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There is a lot to look at, watch, and listen to in this newsletter, so take your time! Whether you are looking for training, professional development, CEU opportunities, creative community, medicine painting, SoulCollage®, or other expressive arts offerings, you are likely to find something that sparks your interest. We hope so!
For additional inspiration and enjoyment, we are sharing performances from two breathtakingly beautiful virtual choirs. First, Joshua Tamayo, featuring Jamie Brown-Hart and the Canadian Virtual Choir.
EXPRESSIVE ARTS CERTIFICATE PROGRAM
Are you ready to begin your training?
Live Online, August 8 to Dec. 5.
Live Online Oct. 10 to Oct. 24
Live Online Oct. 29 to Dec. 3
ONLINE OPEN STUDIOS 3 times each week
A space and time to show up and experience the gifts of your own creative presence.
Tuesday Open Studio 1-4 pm EDT
With Kathleen Horne
Tuesday sessions open with a Loving Witness Meditation
*note: On Tuesday July 28 only, Open Studio will be from 2:30 to 5 pm*
Wednesday Open Studio 10 am to 1 pm EDT
Thursday Pop-up Open Studio 5 pm to 8 pm EDT
With Victoria Domenichello-Anderson
Opens with Art Check-in, and an inspirational reading or poem
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
There is no fee for Open Studios. Love Offerings are gratefully accepted.
EXPRESSIVE ARTS DISCOVERY
90-minute live online workshop
Monday July 27, 7-8:30 pm
$27
DISCOVER A MINDFULNESS PRACTICE with SoulCollage®
with Diane Lampitt
M.Ed., SoulCollage® Facilitator
Tuesday August 11
6-9pm EDT
Online via Zoom
$40 ($35 + $5 fee for SoulCollage® kit)
Registration deadline is Aug. 4 to allow time for a kit to be mailed to you.
Discover a Mindfulness Practice with SoulCollage®
SoulCollage® is a 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.
APOTHECARY:
Medicine Painting for Times of Trouble and Grief
with Donna Papenhausen
Saturday September 12
11 am to 5 pm
Online via Zoom
$65
Times of drastic change are often filled with trouble and loss: Loss of certainty; loss of health; loss of in-person gatherings with family and friends; loss of employment. How do we cope? How do we mourn the losses? How do we discover the resiliency and actions necessary to face these challenges?
One way to mourn the loss and discover new resilience is through creative activity. When we sing, dance ,draw, paint, meditate, garden, cook or engage in any creative activity we generate our own medicine, our own healing, Join Donna Papenhausen in a revised version of the Apothecary class called Medicine Painting for Times of Trouble and Grief as we explore our own
creative medicines to bring healing and resilience for our own troubled times.
No painting experience is necessary.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TRAINING WORKSHOPS
We are excited to bring you this amazing line-up of Expressive Arts teachers.
Each of them is a leader in the field, with a unique and significant contribution to expressive arts work in the world. All the workshops are interactive and live online.
We recognize that you may want to sign up for several, so we have created a bonus.
If you register for three, we will invite you to sign up for an additional one,
as our guest.
We are a Florida CEU provider for LMHC, LCSW, LMFT. You will receive a Certificate of Completion to submit to your own CE Board.
**Each workshop is $50.
If you are an EAFI graduate or student, use coupon code gradeafi and receive a 20% discount.
If you are an EAFI student registered in EAFI 220, use coupon code eafi220.
Entering the Dance Safely
with Markus Scott-Alexander, PhD, REAT
Wednesday Aug. 19, 6-8 pm ET
Live Online via Zoom
$50
Expressive arts work is usually quite gentle. We do not push or manipulate the process. We trust the process. Taking someone through an embodied, creative experience requires both inspiration and skill. In this master class, which is both theoretical and experiential, we will explore the phenomenon of “safely, entering the dance”. We start the process
with body awareness, which focuses on vertical presence. Then, we will progress to movement which takes us into the space, the horizontal plane. And thirdly, we move on to dance where we let go and explore. In this training, we learn how to move into the experience of letting go in a way that feels both safe and playful. www.worldartsorg.com
Markus is a pioneer in the field of expressive arts education. He recently released a new book entitled, Expressive Arts Education and Therapy: Discoveries in a Dance Theatre Lab Through Creative Process-based Research (available through Brill.com). Markus is the director of World Arts Organization, and is senior faculty at the European Graduate
School.
Expressive Arts Worldwide
Unpacking Your Cultural Baggage
with Gloria Simoneaux, REAT
Thursday September 3
6-8 pm ET
Online via Zoom
$50
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. Using exercises that have been tested and proven successful at counseling sites and other contexts in Africa, Asia and Latin America, the workshop
addresses learning how you can successfully enter and engage a different culture with respect, curiosity and wonder.
Gloria is founding director of Harambee Arts, an expressive arts organization and training program based in sub-Saharan Africa, Nepal and the Caribbean. Harambee Arts is designed to serve children and women globally who have been traumatized by illness, poverty, violence, autistic spectrum disorder, trafficking and other crises.
Resilience Building
The Power of Self-Compassion in Building Resilience
with Manju Jain & Aslam Khader
Tuesday September 29
6-8 pm
Live Online via Zoom
$50
In their work with under-served populations that have experienced extreme hardship and trauma, Manju and Aslam have found self-compassion to be an important step in building resilience. They introduce the theory of self-compassion through expressive arts, humanistic and positive psychology.
In the last year, Manju and Aslam have facilitated over 100 workshops in India, Nepal and the US with over 2000 children and adults. Since the start of the pandemic they have moved their work online, and conduct weekly workshops for a set of 12 global groups.
Manju and Aslam are the Co-Chairs of the Social Action Committee of IEATA (International Expressive Arts Therapy Association)and they are inspiring and mobilizing us with their passion, vision, and innovative programming in service of social justice.
Re-Firing On All Cylinders!
The Evolution of a Canadian, Rural Expressive Arts Practice
with H. Fay Wilkinson, REACE
Saturday October 3, 2020
Noon – 2 pm ET
$50
Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention. Often it seems to take a major catalyst to force a re-think, a re-arrange, and a re-charge. That catalyst can give us a real opportunity to jolt us out of the safety of the known and catapult us into new territory. Join me as I share how my Canadian, rural expressive arts practice has evolved in these ‘new’ days. I’ll cover what I’ve
learned, the mistakes I’ve made and how I’ve found fresh, effective ways of doing my personal and professional work using technology. You will have a chance to say yes to a hands-on art-making experience which will highlight best practices.
For over 30 years Fay has designed and delivered Expressive Arts experiences for both individuals and groups with a current focus on mental health and those living with cancer. Her published paper (in the Journal of Arts & Health), contributes to the growing body of evidence that now supports the value of engaging in creative processes on our mental and physical well-being.
Living with Uncertainty
Expressive Arts Therapy:
Trauma, Resiliency and Attunement
with Mitchell Kossak, PhD, LMHC, REAT
Wednesday October 7, 6-8 pm ET
Live Online via ZOOM
$50
In these uncertain and distressed times, the skills that we can bring as expressive arts practitioners become even more important in helping to guide ourselves and others through difficult emotions. This ‘Woke-Shop’ will be a time to reflect on the inner and outer landscapes with a focus on how expressive arts can address individual and collective trauma through a lens of inter and intra- personal neurobiology. Through guided
exercises that use breath, sound, rhythmic drumming, movement and image making we will explore how a re-alignment with personal and transpersonal rhythms can help to facilitate a sense of psychospiritual unity and begin a process of healing.
Mitchell is a Professor in the Expressive Therapies program at Lesley University. He has presented his work and research on rhythmic attunement, improvisation, psychospiritual and community-based approaches to working with trauma at conferences internationally. He is the author of Attunement in Expressive Arts Therapy: Toward an Understanding of Embodied Empathy. In 2019 he helped to
create Voces Arts and Healing, to work with asylum seekers in Juarez Mexico. He is also a professional musician.
Rising Up to the Dream of Your Soul
Grounding through the Expressive Arts in times of upheaval and uncertainty
with Nicki Koethner, MA, MFT
Tuesday October 27, 6-8 pm ET
Live Online via Zoom
$50
Connecting with elemental energies through movement, painting, writing, poetry, storytelling and ritual, we will connect with earth body wisdom to remember our essential natures, grief the heartbreak of separation, isolation and disconnection and reclaim the dream of our souls that connect us with all of our relations.
The soul dream serves as a resource to be with the imprints of the human cultural shadow of war, violence, abuse, “isms,” injustices, and separation from ourselves and each other and the earth as well as the current impact of the pandemic. We will provide a safe container to grieve the impact of those societal structures and global crisis on our psyche and utilize the intermodality of the expressive arts as well as earth as a resource
to process, digest, express and reconnect.
Nicki is a Multi-Media Artist, Expressive Arts Psychotherapist and Educator. She is devoted to playfulness, joy, embodied earth-based spirituality and transforming trauma into empowerment through creativity. She has a private practice in German and English in Berkeley, CA. She is adjunct faculty at Sofia University, California Institute of Integral Studies, and co-supervisor at Art of
Health and Healing of Contra Costa Medical Centers (CCRMC).
www.express-explore-expand.com.
Traditional Indigenous and Popular Art Practices and Expressive Arts
Inspiration for our work with clients and communities
Wendy Phillips, PhD, LMFT, REACE, REAT Saturday November 14,
Noon to 2 pm ET
Live Online via Zoom
$50
In this training workshop, Wendy will focus on El Colectivo Macondo in Oaxaca, Mexico. She will share about how the program was founded, the priorities, and how
their way of working is related to the way we define social justice. Wendy will also talk about the work she is doing with students in Cuba. She has begun a journal project about traditional cultural practices and Expressive Arts and hopes that the first issue will be printed by fall. She will share excerpts from this and also experientials from a curriculum she developed for the first El Colectivo Macondo workshop.
Wendy is a Psychotherapist, an Expressive Arts Therapist, a faculty member, and a Research Psychologist. She is a conceptual visual artist whose favorite practice is analog photography. Wendy is drawn to historical and alternative photographic processes and fiber arts. In her research, Wendy uses photography as a method of Arts Based inquiry.
https://www.goddard.edu/people/wendy-phillips/
http://www.elcolectivomacondo.com/
Melting and Growing
in Person-Centered Expressive Arts
with Fiona Chang, REAT, RSW, PhD Candidate CUHK
Wednesday December 2
7-9 pm ET
Live Online via Zoom
$50
This workshop combines the theoretical foundation of person-centered expressive arts and experiential learning about the creative connection process for growth. It is a practice-based training of applying multi-modal expressive arts to connect with our body-mind-spirit, to listen, understand, let go and heal. This creative practice is person-centered, engagement-oriented and
process-focused. We shall co-create a sacred place for genuineness, compassion and positive regard.
Fiona is a Registered Expressive Arts Therapist with IEATA, Certified Supervisor of the Australian Counseling Association (ACA), and a Registered Social Worker. She is faculty of the Person- centered Expressive Arts Program founded by Dr. Natalie Rogers. She founded the Expressive Arts Therapy Training Program of the Centre on Behavioral Health of the University of Hong Kong and the Expressive Arts Therapy Association of Hong Kong
(EATA HK).
LOVING WTINESS ART MEDITATION
(no charge)
You can return to it as often as you like.
ONLINE SELF-STUDY COURSES AND WORKSHOPS
Always available to support your on your expressive arts journey
We end with Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir 6: Sing Gently, with over 17,000 vocalists from 129 countries
We at Expressive Arts Florida Institute are committed to becoming better allies to Black, Indigenous and People of Color. We stand in solidarity with victims of systemic brutality and racial injustice. We are committed to examining and dismantling our unconscious and/or unchecked white privilege. We uphold a commitment to educate ourselves,
a willingness to have difficult conversations and take informed actions, as we continue to build a healing organization that actively promotes diversity, equity, justice and compassion.
In creative community,
Kathleen,Tamara, Victoria
Kathleen Horne, MA, LMHC, REACE, REAT
Tamara Teeter Knapp, MA, K-12 Art, REACE
Victoria Domenichello-Anderson, MA, REACE
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