Have anxiety? Want to learn calligraphy?
Help us explore the effects of guided calligraphy training on mental health!
Benefits:
- Learn calligraphy with live instructor
- Free online calligraphy training course
- Free calligraphy supplies
- Drawings for gift cards
- Improve manual dexterity
Purpose:
This is a pilot study to assess the feasibility of performing virtually administered art therapy research, as well as a preliminary study to explore whether calligraphy training affects anxiety levels in healthy individuals with mild to moderate anxiety.
Time & Location:
All meetings and training sessions will be held on Zoom.
Participation includes a total of 15 hours of time over 12 calendar weeks—an intro meeting, 4 training sessions, a debriefing meeting, and 15 minutes a day of practice–5 days a week for 4 weeks.
Pending full recruitment, training classes will be held in January-February 2025.
Eligibility Criteria
- Healthy individuals age 18 and over
- Resident of the continental US
- Experiencing mild to moderate anxiety
- Native speaker of English language
- Vision-capable
- Able to write with the dominant hand with no pain, injuries or surgeries to that hand/arm or to the neck or back in the past 6 months
- Not currently performing calligraphy practice 3 days a week
- Access to a computer with high-speed internet
