Call for Proposals

First and Last Names of all presenters*

Tania Castillo
Kara White
Kaitlin Powers

Email: powerskn@alverno.edu
castilti@alverno.edu
whitekm@alverno.edu

Title: Undergraduate Students

Organization: Alverno College
Type of presentation
X 50-minute Workshop
☐Presentation
☐Poster

Content Areas/Topic (Select all that apply)*:

☐ Wellness & Prevention
X Specific Populations
List here: Adolescents
X Specific Modalities
List here: Mindfulness and Nature
X Other
List here: Meditative Experience:

Session Title: Awareness of Water and Nature

Description (60 - 80 words)*
The focus of our lesson plan is for teenagers to be away from all the distractions life brings to
humans and be in nature rather than being inside the house or overstimulated. During this period
of time in a teen’s life they may experience more sadness and depression due to them starting to
become more independent than dependent on their parents. Even though they can have an
increase of conflict and negative emotions. Which can result to drug and alcohol abuse, unsafe
sex. and other problems (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2021).This session is about
developing a better awareness of one’s self, while experiencing the benefits of engaging in
nature. The two intermoral approaches that are included in this plan are Mindfulness and Nature.

Learning Objectives
(Please include 3-5 specific learning objectives about what participants can expect to learn from
your session. Using specific action words to describe what people will be able to do is especially
helpful in understanding the session. For example, "participants will apply movement therapy
techniques..." )

For our intermodal plan we have 3 objectives:

❏ The participants will use a mindfulness technique to achieve a state of relaxation as
evidenced by their post survey results
❏ The participants will have a better understanding of their emotional state as evidence by
their previous and post survey results
❏ The participants will verbally express or share in the end how they are currently feeling

Presenter Bios:
Tania Castillo: Tania Castillo is a student attending Alverno College, she lives in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin . She is in her third year majoring in Art Therapy. Ever since she was a child she
enjoyed creating art and helping others. Her mother and father are two people who inspired her
to create art, as they were also both very artistic. She has worked with different mediums and
enjoys painting with acrylics and watercolors. In her field experiences she has worked with
children between the ages of 5-13 and elderly people.
Kara Marie White: Kara White is a student at Alverno College majoring in Art Education and
Art Therapy, and minoring in Art History. She currently lives in Milwaukee Wisconsin, but grew
up in the suburbs of Chicago. She has always had a passion for art and often tries to explore as
many mediums as possible. She currently works at a before and after school program for
elementary school students, but hopes to eventually teach art at the high school level.
Kaitlin Powers: Kaitlin Powers, more commonly known as Kaity Powers, her purpose was and
still is creating art from a very young age after discovering what art could emotionally offer her.
She has found herself helping others as a talent, and she hopes to continue to lead others through
the use of imagination, creativity, and of course kindness. She currently lives in Sussex,
Wisconsin and attends Alverno College where she majors in Art Education/Art Therapy and
outside of class works as a mentor to individuals with Autism.