Looking for creative art workshops or reflective group experiences in Perth or regional WA?

People participating in a group art activity, painting and drawing with watercolours and brushes at a table filled with art supplies, paper, and drinks.

Michelle designs and facilitates arts-based workshops with a focus on wellbeing, self-expression, and connection. These sessions are inclusive and tailored to the needs of the community, organisation, or setting.

No artistic skill is required just a willingness to explore. Her approach combines creativity, emotional insight, and simple hands-on processes that support reflection, storytelling, and shared meaning.

A snapshot of past projects

Over the years, Michelle has facilitated a wide range of arts for wellbeing projects in health, education, corporate and community settings. These have included group workshops, creative journaling programs, collaborative installations, and exhibition outcomes. Each project has been grounded in process, participation, and the belief that art-making can support connection, expression, and wellbeing, regardless of age, background, or experience.

  • Children’s legs visible as they paint on a large community canvas spread across the ground
  • Creative wellbeing workshop set up in a remote or regional WA landscape
  • Close-up of hands engaged in therapeutic artmaking during a Defence wellbeing session
  • Alt text: Parent lifting child to reveal brightly painted feet after a community art activity
  • Creative works made by participants in an art-for-wellbeing group at Irwin Barracks
  • Process-based collage making during an arts in health workshop
  • A table of art supplies and hands visible painting from a corporate art making group
  • Australian Army personnel engaged in reflective artmaking as part of an arts in health program at Irwin Barracks
  • Children’s legs visible as they paint on a large community canvas spread across the ground
  • Close-up of hands creating artwork during an art therapy session in a community mental health setting
  • Artworks created through a community-based art therapy program displayed in an exhibition setting
  • Art supplies laid out for a therapeutic arts program for veterans and first responders in a psychiatric setting
  • Artworks created through an Australian Army based arts engagement program at Irwin Barracks displayed in an exhibition setting
  • Public art project displayed in a mental health setting in Perth
  • Handmade dolls created as part of a therapeutic art project, displayed on a table in a mental health setting
  • Table set up for a studio based private art group
  • Art works laid out for a therapeutic arts program in a community setting
  • Children’s legs visible as they paint on a large community canvas spread across the ground
  • Preparing art materials for a family day community-based creative workshop at Uncharted Collective in Mount Lawley
  • Creative workshop for participants in an art-for-wellbeing group at Cana Communities WA
  • Michelle Saleeba teaching community art at Cana WA
Natural bushland setting with a rocky path winding through.

Let’s Take It Outdoors

Explore a creative workshop with a difference!

Walk & Make is a nature-based art experience designed for individuals, small groups, and workplace teams who want to unwind and reflect, in Perth’s natural surrounds.

These outdoor sessions blend movement, art-making, and mindful exploration perfect for supporting creative wellbeing, encouraging team connection, or simply trying a more relaxed, process-focused way to recharge.

From mine sites to meeting rooms, community groups to therapy spaces or army bases, Michelle’s workshops meet people where they are.

Michelle’s arts-based wellbeing programs are thoughtful, flexible, and shaped by the context in which they're delivered. With a unique blend of expertise as a psychologist, therapeutic arts facilitator, and practicing artist, Michelle brings both structure and soul to every workshop she leads. Whether it's a corporate team, a FIFO camp, a school group, or a mental health service, her programs are shaped by insight, care, and more than two decades of experience.

Get in touch to explore how a tailored creative program could support your team, organisation, or community, or view the Workshop FAQs for more information about suitability, delivery, and booking options.

Please note: Creative wellbeing workshops are non-clinical in nature. They are not delivered under Michelle’s registration as a psychologist and do not constitute psychological treatment, intervention, or mental health care.

Black and white image of Michelle facilitating a community art workshop.
Mans hands drawing a landscape in coloured pencils participating in a wellbeing art group

HR Manager, Darwin, NT

“The perfect balance of creativity and calm. Lots of good feedback.”

13th BDE participant

“A very good course that accommodates many abilities.”