Connection through creativity

Creative Spark energizes and inspires staff working with older adults through interactive training on joy, well-being, and connection.

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Join our e-learning community

Explore Academy is an e-learning community currently accepting organizations and their teams for our beta program.

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Attend a Gathering

Our consultation and interactive workshops are designed to energize staff and inspire new approaches to meaningful programming with older adults.

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Donate to Creative Spark and help fund our programs that aim to bring joy & creativity.

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Engage with Live Workshops

  • 1 hour “camera-on” session

  • Interactive activities to engage your team

  • Participants learn techniques for identifying and addressing burnout

  • Recording of session and resource sheet provided

Creating Joy at Work

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  • 1 hour “camera-on” session

  • Interactive activities to engage your team

  • Participants learn techniques for identifying and addressing burnout

  • Recording of session and resource sheet provided

Explore Academy

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Our Approach

Creativity inspires
and enlivens

Hands pouring colorful glitter from one hand to another.
Stylized yellow swoosh on white background

  • By engaging our trainees through the creative process, we nurture their personal spark so it can ignite joy at work.

  • You do not have to produce fine art to benefit from creative expression. The process itself fosters Growth, Well-Being, Connection, and a Culture Shift toward celebrating older adults and their service providers.

  • We equip teams with practical, creative tools to enhance their interactions with older adults, fostering meaningful moments that enrich the quality of life for staff and those they serve.

Person painting a crescent moon on a blue wall with star outlines.
Pink hand-drawn starfish illustration on a white background.
A group of people sitting around a table engaged in crafts, with snacks and art supplies.

Our Impact

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100

would recommend to others

91

learned something new

87

feel more connected

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Our Approach

✦ Our Approach

  • Two women smiling and working on a craft project at a table, wearing blue gloves. Another person is in the background focusing on their work. The setting appears to be a workshop or classroom.

    “Creative Spark inspired me to work more with my team; to continue to shift my thinking and belief systems about what it means to grow older; to discover what lights me up so I can use it to help others find what lights them up.”

  • People painting with watercolors on a wooden table, surrounded by art supplies like brushes, colored pencils, water bottles, and napkins.

    “This is the most fun and energetic seminar have ever attended. Playfulness, creativity and joy is what we all thrive from and thank you for bringing that to so many of us so that we can pass it on!”

  • Four women smiling and holding up colorful abstract art pieces made of paper cutouts at a table in a room.

    “Creative Spark is CPR for the soul. You feed us, so we can feed the residents. You’ve inspired me to bring residents together across levels of care in new creative ways.”