Dear Creative Ones,
Happy Summer Solstice! Today is the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere and a day that marks a significant point in the solar calendar. Some of you may know that although we are based in Florida, the three of us all grew up in northern climates and I spent a lot of time growing up in Alaska as a
youth and young adult.
Back home, “less than 150 miles south of the Arctic Circle, you’ll find Fairbanks, Alaska, one of the best places in the United States to celebrate the summer solstice. With the ground often still blanketed in snow in June,
Alaskans embrace the light-filled respite their brief summer provides. In Fairbanks, daylight lasts a full 24 hours around the solstice, so there’s plenty of time to attend the numerous events, that comprise the city’s famous Midnight Sun Festival. “ It is an exciting time when you are that far north and it doesn’t get dark, you don’t need a flashlight while you’re camping, and you generally feel energized and excited about life after a long cold, dark winter.
As many of us begin to emerge from the pandemic and what feels like a winter period, this solstice feels particularly welcome as an invitation to celebrate the light.
We invite you to connect with your own creative wisdom and cultivate your inner light through expressive arts practice. You might like to spend some time outdoors, make art while sitting with a tree or by the creek, take in a sunset, or begin a new practice that nourishes you and supports your creativity and well-being. If
you want some new inspiration and practices to try, we hope you will take advantage of our Summer Solstice sale to infuse your creative practice. We also welcome you to share what you are doing to cultivate the light within your own creative spirit in our private Facebook group. Finding ways to connect within and in
community nourishes and cultivates the light we share and what we believe is that our world needs your light even more now than ever.
With love and light,
Tamara
Solstice Sale Runs June 20th -June 25th
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Expressive Arts Discovery
A Virtual Expressive Arts Workshop
Tuesday June 29th
7-8:30 pm EDT
Listen. Learn. Share.
Make Art. Witness. Discover
Expressive Arts helps you break through old stories about creativity. We will assist you in leaving your inner critic outside and inviting your authentic creative voice.
Your Storylines: Points in Racial Awareness
with Pat B. Allen and Rhonda Johnson
Wednesday July 14th
6-8:30pm EDT
on Zoom
Transforming our racial awareness is an inside job. Using Open Studio Process (OSP) we will identify points in personal history that make up our racial understanding. We invite you to join us in an exploration of the strengths and vulnerabilities in our personal and collective stories.
www.studiopardes.org
Creative Self
Art as a Healing Practice Workshop
with Kathleen Horne
Deep Listening through the Expressive Arts
Friday July 16th
1-4 pm ED
What is your relationship to your creativity? How has it been shaped and developed over time? What is it asking of you now? Our creative birthright, when fully reclaimed, is an unparalleled resource and a source of joy and wellbeing.
Part of Our Summer Solstice Sale!
Harambee Arts: Expressive Arts in Kenya and Nepal
with Gloria Simoneaux, Rina Pratik, and Lillian Obonyo
Saturday August 7th
1-3:30pm EDT
This workshop will familiarize you with the Harambee Arts Expressive Arts methodology that focuses on a culturally sensitive, collaborative, and relational approach to working with different societies around the world. The presenters will share their innate wisdom, lessons learned and how expressive arts has supported them to become empowered and courageous members of their community.
wwww.harambeearts.org
Your Spiritual Journey
Art as a Healing Practice Workshop
with Kathleen Horne
Deep Listening through the Expressive Arts
Friday August 13th
1-4 pm ED
How has your spiritual journey evolved over time? What has shaped this aspect of you? What is most potent for you at this time in your life?
Part of Our Summer Solstice Sale!
Fiona Chang
Solo-to-Duet: Arts-Based Couple Group Model
Wednesday August 25th
6-8:30pm EDT
Arts-based couple group model was empirically formulated in Hong Kong for couples with breast cancer challenges. Solo-duet-group activity design through expressive arts and person-centered facilitation were founded to be therapeutic in facilitating personal growth, couple relationship and group development.
https://www.eatahk.org/fionachang
Discovering a Mindfulness Practice with SoulCollage®
with Diane Lampitt M.Ed.
Wednesday September 8th
6-9pm EDT
Discovering a Mindfulness Practice with SoulCollage® is a introduction to the contemplative and insightful process of self-discovery. It gently opens you to a new way of exploring your inner wisdom. It is a practice that leads to a greater ability to be present to yourself in the here and now. It is this mindfulness energy that connects you to the unique aspects of yourself while you deepen
connections with others – all while engaging your creativity! Using simple tools – scissors, glue, magazine images, and mat board – you create cards that are uniquely yours. This process honors your own time, pace, inner-language and spirituality.
Ecological Self
Art as a Healing Practice Workshop
with Kathleen Horne
Friday September 10th
1-4 pm EDT
Deep Listening through the Expressive Arts
Explore the concept of your Ecological Self, through an integrated expressive arts process. What is your relationship to the natural world? How has your ecological awareness been shaped and developed over time? Through this gentle and powerful process, listen deeply for any messages that are emerging. We are not separate from the natural world. By developing an
awareness of our ecological self, we begin to heal and spirit and live the connection with increased consciousness and intention.
Part of Our Summer Solstice Sale!
The Body Sings: Explorations in Embodied Voicework
with Topaz Weis
Tuesday September 14th
6-8:30pm EDT
The Body Sings; Explorations in Embodied Voicework is a Professional Development course that draws on techniques from a range of practices to explore the transformative power of expressing oneself with an embodied voice. Through the combined use of breath, vocalizing, movement, and improvisation we will engage in a mindful exploration of the body’s numerous songs.
Are you ready to get started on your Expressive Arts Training?
Begin in August
August 14-21 online
2022 schedule will be announced in the coming week!
Kathleen, Victoria, and Tamara, masterful facilitators, are skilled at layering the intermodal expressive arts process in such a way that participants can take a deep dive into their imagination excavating for hidden jewels to bring back
for the benefit of the creative community. I have been forever changed personally and professionally by the guidance I received through training and supervision while completing the certificate program and through their ongoing professional development programs. Come prepared for transformation!
Theresa “Dancing Heart” Benson, Licensed Clinical Psychologist, REAT, REACE
https://www.wholelifeexpression.com/
OPEN STUDIO: Connect and Share
with Kathleen
First and Third Tuesdays
of the Month
July 6th and 20th
1pm-4pm EDT
with Tamara
June 23rd
10am-1pm EDT
ART MEDITATIONS
Our Gift to You
EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY
Telehealth and in-person
Tamara Teeter Knapp, MA, REACE, NCC, MHC Intern
Expressive arts therapy is a multimodal, holistic approach to counseling. It acknowledges the complexity of human experience by facilitating the client in exploring all aspects of the self, by inquiring through the imagination and the body about subjective experience, and expanding the play space to allow for new possibilities and shifts in consciousness that lead to desired changes in one’s life. More
OUR MISSION
Through workshops, programs, certificate training, and therapy Expressive Arts Florida Institute empowers individuals, groups and communities by cultivating the creative wisdom inherent in all.
We look forward to seeing you!
Kathleen,Tamara, Victoria
Kathleen Horne, MA, LMHC, REACE, REAT
Tamara Teeter Knapp, MA, MHC Intern, K-12 Art, REACE
Victoria Domenichello-Anderson, MA, REACE
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