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Support students in our Art and Expressive Arts Therapy programs!
Your contribution helps fund awards such as The Linda Manitowabi IBPOC Award, which covers full tuition for a WHEAT diploma program, as well as the Bea Louise Anderson Memorial Scholarship and the Elder Harry Bone Award, which support students facing financial barriers through the Winnipeg Foundation.
These awards are given to students with lived experiences who might otherwise be unable to participate due to financial barriers.
To contribute, please complete the form to contact us. We will follow up with instructions on how to donate. Thank you for helping make our programs accessible to all!
Support a Student’s Journey in Art & Expressive Arts Therapy
Give to our Scholarship Fund and Receive a Therapeutic Game and/or Life-Path Story and Colouring Book
WHEAT Institute is excited to share two scholarship fundraisers in collaboration with the Winnipeg Foundation and the inimitable WHEAT grad, renowned local writer and puppeteer, Janine Tougas. Having recently had a playful and transformative learning journey through the WHEAT Institute Expressive Arts Therapy Certificate, Janine has a heartfelt desire to help the institute. To this end, she has devised a very unique and special way to contribute to the WHEAT Institute Indigenous Students Scholarship Fund.
Playing with Archetypes: Fairy Tales – Our Tales
A fundraising initiative by the Winnipeg Holistic Expressive Arts Therapy Institute (WHEAT) in collaboration with Janine Tougas.
This vintage one-of-a-kind collector’s edition is offered as a gift (while quantities last) to donors who contribute $200 to the WHEAT Institute Indigenous Students Scholarship Fund.
Archetypes represent universal experiences to which all human beings can relate.
In this games kit, nursery rhymes and fairy tales bring these universal truths to life:
- feeling broken like Humpty Dumpty who fell off the wall
- having fun and being silly like The Cat and the Fiddle
- feeling proud of a special accomplishment like Jack Horner pulling out a plum
- being afraid of a small thing like Miss Muffet with the spider
- giving generously of yourself like Baa Baa Black Sheep
- learning who and when to trust like Little Red Riding Hood
Playing with Archetypes: Fairy Tales – Our Tales Includes:
- 24 vintage porcelain Red Rose tea figurines representing nursery rhymes & fairy tales. These were premiums in Red Rose Tea boxes from 1972 to 1979.
- 24 cards with written questions on the back of each card to explore the archetype’s message.
- 8 mini-posters of universal resources described by eminent family therapist Virginia Satir.
- A 16-page booklet describing 10 game activities inspired by Satir’s therapeutic model.
Message from a Donor
“I just received the wonderful Playing with Archetypes game. This entire project is truly amazing! It is a combination of objects that inspire, talent to reach inside of us to find OUR answers and a financial help to those persons seeking assistance in pursuing their studies in Art and Expressive therapy. I am in awe of this entire project!”
Comments from Therapists
“I’ve used the Playing with Archetypes games kit with children, teens and adults and am ongoingly amazed at the reactions of my clients.”
“At an international conference, I had the opportunity to engage 10 therapists in the self-esteem activity suggested in the booklet. The response was enthusiastic, and congratulations were expressed for the activities and the creator of the kit. Comment from Australia: ‘Who would have thought there was such power in these little guys?’”
Players’ Reactions
“I like the feel and the beauty of the figurines.”
“It always brings me back to the positive outcome – more of what I want and less of what I’m moving away from.”
“The nursery rhyme character came in to help me make a connection with my strengths.”
How to Receive Your Gift
To pick up your Playing with Archetypes: Fairy Tales – Our Tales games kit in person in Winnipeg, Manitoba, donate $200 to WHEAT Institute. To receive your games kit by post, donate $235 to cover postage and handling.
Cheques can be made payable to WHEAT Institute with Indigenous Students Scholarship Fund in the note.
WHEAT Institute
Box 14 St. Norbert
Winnipeg, Manitoba
R3V 1L5
E-transfers can be sent to info@wheatinstitute.com. Please indicate Indigenous Students Scholarship Fund in the note.
Funds can be sent via Paypal to info@wheatinstitute.com indicating Indigenous Students Scholarship Fund.
NOTE: Should you wish to donate more than $200 and receive a tax deductible receipt for that amount, please send a cheque or donate online directly to The Winnipeg Foundation, indicating WHEAT Elder Harry Bone Scholarship.
Little Calf’s Journey
Creating My Story: My Expressive Arts Journal and a Life Path Colouring Book (89 pages)
LIFE-PATH STORY and COLOURING BOOK
Author: Janine Tougas
Illustrations: Denis Savola
Inspired by Eduardo Parra
Through the imagination of Janine Tougas, we meet Little Calf, a wonderful mirror of the innocence and longing hidden in our soul. It is by engaging our imagination that we enter the landscape where our essence and our ideals strive to be recognized and come into being.
For Teens and Adults
Storyteller Janine Tougas is the author of youth novels, stories, and TV series. She has a Masters in Education, specializing in counselling, and a Masters in Fine Arts, specializing in dramatic studies. Recently, she obtained a certificate in Expressive Arts Therapy from WHEAT Institute.
Little Calf’s Journey comes to life through the pencil of illustrator Denis Savola.
All proceeds from donations collected for Little Calf’s Journey will go to the WHEAT Institute (Winnipeg Holistic Expressive Arts Therapy) Indigenous Students Scholarship Fund.
To donate and receive your colouring book, contact info@wheatinstitute.com
Suggestion:
Sliding scale from $20 to $40 for whatever you wish to donate if you are ordering larger quantity.
By donating, you are contributing to the development of two scholarship funds in perpetuity named after two important people, who have served as inspiration to Darci Adam, the founder of the WHEAT Institute. They include prairie realist artist Bea L. Anderson, Darci’s grandmother, and Elder Harry Bone, ground-breaking educator and member of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Elders’ Council. These scholarship funds will assist artists and Indigenous students in furthering their training in therapeutic use of the arts.
Please note that E-transfers sent directly to the Winnipeg Foundation will result in an automatic e-donation receipt, which cannot be exchanged for a game or book.
We are grateful for your support in making training in the therapeutic arts more accessible to all! Thank you for your consideration and support! If you wish to share these initiatives, please download the fundraising information below!
Bon Voyage! Exploring the Voyage Series through Expressive Arts
Imagine the fun of responding to a novel thru movement, music, puppetry, sculpting, drawing, drama, poetry or land-based arts. Watch your students faces light up as the written word comes alive in character, movement, or song. One of a handful of Manitoba made Expressive Arts publications, the Bon Voyage! guide introduces ways to use expressive arts activities when teaching the four novellas in the Voyage series: Jaimie and the Bison Hunt, Gabriel Between Dog and Wolf, Harry and the Dark Horse and Sara in Raven’s Clothes.
Themes explored in the series relate to Canadian History, Métis and Indigenous traditions, identity and self-knowledge, effective communication and dealing with loss. Explore the virtues of responsibility, honesty, friendship, empathy, courage, leadership and entrepreneurship through a variety of dynamic, tactile media. Expressive arts provide an embodied experience of the written text promoting engagement from a variety of different ways of knowing.
25% of proceeds go towards WHEAT’s Maria Campbell Indigenous Healing Arts Publishing Fund when you mention WHEAT at time of purchase. Bon voyage!
Exploring the Voyage Series Through Expressive Arts
“Themes explored in the series relate to Canadian History, Métis and Indigenous traditions, identity and self-knowledge, effective communication, and dealing with loss.”
The Bon Voyage! guide introduces ways to use expressive arts activities when teaching the four novellas in the Voyage series.
WHEAT will receive 25% of the proceeds in support of the Maria Campbell Indigenous Healing Arts Publishing Fund. Simply enter “WHEAT” in the promo code space at checkout.
Interested in Simply Giving?
WHEAT Institute, in partnership with The Winnipeg Foundation, offers the opportunity for supporters to make tax-deductible contributions to the Winnipeg Holistic Expressive Arts Therapy Scholarship Fund. All gifts are greatly appreciated and contribute to the development of excellence in the therapeutic use of the arts. Should you wish to receive a game and make a contribution greater than $200, please make these payments in separate transactions, so that you will receive both the game and a tax-deductible receipt for the amount over $200.
Gifts may be made online or by mail directly to:
The Winnipeg Foundation
1350 One Lombard Place
Winnipeg, MB
R3B 0X3
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