist or practrice art therapy.

The ancient art of paper folding (also known as Origami) is made popular by Japanese. Origami is a popular craft in the world for educational, relaxation and even as therapy.  Research has shown the evidence of using hands to improve our left and right brain health.

By integrating mindfulness into origami, we can improve our mental health as well. This is to engage our brain through our active hands with facilitation of an experienced origami artist and art therapy. The process of MIND-rigami is therapeutic and when we are making folds help to stay in focus the present as a form of mindfulness meditation. 

Pre-requisite: No background in origami, mindfulness or art therapy is required. 

What to expect: You will be guided to make selected therapeutic models that are recommended by the art therapist. The therapist will facilitate the process of folding, demonstrating the basic folds and how to interconnection the modules.

Debrief and reflection: At the end of the session, the therapist will do a debrief for review and reflection of the process and product. 

By origami artist and art therapist Mr. Paul Lee who holds a Master of Arts - Art Therapy and he has experience in teaching origami and using them for art therapy. MIND-rigami is being created by Mr. Lee as a form of mindfulness based creative art as therapy for people to engage hands and brain proactively for bilateral brain simulation and mental wellness. 

This is a private wellness club for creative individuals with passion in arts as therapy and self care. Members will come together weekly to share, give, connect and do art making collectively. This club is initiated by art therapist Mr. Paul Lee. It will not be profit oriented and fee collected will be used exclusively for members activities, venue usage, materials supplies, refreshment, etc. 

Mission – A proactive wellness club for brain and mental health through creative expressive arts sharing.

For who – For anyone who has a passion in arts and ready to share, give or support each other. Members must be familiar with at least 1 type of creative arts format and bring along with the medium for sharing.

Creative Arts types - Members may choose their preferred arts and craft types to share or doing creative arts: drawing, painting, sketching, caricature, crochet, mosaic, origami, manga, comic, chinese brush painting, coloured pencils. 

Medium -  as a health focus club, safety and non-toxic mediums are the pre-requisite for the arts activities. Members are to bring their own art materials to the meetup for their own art making or sharing among members. Potluck arrangement is thriough sharing of art materials.

Members meetup and activities – 2 hours weekly meetup for sharing and art making as a group. Activity is free for member. A fee of S$5/= is applicable for non-members.  

Membership fee - S$100/= for 2 months. First time registration fee of S$30/= is applicable. 

Group size - subject to a minimum of 10 members to form this club

Caricature art is a very unique style of drawing with simplification or exaggeration of a person or a group in order to create a lasting impression. It is a hybrid of portraiture, fine art, graphic design, illustration and comics as a final rendered art form. 

Caricature art is a timeless art for lasting memory of a person, a group or event. It is highly customizable and flexible. Caricature art with good humor can give a good laugh. 

Caricature art can be in a few style and form. It can be just black and white with ink for a classic and strong look and feel. It can be in colors using colored pencils, markers, watercolors or any coloring medium. We can customize the costume and background to meet your requirements. 

Fee for a caricature art varies depending on the requirement, head count, customisation, costume, message, etc. Contact us to get a quote.

The art of paper folding, aka Origami, is being made popular in Japan as an amazing craft with exceptional fine motor skills. Indeed, Origam is a great healthy brain exercise for logic thinking, mindfulness and creative problem solving skill. We organize origami workshop for corporate events and classes. There are 3 levels of Origami class:

1. Basic level folding such as whale, crane, container, flower, games, etc. Number of folds will be around 1 to 10. Basic understanding of Origami folding instructions.

2. Intermediate level folding will take number of folds from 10 to 20. Models may include speed boat, turtle, flowers, light house, eagle, etc. Explore the use of modular techniques to create 3Dmodels.

3. Advanced level Origami. The number of folds will be 20 to 30. Models include mini book, parrot, kangaroo, bull dozer, rose, modular models, etc. Learn how to create your own Origami models.

Drop-in single session is S$80/=, 1.5 hours. A package of 8 sessions will be S$435/= 1.5 hours per session, please bring your own art materials or purchase them at our center. Please contact us for corporate events. 

More Origami models photo at Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/mindrigami2023/

We provide unique, fun and therapeutic experience for team building workshop through art and creativity for corporate retreat, team bonding, team empowerment, team strengthening through personalities, workplace productivity and wellness. Participants can do team bonding at our art center or on site.  

TEAM Approach

The approach that we adopt is based on T.E.A.M. (together Everyone Achieves More). Our team building workshop will engage all participants playing a part in the entire team building exercise. Be ready for a joyful, enriching, and empowering team bonding and team cohesiveness workshop. 

We take away usual stressful and competitive team building event so that each and every member of the team is engaged and recognized. A win-win situation for our team building workshop.

Our Team Building Process 

Our Creative Team Building program is designed in stages for positive experiences in team bonding. Our qualified and experienced trainer will facilitate the entire process to allows members to learn, explore and reflect the team dynamic. During the art making program, the fun interactive among team members with discussion, brain storming, turn taking, stepping back, and embracing every team members effort and idea.

We provide debrief of the team building and bonding process for members to reflect, review and learn from the event. Members to get feedback from each other and explore how this process could be useful to their work place and team work. Contact us to get a quote for your team building event now.

• "For over 6 years, Jun Yuan has improved tremendously under the guidance of Teacher Paul. I could see smile on his face after each drawing session. Teacher Paul is a very calm, patient and positive teacher who always encourages his students to do better. He knows his students well and his ultimate goal is to ensure that the students are able to draw and create their own art pieces by themselves.  Over a period of time, the students are able to see their own improvements and feel motivated. Mrs. Koo. "
• "For over 5 years, my child has learnt very well at UniqArts Art course. He has improved tremendously in term of skills in art, knowledge and creativity. In additional, my boy even won an award during Art  Competition in Singapore nationwide. I am extremely happy with such result and pleased to make the right choice sending my boy to UniqArts. Mrs. Kung."
• "Uncle Paul was my first art teacher. I took classes at his studio from ages five through ten, laying the groundwork for my drawing and painting skills. His step-by-step way of teaching trained my eye to dissect objects into line and form and taught me how to engage with the elements of art. During the lessons, I was also able to experiment with composition and medium to learn about harmony and balance, and felt the freedom of being expressive creatively. The art pieces I created in class also laid the foundation for for the development of my SOTA portfolio. Ten years later, I continually find myself referring back to the techniques I had learned from his lessons. Having finished school with a painting specialization, (Anna)" 
• "I have attended art classes at UniqArts from primary to secondary school, and it has played an important role in helping me build strong foundational skills in art. With each lesson, there is always something new to look forward to, and I was able to experiment with a variety of mediums such as acrylic, watercolour, sculpture and even animation. Uncle Paul is always there to provide feedback on areas that we can improve on in our artworks, and we are encouraged to complete each work at our own pace. (Jacinta Yee)"

• "Dynamic and creative. Fun. Gained more awareness of the importance of teamwork and having goals. (SH Goh)." 
• "Interesting manner in fostering team building. Fun! Great bonding with fellow colleauges (Steve)." 
• "Surprised to see that each contribution can make up beautiful pictures. Learning to adapt to different situation and challenges with different people. (John)" 
• "We got to learn about one another's artistic talents and a bit of their personalities. Team product was transformed into something beyond our imagination and better than what we had envisioned it to be. Appreciating how even my small part contributes to the bigger picture. (Andrew)." 
• "The process of team art making is unique and unusual, relaxing because don’t have to solve problems. We have to work together to create a picture. We have to accept each other’s addition into the picture. We take care not to spoil the picture. Individual canvas doesn’t look as nice. But when put together, the art work looks great! Learn the importance of team work, how to work together as a team. Can see the benefit of working together as a team as shown by the collection of pieces of canvasses. (Wong Y.U.)"

• All names will be kept anonymous for art therapy session review or feedback for privacy protection
• "I feel that the program helps me to relax, go inside my heart to release something. Art therapist gave comments about my strengths that I never think of. Gave me new perspective on myself. The tools are sufficient to use. It was interesting how the things we draw shows our inner self. It was also fun to just let go and draw whatever we want. It is useful for people to express themselves." 
• "Grieving is never an easy process. I would like to thank Mr. Paul Lee for giving me a safe space to grieve for my child and my dad.  I  have move on." 
• "Eye opener and interesting. This program helps me to understand myself better." 
• "I feel that this program has helped me to increase my self-awareness and to understand myself better."
• "Dear Paul, Thank you for being a wonderful art therapist. Thanks for your humble service and commitment. May you grow in your profession and reach out to many who are in need. With appreciation." 
• "I have eczema on my right hand. I have been suffering from it for 4 decades. Applied medication could not heal it. Art Therapy is one of the effective ways I have explored and successfully heals them. I would like to thank Mr Paul Lee for giving me a safe space to process and let go of their stored traumas."

$235+$30*+$75*** 

Sat 2:30pm - 3:30pm, 

Sun 10:30am – 11:30am

$275+$30*+$125*** 

Sat 10:45am-12:00noon, 

Sun 2:30pm-3:45pm

$335+$30*+$205*** Sun 10:30am-12:00noon

$435 + $30 Sat 10:45am-12:15pm

$435+$30.  

Fri 3:30pm-5pm, 

Sat 10:30am-12noon

Please contact us for your preferred day and time.